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Which does not fit into the 600s?
Poetry
Cooking
Pets
Health
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How many categories are in the Dewey Decimal System?
1,000
25
10
100
3
Sports, Art, and Music (SAM) is 700-799. What do sports, art, and music have in common?
They don't fit into other categories
They are for fun!
Melvil Dewey's hobbies
Why are we learning about this?
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History means the study of the past. What is an example of an event in history?
World War II
A Famous Person's Life Story
Medieval Times and Castles
The Civil War
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What does literature mean?
World Records
How people live and work together
Written works, for people to enjoy
Applied science
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How are nonfiction books assigned a number?
the number of pages
based on what the book is about
number of books by the author
number of letters in the last name
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Folk Tales and Fairy Tales are a special number in the DDS - 398.2. Why are they considered NF?
They teach us facts about animals
They are meant to teach us a lesson
They are true stories
They were usually based on truth
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500-599 includes math, wild animals, plants, dinosaurs, space, weather, food chains - Name it:
Religion
Science
Language
General Knowledge
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The 100-199 category is Philosophy & Psychology, how people think and feel...Which topics fit?
religion
ghosts
emotions
feelings
10
Who created the Dewey Decimal System?
Thomas Edison
A librarian named Melvil Dewey
Miss Thomas
Benjamin Franklin
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Applied Science is what number range?
100-199
200-299
600-699
500-599
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Joke books, poetry, and plays are 800-899, what is this category called?
Social Science
Biography
Geography
Literature
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What would not fit into the General Knowledge category - 000-099?
Ripley's Believe It or Not
Football
Computers & The Internet
Scholastic World Records
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How are nonfiction books arranged in the library?
by the author's last name
by the topic
alphabetical order
by the title
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300-399 is the Social Sciences. What does that mean?
History
Biology
Science
How people live and work together.
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Geography means the study of places, what's an example of a place we can find in the 900-999s?
Japan
50 States
Lancaster
Ireland
17
400-499 is the Language category. Which is not a language in this category?
Grammar
Math
Sign Language
Spanish
18
What's your favorite category in the Dewey Decimal System?
000-099 General Works-World Records, UFOs, BigFoot, Internet
700-799 SAM- Sports, Art, and Music
Other
600-699 Applied Science- Cats, Dogs, Cookbooks, Cars, Tanks
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Why is it important to arrange by topic?
To give order to the shelves
To make the librarian's job easier
Find books about the same thing all together in one place
To help researchers
