The document provides instructions for a training session on how to access and use various educational databases available through the PHES website. It lists several databases like Scholastic BookFlix, Scholastic TrueFlix, World Book Encyclopedia, EBSCO Host, Accelerated Reader, and TumbleBooks. It asks participants to choose one database to explore for 10 minutes to find a resource that could be useful for a future classroom lesson, then to share their findings with the group.

1. PHES Database
Training
September 2012

2. Goal of This Session
• To demonstrate and access
• the various databases that are available at PHES
• and available remotely at home.
• To find at least one database that will be USEFUL
for a future lesson/activity in your classroom

3. Use PHES Website to Access Databases
• Under “Academics” then “Library”
• Click on “E Books and Databases”

4. Local Video Database –Less Buffering than Online Videos

5. Scholastic BookFlix
Fiction and Nonfiction Paired eBooks
Watch video of Fiction Book
Voiceover for NonFiction Book

6. ScholasticTrueFlix
Non Fiction eBooks

7. Scholastic True Flix
Video and Read Along with eBook

8. World Book Encyclopedia

9. Includes Images, Maps, Facts

10. World Book Student

12. Encyclopedia Britannica Online

13. Image Files
Read Along Feature

14. Tumblebooks
eBooks for lower grades

15. TumbleBookCloud Junior
Chapter eBooks

16. EBSCO Host Databases
Magazines, Journals, and Newspaper Articles

17. Accelerated Reader
Quizzes on Books

18. Accelerated Reader
STAR Test – For Reading Level

19. Your Assignment
• Choose One Database to Explore
• Spend 10 minutes using the database and find
one article/book/video that will be useful for a
future lesson
• We will each share what we found and generate
suggestions for the future