Where to Search
Student-Friendly Search Engines = Elementary (generally)
Student-Friendly Search Engines - Upper Elementary and Secondary
- Reliable and Credible Sources for Students - from Common Sense Media
- SearchCredible - search engine aimed at credible sources
- RefSeek - search tool aimed at educationally appropriate sources
- StartSpot - Targeted searches for different categories including headlines, libraries, museum, and books.
- Safe Search - “... lock out unsafe websites from search results. These include,
phishing, hoax, malware infected, adult websites and more.”
- Google Newspaper Search
- iSEEK - Ask a question or enter search topics or tools and iSEEK will pull from scholastic sources to find what you are looking for.
- InfoPlease - Searches almanacs, atlas’, dictionaries, timelines, and encyclopedias.
- ProCon.org - pros and cons of controversial issues
Image, Audio, and Video Resources
How to Search
Video - Improving Research Skills with Effective Keywords
Google Lesson Plans for Search Education (Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced)
Google Advanced Search
Google Advanced Image Search
How to Evaluate Websites
Video - Using Critical Thinking to Find Trustworthy Websites
Five criteria for evaluating Web pages - from Cornell University
Got Credibility? - Student practice document - If you are logged in to Google Docs, you can click "File" - "Make a Copy" to have a version you can use or adjust. (Document adapted from Catlin Tucker)
Hoax Web Sites for Practice
What Do I Do With What I Find?
Paraphrasing
Copyright