The world's information at your fingertips

Product Information

Jam packed with over 20 million words and 57,000 articles, and designed expressly to match student school curriculum needs, this is the perfect resource for school reports and presentations as well as being a fascinating resource for general reference about the complexities of the world we live in! The program also features bonus links to additional online resources and an interactive quiz to test your knowledge and analysis! The program has a clear, engaging interface which makes the large amount of encyclopedia information easy to use and fun to navigate.


Product Highlights

• Encyclopedia
  Search or browse thousands of articles by using the quick keyword search or the advanced search option.
  
• Curriculum Links
  Use the menu to access thousands of links and view data in multiple curriculum categories.
  
• Atlas
  Clear, easy-to-navigate maps have extensive links for more in-depth research.
  
• Chart Builder
  Build bar charts and pie graphs to compare different statistics relating to the countries of the world.  You can even export the data for use in a spreadsheet.
  
• Quiz
  The built-in interactive quiz will test your knowledge and analysis.
  
• Timeline
  This huge compendium of information can be viewed and compared in many ways to analyze data.  Look at subject areas, view 13,000 historical events, compare the same point in time or even build your own timeline for a particular period, subject, or particular day.  Get big picture viewpoints or focus more narrowly on the lives and eras of famous people.

Product Features

• Over 20 million words
• Over 57,000 hyperlinked articles
• Diagrams and animations to help explain difficult concepts
• Photos, sound clips, and videos bring topics to life
• Full of special feature essays, quotations, and amazing facts
• Thousands of links to web resources
• Pop-up dictionary
• Ideal for students ages 12 and Up

Windows Requirements

• Windows 98, Me, 2000, XP, Vista
• Pentium III processor
• 512 MB of RAM
• Internet Explorer 5.5 or above
• Flash Player 7 or above
• At least 65, 536 colors
• Sound Card
• Web connection
• Mouse
• Keyboard
• CD-ROM drive