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Hunter and Carmen disagree whether George Washington really had wooden teeth, and Mrs. Skorupski encourages them to research the story on the internet and use her "Website Evaluation Gizmo" to evaluate websites and come up with the correct answer. In the fourth Mrs. Skorupski tale about libraries and library skills, fourth graders at Liberty Elementary learn to evaluate Internet resources for accuracy, ease of use, and informativeness. Includes a link to lessons in website evaluation and the Website Evaluation Gizmo.
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kids search engines
KidRex searches emphasize kid-related webpages from across the entire web and are powered by Google Custom Search™ and use Google SafeSearch™ technology.
A free web search site designed for kids by librarians with kid-friendly results. For grades 2-5.
Check out the tool section.
DuckDuckGo describes itself as "the search engine that doesn't track you".
It promises not to use cookies to follow users and says it doesn't collect any personal information on those who use it.
It promises not to use cookies to follow users and says it doesn't collect any personal information on those who use it.
What is a search engine?
Boolean searches
Boolean searches
WE SOLVE it!
Inquiry Online is developed by the School Library Association of Victoria and The State Library of Victoria
Inquiry Online is developed by the School Library Association of Victoria and The State Library of Victoria
Students can save their questions as they go.
11 Google Search Tips Every Student Should Know about
Choose your NEWS
With the advent of the Internet and social media, news is distributed at an incredible rate by an unprecedented number of different media outlets.
How do we choose which news to consume? Damon Brown gives the inside scoop on how the opinions and facts (and sometimes non-facts) make their way into the news and how the smart reader can tell them apart. Lesson by Damon Brown, animation by Augenblick Studios. |
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fake news
Another way to call your students' attention to distinguishing between real and fake news is with the 5W's:
- WHO wrote the article?
- WHAT is the publication?
- WHERE do the sources inside come from?
- WHY did the writer create it?
- HOW did it make you feel?
older students mAY NEED TO ASK MORE QUESTIONS
ONE FACT FINDER: snOPES
how fake news spreads
In previous decades, most news with global reach came from several major newspapers and networks with the resources to gather information directly.
The speed with which information spreads now, however, has created the ideal conditions for something called circular reporting. Noah Tavlin sheds light on this phenomenon. Lesson by Noah Tavlin, animation by Patrick Smith. |