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Guided Tour
Your guide to getting started with
Britannica School.
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The Landing Page Intermediate Homepage
On this page you can search in any level. Each of the levels has its own dropdown search
box. You can also click on ‘Foundation’, ‘Intermediate’ or ‘Advanced’ to go directly to each
respective homepage.
Through Explore Britannica students can:
• Browse Articles by subject
• Look for Biographies by era, nationality, gender
and/or significance Check out our Did You
• Explore the World Atlas Know? videos – these
Britannica School button – this
• Compare statistical information between different alternating videos are
button appears at the top of every
countries with our Compare Countries tool a great way to start a
page; clicking it will bring you back
to the Landing Page so that you can discussion or learn new and
start a new search or switch levels. interesting facts about a
variety of topics.
Each level – Foundation, Intermediate and Advanced – has its own homepage containing
age-appropriate, interactive features and unique ways to explore the site.
Foundation Homepage
Students can answer quiz
questions, which will lead
them into the related
Britannica article to learn
more!
Here are some shortcuts to
great features like our World
Atlas and Compare Countries.
Students can also find our Newsfeed – with current, age-
Geography Explorer, learn appropriate news stories on all
about different animals in homepages. The Foundation level
Animal Kingdom and browse by has CBBC, Intermediate level has
topic in Articles from this menu. BBC and the Advanced level has
NYT and the BBC.
v
Advanced Homepage Search Results Page
Current Search – here you can search multiple levels at once.
By providing three content levels tailored to literacy ability,
• Resources and Tools – here students can find lots of resources for their
students can navigate to the level that is suitable for them
projects, including:
without changing the age-appropriate visual appearance.
• Pre-Research Planner – helps students think about the before, during and
after of researching, teaching students to research instead of just search
• How To’s – guides to research presentation including research papers,
book reviews, science reports and presentations.
Here you can see our many content
Check out our New and Revised
types that are included in every
Articles section. Britannica guarantees
search, such as images, journals
to be continuously updated and here
and recommended websites.
you can see which articles we’ve
recently added or updated.
Article Page
Here students can switch between the
These tabs help you navigate between the article three different reading levels – Foundation,
and relevant multimedia. The ‘Related’ tab takes Intermediate and Advanced – to view content
students to a page where they will find encyclopedia levels tailored to their literacy ability. Students
articles that relate to your search topic. This navigate to the level that is suitable without
helps students expand their research and make changing the age-appropriate interface.
meaningful connections while researching.
These navigation tools make it
easy for students to take action:
This is the article’s table • ‘Favourite’ an article
of contents. You can view • Print
the Table of Contents • E-mail
throughout the article by • Easy Citations
clicking on these buttons. • Google Translate
• Text-to-speech
• Increase font size
• Decrease Font size
Every article has the ‘double-click
dictionary’. Double click on any
word to see its definition – a handy
tool to help build confidence for
students with different English
language levels and offer challenging
extensions for excelling students.
Contact us now for a free
demonstration in your
school today!
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