Stop spinning in circles

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Stop spinning in circlesbetter searching for
resources

• Heather Miller
• Bruce Herbert

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• Do you ever feel like this when looking for
  resources for your classroom inquiry?

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Better searching on Google

• Every word matters
• Generally all the words you put in the query will
  be used
• Search IS case sensitive
• Punctuation is ignored
• Cant search for special characters
• Exceptions C, , underscore

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• Keep it simple
• Use words most likely to appear in what you are
  searching for
• Use as few terms as possible
• Choose descriptive words

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Effective Search Tips with Google

• Web search
• Think keywords that are most likely to appear on
  the web page
• Type several words what you need to get relevant
  results

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Search for

• What happens when you search for
• Inquiry
• Science inquiry
• Biology inquiry

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ADVANCED SEARCH FEATURES

• Phrase search ( )
• search exact order
• "scientific inquiry"
• Search within a specific website (site)
• you can specify that your search results  
• inquiry sitetamu.edu
• Terms you want to exclude (-)
• You can indicate that you do not want pages that
  contain this word to appear
• inquiry -biology -journal    

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ADVANCED SEARCH FEATURES

• The OR operator  
• inquiry OR questioning
• For particular file types
• You can restrict your results to particular file
  types 
• inquiry filetypepdf 

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ADVANCED SEARCH FEATURES

• Fill in the blanks ()
• Wildcard
• Search exactly as is ()
• Texas, science
• Find synonyms ()
• Looks for that words synonyms
• run (will search run, running, marathon
  ,runners)
• Range (..)
• Searching a range of numbers
• Earthquakes, California, 1900..2000

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• You can also search by
• Books
• computer code
• news archives
• all things mac, unix, lunix, Microsoft
• US Government
• universities

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Use your Resources

• PLC-METS wiki
• DLESE
• NDL
• Teachers Domain
• iTunesU
• Teacher Tube

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Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE)

• http//www.dlese.org
• collection of resources, activities, data
• searchable by grade level, resource type,
  collection standards
• virtual field trips

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National Science Digital Library

• http//nsdl.org
• Library of education research
• Science
• Technology
• Engineering
• Mathematics
• Resources, tools, lessons

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Teachers Domain

• http//www.teachersdomain.org
• free media resources from Public Broadcasting
• NOVA, Frontline
• Correlate with state
• national education standards
• Must sign up - FREE

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iTunesU

• http//education.apple.com/itunesu
• collection of FREE content instructional
  videos/podcasts

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Teacher Tube

• http//www.teachertube.com
• online community for sharing instructional
  videos
• FREE, sign up to download/upload
• safe venue for teachers/schools

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Hands-on

• Learners use real-world materials to conduct
  investigations they help plan
• Search the sites that already have lessons on
  them
• Modify or use as is
• DLESE
• NSDL
• PLC-METS wiki

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Simulation

• Allow learners to gather data examine the
  relationship between variable
• Learners can manipulate variables
• Simulation physics roller coaster
• http//www.myphysicslab.com/RollerSimple.html

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Data set

• Access to data sets previously collected
• Data set fish journal
• http//www.streamnet.org/
• Data set earthquakes Texas
• http//www.ig.utexas.edu/research/projects/eq/comp
  endium/earthquakes_contents.htm

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Evidence evaluation

• Learners are presented with data, but not an
  explanation, they then determine whether evidence
  supports the explanation given

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Verbal design

• Teachers poses a question, learners design a
  study to answer the question