Google+Tools

Google Tools
will be explained by the technology resource teacher or library media specialist. Reference notes for students are listed here.

Searching with Google News
[] In the search bar, type in the disaster that you are reseraching The general results will appear, maybe pages of results To narrow the results, click the Advanced News Search link use the option for "with the exact phrase" for a country or city or another fact realted to your topic the Date option is very helpful. If you want only events from 2009, select that or enter a range of dates. Example: with all of the words:Volcanoes with the exact phrase: damage Date: Return articles added to Google News between Mar 15 and Apr 15 Location: Alaska Results will be presented for this search

Searching with Google Maps
[] tour of the features: http://www.google.com/intl/en_us/help/maps/tour/ [] In the Search bar, type in country or city where you want to see a natural disaster area. Then type in the disaster. Press Search Maps. Example: To search for earthquakes in Italy Type in: Italy and earthquake Or type in: 2009 earthquakes in Italy

Google will list several sites that could lead to further information. Try the other tabs at the top right on the map. Terrain, satellite a close-up arieal view media type="custom" key="3654853"

click this link to explore the results further [] a terrain view media type="custom" key="3654867"

Searching with GoogleEarth
tour for features: []

User's guide []