Finding Pictures of Toys from the Past with a Google Search in Year 1

The students in Mrs Foster's class learned how to do a 'short-cut' Google Advanced Search to find images of Toys from the Past. They opened their search with a speech mark, then typed their key words and closed their search with a speech mark - "toys from the past". This ensured that the Google Search Engine would search for all of these words together instead of individually. The students agreed that their search showed good images of old toys. They then learned how to save the images they wanted to the Camera Roll and insert them into their Book Creator Books. They had already saved images of Toys from a search of the Creative Commons image site www.pixabay.com Further, they learned that if any images they find on the net have a watermark over them or a website address on them they are not free to use or Creative Commons.

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