World Book Online

 

Go to www.worldbookonline.com

 

Username: tangipahoa

Password: parish

 

Open a new Word document.  Use a header to put the standard school heading. Save this word document as World Book lastname. Copy the following questions and paste them into your new word document.  Answer the following questions.   You may copy and paste. 

 

Home tab

  1. Name 2 things that happened today in history.
  2. What is the feature for this month?
  3. Write a few sentences about a current event from behind the headlines.
  4. What is an ongoing event from behind the headlines?
  5. Name 2 events that are going to happen this month.
  6. Name 1 event that is going to happen next month.

Customer Support tab

  1. To use videos, audio, and 3D Bubble Views in World Book Online, you must download and install _____________________________.  (Look in plug-ins)
  2. What is the email address for customer and technical support?
  3. Summarize how you may use this site for your individual use. (Look in terms and conditions)

Browse link

  1. Niagara Falls is on what river?
  2. What is the first article in the dancing category that is in the humanities category?
  3. What sea is south of Puerto Rico (look at the atlas map)?
  4. What is the date of Easter in 2005? (look in tables)
  5. Play a sound.
  6. Go to 3-D bubble view of your choice.  How do you navigate in a bubble view?
  7. What color are the feet of a snail kite?  (look at a picture of it)
  8. Describe the last frame in the video about malaria growth?
  9. Go back in time to an article about Afghanistan from 1966.  What was the population?

Atlas link:

  1. What is the average January temperature in Fairbanks, Alaska?
  2. What country is at the southern tip of Africa?

Help link:

  1. What is World Book Online? (Summarize this answer)
  2. How would you cite a website for a term paper?

Dictionary

  1. What is a zag?

Search

  1. Find an article on computer graphics.  What is computer graphics?
  2. Summarize how a computer creates an image.

Go to International Edition

  1. Click on some links here.  What is the difference between the Americas edition and the International Edition?

 

To access World Book online from home or anywhere OUTSIDE of the Tangi network do the following:

1)       Log onto the Internet

2)       Go to www.lcet.state.la.us/ worldbook

3)       Username ID: Louisiana

4)       Password: elementary, middle or highschool

Depending on your grade level