Task 2

Task 2 Objectives:

Today you will:

§ identify what information you need for a task.

§ search for relevant information on the Internet.

§ narrow down your search.

Instructions	Help and Resources	Time
2.1 Watch teacher 2.1.ppt	teacher 2.1.ppt	5 mins
2.2 Complete worksheet 2.2.doc	worksheet 2.2.doc	5 mins
2.3 Watch teacher 2.3.ppt	teacher 2.3.ppt	5 mins
2.4 Watch your teacher show you how to navigate the BBC website	bbc.co.uk	5 mins
2.4 View bbc.co.uk in another window. Find today’s forecast for Norwich. Then find which city in Great Britain will have the highest temperature. Discuss how easy it is to find information on the site.		10 mins
2.5 View amazon.co.uk in another window. Find out how many books have been written by Douglas Adams. Find out how many books have been written about him.	Amazon.co.uk	5 mins
2.6 Watch your teacher give a demo on how to use Google.co.uk	Google.co.uk	5 mins
2.7 View teacher2.7.ppt then find the info. on the web.	teacher2.7.ppt	15 mins
Plenary View Plenary 2.ppt	Plenary 2.ppt	5 mins
Homework: Complete homework 2.doc	homework 2.doc	15 mins

*Teacher info

2.6 With your browser software still loaded on the large display, go directly to www.google.co.uk. Tell pupils that the first page of a website is known as its home page. Demonstrate how to find information by using a simple search for London. Point out the number of references: over 25 million hits.

Tell pupils that you are really looking for the opening times of the Tower of London but that the search comes up with too many sites for you to examine them all. There is simply too much information. Say that the name of a website is known as its URL, or uniform resource locator. Point out the URL of one of the first few sites listed and go to it to show that it is not relevant to your search.

Return to the Google home page and ask pupils:

How can we make our search more precise so that the information is more relevant?

Search for London Tower or, more precisely, “Tower of London”.

Explain that putting double quotation marks around “Tower of London” makes the search engine identify websites that contain the complete phrase, rather than the separate words. Show them that this search still produces about 106 000 hits but that the first few that are listed appear to be more relevant. Go to http://www.toweroflondontour.com/, one of the first few on the list. Scroll down the home page to find the opening hours of the Tower of London.

Ask the class:

Does this look like the type of site you would expect for a national monument? Are there any clues about this site and its source?

Go back to the page with the results of the Google search. Point out the description given by Google: ‘Unofficial guide to the Norman royal castle by two American enthusiasts, with pages for children’.

Now scroll down the search results, looking at the descriptions. Find the one that says: ‘Official guide to the Tower of London, Hampton Court, Kensington Palace, the Banqueting House and …’ Select this site: http://www.hrp.org.uk/ webcode/home.asp.

Access the site, then select Tower of London, demonstrating and describing aloud the actions you are taking so that pupils can follow your moves. Ask:

Where might we find the opening hours from the options on the website?

Go to “tickets” and the relevant information is shown.

Keywords:

From Year 6: browse, home page, identify, index, information, Internet, search, web page, website, World Wide Web (WWW)

From Year 7: contents list, information source, locate/location, search engine, uniform resource locator (URL), web browser

Other: hits, menu, relevant