Search Engines
SEARCHING BEYOND GOOGLE
Many students go straight to Google when they are searching the web. Often you get thousands, if not millions of "hits' that you then must sift through. If you use Google regularly learn how to use it effectively OR use the Search Engines listed below that are designed specifically for students.
Many students go straight to Google when they are searching the web. Often you get thousands, if not millions of "hits' that you then must sift through. If you use Google regularly learn how to use it effectively OR use the Search Engines listed below that are designed specifically for students.
INSTAGROK
Get amazing results from your searches with an interactive mindmap. Adjoining this is an extensive list of search results including websites, videos, images, books and quizzes. BOOLIFY This is a great search engine for kinesthetic and spatial or visual learners because you have to drag and drop the Boolean search options onto a canvas then type in your search terms. MASHPEDIA Results are provided using a range of visual formats - it is a mashup of current information about the topic. SWEET SEARCH This is a search tool designed especially for students. It has some great tutorials on how to do effective internet searching. DUCK DUCK GO This is a very simple yet effective search engine for students - best for Middle School. WOLFRAM ALPHA This is a search engine with a difference. It is capable of calculating things that would take hundreds of individual websites to do. MRS FRECKLES Mrs Feckles gives you many different ways to narrow your search to particular resource types such as images, scholarly works, definitions, movie reviews and much more. |