1. S TOP SPINNING IN CIRCLES … BETTER SEARCHING FOR RESOURCES Heather Miller Bruce Herbert

3. Do you ever feel like this when looking for resources for your classroom inquiry?

4. B ETTER SEARCHING ON G OOGLE Every word matters Generally all the words you put in the query will be used Search IS case sensitive Punctuation is ignored Can’t search for special characters Exceptions C++, $, underscore

5. Keep it simple Use words most likely to appear in what you are searching for Use as few terms as possible Choose descriptive words

6. E FFECTIVE S EARCH T IPS WITH G OOGLE Web search: Think keywords that are most likely to appear on the web page Type several words what you need to get relevant results

7. S EARCH FOR … What happens when you search for Inquiry Science inquiry Biology inquiry

8. ADVANCED SEARCH FEATURES Phrase search (“ “) search exact order "scientific inquiry" Search within a specific website (site:) you can specify that your search results inquiry site:tamu.edu Terms you want to exclude (-) You can indicate that you do not want pages that contain this word to appear inquiry -biology -journal

9. ADVANCED SEARCH FEATURES The OR operator inquiry OR questioning For particular file types You can restrict your results to particular file types inquiry filetype:pdf

10. ADVANCED SEARCH FEATURES Fill in the blanks (*) Wildcard Search exactly as is (+) Texas, +science Find synonyms (~) Looks for that words synonyms ~run (will search run, running, marathon,runner’s) Range (..) Searching a range of numbers Earthquakes, California, 1900..2000

11. You can also search by Books computer code news archives all things mac, unix, lunix, Microsoft US Government universities

12. U SE YOUR R ESOURCES PLC-METS wiki DLESE NDL Teacher’s Domain iTunesU Teacher Tube

13. D IGITAL L IBRARY FOR E ARTH S YSTEM E DUCATION (DLESE) http://www.dlese.org collection of resources, activities, & data searchable by grade level, resource type, collection & standards virtual field trips

14. N ATIONAL S CIENCE D IGITAL L IBRARY http://nsdl.org Library of education & research Science Technology Engineering Mathematics Resources, tools, & lessons

15. T EACHER ’ S D OMAIN http://www.teachersdomain.org free media resources from Public Broadcasting NOVA, Frontline… Correlate with state & national education standards Must sign up - FREE

16. I T UNES U http://education.apple.com/itunesu collection of FREE content instructional videos/podcasts

17. T EACHER T UBE http://www.teachertube.com online community for sharing instructional videos FREE, sign up to download/upload safe venue for teachers/schools

18. H ANDS - ON Learners use real-world materials to conduct investigations they help plan Search the sites that already have lessons on them Modify or use as is DLESE NSDL PLC-METS wiki

19. S IMULATION Allow learners to “gather” data & examine the relationship between variable Learners can manipulate variables Simulation +physics +roller coaster http://www.myphysicslab.com/RollerSimple.html

20. D ATA SET Access to data sets previously collected Data set +fish –journal http://www.streamnet.org/ Data set +earthquakes +Texas http://www.ig.utexas.edu/research/projects/eq/co mpendium/earthquakes_contents.htm

21. E VIDENCE EVALUATION Learners are presented with data, but not an explanation, they then determine whether evidence supports the explanation given

22. V ERBAL DESIGN Teachers poses a question, learners design a study to answer the question