Science Module 1

Using ICT to find evaluate and use
scientific information

Contents
      1. What this module is about
        1. Introduction
        2. Working through the module
          1. For beginners
            • Beginning to use the Internet
            • Beginning to use Word
          2. For everyone
          3. For more advanced work
        3. Increasing the usability of your computer - Plug-ins
      2. Getting started on the Internet
      3. Finding information on the Internet
        1. Introduction
        2. The tasks
        3. List of search engines
        4. Other sites to start searching from
        5. How search engines work - and their limitations
        6. Finding the information you want - and only that
        7. Children searching for information - issues and sites
        8. Where to learn more about search engines
      4. Evaluating information found on the Internet
        1. Introduction
        2. The tasks
        3. Sites to review
        4. Reviews by other teachers
        5. Where to learn more about evaluating on-line material
      5. Using information found on the Internet
        1. Introduction
        2. The task
        3. Ways of adding sounds and movies to your story
        4. Downloading pictures, sounds and movies from the Internet
          1. Warning!
          2. Downloading pictures
          3. Downloading sounds and movies
        5. Inserting links into your story
          1. Inserting links to another place in the same document
          2. Inserting a link to another document - including sounds and movies
          3. Inserting a link to a web-site
      6. Taking things further