Research

Great site for conducting research: **NCWiseOwl** Click on Middle School Zone, click on Student Research. You can also use any of the other research tools listed. ** Password: wiseowl **

Google Books is also a great way for students to research. Richard Byrne, who runs FreeTech4Teachers, has a great video explaining how students can use Google Books for research purposes.

**Google Scholar** provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research. (description taken from Google Scholar website)

**How to do Research** is a great guide for students in the steps on conducting research for projects.

**A Google A Day** challenges help your students put their search skills to the test, and to get your classroom engaged and excited about using technology to discover the world around them. (description taken from the Google Search Education page)