Classroom Learning Activities
- Search Strategy WorksheetStudents can use this worksheet to brainstorm keywords for their topic. If students don't have a topic, students can be divided into small groups to brainstorm keywords related to topics provided to them.
Videos and Self Paced Tutorials on Search Strategies
- Cornell Library TutorialsTutorials that provide strategies for using the Cornell University Library and include embedded quizzes.
- Developing and Applying a Search StrategyThis self-paced tutorial highlights the importance of choosing keywords and demonstrates how to apply a search strategy using an EbscoHost database as an example. Created by Mel Jensen at Mann Library.
- Finding Background Information on a TopicThis self-paced tutorial provides suggestions for finding background information that will better inform the search process. Created by Mel Jensen, Mann Library.
Additional Resources
These handouts, infographics and guides can be linked from your CANVAS course page or shared with students directly.
- How to Find Better Information Online: Click RestraintShort video produced by the Civic Online Reasoning project of the Stanford History Education Group. Explains why clicking on the first entry in Web search results is not a good thing.