Lesson 2 - Using a Search Engine
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Lesson 2 - Using a Search Engine |
Website: www.yahoo.com |
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| What is the main goal (s) of this class? | |||
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Introduction to Search Engines Key words: Search engine, superhighway, cruising, surfing, navigating, www (world wide web), web-site, webpage.
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| What steps (objectives) do you need to achieve the main goals? What instructional strategies will you use? | |||
| Teaching Objectives | Activities (Instructional strategies |
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Materials Non-Standard |
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What
are search engines?
Find
educational resources
Recognize
various other reasons for search engines
Look
up various other search
engines
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All
students will use the Internet Explorer icon to get onto the Internet.
Each student will pull up the search engine www.yahoo.com.
Each
student will type a question into the search box of Yahoo.
Students will compare the website addresses that are displayed
(based off what terminology they used).
Prior
to the class starting each student wrote down three topics that they would
like to know more information on. Students
typed in their questions and opened some of the various websites that the
search engine lead them to.
From
the handout have students look up other search engines and become familiar
with them. Examples: www.yahooligans.com
(for children)
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5 15 30 10
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Hand
out What is the information
superhighway? from
the website parents/internet/index.html
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| How did the website activities contribute to student learning? | |||
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This activity allows the students to become familiar with surfing the web. It allows the student to become aware of the various topics they can look up while using the computer.
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What
changes or additions to the activities would
improve the lesson? |
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| Have the student’s brain storm in class as a group about what information they would most like to look up. Have all of the students look up the same information and discuss afterwards what they found (compare). | |||
| Was the goal achieved? How do you know, i.e. what could the students do or do better as a result of the lesson? | |||
| At the end of the session each student understood that there is a vast amount of information that they can look up on the world wide web. | |||