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Effective Searching 
How Do We Find The Information We Need?
Write Your Response - Act. 1 
What is a search engine? 
What does it do? 
What does it actually search? 
Explain how you think it works when you 
search for something.
Searching Effectively 
We need to search for information quickly and 
effectively. Sometimes that can be difficult. 
This lesson is going to give you strategies to 
assist you in finding what you need. 
Searching Strategies in Plain English Video
How Does It Work? Act. 2 
When we use search engines, we enter key 
words (things we are searching for). We need 
to use operators to help us be more specific. 
Operators are words like NOT and OR. They 
are used to remove or add results to our 
searches.
NOT, OR, AND Means 
NOT means that we dont want to receive 
something as a result. 
OR means we want EITHER thing 1 or thing 2. 
AND means both things have to be present
Lets Try Something 
Search 1: students 
Search 2: girl 
Search 3: girl OR boy 
Search 4: student NOT wearing red 
shoes 
Search 5: boy AND hat
Quotes 
Theres something else thats important to know 
about search engines. Does anyone know what 
happens if you use quotes around your words or 
phrases? 
What do you think the difference would be if you 
search Georgie Washington with and without 
quotes?
Boolify Activity 
www.boolify..org 
1. search for Dolphins 
a. What do you think will appear? 
b. What actually happened? 
2. Using the operators we learned, how do we 
search to find just the mammals?
Activity On Your Own 
Using www.boolify.org and your handout, do 
the searching and record your findings per 
the instructions. 
Then go to IC and answer the questions 
online. 
Thank you!

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Effective Internet Searching

  • 1. Effective Searching How Do We Find The Information We Need?
  • 2. Write Your Response - Act. 1 What is a search engine? What does it do? What does it actually search? Explain how you think it works when you search for something.
  • 3. Searching Effectively We need to search for information quickly and effectively. Sometimes that can be difficult. This lesson is going to give you strategies to assist you in finding what you need. Searching Strategies in Plain English Video
  • 4. How Does It Work? Act. 2 When we use search engines, we enter key words (things we are searching for). We need to use operators to help us be more specific. Operators are words like NOT and OR. They are used to remove or add results to our searches.
  • 5. NOT, OR, AND Means NOT means that we dont want to receive something as a result. OR means we want EITHER thing 1 or thing 2. AND means both things have to be present
  • 6. Lets Try Something Search 1: students Search 2: girl Search 3: girl OR boy Search 4: student NOT wearing red shoes Search 5: boy AND hat
  • 7. Quotes Theres something else thats important to know about search engines. Does anyone know what happens if you use quotes around your words or phrases? What do you think the difference would be if you search Georgie Washington with and without quotes?
  • 8. Boolify Activity www.boolify..org 1. search for Dolphins a. What do you think will appear? b. What actually happened? 2. Using the operators we learned, how do we search to find just the mammals?
  • 9. Activity On Your Own Using www.boolify.org and your handout, do the searching and record your findings per the instructions. Then go to IC and answer the questions online. Thank you!