The presentation given at Lockwood Middle School on August 11, 2014

1. Learning to Search
the Web
How to keep frustration at
bay and help kids find what
they need and want on the
web.

2. First of all - how Google
works
http://youtu.be/BNHR6IQJGZs

3. Some things to consider
Google is not case sensitive, so that is
not as important as getting the right
terms in the search box.
It also will try to correct spelling if the
words are wonky.
 Pnda Google will ask
Did you mean Panda?

4. To Begin the Search
The most important part of any
search is the question you are
asking. Most people tend to be
too broad. Write out a question,
and then find the key words in
the sentence.
 What do Panda Bears do to
protect their babies?

5. Cautions Before Search
Begins
Keep in mind that spacing is vital
in a search.
 The Google uses spaces to
determine the characters in a
search. If you put a space
between two search terms,
Google will see those as
separate terms and will look at
each one separately.

6. First Search
If you want to search the entire term, place “ “ marks
around the phrase.
Example: “Panda Bear babies” will give that information
together where Panda Bear babies will hit on each of
those words as a phrase and separately.
Or Find a Synonym: Use offspring instead of babies.
One other help:
if you use verbatim:panda bear offspring the search will
look for exactly that term and nothing else.

7. Use terms that are often
together.
To find things that are often seen
together, use the ampersand or
underscore rather than + or
AND.
 Panda&Bear Giant&Panda
 Giant_panda
Location_of_Panda_reserves

8. Search for one, not both
If you want to find one or the
other piece of information, use
OR.
 Winter Olympics 2018 OR
2022

9. Working with ranges
If you want to find a number
range, use the ellipsis.
 American Revolution 1770…
1773
 Summer Olympics 1900…
2000

10. To Find a Location
If you are looking for a location
of a particular place, use the
word you are looking for and
the city.
 bakery Billings, Montana
 museum Denver
 Wildlife preserve China

11. To Search Effectively
 If you want to leave something out
of the search, use the – sign.
 Panda –restaurant
 squid –Software
 Find an alternative for the name.
 Instead of Squid, use cephalopod

12. Use of + sign
 To include something, use the +
sign.
 Panda +food source
 Squid +octopus
 At times, the + does not work. In
those instances, you may want to use
“ “ around the words.

13. Search or exclude a single
source
 To include a specific site in
your search, use
site:www.*.com before the
search words.
Giant Panda +site:www.wikipedia.org
or to exclude a site
Panda –wikipedia.com
 Note: there are no spaces colon

14. Other Search Terms
News Items for search
Using news: as a term, only items
that have been in local, national,
or international news will come
up in search.
news: giant panda born in zoo
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/08/giant-panda-t

15. Some other search helps
 link: will help you to find other
sites that link to this particular
site.
 link:www.time.com
 # before the search will help to
find sources that has sited that
information
 #panda protection

16. More Helps
 related:
 related:giant panda protection -virus
 recipes:
 recipes:salsa -tomatoes
 Conversions
 mi to km or usd to British pound

17. To find a particular type of
document
Use specific types of
documents as part of the
search term
pdf: giant panda PDF document
Kmz: panda reserves Map or Google
Earth
ppt: zoos Powerpoint
Use define: to find meaning of word
 Define:bamboo

18. Fun info to know
$ will help to find costs of
something
 Airline ticket $400 will find airline
tickets under $400 anywhere on
the web
Math equations
 Type in the equation and Google
will solve it for you
 400*320 Google answer: 128000
 100*3.14-cos(83)=
 Google answer: 313.750459882

19. Finding a book
Reading Level before search
term will help find something
within the level of the
student
Reading level 3rd grade giant
panda
http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/animals/g

20. A few last minute things
Google has a safe search for
kids
http://www.safesearchkids.com/
Don’t forget the helps right on your
computer

21. Don’t forget the helps right on your computer
 These will help filter your search.
Images/Videos = pictures or movies
 http://www.zooatlanta.org/1212/panda_cam#rQAAV

22. Some Places to Try
 Hoax Sites
 Skills Kids Need

23. Is the site worth your time?
http://www.pulas
kitech.edu/library
/content/website
_worksheet.pdf
http://www.rres.s
rvusd.k12.ca.us/t
echnology/evalu
ate_pt2.pdf

24. Organize the Information

25. Reduce Plagiarism
Plagiarism Checker
Free Site for Plagiarism Check
Teach Note taking skills

26. Citations
 http://teachbytes.com/2012/11/01/test-
website-evaluation-with-10-hilarious-
hoax-sites/
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=bmv_cX3FNvI&feature=youtu.be