ESL/Bilingual Education Resources

Get to Know Badgerlink - Library Resources for All Wisconsin Residents

BadgerLink is Wisconsin’s online library which provides access to subscription content. These resources are provided exclusively for use by all Wisconsin residents and are materials that are not available through regular search engines such as Google. BadgerLink provides access to many educational resources for students, educators, and librarians, including:

• 8,000+ full text magazines and journals 
• Lesson planning resources such as TeachingBooks and Explora for Educators
• Primary sources like firsthand accounts and American foundational documents
• Standards-based content including reference books, encyclopedias, photos, maps, flags, animations, and videos
• STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) materials such as science experiments and skill-building practice tests 
• Test preparation materials and practice tests for ACT, SAT, AP, ASVAB, GED, CLEP and more! 

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• Wisconsin residents: One benefit of the 60+ resources provided through BadgerLink is the seamless access possible at your library or school, no login needed! 
•  Here's how you and your students have access 

Not a Badger? Illinois, Indiana, and Residents of Other States

The BadgerLink contracts stipulate that access is given only to Wisconsin residents. See resources provided by other states below:

Here are some search tips to remember when searching the databases.

1. Be sure to mark the "peer reviewed" or "scholarly" limit when searching for peer reviewed articles.

2. Use quotation marks around phrases (e.g. "health education", "type II diabetes")

3. Use the word "AND" between different concepts.

4. Use the word "OR" between similar concepts.

5. A common truncation symbol in the databases is the asterisk symbol *. Using this will allow you to search for various forms of the word in one step. For example, strateg* will search for strategy, strategies, strategize, and strategic.

Here are some example searches:

• ("experimental methods" or "nontraditional education" or "experimental teaching") and autism
• (treatment* or strateg* or approach* or method*) and "Prader Willi Syndrome"
• "health education" and (certif* or credent*)