Multimedia World of Animals

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Community Review for World Book's World of Animals

Michelle M.
Michelle M.
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My Take

This comprehensive, multimedia encyclopedia of animals is an excellent resource for all students to enhance their understanding of animals and their habitats. The app is well designed to give students the opportunity to learn and discover many facts through a variety of options in text, videos, sound, and photos. The activities are an added bonus that provide an interesting way to compare and rank animals. This is an excellent research tool for independent study, group activities, or whole group instruction.

How I Use It

Our science curriculum covers a unit on Animal Habitats. We learn about different land and water environments and the animals that inhabit them. As a culminating project we complete animal reports. This app is an excellent resource for students to gather their information about an animal and prepare a presentation to share with the class. Students were assigned a particular habitat and given independent work time to explore the variety of resources and information provided.

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joshua g.
joshua g. Teacher Pikesville Middle School Pikesville, MD
April 13, 2020

Fun and Engaging Way to Learn About Animals

Really like the product. Easy to use, kids love it. No changes required.
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John H.
John H. Teacher
September 7, 2014

Great resource for information, but more than just a one-trick pony.

I think this is worth the money, but there is also a fully featured 'Lite' version that just features fewer animals which would be fine for the activity I have outlined above. In addition to the benefits stated above, there is a 'Guess Who' game, which for older children was perhaps a little easy as the multiple choice options made the correct answer fairly obvious, but would be great for younger ones. I could also see it as a stimulus/model for children to design their own similar activity using 'Kahoot'. One drawback I found was that some of the information can be conflicting, for example the Gorilla is listed as being 4 feet long, but 6 feet tall, I'm not sure where the 4 feet long figure comes from? Then for the Panda, an animal with similar proportions and body shape to the gorilla, only length is listed and there is no mention of height. However, overall, this is a minor drawback and I would heartily recommend this App.
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