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Follow these steps:

1. Use the pull-down menus to choose whether to require your search terms, search only certain fields, or search by word or phrase. See below for a detailed explanation of the pull-down menu options.

2. Enter a term in the first text box.

3. Enter terms or phrases in the second and third text boxes if necessary.

4. If you wish, select all grade and/or educational levels that apply.

5. If you wish to restrict your search further, specify the particular sections of our site you wish to search (for example, Resource Guides). To do this, make sure only that box is checked at the top of the search window. By default, all three boxes are checked, so unless you specify otherwise, you will be searching the Resource Collection, the Question Archives, and our Lesson Plan collection.

Then click Search!

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The pages on our site which most closely match all of the options chosen will be returned in the search results.

Definitions of pull-down menus and searching options

Action: Search in: Search terms:

must contain

All Fields

word(s)

should contain

By Title

phrase

By Description

By Category



Using the search options

Action Function

must contain

Indicates that search terms must appear in the results.

should contain

Indicates that search terms should appear in the results, though they are not required.


Field

All Fields

Searches for the term anywhere in the page.

By Title

Searches for the term in the title only.

By Description

Searches for the term in the narrative description.

By Category

Searches for the term in the Educator's Reference Desk Category
(Browse an alphabetical list of Educator's Reference Desk Categories.)

 
 
Search term formats

the phrase

A phrase is a string of words that must appear next to each other in order to have a certain meaning.

Example: student financial aid

In order to have student financial aid returned in the search results, phrase must be selected. Otherwise, the search engine will treat these as three individual words, and the search results will contain student financial aid as well as any or all of the words student, financial, and aid, though not in any particular order.

the word(s)

Searches for your search term(s) as separate words in the body of the text. For e xample, if you typed in assessment rubrics, you would receive pa ges containing the word assessment or the word rubrics.

For more additional explanation of advanced search features, please visit our searching reference pages: More Search Help


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