Research tag

Research Tag

Choose a country and write a question about it.  For example what foods do they eat in Romania?

Topic:

China

Big idea:

Animals

Now go and find a book that you think could answer the question and fill out this information.

Book title:

Travel through china:Come on a journey of discovery

Author/s:

Lynn Huggins-Copper

Publisher:

Steve Evans

Date of publication:

2007

Keywords found: Animals Habitats, Nature

Page #’s: 25, 26, 27, 28

Key pictures found: Red panda, leopard, monkey, panda, tiger

Page #’s: 25, 26, 27

Today at the Library we were looking at research about a topic/country and a big idea/Animals.

Matching parts of a book

Index = Alphabetical list of all the topics in a book with the page number where the information can be found.

end papers= The first and last pages of a book.

Illustrator = The person who prepared or drew the pictures.

Introduction = Information about the book found at the beginning of a book.

dedication = Words about a special person found at the front of a book.

Author = The person who wrote the book.

Glossary =  List of special words used in the book with their correct meanings.

Spine = The flat narrow outside strip of the book.

Publisher = The company who made the book.

Cover = The outside of the book.

Spine label = The label which identifies the book on the shelf.

Bibliography = A list of more books on the same subject.

Contents = A list of the titles of the chapters.


Today for library skills we had to find out what words were the meaning of the definition.

How to reference a website

NZ Herald. (2015). Car crashes into living room - 'I had only left the lounge'. Retrieved September 9, 2015, from  

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11510279