Main features of World Book Kids:

Activities

World Book Kids features activities in three categories:

Make It! activities, which include hands-on activities, such as "Paper Maker", recycling new paper from old paper.

Think It! activities, which include analytical exercises and puzzles, such as "Triangle Hunt".

Be It! activities, which include "Dig In! Pretend to Be a Geologist!", and activity that teaches about the soil and its contents.

Each activity is available in a teacher's version, with discussion questions and a evaluation matrix.

Articles

The following elements are available in World Book Kids's articles:

 ·The article text

 ·Images (pictures, illustrations, and/or maps)

 ·The article outline in the left-hand column

 ·Links to related articles

 ·Links to related Web sites

 ·Citation information

 ·Activities

 ·Play It! quiz feature

Dictionary

World Book Kids' dictionary is available wherever you are in World Book Kids. The dictionary contains more than 248,000 definitions that you can display.

You can search the dictionary by typing a word in the Search window on the dictionary homepage, available from the "Dictionary" tab at the top of any page in the site. Click on Go or press Enter, and the definition of the word you have selected will appear.

Maps

Maps of today's world are available from the "Maps" tab at the top of any page in the site. Maps are also found in the articles to which they relate, including states, provinces, countries, and historical articles. To view maps, click on the "Maps" tab at the top of any page in the site.

Pictures

World Book Kids features a special section for pictures. Available from the "Pictures" tab at the top of any page in the site, the pictures section can be searched or browsed by subject category. Pictures will also be returned as a content type in a search in the standard (green) search box.

Sounds

World Book Kids offers audio clips of bird songs, popular and classical music, national anthems, and much more. To play sound clips, users will need the Adobe Flash plug-in, which is already installed on most browsers.