Research Skills
You could use this to find the definition of the word archaeologists.
What is a dictionary?
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?
This is what you use to move up and down on a specific page.
What is the Scroll Bar?
A place in the library you can put books when you are finished.
What is the book return?
Stories that are made up from the imagination of the author and are not true.
What is Fiction?
This type of book has facts and information.
What is a non-fiction?
This lists all the chapters that are in the book. You can use this to find out what page each chapter begins on.
What is the Table of Contents?
This shows you the address of a website on the world wide web.
What is the Address Bar or URL?
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?
Writing dealing with facts and events rather than the imagination.
What is Non-Fiction?
What is an encyclopedia?
This is the part of the book that normally faces out from the shelves.
What is the spine?
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?
Being safe when using the internet. Do not give out personal information or go to websites without your parent or guardians permission.
What is Internet Safety?
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?
Where is the first place you should check when you want to search for information about a research topic?
What is the library?
The part of a textbook or non-fiction book that might list the meaning of the word temple?
What is the glossary?
A program that searches information on the world wide web by looking for keywords.
What is a Search Engine?
The name of Derby's 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 Quest or Destiny Discover?
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?
This is the name of where you can find library resources on your school resource page.
What is Tech and Library Center?
An alphabetical listing of all topics/items usually found at the end of a book.
What is an index?
An image or portion of text that when clicked on takes you to another page, image or sound.
What is a Hyperlink?
How many books can you take from the library?
As many as you can read in two weeks
A fictional story where the setting and characters are part of a notable period in history.
What is historical fiction?