Students will use their Internet searching skills to find information about South Africa and Zimbabwe.
Student will understand the differences between different search engines.
Students will narrow their searches to find more specific information.
Students will use search engines to find given information.
Students will practice basic Internet browser navigation to find information.
CyberSmart! original, nonsequential standards-based lesson plans and student activity sheets actively engage students in making good search decisions and in evaluating the resources they encounter online.
provides great information on helping all students-not only elementary students-develop research skills. Her entire blog, entitled Langwitches, is dedicated to integrating the use of technology into learning and provides excellent resources and ideas.
This article, written by Kathy Schrock, describes questioning, searching, evaluation, and citation processes of Web research as important skills in developing student information-literary skills.
This resource page, on a Web site designed to support International school communities in South East Asia, provides a list of Web sites and resources for developing student research skills.
This tutorial, developed by the Purdue Research Library, helps students learn about planning a research project, identifying the information sources, using various search strategies, evaluating information, and ethically using information.
This is a social news Web site where students can go to browse through the headlines from major news organizations, participate in article discussions, rate the news articles, and even write their own news columns. A great explanation of the site can be found at "Newsvine - Seeding the Vine. First Look!"
This is an online notetaking tool for students, where they can take, edit and share notes online, search and share notes, and manage work using a calendar and to-do lists