3E. Help with searching for information

Search Engines

• Google 

See below for help with doing searches using Google

• Carrot 2 

Finds topics related to your search term. After entering your search term and clicking on 'search', you can choose to see the results as a list, tree map or pie chart.

• Yippy

Gives you lists of  related topics on the left. (E.g. search for 'poverty' and Yippy also finds information on poverty + children, poverty + hunger, poverty law, extreme poverty, etc)

Help with Searching for Information (with Google)

I. Using Search Operators

Child Labour AND Poverty / Child Labour+Poverty

Child Labour AND Poverty AND Vietnam / Child Labour+Poverty+Vietnam

Child Labour AND Poverty AND Vietnam AND Girls / Child Labour+Poverty+Vietnam+Girls

- (NOT) > searches for sites that have the first term but not the second

Nuclear Weapons -Wikipedia

Syrian Refugees -Germany

*Make sure to leave a space after the first term but no space between the -and the second term.

OR > searches for sites that have either the first term or the second term or both

Asylum Seekers OR Refugees

Asylum Seekers OR Refugees AND Japan

II. Searching for Different Kinds of Organisations

Child marriage.gov > government websites with info on child marriage

Child marriage.org > international/national organizations (NGOs, etc) with info on child marriage

Water Pollution AND company

Water Pollution AND NGO AND Cambodia

III. Searching for Different Kinds of Information

Syrian Refugees AND News

Syrian Refugees AND Explainer

Syrian Refugees AND Background

Syrian Refugees AND Report

Help with Searching for Visuals (with Google)

Child Labour India Girls (and click on images)

Child Labour India Charts

Syrian Refugees Maps

Syrian Refugees Maps 2018

Europe Refugees Cartoons

Gender Pay Japan Graphs

Fair Trade Diagram

Poverty Asia Infographic

Global Warming (and click on Videos)