Fall project

You can re-download the project guidelines HERE and extra copies of the website evaluation checklist HERE.

Unit 1 - Google Search Literacy

Over the next few weeks we'll be working through Google's "search education" lessons to understand better how Google works and how to use it most effectively for research projects. Below are shortcuts to the activities we're working on in class, in case you want to go over them again at home.

Lesson 1 - Picking the right search terms

Google-a-day activity #40

Lesson 2 - Understanding search results
Google-a-day activity #47
Google-a-day activity (math)

Lesson 3 - Narrowing a search to get the best results

Lesson 4 - Evaluating credibility of sources, Worksheet - "how do I identify credible sources?"
We'll also be looking at this page [please note that one of the links is outdated - for the "authority" activity the correct link is HERE]