1. One way to use the Lili database Go to lili.org

2. Select your grade level

3. For this one, I’m going to use Explora

4. And I’m going to select the ‘More’ button under history

5. Don’t panic on this page. The letters are just what the site builders used as the alphabetical designations for the searches they created for you. I’ll show you.

6. If I go to the ‘R’ designation, I can see they already have a search written for ‘Roman Republic’. If I click on that link, I will get the results for that search they already created.

7. Here it is. Note that I can change the search terms in the search bar and change the results.

8. Here I changed the search and the results changed along with it. Notice that if I want to include more than one word in my search I need to add the word ‘AND’ in all capitals between the words I want to search. This is called a Boolean search. If you want to learn more about Boolean searches, you can look them up on the web. This is a good link.This is a good link.

9. You can also change the criteria for what you want the search to find. This is probably too complicated for now, but if you want help with it, ask.

10. At this point I can select the title of the article and see a summary along with the link to it, or I can select the version of the article available and read the article directly.

11. Notice the articles that are presented in HTML full text versions also allow you to access the sound files so you can listen to them. And you can change up the accents.