Internet Searching
Why is it important to do internet searching? How does it help you with your homework, projects?
What you will learn in this lesson:
1. Steps for validating your searches: Triangular Effect , EDU, GOV other
2. Narrow your search with two common words next to each other. For example: "Good Earth" book
3. What is a boolean operator and why is it important?
4. Are searches case sensitive (why or why not)?
5. How can you distill just the right combination of keywords from all the possibilities?
How the internet works by Google. (Youtube video)
Internet Age approperate resources
Links to help you with the searching:
Visual Thesaurus:
http://www.visualthesaurus.com/online/index.html
Direct link:
http://www.visualthesaurus.com/index.jsp
Help with searching in a simpler way. Using boolean operators.
http://21cif.com/tools/locate/index.html
