Thomasville High School Media Center

Orientation Scavenger Hunt

Name:

Teacher:

Answer the following questions by clicking on the web pages listed or using the Media Center's print collection.

 

Critical Thinking About Web Sites

1.     http://www.whitehouse.net

2.     http://www.mcwhortle.com

 Do you think the information provided in these sites is accurate?
 Why or why not?
 How can we be sure that what we find in a site is true?

 

 

Finding Print Resources Using the THS Online Card Catalog

Click on the THS Card Catalog symbol on the desktop (first screen) of your computer.

 1.  Type in Kiss and Tell  in the “Find” box and then choose “Title”
        How many copies does the THS Media Center have?
        Are they checked in or out?

Click on the title above the picture of the little red book.
This will take you to a new screen.
How many pages does Kiss and Tell have?

 

2.     Type “Poetry” in the Find box.
Choose “Subject.”
What is the Dewey Decimal number for Behind the Wheel: Poems about Driving?

3.     Type “Mythology” into the Find box.
Choose Subject.
What Dewey Decimal number will be on most of the book spines?

 

4.   Type “Science Projects” into the Find box.
Choose “Keyword.”
List a title that might interest you.

      

5.     What is the title of the book written by Michael Jordan?

6.     Type in the title of  your favorite magazine.
Click on Title. 
Does the Media Center carry it?
List the name of the magazine: 


Reference

 

1.  What was the population of Georgia in 1850?   1950?

 

2.  How is Hippomenes pronounced?

3.  Write one quotation by Ben Franklin.

4.      Go to the 921's on the shelf.  What type of books are there?

5.  Using the Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry, tell in what book one could find the poem that begins "How do I love
     thee?  Let me count the ways."

    Hint:  First lines are listed alphabetically.
               Look in the front of the book for the meaning of the abbreviations listed beside the line of poetry.