Republic of the Philippines

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Region III
SAPANG PALAY NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
City of San Jose del Monte 3024, Bulacan

Learning Activity Sheets no.1

INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY 9
Computer System Servicing
USE BASIC FUNCTION OF A WWW – BROWSER TO LOCATE INFORMATION
Name of Learner: _____________________________ Grade Level: _____________________
Section: _____________________________________ Date: ____________________________

Background Information for Learners

At this digital era where everyone can use the internet, even small kids know how to use gadgets that is
technically high tech. We are travelling in a very fast highway, the Information Superhighway. where we can
communicate with loved ones who are in the other side of the world. The internet is not only used for
communication but also for doing business, doing research, reading news, playing games, downloading software
and files, and shopping on – line.

The internet has a unique way of sending information from one computer to another. As the information
travels from every connected computer worldwide. Cyberspace is the electronic universe of information available
through the internet. Since the development of the internet nearly 60 years ago, it has evolved very fast and it is
now widely used for commercial, educational and personal purposes.

Learning Competency with Code: USE BASIC FUNCTIONS OF A WWW- BROWSER TO LOCATE INFORMATION
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1. Define search engine, bookmark and link;
2. identify the parts of a browser,
3. use and appreciate different web browsers.

Learning Outcome 5: Use basic functions of a WWW – Browser to locate

information

Web browser Defined

A web browser or commonly known as browser, is a software application for retrieving,

presenting and navigating information resources on the World Wide Web (WWW).

It is also an information resource identified by a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) /Uniform

Resource Locator (URL) and may be a web page, image, video or other piece of content. To enable
easy navigation of browser to related resources hyperlink is used.

In 1990, the first web browser was invented by Sir Tim Berners-Lee. He is the director of the
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which manages the Web’s continued development, and is also
the founder of the World Wide Web Foundation. The browser that he invented was called
WorldWideWeb and later was renamed Nexus.

The first commonly available web browser with a graphical user interface (GUI) was Erwise. The
development of Erwise was initiated by Robert Cailliau.

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 In 1993, with the release of a browser software named Mosaic, “the world’s first popular
browser”, innovated by Marc Andreessen which made the World Wide Web system easy to use and
more accessible to the average person. His browser sparked the internet boom of the 1990s. The
introduction of Mosaic in 1993 – one of the first graphical web browsers – led to an explosion in web
use. Andreessen, the leader of the Mosaic team at National Center for Supercomputing Applications
(NCSA), soon started his own company, named Netscape, and released the Mosaic-influenced
Netscape Navigator in 1994, which quickly became the world’s most popular browser, accounting for
90% of all web use at its peak.

Microsoft reacted with its own browser, the Internet Explorer, in 1995 also heavily inclined by
Mosaic, starting the industry’s first browser war. Bundled with Windows, Internet Explorer gained
domination in the web browser market with a usage share peaked at above 95% by 2002.

Opera debuted in 1996; with having less than 2% of the usage share in 2012, it never achieved
widespread use. In April 2011, an Opera-mini version was launched and has an additive share of 1.1%
overall browser use, it concentrated on the fast-growing mobile phone web browser market, being
preinstalled on over 40 million phones. It is also available on several other embedded systems.

In 1998, Netscape launched what was to become the Mozilla Foundation in an attempt to
produce a competitive browser using the open source software model. That browser would eventually
evolve into Firefox, which developed a respectable following while still in the beta stage of development;
shortly after the release of Firefox 1.0 in late 2004, Firefox (all versions) accounted for 7% of browser
use. As of August 2011, Firefox has a 28% usage share.

Apple’s Safari had its first beta release in January 2003; as of April 2011, it had a dominant
share of Apple-based web browsing, accounting for just over 7% of the entire browser market.

The most recent major player to the browser market is Chrome, first released in September
2008. Chrome’s take-up has increased significantly year by year, by doubling its usage share from 8%
to 16% by August 2011. This growth seems mostly to be at the cost of Internet Explorer, whose share
tended to decrease from month to month. In December 2011, Chrome surpassed Internet Explorer 8
as the most widely used web browser but still had lower usage than all versions of Internet Explorer
combined. Chrome’s user-base continued to grow and in May 2012, Chrome’s usage passed the usage
of all versions of Internet Explorer combined. By April 2014, Chrome’s usage had hit 45%.

Browser Logos:

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Examples of Web browser

1. Google Chrome

A freeware web browser developed by Google.

2. Mozilla Firefox

A free and open-source web browser developed by the Mozilla

Foundation and its subsidiary the Mozilla Corporation.

3. Apple Safari

A web browser developed by Apple based on WebKit Engine

4. Opera

A web browser developed for Windows, Mac OS, and Linux Operating
System developed by Opera Software.

5. Microsoft Internet Explorer

A web browser developed by Microsoft Corporation, but it will be replaced

by Microsoft Edge that is included in the Windows 10 package.

Parts of a Browser

1. Windows and Tabs

- When Web browsers serve up the pages and sites you visit during your online sessions,
they load your content into windows and tabs. Although the pictures and graphics you see
on an individual page may load in from various websites, the window typically displays only
one page, unless one site loads content from another into a captive frame within the
window. If your Web browser supports tabs, you can open multiple destinations in docked
windows that share the same window controls.

2. Address Bar or Location Line

- To visit an online destination, you must tell your browser where you want to go. The
address bar, also known as the location line, displays the URL – the address – of the page
you're visiting and accepts typed or pasted input to determine the next site to display.
Depending on how you set up your Internet browser preferences, you can use a process
known as auto completion to transform part of a Web address into the complete address
for the page in question as you're typing into the location line.

3. Controls
- Along with the standard window controls that close and maximize application and
document windows in all computer software, Web browser windows incorporate controls
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 specific to browser operation. Some browsers allow you to specify which controls to display
and which to omit, but the basics include buttons to navigate back to the last page you
viewed or forward to the next in a sequence of destinations. Other controls stop a site from
loading or reload the current content in the window. A "home" button loads a page you
specify in your preferences as the default location to display each time you launch your
browser. In a tabbed interface, you also may see navigation arrows to move from one tab
to another.

4. History
- Unless you change your preferences so your browser doesn't track the sites you visit, the
software includes a menu, list, palette or window that shows a chronological list of your
browsing destinations. When you reveal this list, you can click on individual items in it to
return to those sites or pages.

5. Favorites or Bookmarks
- As you traverse the Internet, you find sites that offer insights, news, commentary, humor,
purchase options and other useful content. When you save a destination address as a
favorite or bookmark, your browser stores the URL, along with its site or page name, so
you can access it again with a single click. Most browsers present bookmarks in much the
same way they display history states, sometimes in a floating panel that shows both.

6. Preferences
- Browsers offer a wide set of customization options within their configuration options. You
can determine what the browser does when it first loads, control add-ons that extend
browser function, set up tab behavior, block pop-ups, turn image display and JavaScript on
or off, choose which applications handle specialized website content such as audio and
PDF files, manage history and cookies, establish security settings and tweak many other
aspects of browser performance.

7. Cache
- Internet browsers use a special storage area on your hard drive to file away website
elements they can reload to speed up page delivery. When these cached elements
become stale, the content on the sites you visit may display incorrectly. If a website
consultant suggests that you empty your cache, she's trying to help you force your browser
to load new content instead of reloading old cached files.

The Do's and Don'ts of Using the Internet

 Do:

✓ Use the internet responsibly and respect others privacy - don't log in as someone else to
read their emails or mess with their online profiles.
✓ Use the internet to keep in contact with friends and family
✓ Look up information on the internet as part of school work and for leisure
✓ Tell someone if you are being bullied online
✓ and make sure to include symbols and numbers when making a password so that it will be
harder to crack.
✓ Be careful when downloading programs from the internet in case they carry viruses, always
scan the program first.
✓ Use an alias as your user name if you use chat room sites
✓ Use chatroom sites that are public, monitored and are child friendly.
✓ Use anti-virus software and make sure to renew regularly.

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Don't:
Give out personal information online
Arrange to meet people you've met online by yourself, inform an adult or a friend and never
meet them alone.
give your password to anyone and never use the same password continuously
Copy information from the internet and attempt to redistribute it. If you do copy a book, or
music files you must get permission for the author or composer first.
Don't open or down load any attachments from an unknown source as they may contain
viruses.
Fill out any surveys online that ask for your personal details or bank details.
Don't let web browsers remember your username and password as this could leave you open
to being hacked.

Exercises/Activities

LEARNING ACTIVITY 1: MODIFIED TRUE OR FALSE.

Direction: Leave the space blank if the statement is TRUE, and write FALSE if the statement is wrong. Write
your answer on the space provided before the number.

__________ 1. Mosaic is the first known web browser.

__________ 2. Erwise is the first web browser that uses graphical user interface.
__________ 3. Microsoft developed their web browser and named it Microsoft edge.
__________ 4. The World Wide Web is also called the Internet superhighway.
__________ 5. Safari was introduced by Apple in 2003.
__________ 6. A special storage area in your hard drive is the cache.
__________ 7. You can open multiple tabs in one browser.
__________ 8. Home button allows you to remember your preferred website.
__________ 9. You could type the website that you want to visit in the address bar.
__________ 10. The address bar is also known as location line.

LEARNING ACTIVITY 2: Modified Matching Type

Direction: Arrange both the jumbled word in each column and match Column A with Column B. Write the
answer on the blank provided.

Column A Column B
___1. FAIRAS a. F O C I S T O R M
___2. PAROE b. E G O L O G
___3. ECHOMR c. A L L I Z O M
___4. PEELERTORRENTNIX d. A R O P E
___5. OFFERXI e. P A P E L

LEARNING ACTIVITY 3:

Directions: Draw the different logo of the following browser. Use the square for the drawing
and arrange them chronologically by indicating their launched date. (10 points)

OPERA SAFARI CHROME FIREFOX EDGE

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LEARNING ACTIVITY 4:

Directions: Read the following statement, put a ( ) checkmark if the statement is Do’s in the
internet and ( ) cross mark if it is Don’ts. Write your answer on the space provided.

_____1. You have logged in a computer shop, you find a username logged in a browser, you
logged it out and sign in to your account.
_____ 2. You always update your anti-virus every quarter.
_____ 3. When creating a password, you use your birthday.
_____ 4. Because of your unending love to your special someone, you have given him/her your
password in your FB account.
_____ 5. You practice scanning before downloading a file, picture or document.
_____ 6. You ask your parent advise, when someone posted negatively on your wall or chat room.
_____ 7. You keep a group chat for you friends, family and relatives.
_____ 8. Someone is asking for your personal information in a group chat, but you decline it.
_____ 9. Using of trusted search engine for school research and projects.
_____ 10. You asked permission from the author before using his / her work.

LEARNING ACTIVITY 5: Crossword puzzle

Directions: Answer the crossword puzzle.

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Performance no.1

Using computer, smart phone or any electronic device with internet connectivity.
Screen shot the different web browser. And describe each web browser in five to seven
sentences. The rubrics below would be used for grading.

Description Score
Describe extensively with 7 sentences and 5
above
Describe extensively with 6 sentences 4
Describe greatly with 5 sentences 3
Describe briefly with less than 5 sentences 2

Reflection:
Write what you have learned World Wide Web and its Browser.

Journal Writing
Date:
Topic:
I learned that
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I realize that
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References for Learners

Department of Education Kto12 Curriculum Learners Module for Computer Hardware Servicing pages 64- 69

Prepared by

ARDITHA D. SANCHEZ
Name of Writer

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