Research a person

Research a Person

L.I. - Develop research skills

Skim and scan for information

Name of person: Sir Bill Hamilton

Date of birth: 26 July 1899

death: 1978

Where: Canterbury	When: He built his first boat in 1912 and passed away at 1978.
Why are they famous: He Made The Jet boat engine. He also made boats that travel in shallow waters. He increased the boat's speed. He made the boat go 27 Kph. He suggest the water jet to get a different pumping system. He retired in his 60’s

Research Tag

Research Tag

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

Topic: Coffee

Big idea: Coffee

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

Book title: South America

Author/s: Karen Foster

Publisher: Lynn Dickson, Blake Education

Date of publication: 2007

Keywords found: Plantations, Roasted

Page #’s: 25

Key pictures found:Red Beans

Page #’s: 25

Library skills

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 label = 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.

choosing the right book

Choosing the Right Book

L.I. Matching questions to book titles

Looking for keywords in a question

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

Website Referencing

Website referencing

Edward Rooney, 2015, Police poised to evict Kaitaia Airport protesters as fires lit, Retrieved 9th September 2015, from http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11510334

How to Reference a book APA format

                                         
                                          This is how you reference a book.
          step.1  Authors surname- Alexander, Tim
           step.2 Title of the book- Barack Obama                    Hope for the world.
           step.3 published at 2009 
            step.4 place published London
             

How to reference a book

This is how you reference a book in APA format.

Authors name - Steele, Philip 

Title of the Book - Galileo

Year of it was published - 2005

Place it was published - New Burlington: London

Publisher - Richard Green

Dewey Decimals

Decimals

Non-fiction books are arranged on the shelves numerically.

The books are given a decimal number according to their subject.

Try putting these numbers in order.

1.001 2.362 3.500 4.593.9

5.610 6.629.2 7.737.5 8.745.5

9.808.8 10.994

Look through the non-fiction shelves in the library.  What subjects do you find at these numbers.

004 - Data processing Computer science

796.3 - Athletics and outdoor games

500 - Natural Science and mathematics

821 - poetry

993.1 - NZ history

At what Dewey Decimal number would you find the following subjects:

Myths and Legends? - 753

Fashion? - 687

Inventions? - 608

Birds? - 598

Fairy tales? - 398

Referencing a webpage

This is how you reference a webpage
Banbury Shem, June 1st 2015, Arsenal win FA cup, Retrieved on June 4th 2015, from http://www.kiwikidsnews.co.nz/blog/arsenal-win-fa-cup-2/