Research Tools

You are researching the relationship between biomes and location. Which tool would be most helpful?

You are doing a report on Martin Luther King. Which volume of the encyclopedia would you use?

Mrs. Buckley said, "You completed this assignment perfunctorily." You are not sure if that was a compliment or not. Which book would be most helpful.

You are planning to call your friend in Japan. You are not sure if he is up yet. Which tool would be most helpful?

Mrs. Kump, the queen of writing excellence, said you have used a word way too many times. You need to add more variety to your vocabulary. Which book might be most helpful?

Our wonderful library teacher, Mrs. Colleen Smith, required us to read a recent award winning book. Which research book would be most helpful?

You are just beginning a research assignment. Which tool would be most helpful for providing general knowledge about a topic.

Mrs. Smith said you need to find the setting of the book, Wonder. All you know is it is located in Manhattan. What book would be most helpful to answer this question?

Your friend said to you, "Your feelings for Gina are very obscure." You are not quite sure what your friend means, but you picked up on the fact that your friend was being sarcastic. Which book would be most helpful to determine what your friend was actually saying?

Which tool provides the most current factual information?

When you look up Eiffel Tower in an encyclopedia, which volume would you select?

Mrs. Kump said that there are 645 different meanings for the word run. Which book would be most helpful to prove her wrong? (Actually she would be correct:)

You are researching President John F. Kennedy. Which tool would be most helpful?

Mrs. Johnson has assigned you a graphing project. You need to create a bar graph showing the number of medals won by each country for last years olympics. Which book would be most helpful.

You are debating the most popular source of energy today. Which resource might you find evidence to support your position?

Which book would be most helpful if you were presenting a speech about heterogeneity?