Sweet Search

Wouldn't you love to have place where students could search safely and then find reliable information?  Seem impossible?  Not to fear, Sweet Search is here.  Sweet Search advertises that "Every Web site in SweetSearch has been evaluated by our research experts."  Love that!

And there's more!  Look at this!

Teaching Web Research Skills teaches Web research skills to educators and students

SweetSearch4Me is our search engine for emerging learners.

SweetSearch2Day is where students Learn Something New Every Day.

Visit SweetSearch Biographies for profiles of 1,000+ significant people.

Visit SweetSearch Social Studies for our best social studies content.

I love the bibliography section.  You can search on a group and it will give you a list of all the people they have researched for that group.  Here's a list of the various groups.  It's pretty impressive and growing all the time.

Activists
Actors and Entertainers
Africa
African Americans
Arab Americans
Artists
Asia
Asian Americans
Athletes
Australia
Business Leaders
Educators
Emmy
Europe
Explorers and Adventurers
Grammy
Hispanic Americans
Medical Professionals
Men
Military Leaders
Musicians
Native Americans
Nobel Prize
North America
Olympic Medal
Oscar
Philanthropists
Philosophers
Politicians
Pulitzer Prize
Scholars
Scientists and Inventors
South America
Spiritual Leaders
Tony
United States
US First Ladies
US Presidents
Women
World Leaders
Writers

finding Dulcinea

In Miguel Cervantes' classic work of fiction, the hero Don Quixote, accompanied by his squire Sancho Panza and his horse Rocinante, spends his life on a quest to find the perfect woman - Dulcinea.  Along the way Quixote takes a great deal of bad advice and goes down many wrong alleys.  Isn't that a little like searching on the Internet?  And so the founders of finding Dulcinea used this story in the naming of their site.

This is an excellent site!  It's filled with ideas and useful facts.  Most importantly, it's reliable.  That's every educator's dream!  I would encorage you to take a look at it and see how you can incorporate it into your teaching.

finding Dulcinea

Wikipedia - Reliable?

Can we use Wikipedia?  That's a common question among students.  Finding Dulcinea has come up with a list of 10 reasons why students should not rely on Wikipedia.  Check it out.http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/education/2010/march/The-Top-10-Reasons-Students-Cannot-Cite-or-Rely-on-Wikipedia.html