Search by Numbers: The Dewey Decimal System Fiction or Non-fiction? Fiction is a made up story Non-fiction is factual Harry Potter: Fiction Harry Houdini:

Search by Numbers The Dewey Decimal System

Search by Numbers:The Dewey Decimal System

Fiction or Non-fiction?Fiction is a made up storyNon-fiction is factual

Harry Potter: FictionHarry Houdini:Non-fiction

Horton: FictionElephants: Non-fiction

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.

000099: Generalities What do I need to know?

100-199:Philosophy/Psychology Who am I?

200-299: ReligionWhat do I believe in?

300-399:Social SciencesHow do we live together?

400-499: LanguageHow do we communicate?

GraciasmerciThank You

500-599:Natural science/MathWhat is our world like? How do we explain things in numbers?

2x6=124+4=8

600-699:Applied ScienceHow can we make the world useful to us?

700-799: The ArtsWhat do we enjoy creating or doing for fun?

800-899: LiteratureWhat do we enjoy writing?

900-999: Geography/HistoryWhat do we know about the past and the places in the world?

The Dewey Challenge

Think you know Dewey? Go to breitlinks.com/deweychallenge/index.htmAnd take Mr. Bs Dewey Challenge20 Questions will test your knowledge of Dewey

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

Resourcesbreitlinks.com/deweychallenge/index.htmwww.kidsclick.org/dewey.htmlhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHiUQb5xg7A&feature=PlayList&p=185BAB7240F5379E&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=98www.library.barrie.on.ca/children/library/dewey.htmhttp://www.scottpublib.org/dragon/Dewey.htmlhttp://www.tonibuzzeo.com/booksgreatdeweyhunt.html

Buzzeo, Toni. The Great Dewey Hunt. UpstartBooks, 2009