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Before you search using Google or other search engines,
try some of these tips and tricks*:
1. Use quotation marks to search for words in a certain order.
examples: "World War I" or "Hubble Space Telescope"
2. A minus sign will exclude a word from a search.
example: Bears -Chicago (will not include Chicago in a search about bears)
3. You can use Google to search a certain type of site, such as .edu or .org. (This feature will only work with Google.)
example: war site:edu (will search for "war" on .edu sites)
example: cancer site:org (will search for "cancer" on .org sites)
4. You can combine these steps to create very specific searches.
example: "World War" -II
example (using Google): "World War" -II site:edu
Ask Jeeves for Kids
www.ajkids.com
Discovery Channel's Student Center
http://school.discovery.com/students/
Fact Monster
www.factmonster.com
Google
www.google.com
Great Sites for Kids
http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/greatwebsites/greatwebsiteskids.htm
Kids Click!
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/KidsClick!/
Multnomah County Public Library Homework Center
http://www.multcolib.org/homework/index.html
Think Quest
http://www.thinkquest.org/library/index.html
Zoom School
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/
*Tips and tricks adapted from "The Google Game" by Katrina Watkins and Kathleen Elder, School Library Journal, January 2006, pages 52-54.
Updated 6/07
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