Searching Tips
Computing: Year 5 & 6 National Curriculum, topic 2.2.2
Good Searching Tips
Follow these steps to help you use search engines to find what you're looking for.
What are you searching for?
- Are you searching for an image, a video, some news or a piece of text?
- Use the correct tab to display what you're looking for.
Choice of words
- Only use keywords for your search.
- Choose your keywords carefully.
- Be careful to spell your keywords correctly.
Exact match
- Use quotation marks to find an exact phrase.
- E.g. “Double, double. Toil and trouble” would show you results that matched that exact text.
Fact check
- See if the ‘facts’ are the same on different sites.
- Think about the quality of the site when you decide whether to trust the information.
Test yourself on Searching Tips
What punctuation do you put around your words to find the exact phrase?
Why is it important to choose your keywords carefully?
What should you do to check if the facts you found are true?
What should you only use for your search and spell correctly?