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The Google Search Education lessons were developed by Google Certified Teachers. The lessons are short, modular and not specific to any discipline so you can mix and match to what best fits the needs of your classroom. Additionally, all lessons come with a companion set of slides (and some with additional resources) to help you guide your in-class discussions.

The Google Search Education lessons were developed by Google Certified Teachers. The lessons are short, modular and not specific to any discipline so you can mix and match to what best fits the needs of your classroom. Additionally, all lessons come with a companion set of slides (and some with additional resources) to help you guide your in-class discussions.

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The site integrates the full text of the plays and poems with the entire Glossary database, allowing you to search for any word or phrase in Shakespeare's works, and in particular to find all instances of all words that can pose a difficulty to the modern reader.

The site integrates the full text of the plays and poems with the entire Glossary database, allowing you to search for any word or phrase in Shakespeare's works, and in particular to find all instances of all words that can pose a difficulty to the modern reader.

The Timeline Index : People, Periods, Places and Events in a chronological context. Find You can search and browse the Timeline Index in many ways: * Find your subjects by inserting keywords * Insert dates to find items from a specific year or periode * Or combine by using a [ + ], try for instance: 1400 + composers + italy Select Or simply select by category to find the items in a chronological order and context: * Just click 'Who, What, When, Where or Which' at the top * Click the dates to view all items from that year onwards * To view the Timeline items in another context you can click the categories on the left (below the dates) * Click on 'More' (or on the pictures) to discover more about the items, linked websites and related items, URL's and categories * To open the linked websites you click on the titles of the items Sort You can also sort the timelines from present-to-past or view people or events only within each category. Related Links Add a related link (URL) to an item and create more relevant information. We welcome time related items like chronologies, biographies, events, collections, etc. in any category. For quality reasons we reserve the right to edit/remove contributed links.

Want to help out students and colleagues with handy tips on improving search results and using popular Google products like Google Earth? Just print out these posters and hang them where everyone can see them.

In Schools, a Firewall That Works Too Well By Justin Reich Saturday, July 11, 2009 Web site filters in schools have had tremendous success in keeping one group of people from freely searching online. Unfortunately, that group is teachers.

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"The Virtual Field Trip is a field trip that students and teachers take via the Internet. A great benefit of this activity is that it utilizes technology tools to help students visualize and understand subject matter through exploration and active learning. It's also a great way to "travel" without leaving your classroom! Look for sites with QuickTime VR, which allows you to view panoramic views of your virtual field trip location. Visit our recommended links, which may inspire you to create your own virtual field trip. You can also find thousands of Virtual Field Trips by doing a Google search online."

"View more than 57,000 historic videos and 7 million photos for FREE in one of the world's largest collections of royalty-free archival stock footage. Offering immediate downloads in more than 10 formats starting at just $2.97 (Consumer); $40 (Pro)."

"In the First Person is a free, high quality, professionally published, in-depth index of close to 4,000 collections of personal narratives in English from around the world. It lets you keyword search more than 700,000 pages of full-text by more than 18,000 individuals from all walks of life. It also contains pointers to some 4,300 audio and video files and 30,000 bibliographic records. The index contains approximately 20,500 months of diary entries, 63,000 letter entries, and 17,000 oral history entries."

"Historvius helps you discover the world's historic sites, from the most famous national treasures to the oft-forgotten hidden gems. You'll get information on each historic site, directions, entry and contact details and comments from other users - everything you need for your perfect historic holiday."

This is a great tool for students who are hoping to do some research "shopping." If so inclined, there is a notebook feature that you can use if you create an account. Need to play more with this to see it's full extent.

Five Ways to Visually Explore Wikipedia When used properly, Wikipedia can be a good place for students to start researching and exploring a topic. But, not every student enjoys reading and clicking on links embedded in an article. Fortunately, there are some good tools that those students can use to visually explore Wikipedia's contents. Here are five ways that students can visually explore Wikipedia.

Multiple Intelligence Inventory Test -- It will help you know which technological tools each of them can benefit from the most, as well as give you ideas about different activities you should incorporate into your curriculum to reach ALL of your students. Below are a few tools that may help you to deliver content to each of these types of learners.

Multiple Intelligence Inventory Test -- It will help you know which technological tools each of them can benefit from the most, as well as give you ideas about different activities you should incorporate into your curriculum to reach ALL of your students. Below are a few tools that may help you to deliver content to each of these types of learners.