Microsoft Childrens Encarta

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Microsoft Childrens Encarta

• PPDV 0155 - SMC
• Last updated August 29, 2009

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What you will learn today

• What Childrens Encarta is about
• How to start the program on college computers
• How to find information using SEARCH and BROWSE
• Search tips
• How to answer questions using Encarta

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What is Childrens Encarta?

• An electronic encyclopedia
• An encyclopedia has facts
• They help you answer questions like
• Who?
• What?
• Where?
• When?
• How?

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How to find information

• Search
• Browse
• Follow the links to find information

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Can you find the answer?

• Which sportsperson said that he could
• float like a butterfly, sting like a bee

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Search

• Use the search box to answer this question
• Type this

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Search
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Browse

• Click on
• Sports Games
• Famous Sportspeople
• Boxers
• Muhammad Ali
• Does this page look different from the page you
  found by searching?

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Search Tip

• To search for text on the page, click F3

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Exercise

• Write your names on the handout
• Work with your partner to answer the questions
• Give the handout to your teacher when you finish