TE065.1
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Technology Standard 5.1 - Level 6 - Essential Skill
Locate information from electronic resources
Standard in Kid Friendly Language
Be able to accurately find information from electronic resources (ex. Internet, software, library catalog) and give credit to the people that created it
Standard Unwrapped
KNOW
- What search engines are/do
- How to find the author/creator of information on electronic resources
- How to do a symbolic search
- "" = find this exact phrase (ex. "somewhere over the rainbow")
- + = and (meaning find: Leonardo Da Vinci + {AND} helicopter)
- - = not (meaning find: Leonardo Da Vinci + {AND} helicopter - {NOT} Mona Lisa)
ABLE TO DO
- Use a search engine and devise a strategy to search for a specific topic/question
- Attempt to locate the author/creator, copyright date, and publisher of an electronic resource
Instructional Strategies
Assessment Strategies
Resources
Popular Search Engines
Google - largest search engine in the world
Ask (formerly Ask Jeeves) - provides mini pictures of the websites by hovering over the binoculars
Yahooligans! - Search engine designed specifically for children and young adults
Dogpile - All the best search engines piled into one
