Textbook Scavenger Hunt

 Textbook Scavenger Hunt

1. What is the title of your text?
2. Find the Table of Contents: What is the title of the first chapter?  “What is science” is the title of which Section?
3. On what page does the “Student Resources” begin?
4. What kind of information can be found in the “Science Skills Handbook”?
5. Find the page titled, “HOW TO… Use Your Science Book” and answer the following questions (hint: It’s located just before page 1.)

  

1. Read “Before You Read,” what is the difference between Review Vocabulary and New Vocabulary?
2. What is a foldable?
3. Read “As You Read.”  Where are the Student Resources found?
4. Read “In Lab” and “Before a Test.”  What are 4 key resources that can help you be a successful test taker?

6. Go to the “Student Resources” section: What are the steps of the Scientific Method? 
7. What is found on page 388?
8. Where is the Index?  What kind of information does the Index provide?
9. If you wanted to look up information on Force, where would you go to find the pages that have information on this subject?

10) If you wanted to find the definition ecology, where would you find this information?

    11) Look on pp. 4, 134, and 282 and find the “Science Journal”; what kind of information does the Science Journal provide? What is a journal?

   12)  Find the New Vocabulary on p. 6, where can you find the definitions to these words?  (hint: There are two places in your text where definitions are located.)

  13)  Find Chapter 1 Section 1

a) What is the title of the Section?

b) Find the Reading Check on p. 7; what is the purpose of it?

c) Find the Blue Question on p. 8; Infer what its purpose is.

d) Find the Section Review on p. 11; what is the purpose of the Summary?  In what way would the Self Check questions be helpful to you?