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Teach your students how to conduct effective Web searches with the Search Wizard tool.
Designed by educators for educators (and students), this site offers three tools that make it easy to teach the essential steps of locating, evaluating, and ethically using digital resources:
- Search Wizard: helps students learn how to build good Web searches
- Evaluation Wizard: helps students evaluate Web sites
- Citation Wizard: helps students build citations (in five styles) to be used in research papers or documents.
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Upon successful completion, students will be able to create an effective cover letter.
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In this activity, students are shown a video called “What in the World… History Compressed” and then later asked to write about it. The emphasis is on critical thinking. The Web site contains videos, political cartoons, and pictures that encourage students to think critically.
Screenshot of Working the Web for Education - Tom March - Critical Thinking
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The Occumational Outlook Handbook is created and maintained by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. It includes an up-to-date description of occupations, job summaries, entry-level education, median pay, and projected job growth
For this project, using the OOH, students will investigate three jobs of their choice and engage in project based learning activities to delve into various careers and discuss future trends.
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A skill we need to teach our students is to fact-check those things they read, hear, or see in the media. Using online checkers: snopes, FactCheck and Politifact, students will investigate a current story presented in the media.