Tips for integrating Google Wonder Wheel into the classroom: For both you and your students, the Google Wonder Wheel is relevant and enables the user to navigate the internet more easily. When doing research, students often start with a very general search term and then struggle to find the specific information they are looking for. With Google Wonder Wheel, students can narrow their search quickly and easily by clicking on the search term or resource that is the most relevant to their inquiry and most likely to be of value.
Here are the steps:
1. Type in your search topic and press search.
2. Scroll down and find Wonder Wheel from the Standard View menu on the left-hand side of your screen.
3. Click on one of the related search terms to narrow your search.
4. Give it a try!
Very helpful! I just tried it now, and it narrowed my search down perfectly. I'm going to try it with my class - they just started a unit on weather - and see if they can find specific information on various types of weather. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing! Let us know how the GWW works with your class!
ReplyDeleteHere are a few weather sites that you might also find useful:
http://www.weatherwizkids.com/ (explanations and definitions about content and lesson and experiment ideas to help you explain it)
http://msnucleus.org/membership/guide/storybooks.html (animated books to help explain the water cycle that you could share on an overhead or in a science centre)
http://whyfiles.org/category/interactives/ (interactives that will help students better understand the why behind the weather, specifcally lightening, tornadoes, rainbows and snowflakes)
Enjoy!
This is super cool! I am a very visual learner so this helps me to organize my thoughts easily. It's also like brainstorming for subject ideas or topics. I can see how this would be great for writing essays! It makes it very easy to find information on specific topics and leads you on a nice "path" of related information!
ReplyDeleteI helped a student with a project last year and his subject was very vague but he struggled to be more specific. This would have been very helpful in that situation!