Using World Book School Edition

1.Using World Book Kids, I looked up "elephant."  It was not as easy as I thought it would be.  Finding a picture was easy, but finding the habitat was not so easy.  I repeated the search using "elephant habitat."  This found one article about animals in general.  I think a young child would get frustrated at this point.  I tried the advanced search.  The database automatically filled in elephant habitat when I just wanted elephant and to use the boolean operator to put habitat in the second box.  I had to go back to delete habitat in the first box.  I never did find the habitat.  I guess I need more practice.

2. Using World Book Students, I found many more articles to choose from.  I didn't find a specific section of information about the elephant habitat including a map.  This was disappointing, but maybe I didn't spend enough time with it.  I am open to suggestions for options I may not have tried.  I did like the outline in the left margin of the article that made it easy to navigate through the information.

3.  Using World Book Advanced, I looked up "Australia."  I like that one of the choices for search results is Primary Sources.  One of our reading standards is that students will be able to identify Primary Sources.
Once an article is open, students will be able to link to related articles. without having to return to the results list.

4.  Using World Book Discoverer, once an article was open, the option of reading it in Spanish or French was available.  I could also use the pull down menu under translate to choose from various languages.  That was pretty amazing!  I'll show this to my students who are interested in exploring other languages.  I'll also show it to the World Languages teacher.