Click on surfer mouse to catch a wave

The Internet is a worldwide network of _______ that are connected by wires and cables. Click the picture below that correctly describes the Internet: What Do You Already Know About The Internet?

Right! The Internet is a network of computers worldwide that are connected by wires and cables. Click on the computers to test your Net knowledge

Wipe Out! The Internet is a network of computers. The Web is a part of the Internet made up of information. Click here to try again

What Do You Already Know About The Internet? The World Wide Web (www) is a part of the Internet. It is a collection of millions of _________which can be accessed through and displayed on the computers of the Internet. Click the picture below that correctly describes the Web:

Right! The World Wide Web (www) is a collection of millions of linked documents which can be accessed through and displayed on the computers of the Internet. Click on the Web to answer one more question

Wipe Out! The Internet is a network of computers. The Web is a part of the Internet made up of information. Click here to try again

What Do You Already Know About The Internet? Click on the mouse beside the correct answer: The Internet includes which of the following: FTP World Wide Web Discussion Groups and Chat Rooms All of these

Right! You’ve Caught a Wave! FTP World Wide Web Discussion Groups and Chat Rooms The Internet includes: Click here to surf

Wipeout! FTP World Wide Web Discussion Groups and Chat Rooms The Internet includes: Go back and try again

Lesson Goals: How Can You Improve Your Surfing? Now that you understand the Net and the Web, you will learn how to use and recognize some tools that will make surfing fun and more productive : Browsers Links Search Engines Click on the computer learn about these tools

Click on surfer mouse to learn about Web Browsers

A Web Browser is the software you use to allow you to view Web pages. There are many different Web Browser programs but the ones used most often are: Microsoft ExplorerMozilla Foxfire Click on the arrow to go on

You can tell which Web Browser you are using by looking at the icon or picture at the top right corner of your screen at the end of the toolbar. Click on the dolphin to learn the parts of a browser

Parts of a Browser Each browser has special names for the buttons and boxes you use to move around the Web page and the Web but the actions are similar no matter what browser you use. The title bars, which give the name of the page, are almost the same in each browser. Click her to find out about Web addresses

The box below the title bar is one of the most important parts of the browser. It allows us to enter the URL or address of a Web page and locate it on the Internet. This box is called the Address Bar in Explorer This box is called the Location Bar in Foxfire They work exactly the same. Type or paste the URL in the box and hit enter or return. Your Browser will take you to the Web site! Click here to see if you understand browsers

Can you ride the wave? Click on the Web Browser icon in the title bar to continue surfing!

Gnarly! You’ve caught a wave. Ride it by clicking on the icon below. These are icons for the Explorer and Foxfire Browsers

Wipeout! The Firefox Browser button is here Click here to try again

The toolbars have buttons that allow us to return home, stop loading a page, search, go back to a previous page, print, or reload the page. Different tool bars may have some different buttons.

To learn more about toolbars and their buttons, turn to page 6 in your hyperbook and click the links below to help you to fill in the chart. After you have finished the page in your Hyperbook, close the window to return to this lesson. For Explorer- For Foxfire-

What If I Find a Neat Site? When you are reading a good book and want to remember where you stopped, you put a bookmark at that spot. A Browser allows you to do that too. In Explorer, when you have found a page you want to return to easily without having to remember or type in the URL, hold down the mouse on the word Favorites in the toolbar and click on “Add page to Favorites”. Click on the word Favorites in the toolbar to go on

In Foxfire, when you have found a page you want to return to easily without having to remember or type in the URL, hold down the mouse on the word Bookmark in the toolbar and click on “Add Bookmark.”. Click on the word Bookmarks in the toolbar to go on

Can You Remember? Click on the statement that is true: In Explorer, the tool to save pages is called Favorites and in Foxfire it is called Bookmarks. In Explorer, the tool to save pages is called Bookmarks and in Foxfire it is called Favorites.

Correctomundo! In Explorer, the tool to save pages is called Favorites and in Foxfire it is called Bookmarks Click on the Foxfire icon to go on

Wipe Out! In Explorer, the tool to save pages is called Favorites and in Foxfire it is called Bookmarks. Click on the Explorer icon to try again

Click on surfer mouse to find out

Special connections between Web sites, Web pages, and places on a page can be made by Web designers so that when you place your mouse on them, the cursor or arrow becomes a hand. They are called Hyperlinks. See if you can find the hyperlink to the next page. Hint: put your mouse on the balloon above. Does your change to a ? Click!

Great Job! You found the Hyperlink from the last page to this one. Hyperlinks can be pictures or graphics as you just saw. Hyperlinks can also be words or text. They are usually colored differently from the rest of the text on the page and they are underlined. balloon Can you tell just by looking whether the balloon picture or the word “balloon” is a real Hyperlink? Put your mouse on them and click to see if you are right.

Can There Be Other Kinds of Links? Special kinds of pictures, called Image Maps, can also be Hyperlinks. When you click on a certain part of the Image Map, you go to a page on the Internet. If you click on another part, you go to another page. See how an Image Map works by clicking below. Find all 4 sites on this Image Map. Write the URL of each site on page 9 of your Hyperbook and answer the question there for each site. Remember to close the window after visiting each site to return to this lesson. After you have completed page 9 in your, Hyperbook, click on the palm tree to go on

How Much Did You Learn? Click on the mouse beside the right answer Text Graphic Image Map Which of the above is a Hyperlink that can connect to different Web pages when you click on different parts of the image?

You’re Splashin’! Click on the Image Map to go on An Image Map is a Hyperlink that allows you to go to different Web Sites by clicking on different parts of the image.

Wipe Out! An Image Map is a Hyperlink that allows you to go to different Web Sites by clicking on different parts of the image. Click on the Image Map to try again

Click on surfer mouse to find out

It is easy to find what we are looking for on the Internet when we have a URL to type in or we see a link we’d like to follow. It is much more difficult to find information when we don’t have a starting point like a URL or a link. When that happens, we have special Web Sites called Search Engines that help us to locate the Information we are looking for quickly. Click on the arrow to find ways Search Engines work

How Do Search Engines Work? The Internet has many Web sites that help you look for information called Search Engines. There are different types, but they work in similar ways. Search Engines can have category or subject links that you can click on and narrow your search Search Engines can have Search Boxes in which you type your keywords or questions. Click on Kids Click above to see how searching by category works.

KidsClick! Kids Click has an alphabetical index. You can click on the letter your topic begins with to find it. It also has broad category links that you can choose to find information about that heading with more specific subject links you can click on to narrow your search Click on the blimp to learn more about Search Engines

KidzSearch Some Search Engines like KidzSearch have grade levels and specialized categories to refine your search. Click on the rabbit to see how this works !

KidRex Click on the dinosaur to see how another kind of Search Engine works ! Ask allows you to type in a keyword or a natural language question to search.

Here’s Another Wave You’ve discovered that some Search Engines can help you find information by actually typing a complete question into the Search Box. Other Search Engines work in a different way. They only allow you to type Key Words into the Search Box. You must think about the information you want and pick out one or two words that will summarize the topic. Click on the globe to see how Key words work.

Google is a Search Engine that uses Key Words. If you want to learn about ladybugs, you type the word “lady bug” in the Search Box above. Click the Google Search button to start the search..

Google Search Results We got specific links to click on and there were over a million matches! Click on the image tab to see more kinds of results.

Google Search Results Google has special tabs that allow you to search just for images. Click on the first ladybug to test your knowledge of Search Engines

Do You Know Your Search Engines? Click on the mouse beside the right answer Which Search Engine allows you to enter a question into the Search Box?

Correctomundo! KIdRex allows you to search by typing a question into the Search Box. Click on Surfer Mouse to finish the lesson

Wipe Out! Kid Rex allows you to search by typing a question into the Search Box Click on Bart to try again

What Did You Learn? Answer the following questions in your Hyperbook on p.10. When you are finished answering the questions, click on the arrow to end the lesson 1. The WWW is a part of the Internet and is composed of information. 2. Firefox is a server. 3. The box in which you type a URL in Explorer is called an address bar. 4. All browsers have the same buttons on their tool bars. 5. In Microsoft Explorer, you can save pages by using the Favorites tool. 6. On the Web, pages are connected by hyperlinks. 7. Hyperlinks can only be images or image maps. 8. Search Engines are special Web pages that help us find information. 9. An image map allows you to go to different web sites by clicking on different parts of it. 10. Kids Click search engine allows us to type a question in the Search box. T F

Follow -Up Activities If you want to learn more about the Internet, you can visit the following Web Sites: /internet/index.weml Internet tutorial Internet tutorial with animation Video on how the Internet works and its history Click on the globe above to end this lesson

Carumba! Surfer Mouse says you did a great job! You’re a real Surfer Dude! Click on Surfer Mouse to see the show again. Press ESC to end this lesson.