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Showing posts with label Library skills. Show all posts

Thursday, 29 October 2015

Research Tag

Research Tag

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

Question:What sports do they play

Topic:Philippines

Big idea:Sports

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

Book title: The Philippines

Author/s:Derek Zobel

Publisher: Bellwether Media Inc.

Date of publication: 2012

Keywords found: Sports,Basketball

Page #’s: 20,21

Key pictures found: Volleyball games

Page #’s: 20,21

Thursday, 22 October 2015

Parts of a Book

Matching Parts of a Book

L.I. Know the different parts of non-fiction books

Each part of a book has a special name which you need to be a familiar with.
1. For each description below find the matching term in the box.
2. Write in the correct term in the space provided.

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 Labels= 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.


Thursday, 15 October 2015

Choosing the right book

Choosing the Right Book

L.I. Matching questions to book titles
Looking for keywords in a question

Here is a list of some books you might find in the nonfiction section of a library:

Which of the books would you use to find out:

1. How many people live in NZ?
Yearbook of Population

2. Which special stamps were issued in New Zealand in 1992?
Stanley Gibbons Stamp Catalogue

3. How to look after a puppy?
Caring for pets

4. Where the custom of Easter Eggs came from?
Dictionary of Customs and Fables


5. The date of the Wahine disaster?
Everyman’s Dictionary of Dates


6. Which records were broken at the last Olympic Games?
Guinness Book of Records

7. The size of Noah’s Ark?
The Bible

8. The speed of the first aircraft to fly under power?
A History of Flight

9. The story of how the first under four-minute mile was run?
Encyclopedia of Athletics

10.  How the Greeks used a wooden horse to enter the city of Troy?
Myths and Legends

Wednesday, 9 September 2015

Thursday, 20 August 2015

How to reference a book


How to reference  a book

Oxlade,Chris.(2000) Stadiums,Heinemann,Oxford 

Thursday, 4 June 2015

How to reference a Website,Library Skills



This is how you Reference a Website

Jo Banbury  June 2015 Queensland Win Retreved on 28 of May 2015  From  http://www.kiwikidsnews.co.nz/blog/queensland-win/






Thursday, 28 May 2015

How to reference a Website Library skills

How to Reference a website  


 Today we learnt how to reference a website. I went on NASA to show everyone how to reference a site. Here's the link.

Author's name: Kim Shiflett
Year published/date: 28, 5, 2015

Tittle of the page: 

Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex Celebrates 25th Anniversary of U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame

Date page accessed: 3 hours ago

URL of webpage: 


Thursday, 23 April 2015

Plagiarism library skills



Plagiarism is something very serious that I learnt today by watching a video it is really bad it is breaking the law, you are stealing their ideas so you are actually copying them and from their work that they have done.

Thursday, 5 March 2015

My chosen book from the library,Library skills



This is my book that I picked in the library.I picked this book because I want to learn  more of Nature and plants.