The Boston Tea Party
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Before we discuss the Boston Tea Party in
depth, we need to find out a few facts about
it: when it took place, who were some of the
main people involved, and why did it take
place? We will use the internet to research
this topic.
Before we get started, there are a few things to know
about using the internet as a search tool.
 Boolean searching (named after George Boole, a British
mathematician) involves using words like “and,” “or,”
“near,” etc. within your search.
-when you type “and” in your search—such as “Boston
AND tea AND party,” the search engine will only show
you sites that have ALL of these words on them. Using
“and” helps to make sure you don’t find sites just
about Boston or just about tea.
-when you type “or” in your search—such as “Boston
OR tea OR party,” the search engine will show you
sites that have any of these words on them. This
makes your search much broader. You will probably
not want to use “or” in this particular search.
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First, we need to pick a search engine to use
to find our information.
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On your computer’s main screen, double click
on Mozilla Firefox. The icon looks like this:
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Once you have double clicked on Mozilla
Firefox, our school’s homepage should
appear. Your screen should now look like this:
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Now, we need to go to a search engine that
will be easy for us to use. We will use
askforkids.com. To get to this site, you will
need to type the web address in the search
bar, like this:
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Once you get to askforkids.com, you’ll want
to type “Boston Tea Party” in the search box,
like this:
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Click on search, and a list of different
websites that relate to the Boston Tea Party
will pop up. On the left side of this page, you
will see an option called “Narrow Your
Search”
Click on the second link that says “Happened
Boston Tea Party”
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This will take you to a new list of websites.
Click on the second link, “The Boston Tea
Party.” This link is indented, and it looks like
this:
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This site is where you will find the answers for
your worksheet. Read carefully, and do not
close this website when you are finished with
your work, because you will need to cite your
source after you are finished.
See the teacher for a worksheet to complete.
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Now that you have completed your
worksheet, we must cite the webpage from
which we took our information.
Citing is a way to show that the answers you
gave were not just ones you thought of in
your head, but ones that you borrowed from
someone else. Citing is a way to avoid
plagiarism—or stealing someone else’s words
or ideas and using them as your own.
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In order to complete the citation for our
work, we will use an online citation resource.
Click on Mozilla Firefox, just as you did at the
beginning of the tutorial, and instead of
typing askforkids.com in the address box, you
will type http://citationmachine.net/
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Your screen should now look like this. Click
on the link on the left that says “MLA.”
After you click on MLA, look under “Non-Print,”
and click on “Web Document.”
 This is where you will enter the information from
the website in order to create your citation.
Don’t worry if you can’t find every piece of
information, just fill in the ones that you can
find.
 Once you have entered the information you can
find, hit submit. Your citation will be created.
Copy this citation onto your worksheet under
the two short answer questions.
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