Search and Research

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.

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.

The Teaching with Primary Sources Program works with colleges and other educational organizations to deliver professional development programs that help teachers use the Library of Congress's rich reservoir of digitized primary source materials to design challenging, high-quality instruction.

The world's largest review of books, multimedia, and technology for children and teens.

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.

Find answers to questions

List of favorite research tools on Web

Types of search strategies

List of diff search engines

From the website: Eurekster allows you to build a custom search portal, or "swicki," around any topic of your choice. Rather than returning millions of results like a generic search engine, swickis learn from the search behavior of a community of enthusiasts and experts, making it easy for you to quickly find what you're looking for within a particular topic. In addition, you can easily share a swicki with others and add a swicki buzzcloud to your site or profile ("grab" a swicki), which will dynamically display the hottest searches and give you quick access to that swicki and its community.

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.

pre-defined mind mapper which helps the user get all the related search results in a wheel shaped like display

Find the best search engine for your research

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.

This aggregator allows you to set up your own feed and share it easily with others

This personal blog entry discusses using Google Reader for RSS and the benefits.

This tool allows you to keep all of your news and blogs in one place.