10 Tips for Effective Internet Research in Elementary School

10 Tips for Effective Internet Research in Elementary School

By Tracey HooverBy Tracey Hoover

Quality Use of the Internet can positively impact student achievement!

Quality Use of the Internet can positively impact student achievement!

That is why the district provides equipment and internet access to every student!

Objective 1 - Empower and Protect Students!

Objective 2 - Empower and Protect Teachers

That is why the district provides equipment and internet access to every student!

Objective 1 - Empower and Protect Students!

Objective 2 - Empower and Protect Teachers

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FIRST AND FOREMOST - MONITOR THEM!

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1. Instruct them!

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2. BE SURE THEY KNOW THE PLAN - Red Dot/Hand UP

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Don’t FREAK OUT! Be the solution…not the tyrant.

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Don’t FREAK OUT! Be the solution…not the tyrant.

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3. NO Free Time Googling! (Even if it is fun.)

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Safe? Standards? Defendable?

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4. SET Search LIMITS!

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5. NO BROAD Searches!

6. You Google First!

7. PROVIDE GREAT SITES!

National Geographic Frogs!

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8. LIMIT the NUMBER of Sites!

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A MILLION is TOO MANY!

Sometimes 5 is TOO MANY.

They can spend ALL of their time LOOKING and none FINDING!

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9. GUIDE the Research!

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10. DO NOT ASSUME!!!!!

•Reading Level

•Validity

•Usefulness

•Spelling

•Skimming

•Printing

•Citing

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10. DO NOT ASSUME!!!!!

•Validity

•Inventions 1

•Inventions 2

•Spelling

•Word Wall

•Word List

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The Internet, like the World, can be evil. However, we can find beauty and knowledge if we look in the right places, and if we are armed with the right skills and strategies!

Protect them. Instruct them. Arm them. Empower them.