1. Using The Internet To Research

2. Browsers and search engines

3. Browser
A software application used to locate and display web pages
Searching is limited
Most used browsers
Microsoft Edge
Internet Explore
Google Chrome
Firefox
Safari

4. Search Engines
Makes information easier to find by identifying terms in a database that correspond to keywords or characters specified by a user.
There are many search engines
Google – has about 70% of the market
Bing
Yahoo
AOL
Ask.com

5. How to use Google

6. Watch a Short video on Google Search

7. Google Open Google; snap it to the right side of you screen
Open Microsoft Word; snap it to the left side of your screen
Open your snipping tool and minimize it

8. Basic Google search Google search activity a

9. Basic Google Search In the Google search area, type the word recipe
Google tries to anticipate what you want
Select recipes with chicken
How many recipes did Google find?
How do we know?
Upper left side of page
In the case of this picture there were 78,000,000 results

10. Basic Google Search Cont.
How many results did you get?
Using your snipping tool, snip out a piece of your Google search.
Include search words and results only as in example on left.
Paste it onto your Word document.
Press your Enter key a couple of times, so you are ready for your next snipping.
Keep snippings in order and paste newest on the bottom

11. Basic Google Search Cont.
Do you want to look through that many recipes?
How many recipes are for chicken?
We could have narrowed this search by using an Operator or made the results even bigger
Note: the internet has things added and removed every second, so numbers may not be the same
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12. Operators

13. Google Operators Operator Description Example
Explanation (Search includes) *
Substitute characters in place of asterisk
girl*
Any word that begins with girl, girls, girl’s
“ ”
Search for exact phase in a certain order
“Technology time line”
Any phrase with, Technology time line
Space or +
Search for specific words
Music + instruments
Results which contain both music and instruments in them -
Excludes a word from a search
Shoes- sandals
The word shoes, but does not contain the word sandals OR
Displays words from a list
Cat or kitten or kitty
Words that contain either cat, kitten, or kitty
( )
Search includes specific words with a specific word from a list
Kaysville, Utah (physicians)
Both Kaysville, Utah, and all physicians located in Kaysville

14. Operator ( ) Let’s try it with the operator ( )
Type: recipes with chicken (rice)
How many results did you get?
The search conducted here had 24,600,00 results
Snip and paste the results to your Word document

15. Operator “ ” Let’s try it with the operator “ ”
Type: recipes with chicken “peas and rice”
How many results did you get?
The search results here show 328,000
Snip and paste the results to your Word document

16. Operator * Let’s try it with the operator *
Type: recipes with chicken*
How many results did you get?
The search conducted here had 79,000,000 results
Snip and paste the results to your Word document

17. Operator + Let’s try it with the operator +
Type: recipes with chicken + peas + carrots
How many results did you get?
The search conducted here had 580,000 results
Snip and paste the results to your Word document

18. Operator - Let’s try it with the - operator
Type: recipes with chicken -casserole- fried
How many results did you get?
The search conducted here had 701,000 results
Snip and paste the results to your Word document

19. Operator OR Let’s try it with the operator OR
Type: recipes with chicken or beef
What were your results? The search conducted here had 26,300,000 results
Snip and paste the results to your Word document

20. Google Search, Activity A
On your Word Document
Insert Header (Tab between each item below)
Full name
Google Search, Activity A
Period
Save document as Your Name Google Search
Drag and drop your file to the class turn in folder on the Shared Drive.

21. Google Special Features Google Activity B

22. Google Open Google; snap it to the right side of you screen
Open Microsoft Word; snap it to the left side of your screen
Open your snipping tool and minimize it

23. Google Images – Google.com/images
Two ways to get there
Web address above
Images off of the Google ribbon
Type: Flowers; press Enter
Again Google tries to figure out what you want
Note: all of these options will move around on the ribbon depending on what is selected.

24. Search Tools sub menu Size Color Any size Medium Icon Larger than…
Exactly…
Color
Any color
Full color
Black and white
Transparent

25. Search Tools sub menu cont.
Type
Any type
Face
Photo
Clip Art
Line drawing
Animated
Time
Any time
Past 24 hours
Past week
Custom range

26. Usage Rights Select usage rights Not filtered by license
Labeled for reuse with modification
Labeled for reuse
Labeled for noncommercial reuse with modification
Labeled for noncommercial reuse

27. Search Tools sub menu cont.
More Tools
All results
Show sizes

28. Image ribbon
Notice the ribbon options
Color
Season
Flower
Occasions

29. Images Activity Find an image of the word “Google” Go to Search Tools
Go to Usage rights
Select Labeled for Reuse
Using your snipping tool, snip and paste to your Word document

30. Google Maps – Google.com/maps
You can type in the zip code of the area + a one word description
food
gas
mechanic
grocery
police

31. Map Activity Search the following zip code for food: 78205
Snip and paste the map to your Word document.
Can you guess the destination?
“The Alamo,” San Antonio, TX

32. Google Shopping Select the shopping option on the Google ribbon
Type : 1962 Ford Mustang convertible
Price: up to $25
Category: Toy Cars
Brand: Hot Wheels
Snip the first three results including picture, price and description. Paste the snipping in your Word document.

33. Type in: How to use Google Select Videos
Select the Google logo
Type in: How to use Google
Select Videos
There are lots of videos, Select Search tools
Select Any time
Select Past year

34. Google News Type in what you are looking for Select News
If you want the information only for one State, type in the state
Select News
Most current events come up on top

35. News in Utah
Search for Pokemon Go, Utah
Select the news option
Click on a news article site
Snip a piece of the news and paste it in your Word document.

36. Goggle Search, Activity B
On your Word Document
Insert Header (Tab between the items below)
Full name
Google Search, Activity B
Period
Save document as Your Name Google B
Drag and drop your file to the class turn in folder on the Shared Drive.

37. The End C

38. Resources
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