Look It Up
Day 1
1. Introduction to the class and procedures
2. Review agreements
3. Take this survey Look It Up First Day Survey
4. Practice keyboard shortcuts. Open up Word and the Internet. Practice these shortcuts by selecting, copying, and pasting stuff from the Internet.
Ctrl A
Ctrl C
Ctrl X
Ctrl V
Print off your page (keep your copying and pasting to one page, please!) OR copy and paste into your blog and post it.
Day 2
1. Advanced Google search strategies
2. Anatomy of a search.
3. Challenges (put your answers here):
-Find a recipe for pumpkin soup that doesn't have any onions in it.
-Find a website about your hobby from a different country.
-Find a soccer ball that costs between $30 and $50.
Day 3
Halloween! Explore the following websites:
National Geographic Halloween Hangout
Day 4
1. Challenges (put your answers here):
-Find a recipe for soup that doesn't have any onions in it.
-Find a website about your hobby from a different country.
-Find a soccer ball that costs between $30 and $50.
2. Using Wonder Wall questions, search using Google and Bing and DuckDuckGo.
3. Which search engine gave you better results? Which was easier to use? Rate each search engine here.
Day 5
1. Find your house on Google Maps. Also find Roeper. What did you search to find these two places?
2. Explore Google Maps Street View--what cool places can you find?
3. Explore Google Earth (use shortcut blue and white swirly circle in the taskbar)--what cool places can you find? What is the same and different from Street View?
Day 6
1. Explore Show World. What interesting information did you learn? Why do the continents and countries change size?
2. ExploreScale of the Universe . What did you find most interesting?
Why might you use Show World? Why might you use Scale of the Universe? What kind of information do these website teach us?
Day 7
1. Explore the following websites:Arkive US Fish & Wildlife Service : Endangered Species Program World Wildlife Fund
2. Answer the questions in this form using the websites above:Animal Website quiz
Day 8
1. Google Advanced Searching
2. Google Power Searching Challenges
Day 9
1. Open Google, Bing.com, or Wolfram|Alpha.
2. How quickly can your team find the information we need using your search tool?
3. Repeat!
4. Which was best? What does it depend on?
Day 10
1. How to take a screenshot. Try it! You may print 1 page.
2. Explore and play on FBI Kids.
3. What else do you want to learn??
Day 11
1. How to undo and how to undo a closed tab.
2. Explore and play on NASA Kids' Club and National Geographic
3. Play around with Wordle or Taxedo (you can print up to 2 pages)
Day 12
last day!
Survey at the bottom of the page, then revisit anything we've done before or in the list below.
Google Earth : link on Desktop
Smithsonian: Seriously Amazing
US Fish & Wildlife Service : Endangered Species Program
What's Next? Books in series from Kent District Library*