Searching for information on the Internet is an important skill. Much information is available on the Internet: current news, city/town information, science, history, popular culture – just about anything you want to learn is mentioned somewhere on the Internet. Today we will learn techniques to help you search for information on the Internet effectively.
Steps to finding Information on the Internet
- Choose your Question
- Conduct your Search
- Evaluate your Results
Step 1 – Choose your Question
Step 2 – Conduct your Search
- The Search Box Strategy
- Search Engines- A program for the retrieval of data, files, or documents from a database or network, esp. the Internet.
Step 3 – Evaluate your Results
- Who can publish on the Internet? ANYONE
- Look at the website and evaluate whether the information is most likely reliable.
- Look at the information and decided if it answers your question.
- 5 Ws of Website Evaluation>
- Example: Heart Disease