This tutorial presents the substance of the web searching workshops formerly offered by the UC Berkeley Library, but now suspended due to budget reductions.
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This lesson combines a hands-on activity (making a model of a Viking ship), internet skills (web searches), and cooperative learning/discussions to study the ancient Vikings. The boat building activity will also draw students in with the good-natured competition of sailing their models and rating how they did. Journal entries and guided discussions and research add to the involvement of the students with the subject.