This strategy is suggested by Angela Watson.
Stepping away from the traditional idea of literacy as just reading texts and stepping into the world of 21st Century literacy where our students will be expected to know how to effective use the internet, we have the web quest.
Watson describes web quests as an "interesting" way for kids to find information (Watson, 2015).
Basically a web quest is an online scavenger hunt where students will explore a website (or multiply websites depending on how you want to do this) in order to find information to answer the questions given to them. This is a great way to improve kids research skills as well as their computer literacy, and not to mention kids love being able to use technology.
For example of what a single website web quest might look like check out this website, which is a great web quest for teaching kids about the Ancient Americas.
http://carlos.emory.edu/ODYSSEY/AA/aaflashfront.htm
If you want to make your own custom web quest, Symbaloo is a great tool to help you do so. You can house many different websites into one clear and easy to navigate web page.
For an example check out this symbaloo for the 6th grade Egypt unit made by Windsor Knolls Middle School teacher Deborah McCadney.
http://www.symbaloo.com/mix/egypt23
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