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WorksheetsMedia Center - check for Understandings
Total questions: 19
Worksheet time: 14mins
If you would like to sign up to use the media center during Study Hall, which of the following will you do?
Go to your study hall proctor and ask to visit the media center.
Go to the Media Center Google Classroom site and "Under Classwork" look for the Media Center sign-up form.
Go to the office and ask the secretaries to help you sign up for the media center.
Go to the library after school to ask if you can use the media center during study hall the next day.
If you wish to use the WW-P subscription for The New York Times, when and where do you need to use it?
At home when it's time to do your homework.
In school during the school day.
Anytime day or night regardless of where you are.
Any time day or night BUT you MUST be logged into your school account.
Match the following media center "secrets" with the correct explanation.
By the subjects last name.
By the numerical system under "Fiction"
By the numerical system for non-fict.
They are all in the "Tall stacks"
They are all in the "Short Stacks"
The media center has a service that will help me if I'm struggling with a class. This service is called (a) .
The Tutoring Area
The Class "Secrets" are
The books themselves
The Computers
Please identify the online resources that will help you RESEARCH your topic effectively. (There may be more than one best answer)
Noodletools
InfoBase
NY Times online
EBSCOhost
Once you have found a source using the school's research database - which is the most efficient and effective way to save that source for later work you will always have to do for your teacher?
Copy and paste the source into a Word document
Copy and paste the source into your NoodleTools account
Export the source directly from the database into NoodleTools.
Jot down the source's name in your notebook.
What is the best reason for citing your sources?
Citing identifies sources that your classmates may want to use.
Citing shows your teacher that you did your research.
Citing gives credit for the original work or the idea to the author.
Citing gives the location of the sources you used.
When is a database used?
To perform searches for info on the internet
To create and format text documents for sharing info
To display information in a picture form instead of words
To store and organize large amounts of information for quick searching
What are two good search terms to answer this question: "Where is Beyonce from?"
Beyonce, from
Where, Beyonce
Beyonce, city
Beyonce, hometown
What are two good search terms to answer the following question: "What do koalas eat?"
Bears, eat
Koalas, what
Koalas, diet
Zoo, food
What is another term that can be used interchangeably with 'search terms'?
Search queries
Key phrases
Keyword phrases
Search strings
Why is thinking about search terms important?
To save time and be more efficient
To waste time
To confuse search results
To be a less efficient searcher
What is the first step in brainstorming search terms?
Perform your search
Browse search results
Develop a search string
Look at your topic sentence
What is a method to brainstorm search terms?
Never consider synonyms
Look at your topic sentence and pick out main ideas
Skip brainstorming and start searching
Use only one search term throughout
What should you do after brainstorming search terms?
Record new search terms
Browse search results
Perform your search
Develop a search string
Emma is working on a research project and needs to find relevant articles quickly. What is the purpose of combining search terms to develop a search string?
To confuse search results
To make the search process longer
To save time and improve search results
To limit search options
When crafting search terms for a search engine, you want to use...
specific words for the topic
lots of keywords
synonyms
all of the above
To group terms together in a search, what symbol(s) do you need to use?
you need to use keywords
an asterisk (*)
quotation marks (" ")
an ampersand (&)
Which of the following is NOT a "Boolean" operator term?
BUT
AND
OR
NOT
