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Applying critical thinking skills through web research can help students: Improve search skills. Evaluate the information they find. Incorporate them in their work. Explore the ready-to-use curriculum below, including detailed lesson plans, student worksheets, and class demonstrations. We developed this critical thinking and web research curriculum with the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE). Lesson plans include prerequisites, rationale, essential concepts, and descriptions of related National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) and are designed for beginner, intermediate, or advanced levels, aimed at middle school and secondary students.

Research and writing support for older students.

Career Exploration/ Research Tool

The Gilder Lehrman Institute announces the launch of "History by Era," an innovative and exciting new approach to our national history and one of the richest resources for the study and the teaching of American history we believe you will ever encounter. It has been designed for teachers who want to create their own effective and stimulating history curricula; for students who want to do independent research on a topic; and for lovers of history everywhere who believe that understanding our national past is the obligation and right of all citizens.

Technology lesson plans for elementary school childre. There are activities for word processing, spreadsheets and graphing, powerpoint presentations, graphic arts, multimedia and internet research and more.

Internet Public Library ipl2 is a public service organization and a learning/teaching environment. To date, thousands of students and volunteer library and information science professionals have been involved in answering reference questions for our Ask an ipl2 Librarian service and in designing, building, creating and maintaining the ipl2's collections. It is through the efforts of these students and volunteers that the ipl2 continues to thrive to this day.

Our Mission We are a nonpartisan, nonprofit "consumer advocate" for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics. We monitor the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews and news releases. Our goal is to apply the best practices of both journalism and scholarship, and to increase public knowledge and understanding.

great resource with lessons and ideas for teaching students to read.

The classroom side of Fact Checked.

Learn how to take notes... Digitally.

Compare anything... simply type in two keywords like frogs vs. toads. If the content is not available you can add your own.

This week, Education World challenges students to sharpen their Internet searching skills as they learn about the history and landscape of the United States. These activities are suitable for classroom or computer lab use.

Skills/ Practice for evaluating websites

Copyright and Fair Use Laws

Citing Sources