DATABASES:
A set of data that is easy to search. It is stored online and it updated regularly by an administrator. The information is quality and does not need to be double-checked elsewhere.
1. Go to Badgerlink:
Badgerlink is a database free to all Wisconsin residents! Within are many focused databases such as:
Let's browse together!!
Search database designed specifically for kids.
Searches articles that can be sorted by lexile.
Encyclopedia Britannica Middle School
2. Go to CultureGrams:
Login: 1143796
Password: 53073
Culture Grams is a subscription databases used for searching cultural and geographical information.
SEARCH ENGINES:
Programs that search online documents by keywords and produces a list of websites that match the keywords. Many search engines are paid to put some websites higher on the list of results than other sites. Always double-check the information you find online!!
1. Go to Sweet Search:
Search for history of Wisconsin ... What is your first search result??
Go to Google:
Search for history of Wisconsin .... What is your first search result??
Go to GoGooligans:
Search for history of Wisconsin .... How do these results look different from the Google results?
2. Go to DuckDuckGo:
Search for Wisconsin ... Notice the quick answer box that appears to help guide your search. What are
some of the quick options you're given?
Go to Blekko:
Search for Wisconsin ... Notice how uniquely this search engine is designed. What are some of the ways
Blekko narrows the keyword search for you?
Go to Twurdy:
Search for Wisconsin ... Notice how this search engine organizes it's results. What do the different
shades of orange mean?
3. Go to Ipl2:
Search for flags ... How many results did you get?
Go to KidRex:
Search for flags ... How many results did you get?
LET'S TALK ABOUT IT!!!
Click on the link below and add a sticky with the search tool you liked best and why...
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