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are some excellent search engines that have been developed for
educational use. These search engines have already sifted
sites that are appropriate for student use so therefore may be
limited in scope, but you can have more assurance that the sites
found by your classes are focused only appropriate web pages for
educational use.
Here are
some tips to do before asking your students to search for
information:
- Brainstorm
with your students on what information they already know about
clocks and list them on large sheets of butcher paper.
- Discuss
what they would like to learn about clocks.
- Students
need specific goals that they need to achieve when searching
for information. As they search for information, they should
have a goal for sharing this information with the class.
Discuss with your students how they will share the information
that they have found. Ideas for sharing their work may include
having them work in small, collaborative groups according to
topics, and create a poster board or other graphic
demonstration of their knowledge.
- Tell
the students how you will evaluate their work. You can discuss
as a class what kind of rubrics for scoring you will use to
grade their work. Students should be involved with the scoring
of each other's projects. You could even take two grades for
the projects developed: one that was graded by the students
and one that was graded by yourself. Fifty percent of the
grade could be given by the students and fifty percent could
be given by you.
Use
this web page as a starting point for this activity: Search
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