Can you help me find…?
See below for solutions to the Kids InfoBits database questions.
1. Locate a picture of a wind turbine or wind mill.
 Topic Tree:
Inventions & Technology – Machines, Engines & Motors – Wind power – Document
 Page 1 under Images tab.
 Document: Kinderdijk, Wind Turbines, or Windmill
2. Find a recipe for an Iraqi dish.
 Subject Search: “Iraq”
 Click on Subject: “Iraq”
 Page 1 under Reference tab
 Source: "Iraq." Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of Foods and Recipes of the World. 4 vols.
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 Advanced Search: “Iraq” (full text) and “food” (full text)
 Page 4 under Reference tab
 Source: "Iraq." Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of Foods and Recipes of the World. 4 vols.
3. What natural resources does Australia have?
 Subject Search: “Australia”
 Click on Subject: “Australia”
 Page 1 under Reference tab
 Source: "Australia." The Blackbirch Kid's Visual Reference of the World. Blackbirch
Press, 2001.
4. What are Kenya’s main exports?
 Subject Search: “Kenya”
 Click on Subject: “Kenya”
 Page 1 under Charts and Graphs tab
 Source: "Kenya - Exports." (Blackbirch Press Archives) The Blackbirch Kid's Visual
Reference of the World. Blackbirch Press, 2001.
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5. When and where was Jim Thorpe born?
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Subject Search: “Jim Thorpe”
Click on Subject: “Jim Thorpe” (4 items)
Page 1 under Reference tab
Source: “Jim Thorpe.” First Facts About American Heroes. Online Edition. Blackbirch
Press, 2003.
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 Topic Tree:
People – Famous Athletes – Thorpe, Jim (Football/Track)
 Source: “Jim Thorpe.” First Facts About American Heroes. Online Edition.
Blackbirch Press, 2003.
6. What is the “walking out ceremony”?
 Advanced Search: “walking out ceremony” (full text)
 Page 1 under Reference tab
 Source: “Cree: Customs.” Tribes of Native America: Cree. Marla Felkins Ryan and
Linda Schmittroth, Eds. Blackbirch Press, 2003.
7. When did the last residential school close?
 Advanced Search: “residential schools” (keyword or full text)
 Page 1 under Magazines tab
 Source: "Canada's residential schools. (Then and Now)"
Kayak - Canada's History Magazine for Kids Sept-Oct 2007 p24(2)
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