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Book Search works just like web search: Try a search on Google Books or on Google.com. Google will then search and attempt to find content that contains a match for your search terms. You can see everything from a few short excerpts to the entire book,in some cases.

A slideshare presentation focussed on web research which is well worth viewing for any TL. Has some great information and statistics on search, and how search-englines work. Also shares tools you can use for optimizing your search and saving your sources for later viewing. 

This is a google custom search that finds all the best notebook files from some of the best interactive websites around. 

Check out this page with lots of other google search options & also great tools to assist learning. I especially like the 'Wonder Wheel' to help mindmap your search.

An excellent PDF explaining how to get the most out of Google Search. A good idea might be to print out a few copies of this and put it on the wall near your desktop computers? Similar posters relating to other google tools can be found here: http://www.google.com/educators/posters.html

Really goos when doing factual searches, comparisons or calculations. Compare countries, populations or birthrates, convert fractions or units, solve maths problems and even look at the steps involved in solving the problem. Try population of australia italy

This is a great search engine for when you want to compare and contrast in table like format.

a blog post explaining a new feature within the Google search engine - the ability to filter results by reading level! This post defines how to do this and gives lots of examples.

Want a fun way to help students practice and enhance their web research skills while discovering answers to trivia questions? Then check out "A Google A Day!"