Students will learn to properly cite references located on the Internet. Students will learn to evaluate the quality of materials located on the Internet. Students will write a narrative explaining the process of their research. Students will report what they have learned doing the project. Students will evaluate their own learning and the value of the project itself.
Search engines are the students' first method of searching for information on the Internet.
I would suggest that you begin with AltaVista, HotBot, Magellan, and Yahoo. Students new to the Internet will need instruction in using keywords in a search. Students may want to use the abstract noun they have chosen as the keyword in the search engine. Teachers need to emphasize that they are looking for various kinds of resources and not for the abstract nouns at this point in their research. Once they get to the databases, since they are using single words, they should not have too much trouble at that point.