ict@ year 8 lesson 2 – searching for information objectives to be able to discriminate between...
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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 results for the same search term
ICT@Year 8
Lesson 2 – Searching for information
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
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
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
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?