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Scavenger Hunt
1. Find a fiction book and identify (write) the following information:
2. Locate a nonfiction book about a country of your choice. · What is the call number? · What is the copyright date? · Who is the author?
3. Locate a “Careers” book on a career of interest to you. · What is the name of the book? · Who is the author? · What is the call #?
4. Locate a word between DRE – FOR that you are unfamiliar with, and write the word, the definition, and use the word in a sentence. Word _________________ definition _________________________________________ sentence _________________________________________
5. Find a reference resource on the following topics and complete the requested information for each: · Women and Sports Title of resource: _______________________________ Call number: (must begin with REF) __________ Author: __________________________
· Colleges Title of resource: _______________________________ Call number: (must begin with REF)__________ Author: __________________________
Continue on Reverse
6. Go to the Internet and find another high school in North Carolina (outside of Carteret County). Complete the following information:
What is the name of the school?
How did you find it? List your search strategy (the steps you took).
What is the URL of the site?
Write one fact that you found interesting about this school.
7. Go to the Internet, and find the pseudonym for a person. Write the person’s name as well as their pseudonym. Name_________________ Pseudonym _____________________ Name of site ____________________ URL address ____________________
8. Visit the High School Hub at www.highschoolhub.org and identify two things you like or dislike about this website. (Underline like or dislike and write your response)
Like / Dislike __________________________________________ Like / Dislike __________________________________________
9. Visit the Webpage Evaluation Worksheet at: http://library.duke.edu/services/instruction/libraryguide/evalwebpages.html and list 3 strategies you may look for to determine if a webpage is a valid and reliable source of information to use. a) b) c)
10. Go to Google @ www.google.com Pretend you are doing a research paper on Women and AIDS and type in women and AIDS in the search bar. Select the hit entitled AIDS FACTS. Then, use your strategies from #9 and evaluate this website (using the attached Web Evaluation tool).
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