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Continent. Country. Region. State. From the heights of Mount Everest to the depths of the Dead Sea, Grolier Online's newest addition, Land and Peoples Online gives educators and students the only reference they'll need on the continents, countries, cultures, and current events of the world. Check it out now at http://go.grolier.com. Based on Grolier Educational's popular six-volume print set, Land and Peoples Online provides its users with vibrant multi-media access to 330 highly-interactive, continually updated, informative, easy-to-understand articles on the continents and countries of the world, presenting a full complement of: • 350
maps, 270 flags, and 500 photos, all in brilliant color Designed for grades 5 and up, Lands and Peoples Online boasts special features created specifically for online users: • Focus: North America - targets articles covering the United States, Canada, Mexico, and the Bahamas, and their various regions, states, and provinces. It's packed with photos, maps, flags, and fact boxes. Links emphasize local colleges and universities, historical sites, and more. A special section presents the Mexican states in both Spanish and English. • Global News Desk - a weekly spotlight on three current-events figuring prominently in the news. Recent stories include, "Trinidadians Save Turtles," and "Brits Battle 'Euro-Metrics.'" Each piece is linked to appropriate maps and articles in the Encyclopedia. Many include special lesson plans with study guide questions, vocabulary lists, and printable follow-up activities. • Culture Cross - a unique interactive feature allowing direct on-screen comparisons between any two continents, countries, states/provinces and their land, people, economy, history, facts and figures. • Electronic Atlas - allows students to combine and associate flags, maps and fact boxes, targeting their subject by the categories: city, exploration, climate, geological, culture, historical, economic, population, environment, and time zone. • Passport to Fun - Via innovative games, puzzles, quizzes and brainteasers, users can explore the lighter, sometimes more challenging side to countries, cultures, and current events. Its three categories are 'Picture This,' 'Game Zone,' and 'Quiz Master' • L&P Almanac - an extensive appendix-like database featuring dozens of tables, listings and statistics. Students can access an alphabetical listing of every article hypertext-linked to the site's 'Facts and Figures,' flags, and selected reading databases. A glossary of geographical terms is also provided. • The Grolier Internet Index - like every other Grolier Online database, Lands and Peoples Online offers access to thousands of pre-screened Internet links related to encyclopedia articles, directly from the article pages. Continually checked, updated and refined, this index is one of the most useful references on the Internet. The multifaceted Lands and Peoples Online site also provides educators with a top-notch Teacher's Guide packed with a wealth of practical applications for the classroom and library. Grolier Educational is the number-one publisher for schools, providing online access to its reference titles to nearly 20 million students. In addition to Lands and Peoples Online, titles include The New Book of Popular Science Online, The New Book of Knowledge, Encyclopedia Americana, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, and the Spanish language Nueva Enciclopedia Cumbre en linea. Grolier Educational, a unit of Grolier Publishing, is one of the country's leading publishers of educational and reference books. |
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