Research Skills
Name one of the library databases.
What is World Book Online? (Biography in Context, Culture Grams, Tumble Books, World Almanac)
A true account of a person's life written by another person.
What is biography?
DDC stands for this.
What is Dewey Decimal (Classification) System?
This shows North, South, East, and West on a map.
What is a compass rose?
Books that are true are called this.
What is non-fiction?
This book contains synonyms of other words.
What is the thesaurus?
This made up story takes place in the past.
What is historical fiction?
Fairy tales and fables are located in this section.
What is 300-399?
Maps usually include this to indicate what the different colors and symbols on a map mean.
What is legend (or key)?
Non-fiction books are arranged by the author's name, by title, or by subject.
What is subject?
This is a list of the resources used to gather information for a report or project.
What is a bibliography?
This type of fictional story includes magic and creatures that don't exist in real life.
What is fantasy?
Biographies are located in this section.
What is 92?
Encyclopedias are organized in alphabetical order by subject, author, or length of article.
What is subject?
The theme for April in the library is this.
What is National Poetry Month? (School Library Month is also accepted)
True or false- a database is a better resource than Google when doing research.
What is true?
This is a made up story that involves science and travel to other worlds.
What is science fiction?
This person invented the DDC.
Who is Melvil Dewey? (Or Dewey)
Use this to find the pronunciation of a word.
What is the dictionary?
True or false- you can download e-books for free through SORA Overdrive.
What is true?
Fill in the blank using the following bibliographic example: Author's last name, Author's first name. Title of book. City of publication: __________________, copyright date.
What is publisher?
This is a story that tries to explain how the world came to be, and why nature acts the way that it does.
What is a myth?
Books about ghosts are in this section.
What is 100-199?
These lines run North to South all around the globe and meet at the poles.
What are longitude lines?
Name the author of the Percy Jackson series of books.
Who is Rick Riordan?