Research Skills
Name our library database/search engine.
What is Destiny?
A true account of a person's life written by that person.
What is an autobiography?
DDC stands for:
What is Dewey Decimal System?
This shows North, South, East, and West.
What is the compass rose?
Non-fiction books are arranged by the author's name, by title, or by subject.
What is subject?
This book contains synonyms of other words.
What is the thesaurus?
This made up story takes place in the past.
What is historical fiction?
Sports are located in this section.
What is 700-799?
Maps usually include this to indicate what the different colors and symbols on a map mean.
What is a legend (or key)?
How long are you allowed to check books out of the library?
What is two weeks.
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 takes place in the present, and deals with issues that could take place in any person's life.
What is realistic fiction?
The map scale is 1 inch=100 miles. Therefore, a distance of 13 inches equals this many miles.
What is 1,300 miles?
What is 2?
Wikipedia is a good resource when doing research- true or false?
What is false?
Graphic novels would be classified as fiction or non-fiction?
What is non-fiction?
This subject can be found in the 400s.
What is foreign language? (dictionaries and grammar are also acceptable)
True or false. An urban area has a very high population.
What is true?
Name the performance that the junior high students performed for us not long ago.
What is School House Rocks.
Fill in the blank using the following bibliographic example: Author's last name, Author's first name. __________________, publisher, City of publication: copyright date.
What is the 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 aliens are in this section.
What is 000-099?
These lines run North to South all around the globe and meet at the poles.
What are longitude lines?
This computer program is what you will use in music the next few weeks.
What is Garage Band?