World Book Online

New Resources!

New World Book Options

We have two new options from World Book: Timelines and eBooks! Check it out on the Mountain Range Database page or the direct link to World Book below.

Keep reading for more information! By the way, because we purchased eBooks, we now have a new user name and password for World Book. All databases we purchase now have the same user name and password.

In case your forgot here's a link to all of our passwords. You must be logged into your Adams 12 account to see this document.

MRHS Databases and eBooks - T_LaRue

Tricia LaRue, Teacher Librarian at Mountain Range High School in Adams 12 Five Star Schools

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Check out the new World Book "Super Home Page" below.

World Book

The World Book web site offers an encyclopedia, dictionary, atlas, homework help, study aids, and curriculum guides. World Book is publisher of the World Book Encyclopedia.

worldbookonline.com

World Book eBooks

The Mountain Range Library just purchased eBooks from World Book! Key features include:

24/7 unlimited simultaneous access and downloads for offline reading
Unlike purchase-based models, World Book eBooks are continually updated through the term of your subscription
Offline notes synchronize with online reader
Personalize your eBook account with customized Bookshelves
Annotate and highlight text
Save annotations, highlights, and bookmarks to individual accounts
Interactive games, videos and audio clips

These eBooks span grades K-12 and are simultaneous user eBooks. This means an entire class can be using these eBooks at the same time, and they can be read on any device. (Subscribers using a supported tablet device may download the World Book eBook app for offline viewing.) With the eBooks covering K-12, this may help with our varied reading levels, too! Some of the topics include:

Animals
Arts & Crafts
Biographies & Autobiographies
Environment
High Interest
History
Mathematics
Nonfiction
Science & Nature
Social Studies
Space
Transportation

World Book eBooks also includes World Book Classics, spanning drama, fiction & literature, poetry, and more.

World Book Timelines

Timelines is a very cool tool from World Book. Students can browse and view timelines created by World Book in 8 subjects below. The timelines include photos, primary source documents, and videos. A timeline would be a great way to introduce a new unit of give students the big picture of an event or time period.

Featured Subjects

Arts
Literature
Notable people
Parts of the world
Science and technology
Society and culture
Sports
World history

Students can also create their own timeline and save it by searching the World Book database for events, writing their own events, or a combination of the two. They can add media from World Book or upload their own images to bring timelines to life. (Remember, Pixabay is a great place to find free to use Public Domain photos.)