Teaching Religion & Ethics

Developing a search query can be a challenge. Here are some tips to help.

• Check out a database's Thesaurus to find appropriate keywords for the item for which you are looking. 

• A longer search query helps databases retrieve more specific resources

• Using "OR" between terms will retrieve more results

• Using "AND" between terms will retrieve less results
   
• Use a * (star) truncation symbol, which acts as a wildcard to broaden a search by finding variations of a word's ending, e.g. psych*
   
• Use " " (quotation marks) to tell the database to treat the enclosed words as an exact phrase, e.g. "educational psychology"
   
• Add FNMI keywords to your search strategy as a separate concept to narrow the search results. For example: "first nation*" OR metis OR inuit OR aboriginal OR indigenous OR cree OR blackfoot
   
• When searching for math and science library resources, remember that some databases will allow limiting a search by resource type, e.g. realia, kit, object, games, etc.
   
• Add grade or level of education (e.g. elementary, secondary) to your search strategy.

Ethics

Ethics - Study and teaching

Moral Education

Religion in the public schools

Religions- Study and teaching

Religious education

Combine your subject keyword terms with JUVENILE to limit to resources appropriate for K-12 when you search the Library Catalogue.

• Juvenile Literature = non-fiction
• Juvenile Fiction = fiction
• Juvenile = fiction and non-fiction

For example, an Advanced Search of the Library Catalogue for non-fiction publications of immigrant Canadian children's literature could look like the following. 

• religion* AND family
  AND
  "juvenile fiction"