Let's Do Research
Critical Thinking
The Internet
Book Genres
Unsolved Mysteries
100
Tell me what you call the list of information sources that you used for your research.
What is Works Cited page?
100
A piece of known, true information.
What is a fact?
100
Tell me what a URL is.
What is the web address for a web site?
100
Santa Goes to Mars!
What is Science Fiction?
100
The country where the Loch Ness Monster lives.
What is Scotland?
200
Tell me why it is important to get information from more than one place.
To make sure the information is accurate.
200
A personal view.
What is an opinion?
200
The computer program you use to interact with the internet is called a..... (example: Internet Explorer, Foxfire, Chrome)
What is an internet browser?
200
Saint Nicholas: the Man Behind the Reindeer!
What is Biography?
200
The Native American name for Big Foot is....
What is Sasquatch?
300
Give me one reason why it is important to list your information sources.
1) to show that you didn't make it up 2) so someone can look it up too and get more information 3) to give credit where credit is due
300
An idea arrived at by combining background knowledge, evidence, and reasoning.
What is an inference?
300
A web site that helps you search for other web sites is called a...
Search Engine
300
Who Killed Santa's Elves?
What is Mystery?
300
The Mary Celeste was a...
What is cargo ship?
400
If you don't know anything about a topic, tell me what your first step to finding out more should be.
What is collecting background information from an encyclopedia?
400
Process shown here: Music...Popular Music...Country Music...Blake Shelton
What is narrowing the topic.
400
What makes Wikipedia so good and so bad? (same answer for both)?
Anybody can add their knowledge but people sometimes get in and mess with it.
400
Santa Tames the Dragon.
What is Fantasy?
400
Country where the Serpent Mound is found...
What is the United States? (Ohio)
500
Give me at least one reason why it is important to know how to do research.
1) You will need it for school. 2) Sometimes it is fun to know more about something 3) In adult life, you need to be informed so you can make good decisions.
500
The process of taking someone elses words and ideas and putting them in your own words.
What is paraphrasing?
500
During what time in history was the internet created?
The Cold War.
500
The Truth About Santa Claus.
What is Non-Fiction?
500
ESP stands for...
What is Extra Sensory Perception?