There is a 99.9% chance that when you search for something online, you’re using Google, but are you getting what you want? You know about Google Maps, Google Translator, and (now that it’s holiday shopping season) Google Product Search (a.k.a. Froogle), but what about Google Scholar?
If you’re looking for lesson ideas, solid research to back up an idea or find trade articles relating to a topic you want to teach, Google Scholar may be for you. The results for a search are filtered so that you don’t get 20 eBay listings when you are searching for “math manipulatives.”