GET A JUMP ON IT!

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GET A JUMP ON IT!
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Teaching any of these science topics?

• Animals
• Classification
• Endangered and Extinct Species
• Food Chains and Food Webs
• Green Living
• Habitats and Ecosystems
• Human Body
• Life Cycles
• Plants
• Survival and Adaptation

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• PowerKids Life Science is a winner!an excellent
  foray into the elementary database world.
• Connie Williams, Teacher Librarian, Petaluma
  School District, CA
• Extremely kid-friendly! Our science teachers
  appreciate the simple and uncluttered look and
  structure.
• Rosemary Rich, Library Media Specialist,
  University Middle School, NJ
• Fantasticuser-friendly and easy to
  navigateThis database is exactly what elementary
  teachers have been waiting for.
• Tamzen Kulyk, Teacher-Librarian, Saskatoon
  Public School Division, Saskatchewan
• A wonderful product that will be a really useful
  addition to any school or public librarys
  digital collection! PowerKids Life Science will
  benefit its target audience in grades 3 to 6, as
  well as serve as a valuable research tool for
  older students with reading difficulties.
• Joanne de Groot, Department of Elementary
  Education, Teacher-Librarianship by Distance
  Learning, University of Alberta

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Introducing PowerKnowledge Life Science!
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PowerKnowledge Life Science

• New online resource from Rosen Publishing
• Grades 36
• Directly supports elementary and middle school
  life science curriculum
• Interactive features
• 24/7 access at school or home
• Promotes digital literacy and 21st-century
  learning skills
• Research, report, and homework help

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Learners will enjoy

• Appealing, friendly interface
• Over 400 articles with text-to-speech
• Videos and audio that enhance and extend
  learning
• Interactive games to reinforce skills and
  content
• Hands-on Science Fair Projects and Experiments

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Educators will appreciate

• Correlations to national, state, and provincial
  science curriculum
• Lesson plans, reproducibles, print-and-label
  worksheets, and experiments
• Resource sections with Web sites and recommended
  reading lists
• Promotes green living and learning
• Inspires and extends independent scientific
  inquiry

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Homepage
Appealing, friendly interface with prominent
search tool
Explore topics with visual browse.
Dynamic, high-interest video brings content to
life and supports visual learners.
Key content draws users into the resource to
encourage scientific inquiry.
Pedagogically-based games reinforce skills and
content.
Interactive quizzes encourage users to interact
with content.
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Searching for content
Finding content in the database can be done two
different ways from the homepage.
Using the search bar.
Using the visual browse.
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Using the search bar
Type what you are looking for in the search bar
at the top of the homepage.
Click on the magnifying glass to search.
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Using visual browse
Click on a topic category located in the
left-hand column of the homepage.
Topics are designed to correlate with subject
units in the curriculum.
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Using visual browse
Allows readers of all levels to navigate the
resource. Just click on any category and it will
lead to subcategories.
All subcategories and entries are just one click
away.
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Navigating an article

• Science concepts are made accessible to all
  learners.
• Topic is presented comprehensively in about
  1,000 words.
• Table of contents allows students to navigate
  within an article.
• All articles feature Find Out More and
  Glossary.

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Navigating an article

• Print or email an entire article or an article
  section.
• Citations can be automatically generated in MLA7
  and APA format.
• Investigate related articles.

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Navigating an article

• Text-to-speech helps students read and
  understand the content.
• Video, audio, and photos demonstrate and
  reinforce key concepts.

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Navigating an article

• Each page contains links to
• Science Fair Projects and Experiments
• Resources for educators
• Interactive Games

• Large, colorful images make articles fun and
  interesting.
• Citations listed in MLA7 and APA formats.

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Teacher/Librarian Resources
From curriculum correlations and lesson plans, to
promotional materials and Web widgets, to online
training and usage statistics, you can find all
the tools you need.
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Interactive games
Interactive games reinforce key science concepts
while developing learning skills.
Curriculum correlations and lesson plans
integrate games with classroom learning.
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Interactive games
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• Kid-friendly in both look and functiona
  well-crafted resource that will enhance student
  research.
• School Library Journal
• This Website will be a hit with both students
  and teachersprovides a unique resource to
  younger studentsone that will encourage a love
  of science at an early age.
• American Reference Books Annual
• Provides easy-to-access information for young
  students and would be a useful addition for
  school and public libraries.
• Booklist

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About Rosen Publishing

• Rosen Publishing is an independent educational
  publishing house, established in 1950 to serve
  the needs of students in grades PreK to 12th
  grade with high-interest, curriculum-correlated
  materials. Rosen publishes more than 750 new
  print and eBooks each year.
• Rosen Digital launched its inaugural database,
  the award-winning, critically acclaimed Teen
  Health Wellness Real Life, Real Answers, in
  2007. The resource has garnered stellar reviews
  from School Library Journal, Library Journal,
  Booklist, and American Libraries, and is
  available in libraries and schools world-wide..
• The PowerKnowledge Life Science online database
  for grades 36 has been created in collaboration
  with educators across North American by the same
  extraordinary team that built Teen Health
  Wellness. It is one of three databases in the
  PowerKnowledge Science suite, also including
  PowerKnowledge Earth Space Science and
  PowerKnowledge Physical Science.