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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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)
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
In this educational blog by Will Richardson, click "rss guide" to open the guide entitled "RSS: A Quickstart Guide for Educators." This guide talks about setting up RSS feeds, including the use of Bloglines for RSS aggregation.