#195 – ANSWERS Inquiry Process, Step 3: Search and Seek Credible Information

ANSWERS Inquiry Process, Step 3: Search and Seek Credible Information

In today’s episode, we’ll review five ways that students can search and seek out credible information to support their inquiry questions.

Read a transcript of this episode.

Five Strategies

• Conduct experiments.
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Google Sheets
  • Arduino Science Journal
  • PhET (Tips)
• Explore primary resources.
  • DocsTeach
  • National Archives
  • Library of Congress
  • Smithsonian Learning Lab
  • The Museum of Modern Art
  • Smithsonian Archives of American Art
  • MCN’s The Ultimate Guide to Virtual Museum Resources, E-Learning, and Online Collections
• Interview and survey.
  • Microsoft Forms
  • Google Forms
• Observe events.
  • San Diego Zoo Live Cameras
  • Explore.org Livecams
• Research online.
  • Common Sense Education’s Most Reliable and Credible Sources for Students
  • University of California, Santa Barbara Library’s Free Publicly-Accessible Databases
  • University of California, Berkeley Library’s Freely Available Resources for Research
  • Google Scholar
  • DKfindout!
  • National Geographic Kids
  • Science Journal for Kids
  • Wonderopolis
  • Microsoft Bing
  • DuckDuckGo
  • Google
  • Yahoo!
  • Fact Monster
  • Kiddle
  • KidzSearch

For more information about today’s topic, explore the AVID Open Access article, Search and Seek Credible Information: Step 3 of the Searching for ANSWERS Inquiry Process.