About World Book
World Book’s encyclopedias have provided accurate information, clearly explained and vividly illustrated, for over 100 years. World Book Student engages elementary and middle grade learners with high-interest entries, maps, photos, 360° panoramas, and interactive diagrams which support reading comprehension and multimodal literacies.
Applications
Mid-Pacific is a prek-12 IB school in Honolulu with 1400 students from Hawai‘i, the US Mainland, Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, Canada and Europe. Nicole Goff, Library Director, appreciates World Book’s supports for all levels of language learners. When her diverse 7th graders start research, they “presearch” their NASA topics in World Book Student in order to develop basic background before tackling the reading and search complexities in Gale and EBSCO databases. Younger students (grades 3-5) use World Book Student articles on iPads to practice research skill-building like “find-on-page” keyword searces.
Suzanne Fox has developed a scaffolding sequence for research at Roland Park Country School (Baltimore, MD) a K-12 independent school for girls. “With 6th graders World Book Student might be their main source, with 7th it becomes one source among many, and by 8th it’s used as a keyword expansion technique — only the first step in building knowledge at the beginning of a research project. For older students with learning differences, World Book Student enables her ability to differentiate without oversimplifying or trivializing content.
Librarians looking for value mention that World Book’s basic package is about half the cost of comparable products. A new subscriber, Selene Athas, Library Media Specialist at Trinity School (Ellicott City, MD) intends to “have middle school students complete the provided web quests so that they can get familiar with the resource and learn how to cite articles.”
Citing Sources from World Book Student
To use the citation export feature from the World Book Student database, open the NoodleTools project you want to work with in one browser tab. In a second tab, open an article in World Book Student and scroll down to the How to cite this article link at the bottom, as pictured.
Note that some articles include media like a photograph or map that you can potentially cite independently, if you didn’t use the article as a whole in your research. Click the Cite (quotation mark) icon from the media view to do that.
A “How to cite this media” popup window will be displayed, with World Book’s version of the citation displayed. Click the green Export to NoodleTools button at the bottom and your source citation will be added to the active NoodleTools project.
Note: The imported entry will match the citation style of the NoodleTools project that you have open (not the citation formats shown in the popup).
