How to get there: Go to Heartland’s website http://www.aea11.k12.ia.us/ and under “Resource and Research Tools” select the Inventions and Discoveries Digital Library. This is sponsored through Worldbook. You will need to log in using the AEA username and password.
What is it: On the home page you can search by general topics. You can click on these broad topics and then you will be provided with narrower topics that you can search from. The articles that come up are generally come up are short and broad. However, at the bottom of the page, additional articles in Worldbook student are already linked. Since you have signed in once, you don’t have to sign in again. You also can toggle between (go between) all of the Worldbook pages at the bottom or the top of the page. 
So even if you go to a World book Student article you can then go to a worldbook advanced article (high school level). Worldbook also has a dictionary, additional websites and videos that can be searched.
General Topics that are listed: Agriculture, Architecture and Engineering, The Arts, Astronomy, Communication, Economics, Industry and Manufacturing, Mathematics, Medicine, Personal and Household Items, Transportation, and Warfare.
Other Digital Libraries - Early Peoples and Living Green - look for more on these later.
Did you know…. That you can triple click on any word in a Worldbook or Worldbook related article and look up a word you do not know. Encourage students to do this for words that they do not know.
What is it: On the home page you can search by general topics. You can click on these broad topics and then you will be provided with narrower topics that you can search from. The articles that come up are generally come up are short and broad. However, at the bottom of the page, additional articles in Worldbook student are already linked. Since you have signed in once, you don’t have to sign in again. You also can toggle between (go between) all of the Worldbook pages at the bottom or the top of the page. So even if you go to a World book Student article you can then go to a worldbook advanced article (high school level). Worldbook also has a dictionary, additional websites and videos that can be searched.General Topics that are listed: Agriculture, Architecture and Engineering, The Arts, Astronomy, Communication, Economics, Industry and Manufacturing, Mathematics, Medicine, Personal and Household Items, Transportation, and Warfare.
Other Digital Libraries - Early Peoples and Living Green - look for more on these later.
Did you know…. That you can triple click on any word in a Worldbook or Worldbook related article and look up a word you do not know. Encourage students to do this for words that they do not know.
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