Search Engines and Internet Resources

Standard 1 Objective 3a: Understand the concepts, differences, and uses of the Internet, browsers, and WWW

Standard 1 – Students are introduced to the concepts of computers and computing while investigating the major components of computers and the suitability of these components for particular applications.

Objective 3: Students will experiment with internet search techniques, explore a variety of websites and web applications and discuss issues of privacy and security.

Understand the concepts, differences, and uses of the Internet, browsers, and WWW.

Navigate the Internet – domains, hyperlinks, home page, forward, back, refresh, favorites, plugins, history, search, tabs, downloading, uploading, etc.

Evaluate the results of web searches and the reliability of information found on the Internet.

Standards/Objectives

List 5 ways in which you currently use the internet

Thought question: Do you use the internet to search the WWW or do you use the WWW to search the internet?

Journal Entry 1 – Unit 1 Days 5-6

World Wide Web

Open S-Drive

Save this file to your H-Drive:

Search Engine Worksheet

The “Internet” is…

The “Mechanics” of the Internet

How Google Search Works

Keywords –

Phrase searching –

Search Engine Math –

Boolean Operators –

Wildcard Search -

Vocab Journal – Unit 1 Days 5-6

BOOLEAN OPERATOR

NUMBER OF HITS

DECREASE OR INCREASE

UTAH JAZZ 0

UTAH AND JAZZ

AND 400,000

UTAH NOT JAZZ

NOT

UTAH OR JAZZ

OR 12,000,000

TRY IT OUT!

TRY IT!

Internet Scavenger Hunt Work in groups of 2

Open the S-Drive. Save this file to your H-Drive:

STOP ON GREEN SLIDE!!!! (SLIDE 6)