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Teaching Research The following websites are resources for teaching your students how to use the internet: Cool Lessons: http://www.coollessons.org/ A great site with a bunch of links to documents designed to help you teach Internet researching. Many of these lessons come with pre-made templates to help students take notes. Four NETS for Better Searching: http://webquest.sdsu.edu/searching/fournets.htm This site contains a good rubric (NETS) for teaching students how to do efficient and effective research using Google. The Quality Information Checklist (QUICK): http://www.quick.org.uk/menu.htm This site contains a clever quiz to help students evaluate web sites and the information they contain. IMSA Web Evaluation Wizard : http://21cif.imsa.edu/evaluate From the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, an interactive web wizard for the evaluation of web sites. Probably too many bells-and-whistles to use in the average classroom, but still instructive for exploring evaluation procedures. IMSA Web Lesson Plans: http://21cif.imsa.edu/teach/lesson Many great lesson plans available for free that help you teach information literacy as a component of diverse classes. MAN: http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/teachers/wa_teachers/index.cfm The Media Awareness Network, based in California, provides this site. The free content is good, designed for teachers, and contains lots of great links. Middle School Web Use: http://www.lburkhart.com/middle/search_tips.htm Here, Linda Burkhart provides links and tips for productively organizing middle school students for effective Web use. Innovative Teaching Newsletter: http://surfaquarium.com/newsletter/internet.htm This is a great page that lists various activities and links for teaching students how to do online research. UC Berkeley Library Page: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Evaluate.html This page is designed to help college students learn to evaluate Web sources and effectively research online. It is the kind of resource that you could productively begin using at an early age. More Sites for Research Links to Web sites for research. Although all sites have information for secondary school students, sites that are written and edited specifically for secondary school students are labeled as "MS." United States News The New York Times: www.nytimes.com C-SPAN: www.c-span.org/resources/media.asp Google News: directory.google.com/Top/News/Current_Events WWW Subject Catalog- University of Kentucky: www.uky.edy/Subject/current.html International News British Broadcasting Company: news.bbc.co.uk Government Issues and Documents University of Michigan Library: www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/docnews.html Legal News Legal Information Institute: www.law.cornell.edu Sources for Facts Fact Monster: www.factmonster.com (MS) Reference Desk: www.refdesk.com Nation Master: www.nationmaster.com Encyclopedia Altapedia: www.altapedia.com (MS) Dictionary and Thesaurus Public and Social Policy Facts Understanding USA: www.understandingusa.com Justice Learning: www.justicelearning.com
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