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about ‘inventions’

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What are keywords?

China's long history has seen some extremely important inventions emerge, most noticeably gunpowder, paper making, printing and the compass. China's four great ancient inventions made tremendous contributions to the world's economy and the culture of mankind. They were also important symbols of China's role as a great world civilization.

keyword also key word ( ) n. A word that serves as a key to a code or cipher. A significant or descriptive word. (www.answers.com )Is a word that is associated with a site or contents of a site. Keywords are used to categorize and search for specific web sites. http://www.mantis.biz/glossary/#k

Keywords and Hits

Keywords• Dinosaur• Dinosaur carnivore• Dinosaur carnivore Triassic

• Tyrannosaurus • Tyrannosaurus Rex• Tyrannosaurus Rex prey

Hits• 20,300,000• 372,000• 101,000

• 13,400,000• 958,000• 78,100

But where do the Keywords come from?

Knowledge Question Keywords

Keywords and Hits

Keywords

• inventions• Chinese inventions• Ancient chinese

inventions• Ancient chinese

invention paper

How many ‘Hits’ did you get?

Do a search on a topic you are doing at the moment with one keyword, record the hits, now try it with another keyword, recordand then one more time. Look at the quality of the hits!

Internet addresses and what they mean

http://www.jsharp.co.nz

URL: Universal Resource LocationThe internet address Top level Domain name

Second level domain name - brand or company name

schoolAustraliaAmericaBusiness New ZealandNetwork or internetEnglandmilitaryGovernment JapanEducation Organisation

Top level domain names

.com.au

.edu

.school.nz

.biz.net

.mil

.gov

.jp

.co.uk

.co.nz

.org

.com

vodafone

asb

dse

bbc

wikipedia

clevedon

nationalgeographic

prehistory

wikispaces

Second level domain names

Can you think of some more?

What information do you think you might find at these websites?

• www.prehistory.com/tyranrex.htm • dinosaurs.about.com/od/

carnivorousdinosaurs/p/tyrannosaurus • www.tiritirimatangi.org.nz/Fauna/

LittleSpottedKiwi • www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/2437

69/great-spotted-kiwi

Fact or Opinion

• Do you believe what you see and what you hear?

• House Hippo• Dove Evolution

Ideas adapted from http://langwitches.org/blog/2009/03/11/dont-believe-everything-you-see-online/

All about Explorers

• Go to http://allaboutexplorers.com/webquest/

• And click on the name of an Explorer

• Complete the tasks• What did you find

out• Put a comment on

your wiki page

Ideas adapted from http://langwitches.org/blog/2009/03/11/dont-believe-everything-you-see-online/

More sites to ‘critically evaluate’

• http://www.brookview.karoo.net/Sellafield_Zoo/ a zoo with a difference

• http://www.dhmo.org/facts.html is this dangerous?

• http://haggishunt.scotsman.com/ hunt the haggis

• http://www.buydehydratedwater.com/• http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/ Help save the

tree octopus

Fact or Opinion?Choose one of the sites on the previous page and fill in the Fact or Opinion Graphic Organiser

SIFTINGUse Ctrl – F (- F for Mac)

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Use a keyword from yourresearch question and sift forinformation.