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World Book Kids
World Book Kids is a general reference Web site developed especially for young students. The site features simple navigation, easy-to-read articles, thousands of illustrations, videos, comparison tools, and a wealth of engaging games and activities. World Book is compatible with SOLO.
World Book Kids features:
• A variety of simple search and browse navigation options
• Thousands of easy-to-read articles with embedded multimedia
• Engaging images, illustrations, and videos
• A tool for exploring and comparing animals
• An Important People feature to help students search and browse through several thousand biographies
• A collection of age-appropriate science fair projects
• Atlas, interactive maps, and outline maps and flags
• A tool for exploring and comparing places
• Over 200 educational games and activities
• Teacher resources
World Book Student
Tailored for students in elementary and middle schools, World Book Student includes all the articles from the print versions of the World Book Encyclopedia, plus thousands of additional articles, learning resources, and research tools.
Key features include:
• More than 40,000 encyclopedia and reference articles
• World Book Biography Center, with more than 10,000 biographies
• Thousands of links selected by World Book editors and expert contributors
• Rich multimedia
• Historical features
• Extensive dictionary and atlas
• Correlations to state and provincial curriculum and achievement standards
• Audios, videos, and animations
• Educator tools
• Student activities
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World Book Discover
World Book Discover offers engaging reference resources for students reading below grade level because of language or learning difficulties, with content and tools specifically developed for these students.
The collection includes reference articles, text-to-speech capabilities, learning and life skills activities, research tools, multimedia, and interactive video to draw students into curriculum-related topics and subjects relevant to older students.
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Key features include:
• Easy-to-read articles on topics of interest to middle- and high-school students that include reading comprehension questions to help students focus on key concepts
• An uncluttered interface, easy-to-understand content, and useful activities
• Automated translations into 30 languages
• Text-to-speech feature that allows students to hear text read aloud, increasing accessibility and comprehension
• Timeline and citation builders
• Individual accounts that allow students to save their research
• A section on life skills helps students negotiate financial, health, and housing issues
• World Book Explains, a video series that features World Book editors and expert partners answering students’ questions on various topics
• Correlations to state and provincial curriculum and achievement standards
Go Grolier
Grolier Online include three general reference databases:
- The New Book of Knowledge, which is suitable for elementary-school and middle-school students;
- Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, which is suitable for middle-school and high-school students; and
- Encyclopedia Americana, which is appropriate for high-school students and beyond.
There are also two science-intensive databases:
- Amazing Animals of the World, which is most appropriate for elementary-school students, and
- The New Book of Popular Science, which is appropriate for both middle-school and high-school students.
And, there are two social studies-intensive databases:
- America the Beautiful, which covers state-by-state history and current events for elementary-school and middle-school students, and
- Lands and Peoples, an encyclopedia of countries, cultures, and current events for middle-school and high-school students.
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