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Google Books

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  1. What is it? How does it work? What's special about it?
  2. How might it be useful for educators and students?
  3. What else do you want to learn about it?
Finally, you will have approximately 2 minutes to share what you find with your team. (Each individual should share in the 15 minutes allotted.)

Google Books

Google Book Search

Google Book Search allows you to search the full text of our large and growing index of books, from popular titles to old, out-of-print and public domain volumes, to find pages that include your search terms. Once you find a given book, you can browse available pages, search further in that book, find online reviews, and learn where to buy the book or check it out of a nearby library, and in some cases, even read the entire title online.

Google Book Search can enhance your lesson plans in all kinds of ways, by enabling you to search for, and helping you locate, countless volumes you might not have been able to find any other way. Book Search finds can enhance everything from your bibliographies to your lesson plans; you and your students can access the full text of out-of-copyright books and search the full text of most other books to find the right volumes for any given assignment, project, or lesson.

Google Book Search will also enhance your students’ research by allowing them to access information from thousands of books with one quick search. Students can access and read the full text of out-of-copyright books, learn where to locate hard-to-find volumes in libraries or bookstores, and easily create more thorough bibliographies.

Google Book Search Poster for Your Classroom

Classroom Ideas:
Create a "wish library" for back to school night
Turn your classroom library into a virtual library. Have students categorize books by genre using "tags" and write reviews after they have finished reading them.
Create a virtual professional development library for you staff.
Have students create author studies by tagging books with the author's name.