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Year 5

Lesson 5 How search results are ranked

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In this lesson, learners take part in an unplugged activity to find out about how a webpage’s content can influence where it is ranked in search results. In groups, learners create paper-based webpages on a topic that they are familiar with. They then discover how their webpages would rank when searching for keywords relating to their content.

Learning objectives

To explain how search results are ranked

  • I can order a list by rank
  • I can explain that a search engine follows rules to rank results
  • I can give examples of criteria used by search engines to rank results

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