Sizzling Search Strategies for Lower and Middle School

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Sizzling Search Strategies for Lower and Middle
School

• Lakeview Academy Summer Institute

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What we will accomplish

• Review basic search tips and strategies
• Become aware of the many resources available to
  assist with information gathering
• Gather resources for teaching students to
  research
• Create your own search engine!
• Review online tutorials
• Take home lesson plans

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Curriculum Guide (handout)

• PreK 3rd - preloaded/predetermined websites
• 3rd -5th - learn what the WWW is, what search
  engines are and how to search effectively
• Middle School student directed research

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Search Strategies (handout)

• Basic search tips
• Boolean explained
• Develop a search strategy

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Google Advanced Search

• http//webquest.sdsu.edu/searching/fournets.htm

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NETS Standard 3 Research and Information
Fluency

• Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate,
  and use information. Students
• plan strategies to guide inquiry
• locate, organize, analyze, evaluate, synthesize,
  and ethically use information from a variety of
  sources and media
• Evaluate and select information sources and
  digital tools based on the appropriateness to
  specific tasks
• process data and report results

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Source Awareness

• Noodletools
• Choices of tools
• Search Engines
• Encyclopedias
• Online Libraries
• Almanacs
• Photographs

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Online Encyclopedias Libraries

• Wikipedia
• Encyclopedia Britannica
• World Atlas
• Internet Public Library
• Librarians Internet Index

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WWW Research Tools

• Virtualsalt
• NoodleTools Choose the best search for your
  information need

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Photos and Clip Art

• Pics4learning
• Discovery Education
• Photos8

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Create Your Own Search Engine

• Google Custom Search Engine

My Lower School Search Engine
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Lower School Search Engines
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General Searches(Google Safe Search for Kids)

• http//www.kidrex.org/

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• http//kids.yahoo.com/

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Academic Search Engine(locates relevant academic
search results from web pages, books,
encyclopedias and journals)

• http//www.refseek.com/

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Finding Specific Information
http//www.kidsclick.org/
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• http//www.factmonster.com/

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Ask a Question

• http//www.askkids.com/

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Middle School Search Engines
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Meta Search Engines(Combines Data from more than
one Engine)
http//www.triplify.com/ - Google, Yahoo, MSN
Live
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• http//keyboardr.com/search tool with predictive
  text that puts Google, Google Images, Wikipedia
  You Tube search all on one page.

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Visual Search Engines

• http//www.search-cube.com/ - a new way to look
  at multiple results. View 6 pages of results in
  one cube.

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• http//www.searchme.com/

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Interface Mapping Metasearch Engine

• http//www.kartoo.com/

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Ask a Question

• Answers

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Evaluating Web Sites

• How to Critically Evaluate
• Sample Worksheet

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Online Tutorial

• http//www.kidsclick.org/wows/

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Online Tutorial

• Teaching Internet Research Strategies

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Other Lesson Plans

• See handouts