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• PDF for Britannica Online School Edition - K-12 Schools
• PDF for Britannica Online - Public Library Version
• PDF for Britannica Online - Academic Version

Britannica Online School Edition is the largest single K12 database available today. With over 56 million words of information and more than 130,000 articles, your students will find exactly what they are looking for when they do research in Britannica Online School Edition. Designed for all levels of learning, Britannica Online School Edition offers students a gateway to the vast resources of Encyclopedia Britannica. Britannica Online School Edition gives teachers and students instant access to four complete encyclopedias that ensure consistency with classroom topics and age-appropriate language. This unique database also offers high-quality online learning materials developed by teachers and curriculum experts, as well as a dictionary, thesaurus, Internet guide, atlas, and more. Users can search all encyclopedias simultaneously, or select a single age-appropriate database.

Designed for all levels of learning from Elementary school and up,
Britannica Online School Edition contains:

Britannica Online School Edition is offering even more curriculum alignment and support!

BOLSE supports the New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards. With just a few clicks of the mouse, this new feature provides educators with quick, easy access to standards and benchmarks linked to supporting encyclopedia articles. Conveniently organized by topic and grade level, these articles plus hundreds of printable and online curriculum-based learning activities are ideal for use in the classroom, media center, or computer lab.

The Britannica Learning Zone, a PK-2 Interactive Learning Environment
(Product description in .pdf)

This database gives teachers an online solution designed specifically for the needs of grades PK-2. Learning Zone is a classroom-tested, interactive learning environment that gives early learners enjoyable, engaging, and developmentally appropriate activities to help grow their minds, their spirits, and their intellectual horizons.

Britannica's Global Reference Center
http://global.eb.com
PDF for Global Reference Center which describes in detail the languages offered

Britannica’s Global Reference Center is an extensive collection of Encyclopaedia Britannica’s foreign language content, offering trustworthy information in Spanish, Japanese, Korean, simplified Chinese, and French. Users will find comprehensive global content on subjects such as art, geography, history, politics, science, sports, technology and more!
 
Each site also contains additional local content – including culture, history and traditions – specific to each product. Brilliant photos, detailed maps, and other images accompany the text, engaging readers and encouraging further learning. Clean designs and powerful search engines make it easy to find information. Vast and thorough yet intuitive and fast, the Global Reference Center is ideal for native speakers and students of foreign languages.

Spanish Reference Center
Spanish Reference Center delivers two products in one.
PlanetaSaber, geared for academic-level research, is the perfect resource for native Spanish speakers, bilingual students, and students learning Spanish. PlanetaSaber features the Gran Enciclopedia Planeta, the most comprehensive encyclopedia in the Spanish language, including over 145,000 encyclopedia articles, more than 10,000 maps, photos, and media pieces, and 8,000 Internet links ! Special features include a visual navigator, interactive atlas, and multilanguage dictionary.
Enciclopedia Juvenil, for younger ages, helps students sharpen their language skills while they learn new lessons.
 
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Winner of the AEP Distinguished Achievement Award and Teachers' Choice Award !
Spanish Reference Centerdelivers two products in one -- a reference collection for academic users as well as another for younger, less advanced users just learning Spanish.  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.
PlanetaSaber, the most comprehensive encyclopedia in the Spanish language, includes over 144,000 encyclopedia articles plus images, maps, and tables.  Complete with a dictionary, atlas, and timelines, it's the perfect rsource for native Spanish speakers, bilingual students, and students learning Spanish.  Enciclopedia Juvenil provides a Spanish Elementary Encyclopedia with 1,5000 afticles, images, Spanish-language videos, and Spanish Learning Materials specifically designed for younger students.  These resources are designed to help students sharpen their language skills whihle they learn new lessons.

Key Features Include:

• Access to over 145,000 articles from PlanetaSaber and Enciclopedia Juvenil
• More than 10,500 photos, graphics, and multimedia elements
• Dictionary, visual navigator, interactive atlas, and world data statistics
• Learning materials and student help materials

You can choose to link to Spanish Reference Center with includes the two databases for different levels, or you can choose to link to just the advanced PlanetaSaber.
Detailed product descriptions and training materials for our online products may be found at http://www.eb.com/training (The Spanish info on this site is still under process of updating.).

Encyclopaedia Britannica Online Japan
With over 155,000 encyclopedia articles from the complete Encyclopaedia Britannica International Encyclopedia and more than 9,000 photos, illustrations, and maps, Encyclopaedia Britannica Online Japan is a comprehensive reference source for both students and researchers. The content maintains its currency with articles from the Britannica International Yearbook and regularly updated home page features.

Encyclopaedia Britannica Online Korea
Ideal for students, schools, researchers, and universities, Encyclopaedia Britannica Online Korea includes more than 110,000 articles from the Korean version of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, the Korean Britannica Book of the Year, Yonsei University's Korean Dictionary, and a world atlas. This content is brought to life by more than 19,300 photos, graphics, animations, videos, and audio clips. Britannica Online Korea is a truly authoritative and comprehensive resource for global and Korean content.

Britannica Concise Encyclopedia (Chinese)
In an increasingly global world, the Britannica Concise Encyclopedia meets the needs of Chinese speakers and students of Chinese. Over 27,000 entries, plus 1,600 images and 200 maps, provide the answers you need, while engaging multimedia supports the articles and demonstrates more complicated topics. Article titles are provided in both English and simplified Chinese for easier search and retrieval.

Encyclopaedia Universalis (French)
Powered by a fast and intelligent search engine, Encyclopaedia Universalis Online provides access to more than 33,000 articles including exclusive articles, weekly and monthly dossiers that delve into current events and issues about today's world, 17,000 media items, a world atlas with over 700 maps, an integrated dictionary with 120,000 entries, and a guide to selected Web sites. Enjoy the most comprehensive encyclopedia in the French language with the speed and convenience of the Internet.

Student News Net  New!     
www.studentnewsnet.eb.com
PDF for Student News Net
Britannica’s Student News Net engages students with timely, relevant news and current events.  Designed for students in grades 4-8, related learning activities and lesson plans teach students how to organize facts, make connections, and use information in problem-solving activities.  In the attachment above you will find a PDF which describes in detail the maters it covers.

Britannica SmartMath New!
PDF for Britannica SmartMath
(a Supplemental Math Practice Formative Assessment Tool)                                            

Grade Level: 1 to 6
Britannica SmartMath is the perfect companion for your elementary math program.  With 35,000 math problems that cover 91 topics all aligned with NCTM standards, students are never presented the same question twice, so there is no item fatigue.  As they practice, the difficulty level of the questions increases progressively according to performance; if appropriate, topics for remediation are suggested.  Teachers can easily access Instant Progress Check, which summarizes student time on task, success rates, and item analysis at the touch of a button.  Downloadable reports are available to analyze class performance and report overall progress.  SmartMath is the world’s most advanced formative assessment and math practice system.

Math Focus
Build solid foundation in the five learning dimensions of math: Number, Measures, Shapes, and Space, Data Handling, 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.

Join us for an online demonstration for SmartMath.  You only need a telephone and a computer with an Internet connection for this brief, 20-minute presentation.  Simply go to www.info.eb.com click on Free Demonstrations select a date and time and click on the link to register. 

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