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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 resource page contains quite an extensive list of Web links to sites that help to develop information literacy and research 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 article, written by Kathy Schrock, describes questioning, searching, evaluation, and citation processes of Web research as important skills in developing student information-literary skills.

Eduscape's Information Age Inquiry Web site contains various strategy models that can be used to develop skills in the searching and use of information.

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.

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

authors Sara Armstrong and David Warlick state the case that these basic skills have evolved into the 4 E's: Exposing Knowledge, Employing Information, Expressing Ideas Compellingly, and Ethics.