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Activity  1

Today we will explore some of the most common Internet tools and vocabulary.  View this Internet video.

Internet Video

 

 

Activity 2

Now we will be using the Internet to help us learn more about how to use our computers.  Use the links to help you find your answers. 

 

Internet Scavenger Hunt

The Internet - Basics
Use the hyperlinks to go to a web page that has the answer.

 

1)What is the Internet?

 

 2)What is a web site?

 

 3)What is a home page

 

4)What is the home page of the computer you are working on right now

*clue- click on the button at the top of the screen that looks like this-

 

 5)What is a browser?

 

6)Name three browsers.

  

7)What is a title bar?

 

8)What is on the title bar of this activity's web page? (go back and look at the example from above)

 

9)Name the 8 icons on the Tool Bar.

 

 

 

10)What button on the  tool bar would help you find a page that you have just visited?

 

11)What button on the tool bar would allow you to make sure you are viewing the latest version of the current web page?

 

 

12)Which button on the tool bar allows you to keep track of all your most important sites?

 

13)Which icon on the tool bar will offer you the option of revisiting a web site you have previously visited during your last several Internet sessions?

 

14)What is another name for an address?

 

15)If a web site's URL ended in the extension .gov what would you expect it to be about?

 

16)If the URL ended with .com what type of website is it?

 

17)Hyperlinks allow you to connect from one website to another.  For example if I wanted to go to RainforestMath.com  I could just click on those words. 

 

18)What are 2 clues that tell you that certain texts are a hyperlink?