Searching The Internet
Helpful Guides To Understanding Search Engines and How To Perform A Good Search:
Many times teachers need to find background information or to learn more about a topic. In order to do this, and to be sure that any information that will be utilized by students is appropriate, a teacher can find an online search engine to be very helpful. These websites contain some tutorials that will provide search "techniques" that can be very helpful in making the search fulfill your needs.
A Short And Easy Search Tutorial
Recommended Search Engines For Adults To Use
Yahoo - A Topic Search |
Ask Jeeves - depends on crawler-based technology to provide results |
Altavista - Large Database,including images and videos |
Educator's Reference Desk - A Great Search Engine For Educational Needs |
Izquick - Searches many databases |
Metacrawler - Searches many databases |
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Google - Large Very Popular Database, including videos and images |
Mamma - Searches many databases |
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Microsoft Live Search Engine - Large database |
Infomine - Scholarly Internet Resource Collections |
Web Sites Designed Especially For Students
Using Web Search Engines that have been designed especially for students, you will be assured to get information that is written at an age-appropriate level and that the found resources will contain wonderful age-appropriate images, graphs, and charts. The following are excellent to use to find websites suitable for your classroom needs:
Recommended Search Engines To Use When Student, Age-Appropriate Information Is Needed:
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Monster - An almanac with many special features |
KidsClick - Search results provide reading levels of content |
Little Explorers Dictionary With Links - Each letter of Little Explorers' dictionary has dozens of illustrated entries, most of them linked to external sites. |
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Ithaki Metasearch For Kids - This search engine really "crawls" out to many search engines, and selects those websites that are useful to a younger audience |
The Internet Public Library For Kids - A special feature allows students to submit questions.
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Quintura for Kids - a visual and intuitive search engine for children |