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Scavenger Hunt with Hints Detroit
1. Name 2 places to find out what happened on your birthday. Hint: One is available from the LoC main page. Find the other by opening resources for “Kids and Families” > America’s Library > “Jump Back in Time”
2. What reading rooms have “chat”? Hint: Chat is available through the same form that allows patrons to “Ask a Librarian”
3. Where can you find information about “professional development” programs for educators? Hint: Go to Resources for …Teachers > The Learning Page > Professional Development
4. Use three different browse options available after clicking "More Browse Options" to locate collections that might offer materials for a topic you teach. Which browse option was most useful and why? Hint: American Memory > More Browse options > choose from topics, formats, time period or location
5. Find a photograph of Grand Circus Park. In which collection did you find it? Hint: “Browse” American Memory to identify collections containing photos
6. Locate an interesting motion picture. Hint: “Browse” American Memory to identify collections containing motion pictures
7. Locate a map of Detroit. Hint: “Browse” American Memory to identify collections containing maps
8. Find two Collection Connections that interest you and have teaching resources. How might these resources be useful to you? Hint: Go to Resources for …Teachers > The Learning Page > Collection Connections index. Look under titles
9. What is one of the LoC’s Top Treasures? Hint: Go to Exhibitions from the LoC main page > American Treasures > Top Treasures.
10. Identify one exhibition of interest that is not currently on display. Hint: Past exhibitions are listed alphabetically by title.
11. Where can you learn how to bookmark an item you found when searching in the American Memory collections? Hint: Go to American Memory > Teachers > Getting Started > How-to > Link and Bookmark
12. Name two educational resources from “More Educational Resources – Around and Beyond the Library” that you might share with a colleague in another discipline. Hint: Go to Resources for …Teachers > The Learning Page
13. Find 2 pieces of sheet music that relate to World War I. Hint: “Browse” American Memory to identify collections containing sheet music > Identify the collection(s) covering the correct time period > Browse the subject index
14. Locate a baseball card from Detroit. Hint: “Browse” American Memory to identify collections related to sports > Search those with baseball cards