2. Search by Numbers: The Dewey Decimal System

3. Fiction or Non-fiction? Fiction is a made up story Non-fiction is factual Harry Potter: Fiction Harry Houdini: Non-fiction Horton: Fiction Elephants: Non-fiction

4. The Dewey Decimal System *Used for non-fiction books *Divides books into 10 main categories *Each category uses figures from 000 to 999 Melville Dewey invented this system in 1867 as a way to organize books.

5. 000–099: Generalities What do I need to know?

6. 100-199:Philosophy/Psychology Who am I?

7. 200-299: Religion What do I believe in?

8. 300-399:Social Sciences How do we live together?

9. 400-499: Language How do we communicate ? Gracias merci Thank You

10. 500-599:Natural science/Math What is our world like? How do we explain things in numbers? 2x6=12 4+4=8

11. 600-699:Applied Science How can we make the world useful to us?

12. 700-799: The Arts What do we enjoy creating or doing for fun?

13. 800-899: Literature What do we enjoy writing?

14. 900-999: Geography/History What do we know about the past and the places in the world?

15. The Dewey Challenge Think you know Dewey? Go to breitlinks.com/deweychallenge/index.htm breitlinks.com/deweychallenge/index.htm And take Mr. B’s Dewey Challenge 20 Questions will test your knowledge of Dewey

16. Want to know more? Read: Berg, Brook: What Marion Taught Willis. UpstartBooks, 2005 Hopkins, Jackie Mims. The Shelf Elf Helps Out. UpstartBooks, 2006 Go to: www.kidsclick.org/dewey.html www.library.barrie.on.ca/children/library/dewey.htm

17. Resources breitlinks.com/deweychallenge/index.htm www.kidsclick.org/dewey.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHiUQb5xg7A&featu re=PlayList&p=185BAB7240F5379E&playnext=1&playnex t_from=PL&index=98 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHiUQb5xg7A&featu re=PlayList&p=185BAB7240F5379E&playnext=1&playnex t_from=PL&index=98 www.library.barrie.on.ca/children/library/dewey.htm http://www.scottpublib.org/dragon/Dewey.html http://www.tonibuzzeo.com/booksgreatdeweyhunt.html Buzzeo, Toni. The Great Dewey Hunt. UpstartBooks, 2009