Lesson 13 — Activity 3:

Information Search


By completing the brainstorming web, you have organized what you know about your career into one specific place. This is a big accomplishment. Way to go!

Now, you can begin the next step in the project — searching for more information!

How should you go about finding new information on careers?


 


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You could visit a library, read magazines or articles, talk to a teacher or counsellor at school, or interview someone in the career field you have chosen to write about.



  • Another very popular way to search for information is to use the Internet. When doing an online search people generally begin with typing in their topic into a search engine.

  • The most popular search engines are: Google, Yahoo, Bing, and Ask.com. Perhaps you have a favourite search engine that you use to help you find information!

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For the assignment on the following page, you will use two online locations to search for information about your career. You must remember that, when you search for information online, you may find some information that is very useful and some that is not helpful at all. You might also find information that is wrong if the site you are using is unreliable. Try to be as critical as possible when searching for information online, and don't always believe everything you find or read online!

Self-check!


For this Self-check, you will practise searching for information on your chosen career by using various search engines. Choose TWO of the links below (or try all of them if you like!). Click on one at a time, and type the name of your career in the search box for each search engine. Spend about 5 to 10 minutes on each one to see what kind of information you can find!

Google

Yahoo!

Ask.com

Bing