Research Skills
Parts of a Book
Internet Smarts
Hodge Podge
Genres
100
You could use this to find the definition of the word archaeologists.
What is a dictionary?
100
This names the title of the book. It also tells who wrote the book and who drew the pictures. It even tells the name of the company that published the book.
What is the Title Page?
100
.com .gov
.edu .org
.net
What are URL endings?
100
Original records produced by people who witnessed an event: diaries, autobiographies, photos, speeches, journals, letters, etc.
What are Primary Sources?
100
Stories that are made up from the imagination of the author and are not true.
What is Fiction?
200
You use this book to find a synonym for the word abandoned.
What is a thesaurus?
200
This can be found on the back of the title page. It tells you when (i.e. the year) the book was published.
What is copyright?
200
This is at the top of the search engine and shows you the address of a website on the world wide web.
What is the Address Bar?
200
This is to steal or pass off the ideas or words of another as your own. Be careful not to do this when you are doing research!
What is Plagiarism?
200
Writing dealing with facts and events rather than the imagination.
What is Non-Fiction?
300
This is a set of books that gives information about many topics. The topics are listed in Alphabetical order.
What is an encyclopedia?
300
This is the page that gives a list of the chapters or sections of a book.
What is the table of contents?
300
A network of millions of computers from all over the world. This allows computers all over the world to trade information.
What is the Internet?
300
A system created by Melvil Dewey to put books in order by subject. It is often used in public libraries and schools in the United States and other countries. It places the books on the shelf by subject using numbers from 000 to 999.
What is the Dewey Decimal System?
300
A fictional story where the characters have to be detectives to solve a problem. This type of story is usually filled with suspense!
What is a Mystery?
400
A book that has a collection of maps? This book also contains information about the land, crops and the population of an area.
What is an Atlas?
400
The part of a textbook that might list the meaning of the word temple?
What is the glossary?
400
A program that searches information on the world wide web by looking for keywords. Examples: Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Safari, Mozilla, & Foxfire.
What is a Search Engine?
400
The name of the online catalog for the library. I can use this to check if a book is available and see all of the information I might need to know about that book.
What is Destiny?
400
A non-fiction book about a real persons life and their accomplishments or events that happened during their life written by someone else.
What is a Biography?
500
This is a document printed weekly and sometimes daily containing the latest news.
What is a newspaper?
500
An alphabetical listing of all topics/items usually found at the end of a book.
What is an index?
500
The address of a World Wide Web page; Universal Resource Locator.
What is URL?
500
An award program created to foster a love of reading in the children of Louisiana by motivating them to participate in the recognition of outstanding books.
What is the Louisiana Young Readers' Choice Award or LYRCA?
500
A fictional story where the setting and characters are part of a notable period in history.
What is historical fiction?