Basic Internet Searching

 

Searching the Internet can help you locate information for a project. Here are some tips that will help you search your topics.

1.      Know what you are looking for

2.    Not everything you find is necessarily good or accurate

3.    Type your subject in the space provided on the search page, then click the search button or hit enter

4.    When your topic is more than one word use quotation marks (“Siberian Tigers”)

5.    If you can’t find information from a search engine, try a different one

 

Search engine sites

ü     Yahooligans – the kid’s version of Yahoo

                www.yahooligans.com

ü     Ask Jeeves for Kids

                www.ajkids.com

ü     LycosZone – The kid’s version of the search engine Lycos

                www.lycoszone.com

ü     Google – student search engine

                www.google.com

ü     KidsClick – web search for kids by librarians

                http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/KidsClick!/

ü     Kids Web

                www.kidsvista.com/index.html

 

More search engines:

ü     http://www.dogpile.com

ü     http://www.salukisearch.com

ü     http://www.northernlight.com/

ü     http://www.altavista.com

ü     http://www.yahoo.com

ü     http://www.hotbot.com/

ü     http://www.directhit.com/

Click here to learn how to Copy and Paste an Internet address into a different program (Word).

Click Here to find Internet sites on the Human Body