For Students

Use your Smart Searching skills to find information that:

• You can read and understand and;
• is relevant to your topic or question

Smart searchers

•  Know what they are looking for (What is your topic?)
• Find key words (This will be your search term)
• Skim and scan  (contents pages, indexes, home pages of websites or website pages)

Resources to use 

A Plan of Action

Non-fiction - Use PAW to find non-fiction books about Government. Books will be in the 300s or Social Sciences. This section is about our society and how we live.

Kid Safe Search Engine

Easy Australian Search Engine

Locating and recording resources

When you locate a good resource you must make a note of it so you can find it again when you want to do more research!

There are different ways to write this down.

Use a page in your notebook and record the name of a book / author / call no. OR web address (URL) of the webpage you are using.

Open MS Word and type in book name / author/ call no. or copy and paste the web address you are using.