PRODUCT OVERVIEW
The
leader in leveled search, Grolier Online® is the most trusted
reference and information resource for 21st century learners.
With feature-rich resources that support differentiated instruction and
content area learning, Grolier Online is a key instructional tool for
teachers and an essential research tool for students.
Eight curriculum-aligned research modules have been designed to
supplement the core curriculum and support the research needs of students
of all ages:
- The New Book of Knowledge®
- Reference and current events for elementary school and up. Fun and
easy to use with leveled text to help students gain access to a wide
range of topics.
- Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia™ - Quick reference with
extensive articles and rich media resources for middle school and high
school students.
- Encyclopedia Americana®
- In-depth research and worldwide current events for older students and
adults.
- La Nueva Enciclopedia Cumbre - A complete resource for
Spanish speakers and advanced Spanish-language students.
- America the Beautiful - Up-to-date coverage of the states,
noted Americans, and U.S. history.
- Lands and Peoples - Up-to-date information on countries,
cultures and current events.
- The New Book of Popular Science - The latest in-depth
science, health,and technology research.
-
Amazing Animals of the World - Introduces young researchers to
nearly 1,200 wild animals and their habitats.
Powerful Feature-Rich Resources
In addition to hundred’s of thousands of age-appropriate, leveled
reference articles, Grolier Online includes a broad array of
resources that supplement the core curriculum and enhance the learning
experience, including:
- Rich multimedia resources (photos, panoramas, animations, video,
etc.)
- Age-appropriate and academically relevant pre-screened Web links.
- More than 100,000 full-text periodical articles.
- Web links to International Newspapers in the language that they are
published.
- Over 30,000 article bibliographies citing over 136,000 print
sources.
- Five dictionaries, two thesauri and an interactive atlas.
- News Features: Grolier Online Kids contains age-appropriate
current events, while Grolier Online Passport contains more
in-depth current events taken from wire services such as the Associated
Press.
- Homework Help, Research Starters, and Science Projects,
designed to help students explore new topics, learn how to research and
jump-start in-school and after-school projects.
- A For Educators section, accessible from the Grolier
Online Kids and Grolier Online Passport research
environments. Features include Lesson plans correlated to the Ohio
Academic Content Standards, Lexile®
Level article search, Pro/Con debates with lesson plans, Printables, and
Professional Development Web links.
Two Differentiated, Age Appropriate Research Environments
Two differentiated, age-appropriate research environments facilitate
research and learning for students at all levels. Grolier Online Kids
is designed for students in grades 3-5 and English Language Learners.
Grolier Online Passport is designed for older students and adults.
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Remote Access is included with your school’s subscription, enabling
students to access Grolier Online’s powerful resources 24/7 from home or
anywhere with Internet access.
Web accessibility (ADA, Section 508 compliance): Grolier Online has been committed to
releasing ADA-compliant versions of all of its encyclopedia databases since 2002, when the
Encyclopedia Americana was the first database to upgraded to include an ADA-compliant version. Since
then, all of Grolier Online's major encyclopedia databases have been upgraded to include
ADA-compliant versions: Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, The New Book of
Knowledge and Enciclopedia Cumbre en Linea. Additionally, The New Book of
Popular Science is also offered in ADA-compliant format, and the Grolier Online home
pages and environments also adhere to the Section 508 guidelines, although no text-only
versions have been created.
Given the complex nature of many of the features in our encyclopedias, we have adopted
a two-tiered approach for achieving satisfactory levels of compliance. Over the next two
years, we will be incorporating as many ADA-compliant features as are feasible into the
"graphical" (regular) versions of each Grolier Online encyclopedia database;
at the same time, to ensure maximum compliance, we have also created "text-only"
versions of each.
For Technical Support:
Grolier Online Customer/Technical Support is available from 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. ET
every business day toll-free at 888-326-6546, Option #2 twice.
Customer/Technical Support is also available via e-mail at
gosupport@scholasticlibrary.com.
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Library Publishing's National Account Manager
Phone: 501-224-0266
E-mail: cbrown@scholasticlibrary.com
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