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
Year 8 Lesson 2 – Searching for information
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
Year 8 Lesson 2 – Searching for information Record the websites like this: Resultswww.google.co.ukwww.ask.comwww.dogpile.com First Result en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold fish / Second result fish Aquariums/ Third result pets/goldfish.shtml / Dreamstime.com Fourth result / Fifth result eat-grandmother-tagged- selling-goldfish.html
Year 8 HOMEWORK 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 engine Examples of search engines What are key words What the results pages tell them
Year 8 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?