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Title of Lesson Plan
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 Finding and Saving Information From A Web Site
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Subject Area
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Computers/Technoloy
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Grade Level
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4-6
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Duration
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45 min.
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Lesson Summary
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Students will learn how to find information on the ocean animal of their choice on the
web through www.yahooligans.com . They will learn how to copy only relevant
information into a Notepad document, rather than printing whole web pages, for use in
their search for information about their chosen ocean animal. Students will also begin
teaming to cite sources.
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Goals
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Students will gain an understanding of how to search for information on the web, and
how to copy and save relevant information to their particular ocean animal.
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Objective
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1) Students will be able to save relevant information from the Internet.
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2) Students will be able to cite sources for saved information.
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3) Students will be able to identify keyboards for a search.
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4) Students will be able to perform a search, Using www.yahooligans.com .
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Materials
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Technology: Internet connected computers with Internet Explorer printer.
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Printed Materials: "Finding and Saving Information from a Web Page" task list.
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Supplies: paper
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Procedures
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Explain to students how to search for information on the web. Explain the importance
of citing sources in a research document. Give students the "Saving Information" task
list. In their computers, students will open Notepad and type their names and today's
date. Minimize Notepad. Students will then open Internet Explorer. They will navigate
to http://www.yahooligans.com in their browser. Each student will choose type in the
ocean animal of their choice in the text field and then press Search. Choose a
resulting web site. Find an important fact about the ocean animal that they want to
save. Highlight the relevant fact and copy it (right click the highlighted information and
click copy). Click Notepad in your taskbar to restore Notepad. Paste the fact (right
click mouse and click paste) into the document. Return to the web site and highlight
the URL of the site. Go back to Notepad and paste the source following the copied
fact. Back at the web site find the title of the document, and author. Copy and paste
those to your Notepad document. Return to your web search and find another site.
Repeat steps until you have three relevant facts. Print your Notepad document or let
students save to a disk for later use.
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One computer in the classroom or limited number of computers in classroom: let
students take turns each day completing the task.
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Introducing Activities
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1) Ask students what is their favorite ocean animal.
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2) Write some of their choices down on the board.
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Learning Activity One
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1)Ask the students to write the animal of their choice in their notebook and ask them
to describe
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that animal.
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Learning Activity Two
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1)Ask the students to look up facts science books about their ocean animal and
write them down in
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their notebook.
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Learning Activity Three
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1) After they are done, explain to the students that they just "saved" information in
their notebook.
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2)Ask them other ways of saving information. Tell them that they are going to learn
who to search for information on the web and also learn how to save that
information by putting it in an "electronic notebook."
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Assessment
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Check printed document for name, date and at least three facts about the ocean
animal of their choice, web address and site titles.
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