Research Tag

Research Tag

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

Topic: Denmark

Big idea:  Wild Life

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

Book title: Denmark

Author/s: R. Conrad Stein

Publisher: Herman Adler Design

Date of publication: 2003 by Scholastic

Keywords found: Wildlife

Page #’s: 29-33

Key pictures found: Stork, HedgeHog, Deer, Coot, Avocet, Swan Butterfly

Page #’s: 29, 30, 32, 33

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 non-fiction 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

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