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Scavenger Hunt

Reference Room

1.       Using the New Book of Knowledge Encyclopedia, what page number illustrates and gives measurements of a soccer field?

2.       What 2 encyclopedia sets are written in Spanish that the Media Center has in the Reference Room?

3.       Locate the Visual Dictionary, R 423.1 (Cor), what is described on page 444?

4.       In volume 6 of the series titled Disease find information on “Pink Eye.”  What is the medical name given for “Pink Eye”?

5.       Find Contemporary Musicians (R 780.92 (Can) and locate the article on Madonna.

·         Where does the article say she was born?

·         What is her birthday?

·         What is her full name?

·         What page is this information on?

Computer Search

6.       Locate a book on your favorite topic using Library Catalog on the Media Center web page (suggestions; a country, cars, beauty, fashion…) from the Media Center web page using the Library Catalog, find a book on the topic you choose.  Your topic is ________________.

·         What is the Call number?

·         Who is the author?

·         What is the title?

·         What city was it published in?

·         Who is the publisher?

·         What is the copyrighted date?

7.       The best resource in the Media Center is the staff.  Meet them and get at least two of their signatures. 

·         ____________________            Upstairs

·         ____________________            Upstairs           

·         ____________________            Downstairs

·         ____________________            Downstairs

Fiction Room

8.       Name one book in the Fiction Room that is written by Paul Zindel.

Media Center Upstairs

9.       In your opinion, what is the best magazine that is available to students on the second floor?

Computer

10.   Go online in the Media Center Web page.  Open the Britannica Online.   Print an article on the country your are studying for your report.