3+Keyword+Searches

=//**Conducting Online Searches **//= 


 * Searching the Internet can be difficult! There is SO MUCH OUT THERE! **

A search engine (such as Google, Yahoo, Bing) looks for information on the Internet. Researches need to tell the search engine what to look for. That’s what KEYWORDS  are for. KEYWORDS  and searches must be PRECISE ! This means we need to choose our KEYWORDS  carefully.

Search engines //**crawl**// around the Internet. There are millions of websites for these search tools to look through, and each search engine sorts through what it “knows” and lists the sites it “thinks” we want. A search engine will get researches what they need ONLY if they search correctly. Remember:
 * Make sure to use accurate and precise terms.
 * Add more words to help narrow the search (make it more exact or specific)
 * A single word to search may "fetch" a million sites. Adding more words fetches fewer sites, and the sites will more likely be what the researcher wants.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%; line-height: 1.5;">Put words that belong together (phrases, a full name, or lyrics to a song) in quotation marks. Then the search engine looks for these words when they are grouped together.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">media type="custom" key="26307524" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVjX8JU3Lko#t=12

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">1) Choose your question. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">2) Choose your search engine. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">3) Search with: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">4) How many searches did it take before you found the answer to your question? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">5) How many keywords did you have to use to get an answer? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">6) Record the site where you found your information.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%; line-height: 1.5;">Activities: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">How quickly can you hunt down information? (FETCH Activity, Common Sense Media **)**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">one keyword
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">two keywords
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">three keywords

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">Take some time to get better at keyword searching by completing this activity.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">The Key to Keywords (DOGGY DATA Activity, Common Sense Media **)**

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%; line-height: 1.5;">Sources:
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-decoration: none;">[|"Choosing and Using Keywords." //YouTube//. YouTube, n.d. Web. 2 July 2014.] [|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVjX8JU3Lko>.]
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-decoration: none;">"The Key to Keywords (3-5)." //Reviews & Age Ratings//. Common Sense Media, Inc., n.d. Web. 2 July 2014. [|<https://www.commonsensemedia.org/educators/lesson/the-key-to-keywords-3-5>.]