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SweetSearch (http://www.sweetsearch.com/), A Search Engine for Students, is a free custom search engine that searches only 35,000 Web sites that have been evaluated and approved by our team of Web research experts. It excludes unreliable sites that often rank high in other search engines and waste students' time. \n\nWith only credible results to evaluate, students can focus their energy on determining which results are most relevant to their research. \n\nHere are but two examples where SweetSearch's results are far superior to those of Google or Bing:\n\n"Shakespeare" http://bit.ly/7Reg7p vs. http://bit.ly/6lUphg vs. http://bit.ly/6ycRcZ\n\n"War of 1812" http://bit.ly/87HMYn vs. http://bit.ly/57hoOO vs. http://bit.ly/5L7xiz\n\nIt's not just that we exclude obvious spam sites; we also usually exclude marginal sites that read well and authoritatively, but lack academic or journalistic rigor, and thus are not citable.\n\nAs importantly, many of the best academic resources on the Web, such as university or other .edu web sites, make little effort to optimize their search rankings and thus often don't appear till the 3rd or 4th page of Google results. Because SweetSearch searches a smaller, more qualified pool of sites, these academic sites often appear on the 1st page of SweetSearch results. And to most students, the 1st page is the only one that exists.\n\nTo place a SweetSearch search box on your own Web site, copy the code for our widget onto your site: http://www.sweetsearch.com/widget.html\n

Research starters gathered for high school students by the National WWII Museum in New Orleans.

Online Tools for Students

Very important post on internet safety and complexity of issue.

Andy Carvin analyzes British report about the complexities of internet safety and need for student resilience

A student shared this resource with me. This is what she told me, " The thing that attracted me to it was their feature that allows you to type in a book title and it gives you recommendations based on that book. Plus, if you really want to narrow down your search you can add up to four books for more personalized results. I thought over the website was awesome, so I thought I just had to share it with you.." I think it looks like fun. This link is for the section on young adults and teens. 

Great resource to help students who need to write a persuasive or argumentative essay. 

Wonderful site created to help you teach digital citizenship, how to fight plagiarism, and copyright laws. There are tools for students and teachers.

Excellent guide to using sources when writing a research paper and extremely relevant to high school students.

Students can use this tool to plan and execute any type of project that requires them to do research.

"Critical Thinking, Collaboration, Communication, and Creativity"

Project-based learning and Critical Thinking, Collaboration, Communication, and Creativity from P21

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Teachers can register and use Newsela for non-fiction text reading. Texts are found in the daily news, so the students can read contemporary relevant information.

multi media presentations by students which focus on the BP Oil spill

Help students write resumes using this easy to use site with built in templates.

Use for Ninth Grade Library Unit - Citing Sources from Student Edition K-12

SweetSearch Biographies offers profiles and outstanding search results for thousands of famous-or infamous-people from many walks of life, professions and countries, spanning many centuries.\n\nOur nifty filters help you choose the intriguing people you want to learn more about. Looking for female African American authors, for example? Choose Women from the categories on the left, then select African American and Author as your filters.\n\nThe names in bold link to profiles on our sister site, findingDulcinea. The rest link to the search results for that person on SweetSearch, a Search Engine for Students, which searches only 35,000 Web sites that have been evaluated and approved by our research experts.

Scripts for TV shows and Movies--all in pdf format. Not sure about copyright, but these are useful for student scenes and monologues.

Will be home of "book hooks" - book trailers. One student-created Animoto video there now for Alan Sitomer's "Homeboyz."