Video: How Google Works (5 min)
Notes: How to Use Google (20 min)
Let's go over some skills to help you research more efficiently. This will help you out not just with the endangered species project, but every project afterwards. Below are the skills you should have after taking the notes.
Helpful Search Tutorials and Resources
Homework
For tonight's homework you need to figure out what the term niche means and find an example of how niche destruction is causing a species to become endangered. It's recommended that when you have to look up examples you provide the information about your species. It will save you time later in the ESP. NOTE: YOUR ANSWERS TO THIS HOMEWORK WILL BE PUBLISHED FOR EVERYONE TO SEE NEXT CLASS.
Let's go over some skills to help you research more efficiently. This will help you out not just with the endangered species project, but every project afterwards. Below are the skills you should have after taking the notes.
- Judging Reliable Sources
- Narrowing Down Searches (Keywords and Date)
- Search Operators (-,+ and "")
- Searching for a Specific Type of Site
- Searching Specific Countries
- Searching File Types
- Sorting by Reading Level
- Google Scholar
- Other Tools (Flights, Currency, Translation and Dictionary)
Helpful Search Tutorials and Resources
Homework
For tonight's homework you need to figure out what the term niche means and find an example of how niche destruction is causing a species to become endangered. It's recommended that when you have to look up examples you provide the information about your species. It will save you time later in the ESP. NOTE: YOUR ANSWERS TO THIS HOMEWORK WILL BE PUBLISHED FOR EVERYONE TO SEE NEXT CLASS.
