This chapter seemed to offer a lot of new ideas that I never knew about. One of the things I learned new in this chapter was about all the ways to help students conduct a search. Whenever I have a question I always look to Google to answer my question. I never knew there were other websites were I could customize my searches to make them better. A website I would love to try out is InstaGrok because it not only offers a wonderful search engine graph, it also saves all websites as well as generates a citation for each. I cannot wait to try Boolean search terms; I did not know that I could use this technique. I wish I had known I had the ability to limit what kinds of websites I would see. Often times teachers will say that websites ending in “.com” are not reliable sources however I did not know I would exclude them from my searches. Something else that was interesting to me in this chapter was asking wonder questions. Showing students pictures and asking if they wonder anything about the picture sounds like a very fun activity. In my classroom I would absolutely follow up this activity by trying to answer the children’s wonder questions. Citing websites is something for what feels like my whole life. I have always known about websites such as Easybib that people can use to create citations. Although this is a very wonderful tool, I do however wish I knew how to create citations by hand without help. Finally this chapter talks about “F/Q/R” charts. These are charts that consist of facts, questions, and responses to get the students thinking. Padlet is a website that can be used to post sticky notes on a “wall”. These sticky notes are a way for other students to respond to things other students have added.

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