Each interactive game will help you learn essential search concepts.

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Internet Search Challenges: Test your skills with these live search challenges:

The Kermit Challenge: Find the URL of a web page where you can find a picture of Kermit the Frog and hear what he is saying.

The Broadway Challenge: What is the URL of a page that lists the numbers of shows that have opened on Broadway yea-by –year since 1984?

The Pump Price Challenge: Find a table that answers both questions: How much did Americans pay for a gallon of gas at the pump in 1920? How much money would that be in 2005 dollars?

The Lego Builder's Challenge: In 2003 Legoland announced a national job search for model builders. Who got the Job?

 

Word Association: Soccer Challenges I - IV Find effective keywords and nyms. Compare your skills to those of expert searchers.

Keyword Challenge: Question to Query(level 1). The first step in power searching is to know what you are looking for.

Studying the words in a search problem improves your understanding of the search and results in a more effective query. Here are four challenging experiences that help learners empower Internet search skills by manipulating Keyword Challenge sets. Learners practice transforming research questions into effective queries while playing these original word-matching games.

Great Wall Challenge: Who first claimed that China’s Great Wall could be seen from space?

Hollywood Challenge: Name the Hollywood film release in 1992 that made the most money.

Broadway Challenge: Find the total number of time Funny Girl has been performed on Broadway.  

Stamp Collector Challenge: Who is pictured on the third cartoon character stamp issued by the U.S. Post Office?

Snippet Sleuth: (Level 2). This game addresses the second step in power searching: know where to find the information.

Snippet Sleuth Meets the Broadway Challenge: Read the snippets as you search! This tutorial will help you find information and keywords in snippets, saving valuable search time.