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SEARCH TOPIC: Ben Franklin

SEARCH TERMS: Invention

TYPE OF SEARCH: Key Word

SEARCH ENGINE: www.Yahoo.com

BEST SITE: http://www.energy.ca.gov/education/ben/ben-html/ben4.html  

This is the best site that we found at yahoo. It included many activities that would help students learn of his different inventions. It is well organized and easy to maneuver through.

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# of hits

Quality of Hits The majority of hits in this search appear to be 

 1.

  Ben Franklin Invention

1960

The first few were good but the rest seemed unrelated.

2.

Ben Franklin AND Invention

1960

Same as above

3.

"Ben Franklin AND Invention"

10

These sites were very good and directly related to the inventions of Ben Franklin.

SEARCH TOPIC: Ben Franklin

SEARCH TERMS: Invention

TYPE OF SEARCH: Key Word

SEARCH ENGINE: www.dogpile.com

BEST SITE: http://sln.fi.edu/Franklin/inventor/inventor.html

This was the best site found at dogpile. The information was related to the information that we were searching for. It was well organized and easy to read. All of the inventions were highlighted and connected to a link.

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# of hits

Quality of Hits The majority of hits in this search appear to be 

 1.

   Ben Franklin Invention

39

Poor

2.

Ben Franklin AND Invention

39

Same as above

3.

"Ben Franklin AND Invention"

10

A few of them were okay but most of them were unrelated.

SEARCH TOPIC: Ben Franklin

SEARCH TERMS: Inventions

TYPE OF SEARCH: Key Word

SEARCH ENGINE: www.aol.com

BEST SITE: http://tlc.ai.org/franklin.htm

This was the best site that we found at AOL.com. It included links to other inventions, other works, general recourses, lesson plans, and related literature. The information appeared to be accurate and easy to follow. Students could easily find their way around this site.

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Search terms and operators used

# of hits

Quality of Hits The majority of hits in this search appear to be 

 

 1.

  Ben Franklin Invention

71

A few of them were good but most of them were unrelated.

2.

Ben Franklin AND Invention

71

Same as above.

3.

"Ben Franklin AND Invention"

0

We received no matching results.

4.

"Franklin Stove"

13

The top 4 of these were the best sites found.

    A majority of the web sites that came up on all of our searches were unrelated information. However, the ones that we determined to be the best were informative and were well organized. The problem with most of the sites was not that there was no information about Ben Franklin’s inventions, it was that you had to search amoung the sites to find the information. Aol.com actually provided the best web sties for our topic.

 

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