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more effectively for studying
Using
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If you’re interested in learning about human impact on the environment then we can start with the obvious.....
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But if you’re interested in the effect pollution has on our climate? Finding more specific information means searching using more than one word.
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If you want to know about two different causes of climate change you can try a combined search to get results for both phrases.
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If you want to find more specific results – try an exact phrase by putting in quotes “ “
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You can tell google which words not to search for by putting a ‘-’ next to the words you don’t want to find. This would be good for limiting your search to human rather than natural impacts....
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In your research you keep on finding the term ‘greenhouse effect’ – Here’s how you can find out what it means...
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• Generally every word matters – all the words you put in will be used
• Search is always case in-sensitive
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• Search within a specific website – “Iraq site: Sky News” will bring all the pages on Iraq from the Sky News website
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• Fill in the blanks – if you include * it tells Google to use the * as a placeholder for an unknown term [Obama voted * on the * bill]
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• To find a video on a particular subject – remember google owns YouTube so will search that site to –
“Video: Climate Change”
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• Think of a term you’d like us to search as a class
• What could you combine it with? “___OR___”
• What could you take-away to limit your search?
Whole class task.....