Ace Detective Agency

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Ace Detective Agency
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Research Bureau

• Detective Recruits Introduction
• Welcome recruits to the elite corps dedicated to
• TRUTH
• JUSTICE
• CLEAR THINKING

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Typical Case

• 1. Describes the CRIME
• Presents FOUR Suspects who may be telling the
  truth, giving misinformation, or downright lies.
• SO.
• Lie detection required
• Uncover evidence against them

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Memo

• CAUTION
• More than one suspect may be giving you
• false information about themselves.
• Make careful notes of the factstheyre needed as
  evidence of guilt OR innocence

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Sample

• Mystery of the Footloose Fleas
• WHO gave Fluffy-Puffy fleas?

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Detective Pulvers NotebookNote 1

• I mentally underline everything I believe needs
  to be investigated.
• Then write the KEYWORDS into the log
• List WHERE it could be found
• Check for accuracy.

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Suspect 1 Giovanni Cane

• Giovanni Cane claims to have been born in
  Bigfoot, Montana which is northeast of Billings,
  the year that President Kennedy was assassinated.
  
• He leaned down to pat a dog that wagged not only
  its tail, but the entire length of its
  densely-furred body. Hes a Spinone Italiano.
  Giovanni Cane explained. First-rate hunting dog.

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Warm Up

• Number page from 1-10 TWICE
• Part 1
• Atlas, Almanac, Encyclopedia, Dictionary
• At AL E D
• Part II
• LAST names
• Two words together?...look up FIRST word

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Detective Log
Suspect 1 Giovianni Crane
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Back of Log NOTE

• Make corrections
• Bigfoot, Montanna is SOUTH of Billings.
• Fleas live for one day.

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Activity 1

• Work with your partner to
• READ the mystery
• Fill in the detective logs TOGETHER for ALL
  suspects and all the clues.
• (easier to look up all dictionary information at
  once)
• Locate information

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Case Mystery of the Footloose Fleas
Suspect 1 Natasha Sobaka
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Suspect 2 Paloma Perro
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Suspect 3 Giovianni Cane
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Suspect 4 Dudley Dogsbody
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Case Mystery of the Incinerated Schoolhouse
Supect 1 Jackie Blase
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Suspect 2 Edna Fry
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Suspect 3 Harold Washburn
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Suspect 4 Peter Gog
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Detective Pulvers NotebookNote 2

• Finding proof of guilt or innocence does not all
  have to be located on www!
• I have found that failure to find a fact does
  not mean its wrongit can be found elsewhere.

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EASY

• Solve by using

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Boolean Logic
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General Reference
Biography Reference Bank
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OR

• Troy Middle School Library
• Reference Link will locate links to
• Information Please www.infoplease.com
• Merriam-Webster On-line www.m-w.com
• Mapquest www.mapquest.com
• Biography www.biography.com

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Cases
INTERMEDIATE

• Solve by using

OR
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Session 3
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First Things First

• Internet Searching Machines
• Some engines return INFORMATION first
• Some return COMMERCIALS first

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• Information RICH sites are returned FIRST
• Uncluttered.very simple and easy to read!

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KEYWORD Practice

• Write your search ? as Natural Language

How many cranberries are grown in the United
States?
TRASH words you do not need
Cranberries U.S. grow
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Boolean LogicSEARCHING
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THESAURUS

• If keywords dont come easy to youtry
• Using an online thesaurus such as
  Merrium-Websters (www.m-w.com)

• Grow
• breed
• cultivate
• produce
• raise

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Useful KEYWORDS

• Definition
• Picture
• Photo
• History
• Biography OR bio
• Map

• Characteristics
• Birth
• Death
• Place
• date

SINGLE WORDS
NOT articles or verbs
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Phrase Search

• Put quotation marks around words you want to keep
  in the EXACT order
• internet search

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Caution When Using the Internet!
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Detective Pulvers NotebookNote 4

• Sometimes the cases are TOO easy for my enormous
  intellect
• I make them more challenging by leaving the facts
  about the suspects places and dates of birth
  until last.

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Note 5

• I NEVER pay for information
• I NEVER give out information about myself
• I go elsewhere if a web site asks for personal
  information

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Note 6

• I dont pay attention to banner ads or pup up
  ads.
• I didnt get to be the Research Bureaus best
  detective by wasting my time on advertisements!

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PDF

• File Format symbol
• PDF / Acrobat Reader

Portable Document Format Document appears
exactly as written
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Bell Ringer

• Remembering last weeks searching gridWhat would
  happen if you typed these KEYWORDS into
• cranberries photo

Answer Photo of the Irish band
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KEYWORD
Write a more precise search for

• Cranberries plant photo

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DIFFICULT
Cases

• Real stumpers
• Guilty tell
• Half truths
• Misinform
• Require
• Extra bit of initiative and intuition
• Foreign language

Babel Fish Translator
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Babel Fish Translator
Babel Fish Translation     
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Activity

• Play the party game Rumors with the Translator
• www.babelfish.altavista.com
• Translations can be clumsy and imprecise
• Twinkle, twinkle, little star, how I wonder what
  you are
• FROM English TO French
• FROM French TO German
• FROM German TO English

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Translation Result

• Sparkles, sparkling little star, as I ask
  myself over, what you is.

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WEB Translators

• If results for Italian wine return Italian sites
• Find the phrase Translate this page. beside the
  title.

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More
Google Tools
TOOLS Translate
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Other USEFUL Hints

• Internet virtual barnyard of Chicken Littles

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Women are dying from sniffing perfume samples
received in the Mail! Forward it on. A dying
child needs you to cheer him / her up. Send a
message of hope.
RUMORS / Half Truths
Target banned Salvation Army collection kettles
from its storefront.
the corporation one of the most generous
business entities in the U.S., routinely topping
Forbes magazine's list of "America's Most
Philanthropic Companies," Organizations need
only apply for a grant to receive these benefits
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Do Your Remember Your to Web Evaluation?
A B C D's

• Who is the author
• What are his/her credentials?
• What does the address tell you?
• What is the purpose of the site?
• Inform? Persuade?

• Is the site up-to-date
• Is the information on your reading level?
• Accuratechecked against another site or reliable
  source?
• Well organized?
• Spelling / typing errors?

Authority
Content / Currency
Bias
Design
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Consider

• To check for authority do a link check

OR
SEARCH
linkhttp//www.dhmo.org
Lets you know who values this site enough to link
it to their own.
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Citations

• Chicken Little. The Internet Weekly report . 9
  December 2005
• on_bush_chicken_little.html
• The Cranberries. 10 Dec 2005
  www.peoples.ru/art/music/rock/cranberries/
• Cohen, Sharron. The Mysteries of the Internet
  Research. Ft. Atkinson, WI Upstart Books,
  2003.
• Keys. 10 Dec 2005. O_CLIPART/artmania/CLIP_ART/KIDS/
• Mickeys Detective School. 10 Dec 2005.
  1.asp
• Urban Legends. Snopes.com. 10 Dec 2005