ESL/Bilingual Education Resources

Future Teachers: Get to Know Badgerlink!

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:

• 3,100 royalty-free songs and sound effects
• 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! 

Get started lesson planning with Badgerlink

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*)

View a brief tutorial