Internet Searching Strategies
Short and Sweet Tips on How to Get Started: formulating a strategy, maximizing your search results,
evaluating internet resources, and citing internet resources.
MetaCrawler uses eight
popular search engines to do your
searching at one time, providing widespread coverage while eliminating duplicate entries.
SEARCH.COM is probably the single
most useful site for searching.
Allows you to initiate searches with most of the well-known search engines.
Provides links to less well-known subject specific search engines.
Searching for Educational Resources
Surfing
Safari-
Science and Math Teachers: Practice your surfing skills with the "Surfing
Safari" by J.Baron
Kids
Campus: This page is for easy use by third/fourth/and fifth graders to
explore Internet resources on dinosaurs, the solar system,
weather, and other science topics.
Use Netscape's People Page to locate the
telephone numbers, email, and snail mail addresses of the people you know.
Practical Exercises: Find Information on the Internet to Help You in the Following Scenarios:
Scenario 1: You are moving to a new city. Decide what information
you need about this city and find it on the Internet (try San Francisco,
Dallas, Chicago, and New York).
Scenario 2: You are teaching a class on current events. You ask your students what is it like to live in Japan. Use Internet search engines to gather information that will help your students answer this question.
Scenario 3: You are a science teacher teaching students about
meteorology. Find some sites on the Internet that would be useful for
your class to use.
Scenario 4: You are working on a Masters Thesis in education. Your topic is the use of the Internet in classrooms. Find some recent articles on this topic.
Scenario 5: You want your students to use
libraries in your
area to do research for a project that they are working on. Find out what
libraries in your area have on-line catalogs and evaluate how helpful
these catalogs would be to you or your students.
Scenario 6: Tour the World! You are about to embark on a trip
to a foreign country and already have your plane ticket and hotel
accomodations paid for. You have one hour to find out the weather
forecast, foreign
currency exchange rate, tips on what to bring, and places you would like
to visit. Have your students choose their foreign country and then report
to the class what they found. Makes an ideal team project.
