>--Searching the Internet

Internet Activities

Use a search engine like Altavista, Yahoo, MSN , HotBot or (my favorite) Google to answer these questions. Review my tips for successful searching.

(1) Party Invitation:

Create an invitation to a party at your house using Word or PowerPoint.
Use an Internet map utility like Google Maps to create a map to your house. Copy this map onto your invitation. If you have difficulty copy/pasting, you may have to do a PrintScrn. When your press the PrintScrn button on the keyboard, Windows takes a snapshot of your computer screen at that moment and puts it into the clipboard. Use Fireworks to crop it. (Fireworks, File, New, Paste, Crop).
Make sure to give the Who, When, Where (& Why?) for your party.
You must not write anything on the printout version (don't forget your name).
Print this invite.

(2) Scavenger Hunt

(1) We all love animals. Find a picture and the scientific name of an orangutan. 
(2)  Find a lesson plan on making Chinese Kites---give me the address of the page with the instructions - don't copy/paste all of the instructions.
(3) Locate a five day weather forecast for your hometown....paste the address of the page with the forecast.
(4) What is the all-time best selling children's hardcover book? paperback? 
(5) Get a map to Sexton High School that you could give to somebody from out of town.
(6) Get directions (in words, not a map)  from your house to your Cedar Point. (Driving directions)  Hint:  find the address of Cedar Point first.
(7) How many Japanese yen can you get for $500 in U.S. dollars.  Find a site that has a currency converter.  (yen is the currency of Japan)
(8) The movie Titanic won some Oscars.  How many?  Which categories did it win the Oscar for? 
(9) What are the names of a baby, male, and female swan? 
(10) What is the birthdate of singer Michael Jackson?
(11) What's the lava in a lava lamp?

Use Word to answer these questions.

I want you to copy the URL of the page where you found the information and paste it into your document.

Make your answers a different color from the questions.

For some questions, you only need to list the URL as the answer (question 2 and 3 for example)