Searching the Web

Exploring WWW.Activities

Tutorial on how to create your activity

Using and abusing the web

Subject directories and how to use them

Copying and Pasting Images from the Internet

Saving Images from the Internet

WWW.Activities and Searching the Web

1. Exploring WWW.Activities

Math: Telling Time/Pat’s Puzzles Fractions Fun/Times Tables

Social Studies: Revolutionary War/Presidents’ Day Heroes/Explorers
Ellis Island/Medieval Times Viva Utah/Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

Language Arts: Jan Brett/Harry Potter Hotlist

Fine Arts: Mozart/Arts

Science: Weather and Seasons/Electricity Dinosaurs/Australia’s Marvelous Marsupials

2. Tutorial on how to create your activity

http://www.uen.org/tutorial/html/activities.html

3. Using and Abusing the Web

How to copy images and text

Copyright – giving credit where credit is due

To Copy or Not to Copy-That is the Question

Copyright in an Electronic Environment

Web Site Evaluation Checklist
Authority: Who owns the Web site and why?
Content: Is the information accurate and reliable?
Design and Navigation: Does the Web site function efficiently?
Curriculum Connections: Does the site enhance or support the curriculum?
Learning Environments: Does the site incorporate the unique capabilities of the Web?

4. Subject Directories and How to Use Them

Teacher Guide
http://www.yahooligans.com/tg/search.html

Librarians’ Index to the Internet
http://lii.org/

INFOMINE
http://infomine.ucr.edu/

Academic Info
http://www.academicinfo.net/

KidsClick!
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/KidsClick!/

Surfing the Net with Kids
http://www.surfnetkids.com/

Multnomah County Library’s Homework Center
http://www.multcolib.org/homework/

Awesome Library for Kids
http://www.awesomelibrary.org/student.html

The WWW Virtual Library
http://vlib.org/Overview.html

Britannica
http://www.britannica.com/browse/subject

Yahooligans
http://www.yahooligans.com

Tips for Searching the Web

The Spider’s Apprentice: How to Use Web Search Engines
http://moon.ouhsc.edu/kboyce/sdms/otherlinks/spidap.htm

Sink or Swim: Internet Search Tools and Techniques
http://www.ouc.bc.ca/libr/connect96/search.htm

Google
http://www.google.com

More Places to Go

Ask Jeeves
http://www.ajkids.com/

T4 Grade Level Resources
http://t4.jordan.k12.ut.us/grade_level/index.html

Pioneer Library
http://pioneer-library.org/

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