12 Ways To Use Google Search In School

Google's new site has an array of lesson plans, videos (check a sample out below), concept maps, and other tools designed to help any educator properly integrate Google. As part of Search Education, Google has shared a bunch of lesson plans that are organized by degree of difficulty. The following are just some of the many lesson plans brought to you by Google.

Picking the right search terms

Beginner
Pick the best words to use in academic searching, whether students are beginning with a full question or a topic of just a few words.

Intermediate
Identify unique search terms to locate targeted sources and to use “context terms” to uncover appropriate evidence.

Advanced
Explore “firm” and “soft” search terms, and practice using context terms to locate subject-specific collections of information on the web.

 

Understanding search results
Beginner
Learn about the different parts of the results page, and about how to evaluate individual results based on cues like web addresses and snippets.

Intermediate
Use the results page to check the quality of a search process, and explore specific strategies students can use to improve their searches and their results.

Advanced
Engage additional search strategies, such as generalization and specialization.

 

Searching for evidence for research tasks

Beginner
Draw stronger terms from preliminary search results, identify evidence, and explore using various media to locate specific types of evidence.

Intermediate
Investigate different page formats (blogs, news articles, wikis, etc), and how to identify the right format for the type of information students are seeking.

Advanced
Examine Google Scholar, and learn how to find specific collections of information that will contain the best evidence for students’ research task.

 

Evaluating credibility of sources
Beginner
Consider, tone, style, audience, and purpose to determine the credibility of a source.

Intermediate
Consider, tone, style, audience, and purpose to determine the credibility of a source.

Advanced
Track information to a reasonable source and recognize and consider the impact of bias in assessing the credibility of information.

 

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