• Infohio Research Tool

Goal:
1 - This lesson is to build background knowledge before you begin other research on the Internet.

2 - Create 1 Guiding question for your research on the specific area of the Civil War.

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 Topics:

• What were the causes of the Civil War?
• What happened during the Civil War?
• What were the major battles of the Civil War?
• What was the cause of the Civil War?
• What were the results of the Civil War?

• Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus

COMMON EXTENSIONS .edu Educational organization (most US universities) .k12 US school site (not all US schools use this) .ac Academic institution (outside of US) .sch School site (some schools outside of the US use this) .com Company (usually .co in the UK) .org Any organization .gov Government agency .net Network New extensions to look for are .biz, .name, .pro, .info. All are used for commercial purposes. Extensions can also include country codes, such as .uk, .ca, .za, etc. .mil Military institution

The tilde ~ followed by someone's name, tells us that this is a personal posting and not an official website for the domain. Example: http://pubweb.northwestern.edu/~abutz/di/intro.html

• Noodle Tools - Finding a Search Engine

• How to Evaluate Information from a Website

• MAPping the Internet

Google ranks results based on popularity. It counts the number of links from sites all around the Web. For example, if a large number of sites has a specific keyword somewhere on their Web site along with a link to a particular site, Google counts the number of times the keyword appears along with the number of links to a particular site. The higher number of links to a site, the higher Google will rank that site on a list of results.

• Hunt for Facts about Jacques Cartier

• Hunt for Facts about Christopher Columbus

• Moderate Hunt for Facts about Juan Ponce de Leon

• Hunt for Facts about Sir Francis Drake

• Hunt for Facts about John Cabot

• Hunt for Facts about Ferdinand Magellan

• Hunt for Facts about Amerigo Vespucci

• Hunt for Facts about Vasco da Gama

• Hunt for Facts about Henry Hudson