Firstly, if your teacher has given you links to some useful sites stay with them. You will find them to be most useful. 

Here are some skills that you can use to make you a more effective searcher!

1.  Stay on the sites that have been given to you by your teacher.
2. If you are given a topic and you are using a search engine, carefully choose your keywords.
3. Use the Advanced Search to include any other important details in your search (and those things you don’t want in your results!)
4. ALWAYS TURN ON THE SAFE SEARCH. This is the most important point to remember when you use Google. It is part of our Internet Usage Agreement to use the Internet Safely. No more do we search without using a ’strict’ or ’safe’ search.