In the Lab
Book Parts
Computer Hardware
Book Characters
Library Basics
100
This allows you to place space between words when typing.
What is the space bar?
100
The outside front of the book that often tells the title and author.
What is the front cover?
100
This is what you use to move the cursor, click on links, or drag and drop objects.
What is a mouse?
100
In Chicka Chicka Boom Boom the letters all climb to the top of this.
What is the coconut tree?
100
This saves the place of a book on the shelf while you are looking at it and deciding if you want to check it out.
What is a shelf marker?
200
This key allows you to type capitals and special characters like quotation marks, exclamation points and question marks.
What is the shift key?
200
This is the outside of the end of the book. Here you will usually find the barcode (used to buy the book) and the book's ISBN.
What is the back cover?
200
This is used to type information into the computer.
What is the keyboard?
200
This girl likes to dress up and use fancy words.
Who is Fancy Nancy?
200
This saves your place in a book while you are reading it. When you are ready to read it again, you can find the page you were on easily because of this.
What is a bookmark?
300
This is the number of letter keys on a standard keyboard.
What is 26?
300
Usually the first page found in the book. It will often tell the title, author and may even list the publisher and the city of publication.
What is the title page?
300
This output device creates a "hard copy" of your work that you could take home and show to your parents and hang on the refrigerator.
What is a printer?
300
This big red dog is larger than life.
Who is Clifford?
300
This card tells you when you need to bring your book back.
What is the due date card?
400
This program in the lab allows you to stamp images and draw pictures.
What is Tux Paint?
400
This part of the book are where all the pages meet and are bound. On library books you will often find the label with the book's address here.
What is the spine?
400
This part of the computer allows the user to see what they are inputting and interact with the computer.
What is the monitor? What is the screen?
400
These two pudgy friends live together in Woodcock Pocket. One likes to travel and the other prefers to stay home.
Who are Toot and Puddle?
400
This is where you should put your due date cards.
What is the book pocket?
500
We used this program to type paragraphs, lists and tables.
What is Word? What is Microsoft Word?
500
This is a paper cover that goes over the hard cover of a book to give the book more protection.
What is a book jacket?
500
On a laptop, this is often used instead of a mouse.
What is a touchpad?
500
Even though he doesn't look it, this character (created by Marc Brown) is actually one of these animals.
What is an aardvark?
500
This is the name of the desk where you check out books.
What is the circulation desk?