Reference Sources
You could use this to find the definition of the word archaeologists.
What is a dictionary?
On the side of the book in the library is a sticker that tells you where the book belongs.
What is the Call Number?
This is the place on a search engine you type into.
What is the Search Box?
When you copy text word for word, you should always put these around the text.
What are quotation marks?
Stories that are made up from the imagination of the author and are not true.
What is Fiction?
You can look for magazines, newspapers, and other articles using this part of the "Deep Web".
What is a database?
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?
This is a database that gives information about people, places and things.
What is an encyclopedia?
Name two ways that you can search for a book in the DESTINY OPAC.
What are title, author, subject, keyword?
Words you should type in the search box INSTEAD of a question.
What are keywords?
When searching Google, you should never type this in the search bar.
What is a a question?
A book that has a collection of maps?
What is an Atlas?
The part of a textbook that might list the meaning of the words?
What is the glossary?
How fast will Google search for your request?
What is less than 3 seconds?
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 OPAC? (or Destiny)
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?
You can use this to find information about people, and statistics (Hint: we used the book version of this to look up the day we were born)
What is an almanac?
An alphabetical listing of all topics/items usually found at the end of a book.
What is an index?
Never reveal this kind of information on the Internet.
What is personal?
The rights that a creator has when they create a work is called this.
What is copyright?