The following steps may help you guide students (or staff) through various search skills.
Tip: ensure that you are all using the same Google domain – either google.co.uk or google.fr. Using google.com geographically localize to the Google domain of the country you are in.
- Search: hurricane – how many results are there?
- Search: hurricane katrina – how many results are there?
- Search: “hurricane katrina” – how many results are there?
- Choose the top result – why is it Wikipedia?
- Ctrl+F or Cmd+F to search the webpage for: landfall
- Ctrl+F or Cmd+F to search the webpage for: cost
- Search: $108 in CHF – this converts $ to CHF for you.
- Search: define:hurricane – explore the ‘Translations, word origin, and more definitions’.
- Search: filetype:pdf hurricane katrina
- Search: site:theguardian.com hurricane katrina
- Search: site:youtube.com hurricane katrina
- Search “hurricane katrina” – then click ‘Search tools’ > explore the possible time brackets you can put on the publish date of the digital content.
- Search “hurricane katrina” – then click Images, then click ‘Search tools’ > explore the Size and Usage rights.