Objective: The objective at level one is to familiarize the students with using a web browser and expose them to a wide variety of web site layouts to help them learn how to navigate web sites on their own. Since not all students are proficient readers or computer users as this stage, the sites will all contain educational games. Students will use these edutainment sites.

Objective At level 2, students learn the parts of a URL so they can type in their own web addresses and recognize if they entered them correctly. They also will learn how to use some kid-friendly search sites to find information on the web. Kid-Friendly Internet Search Sites

• Ask Jeeves Kids
• CyberSleuth-Kids.com
• DMOZ Kids
• KidsClick!
• Yahooligans
• List of Search Sites for Kids

• Introducing URL
• URL worksheet (identify URLs written incorrectly. Write correctly.)
• The Case of the Wrong URL
• Topical Internet Searches (using categorized search sites)
• Internet Seek and Find 1
• Keyword Internet Searches
• Internet Seek and Find 2

Objective At level 3, students will become familiar with a selection of useful Internet tools and resources.

• Phone Numbers
• Maps (www.mapquest.com)
• Comparison Shopping (www.bestwebbuys.com)
• Calculators / Convertors
  • Currency
  • Measurements
• Dictionaries
• Encyclopedias
• Books Online
  • Bartleby.com
• Weather Watch

Objective:

• Googling Around
• Asking Jeeves
• Vivisimo
• Marking great sites

Objective:

• Truth or Legend? (using hoaxbusters and urbanlegends.com)

Objective

• Tweaking searches for better results
• Introducing the Hidden Web
  • White Paper on Deep Web
  • Article on ERIC Part 1, Part 2
• Searching the "Hidden Web"
  • Invisible Web
  • Complete Planet
  • Invisible-Web.net
  • Virtual Gumshoe
• CyberSleuth Mission