Take a look at this link for helping your students to become better searchers.
http://www.google.com/
It has Lesson Plans & Activities, has Live Trainings, "A Google A Day" Challenges and a Power Search Course.
The Lesson Plans & Activities range from Beginner, Intermediate, Advance and includes topics such as:
Picking the right search terms
Understanding search results
Narrowing a search to get the best results
Searching for evidence for research tasks
Evaluating Credibility Resources
"A Google A Day" challenges might be a good beginning of the class activity while taking attendance or end of the class when some time is left.
The Power Search Course is an online course that runs from September 24-October 10 that you can signup for Free and personally learn how to Search better which will help you when instructing your students.
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