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Glenn Arnold
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I'm trying to find a selection of trivia questions that I can use to give my students something to search for to practice their google-fu.

The problem is that if you search for something on the internet, the easiest thing to find is something that's easy to find on the internet. What's more, if I find a list of trivia questions, chances are my students will find the same list, and have all the answers with one search.

Any ideas?

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BaoQingTian
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It goes deeper than you think- if you post it here, chance are it will be google-able in a matter of days [Razz]
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Eaquae Legit
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Use a long string of words, perhaps?

5 or 6 search terms might bring up a specialised result that would be harder to find.

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The Rabbit
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Give them an image and have them try to find it through google.
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Chanie
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Or give them images (say from a movie) and have them identify which movie each is from. Or the type of animal in an image, etc.
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Google a topic, pick a site at random, and pick an interesting fact from the page that pops up.
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Go back over the threads in Hatrack, and find the ones where people are asking for google-fu help.

Or go to a local library, pick out random books, and then find theories/ideas/facts in those. Create a question about it. Philosophy is a good example. Ask them to find the four philosophical grounds of parenthood or the three main areas studied in philosophy of economics. [Smile]

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Glenn Arnold
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The images idea sounds workable. Philosophy is a bit beyond my 6th graders (shoulda mentioned that).

So far I've been doing the random thing, one fact at a time. I think old-fashioned paper trivia books are probably the way to go. Too bad I don't have a Trivial Pursuit game.

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I do. Would you like me to give you some of the questions from it?
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Glenn Arnold
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I appreciate the offer, but as BQT points out, then they would be google-able here. I'd also feel uncomfortable asking you to type that much. I'll ask the librarian as my school for a trivia book. That makes the most sense.

It was just kinda weird because I was sitting here googling trivia lists, thinking the internet should make my job easier, when I realized that any source of trivia that I found would be just as easy for the kids to find. Not that I really want to make it hard on them, but if it comes in LIST form, then it would be just as likely that they'd find the list in one shot.

This actually happened last year, when another teacher gave me a list of inventors and inventions. I started giving out the inventions as an internet search: Who invented this? On the first day someone found the same list online, and spread it to my other classes.

I had to resort to typing exercises as my daily warm-up. But I'm trying to bring back the google search.

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What if Dana (or someone else with a set) takes pictures of some of the cards and e-mails them to you?
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dkw
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Or just e-mails the questions. But taking pictures of the cards would certainly be fast & easy. Not sure how legible it would be, though.
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Chanie
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If you change the wording of the questions slightly, they would be harder to google.
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