This user-friendly collection contains all of the resources that students need including encyclopedias, an atlas, historic timelines, a dictionary, news, and other essential learning tools. 21st-Century Explorer is ideal for reluctant readers, ELL and ESL students, and adult literacy students.

Two encyclopedias for differentiated learning
Level 1 provides easy-to-read articles on all school subjects. Students will naturally progress to Level 2 as they build their vocabulary, improve their reading ability, and develop research skills. Both levels have Britannica's "Read Aloud" feature.

Build confidence through learning games and activities
Engage students with fun exercises that teach new language arts, math, science, and social studies skills. Interactive games allow students to practice and test themselves on what they've learned in the classroom.

Teacher resources
Training materials, learning materials that are correlated to curriculum standards, newsletters, and other helpful resources help teachers take full advantage of the site.

A Complete Online Solution for Early-Childhood Learning
An interactive atlas, online art activities, interactive games and learning materials, audio and video, and vocabulary builders teach concepts that children are curious about, such as geography, numbers, colors, time, and sounds.

Related to the Curriculum
Activities and materials teach the same concepts taught in the classroom and build skills in science, language arts, math, and social studies.

Teacher Tools
A comprehensive Teacher’s Guide is included with ideas on how to incorporate Learning Zone into your lesson plans. Get ideas on how to review and produce reports on student progress too.

Interactive maps and videos let children travel the world without leaving their seats. They decide where they want to go, discovering the world beyond while learning basic geography.

Interactive games and learning materials provide a play-based environment where students have fun and learn in ways appropriate to their age.

Word and letter activities based on the new Merriam-Webster’s Primary Dictionary entertain as they lay the foundation for reading and spelling by expanding students’ vocabulary.

Learning Zone gives children what they need to unlock their creativity, with a powerful online art and drawing program. Student masterpieces can be printed and posted on the classroom bulletin board or e-mailed home.

This valuable online chronicle provides a year-by-year documentary of American thought and action. Read the original words of more than 1,500 authors who made and analyzed American history through their speeches, writings, memoirs, poems, and interviews.

An extensive collection of Encyclopædia Britannica's foreign language content, offering trustworthy information in Spanish, Japanese, Korean, simplified Chinese, and French.
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Delivers two products in one—a reference collection for ages 6-12 and another for the high school and college ages. Separate home pages for each level allow schools and libraries to tailor the product to their users' needs, making it the only online Spanish-language database that offers age-appropriate content for everyone.
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Math Focus
Build solid foundations in the five learning dimensions of math: Number and Operations, Measurement, Geometry, Data Analysis and Probability, and Algebra.

Student Focus
Students spend more time on task, because they are engaged by the animated characters, motivated by the Star rewards system, and enjoying success by building math skills at their individual learning levels.

Teacher Focus
Formative assessments may be customized for a grade, a class, or individual students by math topic or by state standards.

Each photo or illustration comes with complete metadata, including the source, the copyright holder, caption, and keywords. Because Britannica has done the work of finding the best photos—most of which are not freely available on the Web—you can trust the source and be certain that you’re using an accurate photo.

Images can be downloaded, printed, saved in a “Lightbox” or virtual folder, or e-mailed as jpegs or gifs.

Coming Soon — Video collections!