World Book Online is a free online encyclopedia for kids that can be accessed through the Richton Park Library website using a library card number. It contains information on a variety of topics organized into sections like search, pictures and videos, games and activities, maps, important people, compare places, science projects, and dictionary. Users can search for topics or browse these sections to find facts and learn about different subjects.

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WORLD BOOK
ONLINEWhat World Book Online is and
how you can use it for research!

2. World Book Online is an encyclopedia just for kids, filled
with cool facts, activities and games! If you or a family
member has a Richton Park Library Card, you can use it
for free!
An encyclopedia is a resource filled with facts and information that
allow users to learn about a bunch of different subjects.
This would be a great website to use if you want to research a topic
for a school assignment, or if you just want to learn for fun!
What in the world is World Book Online?

3. How can you access World Book Online
1.) Open your internet
browser, and go to
www.richtonparklibary.org
2.) Hover over Online
Resources, and click on
Databases
3.) Click on World Book
Kids

4. Before you can use World Book Online kids, you’ll be asked to enter your
library card number. Go ahead and do this in the box outlined in red in the
picture below. Then click “Go”!

5. You’re in! Now what?
Once you’re
logged on, you will
see this page.
Let’s talk about
each link
separately!

6. First, let’s talk about the Search
Bar. In this box, you can look up
almost any subject.
Search Bar

7. It is better to search
general terms instead of
questions. For example, if
I’m writing a paper about
Barack Obama, I may want
to know his full name.
Let’s try searching “What
is Barack Obama’s full
name and see what we get.
I’d be better off searching
“Barack Obama”, and
reading about him to find
this information.
It takes me a minute to read through this information, but once I do, I
see that his full name is Barack Hussein Obama Jr.

8. Pictures and Videos
Next, let’s look at
the “Pictures and
Videos” tab
outlined in red.

9. Here, there are 8 broad categories to choose
from.
On the next couple slides, let’s see how we might find videos about our
previous example: Barack Obama.

10. We need to narrow down
our search. First, we pick
out of the 8 categories
where Barack Obama fits
in best. This would be
“people”, which I outlined
in red.
On the next page, we
narrow down our search
more. Out of these
options, Barack Obama
probably fits best into
“government” since he
was the president of the
United States.

11. On the next page, it asks
us to narrow our search
even more! We’re looking
for information about a
president of the United
States. Since the United
States is in America, we
would click on American
Governments
Finally, we’re given a list of
Presidents. We can scroll
down to “B” for Barack, and
find the president we’re
looking or.
If we click on his photo, we’ll get videos and
pictures about him.

12. World of Animals
Next, let’s click
on World of
Animals, outlined
in red.

13. This section works much like the “people”. If you want to look for an animal, you simply continue
to narrow down your search until you find what you’re looking for. Let’s demonstrate how I
would go about finding information about Dolphins.
A dolphin is a water mammal,
so first I click on that link,
which I’ve outlined here in
red.
On the next page, I find
what I’m looking for. I
click on Dolphin, and then
I can see all the
information they have on
that topic.

14. Games and Activities
Next, let’s look at
activities and
games, outlined in
this picture in red.

15. Explore these links to find many
educational games and activities.
Here is an example:
Educational Puzzle
Games!
There are over
100 games and
activities on this
site, so I
encourage you to
explore them on
your own!

16. Maps
Next, let’s explore
the maps tab,
outlined in this
picture in red.

17. When we click here, we see that there are 3 options to
explore. I will explain them all below.
Interactive Maps
brings us to a
page where we
can click on
various places in
the world, and
find articles and
information on
them.
World Book Atlas allows
us to find maps that tell
us about any number of
things – the politics in a
certain place, the
weather, and more.
Outline Maps and
Flags allows you to
print out maps to
color and study, as
well as use in
school
presentations.

18. Important People
Now, let’s take a
look at Important
People, outlined in
this picture in red.

19. You may be thinking – why use this button when I can just search anyone I want? We did it
with Obama! This comes in handy when you have to write a paper/create a project about
someone, but you get some choice in who you pick. Let’s use an example!
Let’s say my art
teacher tells me
to write a paper
about a famous
artist. I don’t
know of many
artists, but I can
use this tab to
explore! Go
ahead and click
on it with me.
Here’s what we get!

20. World Book offers us some options to narrow down our search! The
question that will help me out most is probably “Choose job or
achievement”, because I know my teacher wants me to write about an
artist. So let’s try clicking on that first.

21. When we click on that
question, we get a drop down
menu. “Artists” isn’t an
option, but “graphic artists”
and “painters” are. Since my
teacher didn’t specify an
artist I have to write about,
it’s up to me! I think I’ll
choose painters.
Next, I’m taken to a screen with
90 articles about different
artists. I can explore these
artists and see which one
interests me most. I can also
further narrow down my search
at the top and choose a specific
place, time period, or gender!

22. Compare Place
Now Let’s look at the
tab Compare Places,
outlined in the picture
on the right in red

23. When you click on
this link, you’re
brought to this
page
The title of this link – “Compare Places” – may be a little misleading. The
articles here don’t generally compare places for us. However, they do
allow us to learn about different places and explore them ourselves.
Let’s start with a question we might need to answer for an assignment at
school. Which state has a bigger population – Illinois or Indiana? Let’s
see how we would go about finding the answer!

24. First, we would click on
U.S. states, because
both Indiana and
Illinois are states in
the U.S.
This is the page we come
to. It doesn’t matter which
state we look for first.
Let’s go with Illinois. Click
through the arrows until
you find Illinois and click
on it.

25. When we click on Illinois,
we’re given the option to
learn more about Illinois by
clicking the link to an
article or explore Illinois.
If this is helpful to you, go
ahead and do it! For this
assignment, we don’t need
to go any further, because
the answer is already right
there. I’ve outlined it in the
picture to the right.
The answer: 12,820,632
But we’re not done yet! Our question is
about which state, Illinois or Indiana,
has the biggest population. Write down
Illinois population on a piece of paper,
and then let’s search Indiana!

26. To get to a new state, we
must click the red X in the
top right corner of the
information about Illinois
Then we can look for Indiana,
which just happens to be right
next to Illinois since it also
begins with an I and the states
are organized alphabetically, and
then we find our answer:
6,483,802

27. Now we can compare and find our answer.
Which state has the biggest population: Illinois or Indiana?
Well, we learned the following information from our searches:
Illinois’ population is 12,820,632 and Indiana’s population is 6,483,802
Illinois’ population is bigger than
Indiana’s!

28. Remember that “Compare Places”
can be used in so many different
ways, not just to find populations!
There are articles about states,
countries, and continents that will
give you a bunch of information! Go
ahead and explore for yourself!!!

29. Science Projects
Let’s take a look at
Science Projects
next, outlined on
the right in red.

30. This section of World Book Online is really helpful if you have a science project assigned at
school, but you’re not sure what you’d like to do. This page allows you to explore lots of subjects
and narrow down what you’re interested in. Click on any of the boxes above for ideas!

31. Dictionary
We’re almost done!
Just one more to
go! Let’s look at
Dictionary next,
outlined in red in
the picture on the
right.

32. This section allows you to learn so much about words, their
meanings, how you can use them in sentences, and their spellings. It
would be impossible to go over everything you can do in this section
without a hundred slides, but I’ll specify some of its uses below. I
encourage you to explore it yourself, as well!
Alphabetical
order teaches you
how to pjt lists of
words in
alphabetical
order.
Definitions allow you
to find out the
meanings of words and
their proper spellings
and classification. You
can also use the search
bar at the top to look
for certain words
This section will
teach you about parts
of speech – like
nouns, pronouns, and
verbs – and give you
examples!

33. We’ve come to the end! Thank you for learning with
me. World Book Online for Kids is a really important
resource for our young patrons! I encourage you to
use it. And if you find that you’re having trouble –
make sure to ask a library worker from the youth
department for help.
We are here for you!!