• Google Toolbar
• Google
• Search Tools
• Soople
• Planning your Search
• Four Nets for Better Searching (with the keyword searches). Or read Power Searching with Digital Logic .
• Choose the Best Search for Your Information Need Includes a printer friendly PDF you can share with students.
• Try searching for a specific type of site for more accurate information.
  For example, to get government only sites on nutrition, type this search code in Google: nutrition + site:gov.

Grammar of the Internet

• Grammar of the Internet
• Analyze the site's web address. What does it tell you? (Analyze two.)
• Who is the owner of the website? What are the implications? (Analyze one.)
• Who links to the web site? (Analyze two.)
• Who made money on my search?
• Internet Archive WayBack Machine
• Better Read That Again: Web Hoaxes and Misinformation

Research Planning (see handout)

• Essential Questions
• The Question is the Answer
• The New Plagiarism
• Big6 Research Paper Organizer

Bogus Sites to Teach Evaluation

• California's Velcro Crop
• Ban Dihydrogen Monoxide
• Tass.net
• WEB LITERACY and Critical Thinking: Is it a Hoax?
• National Geographic Photo Foolery

Evaluation Tools

• ABCDs of Evaluating Internet Resources
• Evaluation Criteria from AVLN's Integrating Technology in the Curriculum online course.
• U.S. DOE Computer Incident Advisory Capability (CIAC) Hoaxbusters
• Kathy Schrock's Guide for Critical Evaluation Information

Citing Internet Resources

• MLA Format
• APA Format
• EasyBib An online citation tool.
• Noodle Tools

Finally, keep some perspective with Take a Hike, an article on nature deficit disorder.