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The Open University: Filtering Information Quickly

For Students 9th - 10th
It is easy to search the web for pretty much anything these days, but coping with the amount of results that come back can be a challenge. Being able to handle information efficiently is a skill which will stand you in good stead, both...
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Lesson Plan
Common Sense Media

Common Sense Media: Education: Using Keywords (K 2)

For Teachers K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students understand that keyword searching is an effective way to locate information on the Internet. They learn how to select keywords to produce the best search results to meet their goals. Then they...
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Other

The Open University: Choosing Good Keywords

For Students 9th - 10th
If you need information for a specific purpose, such as an assignment or report, unpicking the question can help you to identify the best keywords to get you what you need. By the end of this activity, you will be able to use terminology...
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Activity
Other

Die Blinde Kuh: Die Suchmaschine Fur Kinder

For Students 9th - 10th
Much more than just a search engine for kids, this site offers links to weather, stories, games, E-mail pen pals, recipes, children's sites, and more. A great starting point for web-surfing.
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Website
Other

Castles: Heritage Explorer Images for Learning

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection of 19 images of castles from across England consists primarily of photographs accompanied by short descriptive captions. This resource is also linked to a Heritage Explorer search engine maintained by The Historic...
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Handout
Art Cyclopedia

Artcyclopedia: Grant Wood

For Students 9th - 10th
Site contains an exhaustive listing of museums, image archives, virtual museums, web sites and articles about Grant Wood and his work. Search engine to search more on Woods and retail sources for prints.
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Handout
Art Cyclopedia

Artcyclopedia: Thomas Cole

For Students 9th - 10th
This fine arts search engine site contains a listing of museums, art galleries, image archives, web sites and articles which contain art work by Thomas Cole.
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Website
Other

Discovery Media: Museum Stuff

For Students 9th - 10th
MuseumStuff is a search engine and a web-based guide to art, history, and science museums and to museum-related informational resources, exhibits, educational and entertaining games, and activities.
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Website
American Academy of Family Physicians

American Academy of Family Physicians

For Students 9th - 10th
Home page of a professional organization of family doctors. Contains information related to issues in family practice medicine, including a search engine for research. Professional and educational resources and many related Web links are...
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Website
PBS

Yahoo Browser

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Its a browser from Yahoo. One of the oldest browser. Google Chrome though newer but better than Yahoo browser.
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Professional Doc
FNO Press

From Now On: A Questioning Toolkit

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
What exactly is a "questioning tool kit"? This resource provides techniques for asking essential questions, hypothetical questions, telling questions, planning questions and organizing questions.