The following online resources are available to you at school or at home. Many of these sites require a username and password. Please check with your building's library for a list of usernames and passwords for these sites.
Portal to all of the World Book offerings for Kiona-Benton City School District.
World Book Kids features content and tools developed especially for young students. The site offers simple navigation, easy-to-read articles, multimedia, comparison tools, interactive games and activities, and teacher resources.
World Book Student, the redesigned and upgraded version of World Book Online Reference Center, includes the articles of the World Book Encyclopedia, a Biography Center, dictionary, atlas, an extensive multimedia collection, thousands of editor-selected Web sites, correlations to curriculum standards, and much more.
Designed for high school and college students, World Book Advanced is a powerful reference tool that includes encyclopedic, multimedia, e-book, and primary source databases, fully integrated in a single search.
World Book Discover, for differentiated instruction, includes reference articles, text-to-speech capabilities, learning and life skills activities, research tools, multimedia, and interactive video.
Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos offers World Book’s excellent editorial content, rich media, and interactive features in Spanish.
The Early World of Learning offers a wealth of resources to help preschoolers and children in the early grades grasp critical early childhood themes while developing reading and oral language skills. The Early World of Learning uses narrated stories with word-by-word highlighting, interactive games, interactive reference material for beginners, and more to help young learners build vocabulary, comprehension, phonics, and reading fluency.
ProQuest reference databases offer comprehensive publication collections, in both full-text and full page image, that meets a wide range of research demands. From general reference to advanced subject matter, ProQuest has it all.
Offers more than 2,000 full-text sources, with improved functionality, and a fun and easy-to-use search interface. Includes magazines, newspapers, books, television/radio transcripts, maps, pictures, and audio/video clips.
Our young learner-tested design makes research a blast! Stocked with age-appropriate articles, videos, sounds, pictures, and much more.
CultureGrams helps you discover the world with concise cultural and statistical snapshots of every country recognized by the United Nations -- from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. Local experts document the unique, intimate details of each country's customs, traditions and daily life.
Clear, concise, and thorough materials synthesize volumes of news articles, primary sources, books, and opinion pieces generated by each conflict over the years--giving students access to digestible quantities of in-depth information for analysis, further research, or debate.
Mid-Columbia Library System has several electronic resources available at their website. Students will need to have a library card in order to access on-line databases. You can apply for the free library card on the MCLS website or stop in at any of their locations (including the Benton City Library).
Mid-Columbia Libary System Home Page.
Kids Page.
Teen Zone.
Homework Help.
Google search for kids and teens.