ICT@Year 8

Lesson 3 – Searching for information

Objectives

To be able to write effective search terms using the Boolean operators, AND, OR and NOT To understand how limiting the search results to websites from the UK can sometimes give better targeted results To be able to use the ‘advanced search options’ in a search engine to better refine searches

ICT@Year 8Better Searching

Go to:Support.google.com/websearch/Make notes on ‘Tips for Searching’ following

the links to ‘basic search help’

Look at ‘Operators…’ for more tips…

Extension Task: Browse the other ‘How to’ links on the page especially ‘Explore Google search’

ICT@Year 8Try the tips…

Search for Jaguar but exclude carsFind the pages in the Daily Telegraph

referring to the space craft ‘Curiosity’Use a wild card to find missing word in a

songLook for a MP3 player that costs between

£20 and £30Find the writer of the song containing the

words ‘dark satanic mills’What is a tilde sign and how is it used?

ICT@Year 8Beware

How does HTPPS help you in safe searching?

How do you know a web-site is really what it is and not just phishing?

What other scams are on the web?

Can you duplicate a web-site?