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DAY 4
Reading Online
OBJECTIVES
  • Examine features of
    search engines.
  • Compare and contrast
    across texts.
PREVIEW/USE TEXT FEATURES
As students preview "Natural Disasters," have them identify which type of natural disaster the selection is about. After they preview, ask:
  • What keywords might you type in the search field of a search engine to find information about earthquakes in Japan?
    (Possible response: earthquakes, earthquakes Japan)
  • Where would your search results appear? (Below the search field on the screen)
Link to Science
Help students use reference materials
such as encyclopedias or earth science textbooks to find information about tsunamis. If students have Internet access, keywords students could try include tsunamis, oceanography, and tidal waves. Check their diagrams for accuracy.
Whole Group Discuss the
Question of the Day.
Group Time
 Differentiated Instruction
Reading
Read “Natural Disasters.” See
pp. 380f–380g for the small group lesson plan.
Use pp. 399e–399h and
399k–399m.
Whole Group Use pp. 399a and 399j.
Language Arts
DAY 4
Grouping Options
NEW LITERACIES: SEARCH ENGINES
Use the sidebar on p. 396 to guide discussion.
  • A search engine is a program you use to find Web sites relating to the information you want to know. You access these programs online.
  • To find what you are looking
    for, type keywords into the
    search field and click on the
    “Search” or “Go” button. The
    results will appear below your
    keywords. Here, we see
    several results for “Natural
    Disasters,” but only one that might have information that relates to the topic of interest.
  • Discuss what other keywords
    students could use to find
    information about natural
    disasters, especially specific
    natural disasters.
Audio CDAudioText
Monitor and Fix Up
If you read something that doesn't
make sense to you, go back and
reread. You may have skipped over
important information or misread
something.
ELL
Activate Prior Knowledge Have
students share what they know
about the Internet. Discuss what
they have used it for, what they use
it for most frequently, favorite
Web sites, and so on. Students may
even be familiar with search engines.
Read the sidebar information on
p. 396 together and have students
talk about when they have used a
search engine before and for what
purpose.
Reading Online
New Literacies: PearsonSuccessNet.com
     You type the keywords natural disasters
into a search engine and click SEARCH.
If you search using a phrase, it helps to
put the phrase in quotation marks.
Genre
A search engine
helps you find Web
sites on the Internet.
Search Engines
Search Engine
Search
“natural disasters”
Search
     The search engine you choose might offer
a list of Web sites about natural disasters.
You might find results such as the following.
Use keywords to find a
Web site on your topic.
Use the library or the
Internet to find out about
another natural disaster
such as a tsunami. Draw
a diagram to explain it.
Link to Science
Each item on the list is
a link to a Web site that
contains your keyword.
Click on the SEARCH
button to see the results
listed below the search
window.
The search engine
window is where you
type in a keyword.
Text Features
2.
1.
Take It to the Net
3.
The third link to Natural
Disasters may seem interesting
to you. You click on it.
Monitor and Fix Up
Are you confused? Reread if you need to.
“natural disasters”
     Survivors of Natural Disasters. Every year, millions of Americans
are affected by natural disasters. Survivors face the danger of death or
physical injury and the loss of everything they own.
     Natural Disasters. A Bibliography. This bibliography lists books
about natural disasters.
    Natural Disasters.        Natural disasters are extreme, sudden
events caused by nature that injure people and damage property.
Earthquakes, windstorms, floods, and disease all strike anywhere on
earth, often without warning.
Natural Disasters
     People usually get along
with nature just fine. Sometimes,
though, nature can cause great
harm to people, animals, and
other wildlife. Such events are
called natural disasters. You
want to learn more about them.
 
   
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WEB-IQUETTE
Search Engines
Tell students that search engines are programs they can use to research information on the computer, and there are rules they should follow that can help make their search easier and more productive.
  • Setting their keywords in quotation marks can help narrow the search and produce fewer, more specific, results.
  • Using parentheses to separate words and phrases will also produce fewer, more specific results.
  • Use AND to get results including all the words in your search; use OR to get one or more words in the results; use NOT to exclude words from your results. For example, you might search for "volcanoes AND Hawaii NOT dormant."
TECHNOLOGY TOOLS
Search Engines
Keywords the words you enter in the search field of a search engine to find the information you are looking for; keywords are generally the most important words of the topic you are looking for and do not include the articles the, a, or an.