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The Basics - World Book

How do I get started?
What are the search options?
How do I save information?
What are the help features?
What are the copyright rules?
What resources are there for teachers?

How do I get started?

To learn about each product within World Book, click on "yes" for either the Flash Video or the PowerPoint.

	Recommended Group	Flash Video	PowerPoint
World book Kids	Elementary	yes	yes
World Book Student	Middle School and Secondary	yes	yes
World Book Advanced	Secondary and Post-secondary	yes	yes
Découverte	Grade K - 7	yes	yes
Estudiantil Hallazgos	Grade K - 4	yes

What are the search options?

Below are the basic search options for World Book Kids, Students and Advanced. For information on advanced search options, please go to the Beyond the Basics Toolkit.

World Book Kids
World Book Student
World Book Advanced

How do I save information?

Each article has a “tools” box displayed on the top left of the article page which provides several options for working with the article information. Students are able to print the entire document including images or they may save the article as a PDF in their folder on their own computers.

What are the help features?

At the bottom of each page in World Book’s on-line products, you’ll find a link to the Help page. After you have clicked on Help, you’ll be taken to a page that lists all the sections with information to help you.

What are the copyright rules?

World Book resources are available for use in classrooms and from home for all staff and students of all participating districts and schools.

• All materials in the World Book products may be copied, printed or saved for classroom use. You may use the content within the educational setting but it may not be made available for public viewing in any way.


• Students may use World Book Web content for classroom assignments and other school projects, with proper credit and source citation, under the provisions of Fair Use. If students are preparing Web-based projects in conjunction with a classroom assignment, World Book encourages teachers and librarians to have the assignments loaded behind the school's firewall, so the assignments are password-protected and remain in the educational setting.


• The License Agreement with BCLA/ERAC and World Book includes the following: "Permission to include Licensed content in the course of instruction using virtual and managed environments and/or coursepacks are NOT included under the terms of this License. Requests for such use may be submitted to World Book, Inc. for consideration on a case-by-case basis."


• Questions or requests can be sent to the attention of Loranne Shields at loranne.shields@worldbook.com, with the subject heading, Copyright Permission.

What resources are there for teachers?

World Book’s Educators’ Tools page provides a range of resources, including correlations from World Book content to B.C. curriculum correlations, and links to lesson plans.

World Book Kids does not have a link to Educator tools. Instead there is “Teach It” with examples of short lessons that can be done with younger students.
World Book Student has an Educator Research Centre located in the How to Do Research link. Topics include teaching research skills and The 21st Century Educator.
World Book Advanced has an Educators’ Tools section. Look for the link to this section at the bottom of each page in World Book Advanced.

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