Archery Challenges Main Menu (Skills for Searching the "Deep Web")

Archery Challenge 1: The Database Match: By knowing where to search more of  your queries will be on target. This game challenges your ability to find database information commerical search engines can see!

Archery Challenge 2: Can Google google it? There are times when you need to aim beyond Google or Yahoo. Learn when to choose specialized databases to find hidden information.

Archery Challenge 3 : Can Yahoo! google it? Ten new questions using another popular database.

• Difficulty Level: Novice through Expert

• Core Competency: Locate 2, emphasizing types of information in databases

• ISTE NETS: 3, 5, 6

California Gold Rush  Scanning for Information: Interactive Tutorials Games to Strengthen Scanning of Snippets  Learn to mine nuggets of information from search engine results pages.

• California 1 (untimed)

• California 2 (untimed

• California 1 (timed)

• California 2 (timed)

• Difficulty Level: Novice, Intermediate and Expert Levels

• Core Competency: Locate 3, Evaluate

• ISTE NETS: 3, 5, 6

Klondike Gold Rush  Scanning for Information: Interactive Tutorials Games to Strengthen Scanning of Snippets. Each game has levels for grades 3 - 12. Timed versions are more challenging.

• Klondike 1 (untimed)

• Klondike 2 (untimed)

• Klondike 1 (timed)

• Klondike 2 (timed)

• Difficulty Level: Novice, Intermediate and Expert Levels

• Core Competency: Locate 3, Evaluate

• ISTE NETS: 3, 5, 6

Keyword Challenge2: Question to Query: The first step in power searching: Know what you are looking for!

• Earthquake Challenge

• Broadway Challenge: Funny Girl 

• Great Wall Challenge

• Hollywood Challenge

• Piranha Challenge

• Stamp Collectors Challenge

• Diamond Challenge

• Buffalo Challenge

• Difficulty Level: Novice through Expert

• Core Competency: Locate 1

• ISTE NETS: 3, 5, 6

Snippet Sleuth Directory Practice reading snippets for important search clues and better keywords

• Snippet Sleuth Broadway Challenge

• Snippet Sleuth Action Figure Challenge

• Snippet Sleuth Great Wall Challenge

• Difficulty Level: Novice, Intermediate, Expert

• Core Competency: Locate 3

• ISTE NETS: 3, 5, 6

Photo Tagging Challenges: Flickr Tag Search

Observe Flickr pictures and intuit likely keywords (Tags). Then use tag search to track down the origins of the images.

• Difficulty Level: Intermediate, Expert

• Core Competency: Locate 1, Locate 3

• ISTE NETS: 3, 5, 6

Pirates and Piranhas

Build queries from concept identification, keyword selection and operator selection.