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Effective Search Practices
-Ozone depletion in Australia from a government website (Not sure, try this.) -A presentation file that is related to your subject matter and from universities in the U.S. (Not sure, try this.) -A black and white image that's labeled for reuse to download on to your computer. (Not sure, go here.)
 * Develop a search plan.
 * Teach students to use advanced search techniques.
 * Teach students to use more advanced and more specialized search engines. (Give Ask.com, Answers.com, Noodletools and Boolify a try.)
 * //Activity//: Use advanced search techniques to find the following:

Validating Resources - Get REAL: 4 Steps to Validating Information

 * R = Read the URL (e.g. The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus: [])
 * E = Examine the Content
 * A = Ask about the Author and Owner (e.g. look up **martinlutherking.org** on www.easywhois.com)
 * L = Look at the Links
 * //Activity//: Use the REAL Steps to validate these websites.

November Learning - Information Literacy Resources

**__Tips:__**
====- * is the "wild card". For example, if you are using advanced search and you want to search k12 schools across the US, use k12.*.us in the //Search within a site or domain:// field. ====