Research Skills
You could use this to find the definition of the word archaeologists.
Dictionary?
This names the title of the book. It also tells who qrote the book and who drew the pictures. It even tells the name of the company that published the book.
Title Page?
This is what you use to move up and down on a specific page.
Scroll Bar?
A pair of words at the top of a page. All of the words included on that page are between the two words in alphabetical order.
Guide Words?
Stories that are made up from the imagination of the author and are not true.
Fiction?
You use this book to find a synonym for the word abandoned.
Thesaurus?
This lists all the chapters that are in the book. You can use this to find out what page each chapter begins on.
Table of Contents?
This shows you the address of a website on the world wide web.
Address Bar?
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!
Plagiarism?
Writing dealing with facts and events rather than the imagination.
Non-Fiction?
This is a set of books that gives information about many topics. The topics are listed in Alphabetical order.
Encyclopedia?
This is the page that gives the copyright date, which is the date that the book was published.
Copyright page?
A network of millions of computers from all over the world. This allows computers all over the world to trade information.
Internet?
A book titled The way things work would be found in what class?
600 - Aplied Science/ Technology
A fictional story where the characters have to be detectives to solve a problem. This type of story is usually filled with suspense!
Mystery?
A book that has a collection of maps? This book also contains information about the land, crops and the population of an area.
Atlas?
The part of a textbook that might list the meaning of the word temple?
Glossary?
A program that searches information on the world wide web by looking for keywords.
Search Engine?
The name of MLS 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.
Reading Cloud?
A non-fiction book about a real persons life and their accomplishments or events that happened during their life written by someone else.
Biography?
This is a book of facts that is published each year containing miscellaneous information.
An Almanac?
An alphabetical listing of all topics/items usually found at the end of a book.
An index?
An image or portion of text that when clicked on takes you to another page, image or sound.
What is a Hyperlink?
In the DDC accessing a book titled How money works would be found in what category?
300 Social Sciences
A fictional story where the setting and characters are part of a notable period in history.
Historical fiction?