Smart Surfing

The Kawa of Care states

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• I will make the most of this opportunity to learn lots of new things and to share these with others.
• I will always be in the right place, at the right time when I am online. If in doubt I will ask my teacher or parent.

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To do these things I need to be a Smart Surfer by knowing the tricks and tips of how to surf like a pro.

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Make a copy

Keywords for Searching

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We are learning to find keywords about our topic.

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Write four questions about our topic and then highlight the words that are most important to our topic in each question.

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Keywords are the important words about your topic. They are the words you use to search for information about a topic.

Search: to look for information online or in a document.

How to Highlight: Click on the Text color tab and click highlight and choose a colour for light for colour highlighting.

Brainstorm Keywords

Keywords for Searching

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Type your keywords below. Add any extras you can think of.

Synonyms: words that have the same meaning or replacement terms.

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Keywords for Searching

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Choose one of your questions and use the keywords from that question to search for information. The words you type into the google search bar are called a query.

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Insert a link to a site you found with your keywords in the text box below:

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Answer

Question:

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Keywords:

How to insert a link: click on the word Answer, Ctrl K and paste your link and then click apply.

Keywords for Searching

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What is the answer to your question? Copy (Ctrl C) and paste (Ctrl V) the answer in the text box below.

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Remember start with a simple query and add to it if needed.