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"Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out." - Charles F. Kettering

 
Web Guides
Use librarian-created subject guides and search directories in addition to general web search engines to find more web sources for your topic.

Digital Librarian: A Librarian's Choice of the Best of the Web - [useful for secondary libraries] maintained by Margaret Vail Anderson, a librarian in Cortland, New York.

Great Web Sites for Kids - sites selected by the American Library Association for elementary students through middle schoolers.

Librarian's Internet Index - [useful for secondary libraries] a searchable and annotated subject directory of Internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians for their usefulness to users of public libraries.

Web Search Tools


Ask.com or Ask for Kids where you can type your question.

Google (Tip: click Advanced Search and in the Domain line, enter .org or try .gov or .mil  as appropriate for your topic).
 
 

Research Help

  • Ask the Teacher-Librarian! - Your best resource is to ask your professional library teacher.  "Google doesn't teach students how to use information, but librarians do!" - Walter Minkel, School Library Journal.  Get help choosing/narrowing a topic, determining sources available, determining information relevance for your topic, and more...

  • How to Make a Bibliography -

How to Follow the Research Process

  • The Big6 Information Skills for Student Achievement - An approach to teaching information literacy and technology skills.

  • Guided Inquiry: A framework for learning through school libraries in 21st century schools. - a resource from Rutgers' Center for International Scholarship in School Libraries of research and scholarship about the guided inquiry approach to help students "learn meaningfully from the diverse and complex information sources"
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    East Marshall Elementary School
    Library Media Center
    201 E. Weissenburger
    Laurel, IA 50141

    email:  dforcht@e-marshall.k12.ia.us
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