There are many good search tools for teachers. General search engines search for a keyword or phrase within a defined area of the WWW, metasearch engines search for a keyword or phrase within the defined areas of several search engines, and search directories provide an organized listing of sites.

     Below are five categories of search tools that will help you focus on education.

     Think of the Web as a large surface containing many overlapping circles, and each circle represents a defined area of the Web searched by a single search engine. Here are some excellent general search engines:



     Select a search engine and search for a topic that you will teach in your classroom.

     If you have a very specific topic and perhaps wish to search the areas of several circles or the defined areas searched by multiple search engines, you may wish to try one of these metasearch engines:



     Select a metasearch engine and search for a relatively obscure fact that you might teach.

     The number of search tools increases every day. There are two search tools that index search engines and directories all over the world by subject.


     The following educational directories provide an organized list of valuable education sites:


     Explore these directories and bookmark any sites you think may be of value to you as you prepare for your classes.

     There are educational search tools for lesson plans. These provide useful and easy to search listings of lesson plans that you may enjoy using:



     Select an education search tool and find an interesting lesson plan that you might want to use with your students in the near future. What do you need to have to implement this lesson?

Review: A good way to decide which search tools are your favourites is to perform the same keyword or phrase search in each and look at the search results. What is your favourite new search tool and why?

     

 

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