World Book Public Library Edition

I explored the Activities in WB Online Kids and found a lot of interesting activities.  Activities included poetry, sign language, math puzzles, animals, among other subject areas.  This would be a great resource for students and teachers in the elementary setting.  Activities are organized in alphabetical order and on the left the option to filter the activities in four different ways.  The reliable WB tools for printing, saving, email, text read aloud and translate exist at the top of each activity page.

                I looked through the Primary Documents under the Research Tools.  With CCSS there is a push to use primary documents in various content areas, this could be a very valuable tool for students and teachers.  I searched civil rights and had 18 results.  There is also a link to teaching with documents with many results.  Within the topic there is teaching activities such as; Discussion, vocabulary development, document review, and case study.  Each topic result has links to related information and related encyclopedia content.  Each topic has its own outline for teaching ideas.  Very helpful for teachers to develop or supplement currents lessons.

                The E-Book Centre on WB Online Reference Center looks to have a similar set up as the WB Advanced.  When I searched juvenile literature I received the same number of results.  When looking up Huckleberry Finn I noticed the outline of the story to the left and to the right the related information and the related encyclopedia content.  Another similarity where the tools at the top of the article, a nice standard for World Book.  What I had not seen before (but will go back to double check) is a section for content standards and the statement that this article aligns with SD content standards.  This article aligns with language arts in grades 8, 9, and 12.  You can also print out these standards.  On the standards page there is also links for professional links and lesson plans. Incredible resource for teachers!   Going back to WB Advanced I found that only some eBooks had the SD content standards link but titles in both were consistent.