- Professional Development
Up Your Exit Slip Game with Padlet
- “Students can post and view content as a way to reflect on their learning. Up engagement, up the technology, Up Your Exit Slips!”
- Professional Development
Using Instagram to Teach Poetry
- “The genre of Instapoetry can be a useful tool for engaging students and improving their literacy and media literacy skills.”
- Professional Development
K-W-L Creator
- “K-W-L charts have been widely used to help students prepare for reading by organizing what students know (K) and want to learn (W) before
- Lesson Plan, Online tool
Newseum Online Tool
- Lesson plans provided by the Newseum on current events and history.
- Online tool
DuckDuckGo
- “A user-friendly search engine that does not keep track of searches and promotes online privacy.”
- Online tool
Newsela
- “Newsela is a news and nonfiction website that adapts its content to the reading level of students while empowering them to adjust the complexity
- Online tool
Kidrex Safe Search for Kids
- A child-friendly safe search engine.
- Video
Online Research: Tips for Effective Search Strategies
- Learn about boolean operators.
- Lesson Plan
Stay On The Path
- “A series of resources that aims to promote and encourage ethical online behaviours and digital citizenship with young people.”
- Video
How Can You Burst Your Filter Bubble?
- Learn about filter bubbles and finding information online.
- Video
Effective Searching with Google
- Learn more about how Google works and tips and tools you can use to search.
- Information resource
The Advanced Google Searches Every Student Should Know
- Tips on using advanced features of Google search.
- Video
The Inquiry Process, Video 2 – Search
- “The second step of the inquiry process model.”
- Lesson Plan
Listen, Look, and Learn: An Information-Gathering Process
- “This lesson models an information-gathering process for primary learners as they listen to and look at resources, seeking information pertinent to the questions on
- Lesson Plan
So Many Choices
- “This lesson introduces the students to the first steps in finding information on the Internet.”
- Video
Alternative Search Engines for High School Students
- Learn how to use a variety of different search engines.
- Professional Development
Tablets and The Inquiry Process Search Note Taking
- “Elementary school students learn how to research using tablets and The Inquiry Process. This video shows the students using the tablets to take notes
- Video
Taking Notes for Research in Elementary School
- “This video is part of the material for the plagiarism and copyright. Special thanks to the Redpath Museum for the use of their document,
- Professional Development
Ten Active Learning Strategies Using Word Clouds
- 10 ways that you can use word clouds in your classes to engage students directly in the learning process.
- Lesson Plan
Writing Good Emails
- “How is writing an email similar to or different from writing a letter?”
- Video
How To Plan When You’re Searching the Internet
- Suggestions “to students that they think of keywords that they would like to see on the page and shows them how to exclude unwanted
- Lesson Plan
What Am I Looking for?
- “A printable to help students think before starting their search process.”
- Lesson Plan
What Am I Looking for?
- “A printable to help students think before starting their search process.”
- Lesson Plan
I Heard It ‘Round the Internet: Sexual Health Education and Authenticating Online Information
- “Students learn to search more effectively online while searching myths on sexuality and contraception and then evaluate the resources found.”
- Lesson Plan
Integrating Research Techniques and Technology
- “Students first read graphic novels to become familiar with the text structure, then research a self-selected topic using web-based resources. Students follow the research
- Lesson Plan
Sharing Information about Careers with Infographics
- “Students research specific careers based on their own interests and then report their findings to the class.”
- Lesson Plan
Google Search Education
- A variety of lesson plans, videos and activities to help develop student’s search skills.
- Lesson Plan
Picture Books as Framing Texts: Research Paper Strategies for Struggling Writers
- “Students will research their topic and write a report to include information concerning the five W’s (Who, What, Where, When and Why), then work
- Lesson Plan
Travel Brochures: Highlighting the Setting of a Story
- “Students create a travel brochure for locations in texts that they have read. The activity requires students to think about and collect the details
- Lesson Plan
The Hero Project: Authenticating Online Information
- “Students are introduced to Internet search skills through researching a personal hero.”
- Lesson Plan
Research Building Blocks: “Organize This!”
- “Students learn how to organize the information they found using sentence strips, so that they can create a plan to use their information.”
- Lesson Plan
Do As I Say, AND As I Do
- “The teacher will model the research process by doing a collaborative class research project using strategies to avoid plagiarism and follow copyright law.”
- Lesson Plan
Investigating Animals: Using Nonfiction for Inquiry-Based Research
- “Through the use of nonfiction, students can be encouraged and challenged to learn more about favorite animals and to document their findings with graphic
