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ICT@ Year 8 Lesson 2 – Searching for information Objectives To be able to discriminate between advertisements and genuine search results To understand that answers can differ between sites and that they should always double check their information To be aware that there are a number of different search engines and that each search engine might give different

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Page 1: ICT@ Year 8 Lesson 2 – Searching for information Objectives To be able to discriminate between advertisements and genuine search results To understand

ICT@Year 8

Lesson 2 – Searching for information

Objectives

To be able to discriminate between advertisements and genuine search results  To understand that answers can differ between sites and that they should always double check their information To be aware that there are a number of different search engines and that each search engine might give different results for the same search term

Page 2: ICT@ Year 8 Lesson 2 – Searching for information Objectives To be able to discriminate between advertisements and genuine search results To understand

ICT@Year 8

Lesson 2 – Searching for information

Page 3: ICT@ Year 8 Lesson 2 – Searching for information Objectives To be able to discriminate between advertisements and genuine search results To understand

ICT@Year 8

Lesson 2 – Searching for information

Search for the answer to the following question :

How far away is the Moon?

Record the first 5 websites that you are directed to.

Now ask the same question on two other search engines…

And tabulate your answers in a word document

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ICT@Year 8

Lesson 2 – Searching for information

Record the websites like this:

Results www.google.co.uk

www.ask.com www.dogpile.com

First Result en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldfish

www.goldfish.com/ www.rippleswaterlife.co.uk/

Second result www.barclaycard.co.uk/ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldfish

www.RocketAquatics.co.uk/Aquariums/

Third result www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/wild/pets/goldfish.shtml

www.thegoldfishbowl.co.uk/

Dreamstime.com

Fourth result www.thegoldfishbowl.co.uk/

www.redgoldfish.co.uk/ www.petgoldfish.net/

Fifth result www.dailymail.co.uk/.../Great-grandmother-tagged-selling-goldfish.html

www.kokosgoldfish.com/ www.ebay.co.uk/pets

Page 5: ICT@ Year 8 Lesson 2 – Searching for information Objectives To be able to discriminate between advertisements and genuine search results To understand

ICT@Year 8HOMEWORK

Complete task 4 questions for homework.Student should write a How to guide on how to search effectively on the internet. For the first part they can use the following titles: What is a search engineExamples of search enginesWhat are key wordsWhat the results pages tell them

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ICT@Year 8Did you have similar answers?

Why do you think the results were different?

Research SEO on the web

What does an SEO firm offer?

Why do you think someone would use an SEO service?