Back to see if I can finish this weeks challenge!

Advanced Challenge --
World Book Kids

I picked the Science Projects.  Not really anything here for my students but I can see where they would be wonderful for science teachers in the lower grades.  I wouldn't have minded learning how to make a rainbow or crystals!  There is some wonderful information here for our youngest learners and it is fun getting a chance to sit down and look at it.


World Book Student

This time I selected the Biography/Authors section just to see what authors are listed, I'm amazed at 1661 of them!  Since I actually have a relative named Hans Christian Andersen (not the author as far as I know), I opened his biography.  Some of the information I had read before but didn't realize that he worked as an actor, singer and dancer before becoming famous for his fairy tales and children's stories.  Fun spot to visit.

World Book Advanced

Funny, I hadn't read ahead in the challenge so didn't realize that I could look up books using WB Advanced, and one of the choices given was Andersen's Fairy Tales.  I browsed a bit but stopped to read The Real Princess, because, well, Once Upon A Mattress is one of my favorite plays/soundtracks.  I was surprised at how short and concise the story is and how it has grown into a full-length play!  I'm having fun playing on the computer today.

World Book Discover

 First stop was the visual dictionary, I chose the button with the Dalmatian, what can I say, we own six dogs (but no dalmatians).  So, I followed the links through to see pictures of dog breeds, only six listed and we don't have any of those so I moved back to check out something else.   This time I picked on the videos,  Nice collection with plenty of interesting topics.  I selected the physical science videos and just a brief look tells me that I can learn a lot about a car, astronauts, electricity and around 88 other topics.  Fun stuff, still a little basic for most of the students here but there might be a thing or two we can show to someone who is stepping into a field they haven't been in before.

I skipped the Common Core Connections part, they really are not related to my day to day work at the School of Mines library.