Transcript Scavenger Hunt - Schlaffman

Internet Searching
Scavenger Hunt
Definitions
• Search engine - a computer program that
retrieves data from the Internet...ex: Google
• Browser - A program used to view HTML
documents…ex: Internet Explorer, Firefox
• Website -A collection of web pages, or a
collection of links between pages…Schlaffman
Wiki
• URL -The address of a web page on the world
wide web Ex: www.schlaffman.wikispaces.com
Videos on how a Google works
• https://docs.google.com/View?id=dfvwdtqp
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– YouTube Video: "How Search Works by Matt
Cutts" (3 minutes)
– YouTube Video: "Matt Cutts Discusses
Snippets“ (8 minutes)
Searching Techniques:
• Use the words that are most likely to appear on the
page.
• Describe what you need with as few terms as possible.
• Choose descriptive words
• To search for a phrase, supply the phrase surrounded by
double quotes (" ").
• Broaden or narrow your search by combining words or
phrases using the Boolean operators AND, OR, and
NOT
• Google is NOT case sensitive
• Google decides which is the most relevant page for your
search
Complete EasyTech lesson and
complete the following Quiz on
Searching - quia
• http://www.quia.com/quiz/106756.html?AP
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Native American
Scavenger Hunt
1. Name the 7 South Dakota reservations.
Your answer:
What are three Sioux Language Dialects?
Your answer:
a.
b.
c.
Name 2 things that the Plains Indians made
from the hair of a buffalo.
Your answer:
a.
b.
Name 2 things that the Plains Indians made
from the horns of a buffalo.
Your answer:
a.
b.
Name 2 types of Native American houses
and what tribe lived in them.
Your answer:
a.
b.
Games and Activities
• http://www.nativetech.org/games/index.php