PSU Northern Tier

Jeff N

What is the text entered into the search box?
For the basic search, how many results are returned?
Using the first 10 results, how many appear to be useful?
Make links to three sites that appear to be useful.
Refine your search by using the advanced search features. What did you do to refine your search?
Are the results returned significantly different in number or content?
Compare and contrast the homepages for each of the search engines. What features do you like/dislike about them?
Compare and contrast the results pages for each of the search engines. What features do you like/dislike about them?
Which of the three do you find best? Why?

1. place value

2. about 384,000,000

3. 9 out of the 10 appear to be useful. One was a link to an economy hotel chain, which might also in a sense be useful.

4. http://www.aaaknow.com/plc.htm (Contains short lessons on different aspects of place value. You can sort place value by grade.)

http://www.funbrain.com/tens/index.html (Game for students to practice their place value skills.)

http://www.math.com/school/subject1/lessons/S1U1L1GL.html (Quick intro. to place value)

5. I refined my search by having the engine search for results that contained the exazct phrase "3rd grade"

6. There are now about 241,000 results for my refined search. The reults were more appropriate for my grade level.

1. place value

2. about 206,000,000

3. All 10 seem to be useful as there were no links to hotels on this engine.

4. http://education.jlab.org/placevalue/index.html (Game for students, could be a bit difficult)

http://www.linkslearning.org/Kids/1_Math/2_Illustrated_Lessons/3_Place_Value/index.html (contains videos and lessons about place value)

http://www.mrsbogucki.com/aemes/resource/apps/placeval/ (A teacher created website with interactive lessons on place value.)

5. I refined my search by having the engine search for results that contained the exazct phrase "3rd grade"

6. There were now about 198,000 results for my refined search. Again they were appropriate for my grade level, however more of the sites were teacher created.

1. place value

2. 49,620,000

3. 9 out of 10 seem to be useful. There was a link to a wikipedia entry on place value, which would not benefit a third grade classroom.

4. http://literacy.kent.edu/Minigrants/Cinci/numberex.html (Cool place value chart.)

http://www.edhelper.com/place_value.htm (Leveled worksheets on place value.)

http://www.quia.com/mc/279741.html (Cool place value matching game.)

5. I refined my search by having the engine search for results that contained the exazct phrase "3rd grade"

6. There were about 48,600 results for my refined search. The results were less helpful than the basic search.

Summary

7. I liked Google, due to the fact that it keeps things simple. I don't want to be redirected by ads or extranious links. Yahoo was nice because if you are bored and looking for something to keep your attention, it has plenty of services to keep you busy. I really didn't find much use for Ask.com.

8. The results for Yahoo, and Google were very similar, Ask strayed fromthe flock a little.

9. I found google the best as a search engine. It searches for what you want easily without any distracting services or automatic wikipedia links.

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My own wiki page. (no laughing at its title)

My Wiki

Here is a link to more links!!!

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WebQuest links

estimation 3rd grade (useful for multiplication)

Water Cycle (Great for 3rd grade science, esp. with science PSSA's in the future)

Civil War (awesome webquest that has students work with the creation of a power point. Very fun and interesting social studies webquest.)

Travel the USA (Here's a webquest I know I will be using in my classroom. It requires students to attain a better knowledge of our fifty states including; facts, location, capitals, places of interest, etc.)

Monarch Butterfllies (Great for classrooms working with metamorphosis of caterpillars. It would work even better if your class found monarch caterpillars to wacth the life cycle in the classroom)

Shipwrecks (all about shipwrecks. Incorporates english, language arts, and social studies.)

Rainforests (Excellent webquest to introduce students to rainforests, and make them aware of the dire situation occurring with the deforestation in the world's rainforests.)