The document emphasizes the importance of 'search smart' skills for students and teachers, highlighting how effective searches can enhance learning and critical thinking. It outlines the basics of smart searching, which include choosing the right search terms, understanding search results, and narrowing searches through various modifiers and filters. Additionally, it provides examples of search techniques and encourages students to evaluate the credibility of websites.

1. The why and the how?

2. Learning Objective
To understand how to search for information on online successfully.

3. Why is it important to “search
smart”?
● The skill enable students and teachers to access and information and create
meaningful learning experiences that, in turn, engage them in critical thinking and
analysis.
● Being able to ‘search smart’ not only opens up worlds of opportunities and learning
possibilities to students, but it saves them valuable time and is a highly-demanded
skill in the modern workplace.

4. Role of a Teacher
To develop students into digitally literate, life long learners, ready to adapt to a rapidly changing world.

5. Digitally Literate Person
Must be able to find, evaluate, use, and communicate information digitally

6. The ‘3’ Smart Search Basic
1. Choosing the right search terms
2. Understanding search results
3. Narrowing the search to get the best
results

7. Choosing the right searchterms
Every word counts in a Google search, so choosing the right
words makes a big difference.
Teach students to identify the keywords that they could use in
searches.
using these keywords in a query is more likely to return
results that actually meet the students’ needs.

8. Understanding search Results
● Search bar: This is near the top of the results page, where you can see your query and
modify it or enter a new one.
● Ads: These results appear in the right-hand column and sometimes at the top of the
results in a colored box. They are always marked with the word “Ads,” so you can
easily identify them as paid results.
● Natural results: These results are below the ads, are not paid for by anyone, and
cannot be bought.
● Filters: These links are at the top navigational menu, just below the search bar - more
explained below on these.
● Knowledge Graph: When you search for a person, place, or thing Google may show
this special information box on the right-hand side of the screen.

9. NArrowing a search to get the best results
There are a number of ways to narrow your search results.
● Modifiers: You can use special characters and words to get more specific
search results; these are referred to as Modifiers. For example, if you use a
hyphen (-) before a word in a query it will exclude results that contain this
word.
● Filters: When you complete a Google search, there are a number of filters
you can apply to your search to narrow your results. These filters appear
below the search box. With filters, you can narrow your search results to
images, videos, maps, shopping, and more by clicking on one of these filters.
● Search Tools: To refine your search further, click on Search tools and you
can filter results by where or when they originated.

10. Challenge: How can you get pictures of vertebrate
(fish) in your search result?
Student Response:
1. Type Resources in the search box.
2. Click Images.
3. Click Search tools.
4. Click natural resources , then select the red filter.
5. To return to all results, click Clear below the search box.

11. Challenge: What’s the quickest way to exclude
terms from your search results?
Student Response:
Use the minus/dash symbol in front of words you
want to be excluded in your search query
For example: human resources - natural and man
made resources

12. When you search online
Remember to be a good detective and
look for clues of good website….. The
website address, how it is written and
how it looks!