Orientation
Scavenger Hunt
Name:
Teacher:
Answer the following questions by clicking on the web
pages listed or using the
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?
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
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
List the name of the magazine:
1. What was the population of
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.