ut it's all good!)First the search box on the Grolier Online Passport page makes it easy, quick, and quite frankly a bit magical to search all these fine resources at once.
Let's take a closer look at what's in the magic box. For starters you get access to five different encyclopedic resources: Encyclopedia Americana, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, The New Book of Knowledge, Lands and Peoples and America the Beautiful. But wait, there's more....
On the dictionary front, you get five different American Heritage dictionaries: Dictionary of the English Language, Student Dictionary, Children's Dictionary, Spanish to English Dictionary and (just to be fair) the English to Spanish Dictionary. That's a lot of dictionary-ing (a word not in any of these dictionaries, I checked.)
But what about an online atlas? Glad you asked. The atlas features geopolitical maps (of course), thematic maps (on such topics as agriculture, population, plate tectonics, religion and more), and the always handy global distances (which allows you to find the distance between different cities in the world.) Of course there's more (like the exploration routes of the circumnavigators, but that's just too much for one blog entry.)
What else do you want, lesson plans for educators? Got 'em. Featured news stories and an international news desk. But of course.
This is a great resource for K-12 students starting to scratch the surface (and sometimes even get beneath the surface) of their paper topics. If you are of a certain age, you can jump right to the Grolier Online Kids page and search the resource in another great, age-appropriate interface. Kids, just think about all this authoritative information without the shaky URLs from your unverifiable sources on the Internet. It's so book-like (yet not-so-book-like), you'll love it.
Set your course for adventure with the Grolier Online Passport!
*Incidentally, even though your heart is in the right place, please don't donate this encyclopedia to the library, thank you.
