Research Skills
You could use this to find the definition of the word archaeologist.
What is a Dictionary?
This names the title of the book, the author and even the illustrator. It also tells the name of the company that published the book.
What is the Title Page?
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?
This is name of the system or order for non-fiction books.
Dewey Decimal System
These stories are written for younger readers and are on their own shelves for easy locating.
What are the Easy Books?
You can use this book to read about important events in the life of Rosa Parks.
What is a biography?
This lists all of the chapters that are in the book. You can use this page to find out which page each chapter beings on.
What is the Table of Contents?
This shows you the address of a website on the internet or world wide web.
What is the Address Bar OR What is the URL?
A book about a person's life and their accomplishments or events that happened during their life, written by someone else.
What is a biography?
Books written to tell a story, usually formulated in chapters, with creative characters, settings and even times.
What are Fiction books?
You can use this help you find information from many different sources.
What is the computer/internet?
This is the part of the book where the title can be seen. It also contains all of the information necessary to put the book.
What is the spine of a book?
A network of millions of computers from all over the world. This allows computers from anywhere to trade information.
What is the Internet?
A popular section in the Dewey Decimal system, that covers topics such as dinosaurs, wildlife, math, and experiments.
What is the Science section OR What is the 500's?
A fictional story with characters who have to be detectives and solve a problem. This story is usually filled with suspense!
What is a Mystery?
You should always try to use these to find factual information on the internet.
What are verified sources?
These tell you the exact location for each book in the library. They are located on the spine of the book.
What are the call letters/call numbers?
This program searches for information on the internet by looking for keywords.
What is a search engine OR What is Google?
Another popular section in the Dewey Decimal system, that covers art, construction, video games, sports and entertianment.
What is the Arts & Recreation section OR What is the 700's?
A fictional story where the setting and characters are part of a notable period in history.
What is Historical Fiction?
You can use this website to help you create your Citations page when doing research.
What is EasyBib.com?
This is found, typically, on the back of each library book and is used to help you borrow the book.
What is the school barcode label?
An image or portion of text that when clicked on takes you to another page, image or sound.
What is a Hyperlink?
What is the 400's OR What is the Language section?
These stories are written to scare the reader with dark characters, events and thought provoking endings.
What is a Horror Story?