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This search tool helps users find quotations on any topic. First, you can search for quotations by author, topic, or words taken from the quote. You can also suggest your own revisions, create booklets and bookmarks, and find information on the source of the quote.

Here are the search engines and directories we recommended for finding websites on a broad range of subjects. When used carefully, they can yield material that is appropriate for academic research.

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.

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.

How to find and search on the invisible web

Read about collections such as the one created by the Library of Congress as well as other libraries that are becoming digitized.

View the Guggenheim database of virtual collections containing over 700 artworks by nearly 300 artists. "Founded on a collection of early modern masterpieces, the Guggenheim Museum today is an ever-growing institution devoted to the art of the 20th century and beyond."

List of favorite research tools on Web

Eurekster Swickis are "search engines tailored to you and your community. They learn from your users and show what's hot with your people." You, as the creator of the Swicki, have complete and utter control of the search results since YOU are the one who figures out what searches are most relevant to your site, what sites these searches should be pulled from, and how the search engine looks.

This tool is built on Google's Advanced Search and conducts a Google search with the keywords that you fill in for each field. As you type, WATCH as the Wizard builds your query in the search box above. Then click Search. Evaluate the results and revise your keywords to get the best results for your topic!

students will use the Internet to research and create webquests about the texts and authors that Shakespeare studied in grammar school.

Explore the characteristics of the polar ecosystems in Antarctica. Analyze the environmental impact of research and tourism in Antarctica. Investigate the impact of waste materials on Antarctic ice though a laboratory experiment.

Utilize content from an Internet Web site and determine the effectiveness of a specific presidential candidate's use of technology as a campaign tool by recording specific data and opinions on a worksheet.

students learn about 4 different types of search engines and practice their Internet searching skills.

This tool allows you to create your own search engine on any topic. Users select the Web sites that are to be used for a search and then keep the search box (the place users will go to in order to type in keywords for the search)