S TOP SPINNING IN CIRCLES … BETTER SEARCHING FOR RESOURCES Heather Miller Bruce Herbert.
Transcript of S TOP SPINNING IN CIRCLES … BETTER SEARCHING FOR RESOURCES Heather Miller Bruce Herbert.
STOP SPINNING IN CIRCLES…BETTER SEARCHING FOR RESOURCES
Heather Miller
Bruce Herbert
Do you ever feel like this when looking for resources for your classroom inquiry?
BETTER SEARCHING ON GOOGLE
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
Keep it simple
Use words most likely to appear in what you are searching for
Use as few terms as possible
Choose descriptive words
EFFECTIVE SEARCH TIPS WITH GOOGLE
Web search:Think keywords that are most likely to
appear on the web page
Type several words what you need to get relevant results
SEARCH FOR…
What happens when you search for Inquiry
Science inquiry
Biology inquiry
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
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
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
You can also search by Bookscomputer codenews archivesall things mac, unix, lunix, MicrosoftUS Governmentuniversities
USE YOUR RESOURCES
PLC-METS wiki DLESE NDL Teacher’s Domain iTunesU Teacher Tube
DIGITAL LIBRARY FOR EARTH SYSTEM EDUCATION (DLESE)
http://www.dlese.org • collection of resources, activities, & data • searchable by grade level, resource type, collection & standards
• virtual field trips
NATIONAL SCIENCE DIGITAL LIBRARY
http://nsdl.org Library of education &
research Science Technology Engineering Mathematics Resources, tools, &
lessons
TEACHER’S DOMAIN
http://www.teachersdomain.org
free media resources from Public Broadcasting NOVA, Frontline…
Correlate with state & national education standards Must sign up - FREE
ITUNESU
http://education.apple.com/itunesu • collection of FREE content instructional videos/podcasts
TEACHER TUBEhttp://www.teachertube.com• online community for sharing instructional videos• FREE, sign up to download/upload• safe venue for teachers/schools
HANDS-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
SIMULATION
Allow learners to “gather” data & examine the relationship between variable
Learners can manipulate variables
Simulation +physics +roller coaster http://www.myphysicslab.com/
RollerSimple.html
DATA 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/compendium/earthquakes_contents.htm
EVIDENCE EVALUATION
Learners are presented with data, but not an explanation, they then determine whether evidence supports the explanation given
VERBAL DESIGN
Teachers poses a question, learners design a study to answer the question