{"id":2129,"date":"2013-01-21T09:02:09","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T14:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/?p=2129"},"modified":"2013-06-18T14:35:05","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T18:35:05","slug":"google-a-day-science-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/google-a-day-science-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"Google a day science challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/insidesearch\/searcheducation\/\">Google Search Education<\/a>\u00a0site has info for teachers who would like to impart Google search skills, especially useful for finding factual information and contributing to lifelong learning. For example, there are lesson plans with\u00a0classroom\u00a0challenges, such as A Google A Day Challenges in different categories.<\/p>\n<p>I like this science challenge:\u00a0While quietly standing at sea level, you are suddenly whacked on the ankle with a guitar. Did you hear it or feel it first? (<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/presentation\/pub?id=1wU_fdxcNVeNVGFHzXzVSUzuWNEiLBxtMYTtsTGi8pVc&amp;start=false&amp;loop=false&amp;delayms=3000\" target=\"_blank\" data-g-action=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/presentation\/pub?id=1wU_fdxcNVeNVGFHzXzVSUzuWNEiLBxtMYTtsTGi8pVc&amp;start=false&amp;loop=false&amp;delayms=3000\" data-g-event=\"Challenges\" data-g-label=\"Science\">view challenge<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-style: normal; line-height: 24px;\">The site isn&#8217;t just for teachers, however. You could also learn how to become a power searcher, which couldn&#8217;t hurt. Take a look at this handy\u00a0printable\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"font-style: normal; line-height: 24px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.powersearchingwithgoogle.com\/course\/ps\/assets\/PowerSearchingQuickReference.pdf\">Power Searching Quick Guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Happy searching!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Google Search Education\u00a0site has info for teachers who would like to impart Google search skills, especially useful for finding factual information and contributing to lifelong learning. For example, there are lesson plans with\u00a0classroom\u00a0challenges, such as A Google A Day Challenges &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/google-a-day-science-challenges\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-2129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2129"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2244,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2129\/revisions\/2244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}