Tools

Reference Tools

Great Student Internet Sites

Internet Searches

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Grolier's Encyclopedia on our school server 
General hard copy encyclopedias in the Reference Center.  We also have specialty sets on science, animals, oceans,  and for biographies.
Encyclopedia.com (remember it is a freebie!) Click here to go to the internet.
Periodicals HH00623_.WMF (10644 bytes)
Specialty CD ROMS Loaded on the Stand Alone Computer: Mammals, The Animals, The Presidents, Rainforests, Dinosaurs etc.    BS00546_.WMF (5158 bytes)
Single user electronic encyclopedias on CD ROM:  Comptons, Groliers, EN00377_.WMF (3330 bytes)
 
 
 
 

computer guy.gif (4616 bytes)Great  Student Internet Sites To Check

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A Tour of Mount Vernon- George PE03884_1.WMF (14414 bytes) Washington's Home.  Golden Sower Home Pagegolden sower guy.gif (11151 bytes)
Monticello  PE03650_.WMF (13230 bytes) Roget's Thesaurus BS00995_.WMF (1202 bytes)
Martin Luther King Jr.   Martin L. King.jpg (14387 bytes)

Berit's Best Sites for Children  header.gif (9912 bytes)
The Nine Planets   NA01826_.WMF (61918 bytes) Holidays on the Net  holidays.gif (38167 bytes)
Presidents of the United States   wjclinton.gif (8519 bytes) The White House for Kids  white house.gif (3231 bytes)
Arthur   the famous young aardvark who appears in the books by Marc Brown. My Little House on the Prairie Homepage of Laura Ingalls Wilder   BL00751_.WMF (5348 bytes)
Encyclopedia of Women's History  PE02297_.WMF (15804 bytes) America's West  TN00883_.WMF (1764 bytes)
Seussville  cat in the hat.gif (2171 bytes) Authors on the Web 
   
   

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Internet Searching

Use search engines, subject directories, and meta search
engines to locate materials on the World Wide Web.

Search Engines


Alta Vista
(Searches every word,
searches
a lot of the web,
and searches titles.)		 Excite
(Will find you subject
and other ideas related
to your topic.)		 InfoSeek
(Searches every word.)
Webcrawler
(Provides few, but
quality results.)
Lycos
(Good for simple
searches
on common topics.)		    


search engines allow the user to enter keywords that are run against a database (most often created automatically, by "spiders" or "robots").
Search engines are best used to locate a specific piece of information, such as a known document, an image, or a computer program, rather than a general subject.
If you need help getting better results using the Internet, try these quick hints:

a. Put " " around word phrases that you want to appear together.
Ex: "star trek: the next generation"

b. Use words like AND, OR, NOT
Ex: clinton AND dole
Ex: Klu Klux Klan OR Ku Klux Klan
Ex: cowboys BUT NOT Dallas

Search Directories

Subject directories or guides organize Internet sites by subject,
allowing users to choose a subject of interest and then browse the list of resources in that category. They lend themselves best to searching for information about a general subject, rather than for a specific piece of information.

Yahoo
(Great for
popular,
common
topics.)
 Magellan
(Reviews
and
evaluates
sites.)		 Looksmart
(Broad,
general
searching.)
Yahooligans   yahooligans.gif (9941 bytes)

A   Web Guide made specifically for students in grades K-6.  It contains solid resources that are safe for searching and viewing by young students.

 

Meta Crawlers

Meta search engines allow the user to search multiple search
engines. Most of the multi-threaded engines are very fast.

Metacrawler
(Superior for simple
and moderate
complex searches.)		 ProFusion
(Helpful searching
options.)
 

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