Energy Sources - H-B Woodlawn

Bill’s students are studying sources of energy. The library recommends these resources for exploration:

Databases:

Kids Info Bits – you can browse the science categories of this database for articles, images and links
Science in Context – browse or perform an “advanced search” to find videos, news, images
Brainpop is linked from Bill’s Canvas Course Menu. Bill has the password
NewsELA is linked from Bill’s Canvas Course Menu for current events about weather

Multi-user E-Books:

Use your i-Pad’s MackinVia App and find multi-user e-books.

Use your i-Pad’s MackinVia App and find over 5000 e-books that have been offered for many readers to enjoy at time until September 2020. (That means you don’t have to wait on line for it if it is currently checked out by another patron.) Here are just a couple of the books we find when we look up “Power Resources” and filter with the “multi-user” option under “more.”

The 12 biggest breakthroughs in energy technology by Eboch, M. M.
Critical perspectives on fossil fuels vs. renewable energy by Cunningham, Anne C.
Powering a city by Willett, Edward
Energy supply by Hunter, Rebecca

Here are just a couple of the 65 multi-user e- books Maggie found when she looked up “electricity.” Loaded with graphics, glossaries. Some even have experiments to try.

Electricity by Anderson, Michael
Energy technology by Hulick, Kathryn
Natural gas power by Bailey, Diane
Nuclear power by Bailey, Diane
Ocean energy by Murray, Laura K.

BEGIN the process of Logging in with this school name: H-B Woodlawn… (notice the hyphen between the H and the B… and the spaces…) Then your i-Pad will take you to the next login step (from APS) where you use your lunch number and password required for APS logins.

Single User E-Books:

Use THIS LINK to get descriptions of amazing e-books that H-B’s library has. We login to the library’s catalog to find them and check them out. Each title can be signed out by only one user at a time. So remember to “return” your e-book to our catalog when you finish with it. (After 3 weeks, the e-book automatically returns itself.) How to access H-B Library e-books.

H-B Library’s e-books about energy included the following great titles; see a longer list here.

Poop is power! – Koontz, Robin Michal
Climate change : our warming Earth – Hand, Carol
How does weather change? – Boothroyd, Jennifer
Investigating the carbon cycle – Lindeen, Mary
Natural disasters through infographics – Higgins, Nadia
Natural gas power – Bailey, Diane
The nitrogen cycle – Dakers, Diane
Nuclear power – Bailey, Diane
Ocean : a visual encyclopedia – Woodward, John
People and the planet – Sirota, Lyn A.Really rotten truth about composting – Mangor, Jodie
Solar power – Bailey, Diane
Swept away : the story of the 2011 Japanese tsunami – Rissman, Rebecca
Understanding global warming with Max Axiom, super scientist – Biskup, Agnieszka
Weather and climate through infographics – Rowell, Rebecca
Why?. The wind blows – Orr, Tamra
Wind – Cox Cannons, Helen
Wind power – Bailey, Diane