Standards
Information Literacy
Engage in the information literacy process: access, evaluate, and use information and ideas.
- Understand the difference between fiction and nonfiction
- Identify keywords and synonyms for topic searches
- Create effective searches of print material by identifying appropriate keywords
- Locate specific information within a source
- Perform a search of OPAC to locate resources
- Identify topics and subtopics
How the Dewey Decimal System Works
Activity:
To broaden your topic
- Google it
- Use the OPAC to search for a book on that broader topic
- Find your book on the shelf
- Look in the index to see if the book has your topic
- Show Mrs. Haas or Mrs. Hughes that you found it
