Scavenger Hunt

1. Find a fiction book and identify (write) the following information:

• What is the call number?
• Who is the author?
• What is the publishing company?
• What is the copyright date?

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).