- Online tool
Photos for Class
- “A searchable collection of Creative Commons images that is safe for students to use and provides the appropriate Creative Commons attribution in a watermark
- Online tool
Purple Planet Royalty-Free Music
- A search engine to find “Royalty free music to use in projects” .
- Online tool
Creative Commons
- A search platform that allows users to search for content that can be reused, remixed and reshared.
- Professional Development
30 Of The Best Digital Collaboration Tools For Students
- “Student-To-Student & School-To-School Digital Collaboration: 30 Of The Best Digital Collaboration Tools For Students”
- Professional Development
BookCreator: Create, Read, Publish
- Weekly webinars, implementation plans, lesson plans, student created books and more!
- Professional Development
Ideas for Using Pear Deck in The Classroom
- “Pear Deck is a tool for adding interactive and engaging lessons into your classroom.”
- Professional Development
10 Ideas For Using Technology To Teach Writing
- “There are a variety of tech tools and methods out there for teaching writing that can make the process easier and more fun for
- Professional Development
Publish a Digital Magazine
- “Students take the lead and design and create their own digital magazine.”
- 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
