SearchingPuzzle

The search treasure hunt

You will need to follow all instructions very carefully. At the end all the activities, you will have created your own list of search engines and subject directories that you will be able to use when you are doing research. You need to follow these instructions carefully and tick them off as you complete them. Once you get to the end, write out the first letter of each one word answer. Your answer will form two words. When you work out the words, type them into google. What is the name of the first website that you find?
 * This treasure hunt is designed to show you some different search engines. **

Before you start you will need to create a table on a new wiki page called My Search. You can download this word document

||  Instructions ||  Your answer || To find out what an anagram is Go to google Type in **define: anagram** What is an anagram? ||  || || ==== Look for the Home button. ====
 *  Search engine or subject directory
 *  ||  ||   ||
 * [|http://www.google.com.] || You are going to be creating an anagram.
 * **Now Let’s begin your Search** ||  ||
 * [|http://www.factmonster.com/]

What is the first section on the top left hand side?
||  || || ==== Click on the World Capitals. ====
 * [|http://www.factmonster.com/]

What is the capital of Peru?
||  || || ====Go back to Home.====
 * [|http://www.factmonster.com/]

What lives 150 days before it falls out?
||  || || ====Find WordWise====
 * [|http://www.factmonster.com/]

Find a word that starts with v
||  || || ====Find the Sports section====
 * [|http://www.factmonster.com/]

What is the only Olympic event that starts with e
||  || http://www.ithaki.net/ || ==== Go to iThaki ====

Type in the word mouse You will find that you will get lots of irrelevant hits Type in mouse species
What is the name the species that a mouse belongs to? ||  || || ==== ====   Go to Wikipedia Type in the word mouse On the wikipage, find the word insects and click on it   What on this page is 55.5cm long? ||  || || ====Type in Proboscidea====
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
 * http://clusty.com/

What animal belongs to this family?
||  || || ====Type in the word continent====
 * http://clusty.com/

What is the second second cluster of results?
||  || || ====Click on Science====
 * [|http://www.askkids.com/?o=0&l=dir

What it the top left side waterway?
||  || || ====Click on world atlas====
 * http://www.askkids.com/?o=0&l=dir

What is the name of the country above North America?
||  || || ====Find the dictionary====
 * http://kids.yahoo.com/

Remember to use only one word
||  || || ==== Find a dinosaur that starts with the letter I ==== ||   || || Type in the word environment In the “Are you looking for?”section. What is the second category that dogpile suggests? ||  || || ====Type in African animals====
 * http://kids.yahoo.com/
 * [|http://www.dogpile.com/]
 * [|http://www.dogpile.com]

What is the second category that dogpile suggests?
||  || Once you have typed the word. Go to the A on the Editor bar. Change the font to Georgia, make the size 120% and make the colour #e421ed. ||  || What is the colour? ||  || type in your anagram What is the name of rthe first page you see in the hits? ||  || Find an image of a Blue-legged mantella frog. Go to it's properties and type in the url location ||  ||
 * Now you have completed the words you need to create your anagram. Type in the first letter of each word and see what you have made. It will be two words.
 * Put your word in this row:
 * [|http://www.google.com.] || Go to Google
 * And There's More... ||  ||
 * http://www.kidsclick.org/ || How many categories can you search under? ||  ||
 * http://www.kidsclick.org/ || Go to the Picture Search tool
 * Almost done ||  ||   ||
 * You need to now create a page on your wiki with each of the search engines that you have used. Name the page My Search pages and out a lin k on your front page to it. ||  ||   ||