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A project of the Public Learning Media Laboratory
Website:http://www.boolify.org
Overview
: This lesson will help teach students basic Boolean.
Purpose
: It is important that educators teach students about the useof Boolean to refine web searches.
Objectives
: Students will learn about the different Boolean operators:“and”, “or” and “not”. Students will model the operators, and thentranslation their modeling into a visual search engine (Boolify).
Activities
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Spend several minutes describing to Boolean to students,including “and”, “or” and “not.
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Model the difference between Boolean operators by asking:
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AND
All students wearing blue jeans to stand up
All students wearing blue jeans AND who are girls tostand up
All students wearing blue jeans AND who are girlsAND with a name that starts with “A” to stand up
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OR
All students wearing blue jeans OR t-shirts to standup
All students wearing blue jeans AND t-shirts OR capsto stand up
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NOT
All students wearing t-shirts but NOT jeans, stand up
All students who are boys and NOT wearing sandals,stand up
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Have the students reflect on the combinations. Can they makeup a new combination, so that only a desired person stands up?
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Then, jump to the website, Boolify. Describe that a search engineworks the same way.
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For instance, if you want to find all web pages with
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