Britannica Expedition: Learn!
From “Have to Learn” to “Want to Know”
Spark grade-3–8 curiosity and save time with ready-made science and social studies lessons that build content knowledge, strengthen literacy, and inspire critical thinking.
Teach with Confidence. Inspire with Curiosity.
Teachers juggle full classrooms, complex standards, and limited prep time. Expedition: Learn! simplifies instruction with ready-to-teach, standards-aligned lessons, engaging activities, and teacher toolkits that turn science and social studies into discovery-driven learning.
Data That Drives Impact
School leaders need instructional tools that show measurable progress. Administrators can access real-time reporting for student usage insights across schools, helping every classroom move toward equity and excellence.
Explore, Experiment, and Understand
Students are naturally curious. Expedition: Learn! channels that curiosity through interactive, differentiated lessons that make complex ideas accessible, hands on, and exciting—so learners build mastery, confidence, and a love of exploration.
Inspire Wonder. Empower Learning. Deliver Results.
Built on Britannica’s 250-year foundation of trusted knowledge, Expedition: Learn! helps teachers create meaningful science and social studies experiences that inspire inquiry, deepen understanding, and demonstrate results.
Ready-to-Teach Lessons
Save time and elevate lessons with fact-checked, standards-aligned science and social studies lessons.
Data That Matters
Empower educators with real-time reports that track progress and turn data into action.
Time-Saving Teacher Tools
Access toolkits, assessments, and supports that simplify lesson planning and put students first.
Engage Every Learner
Leveled texts, accessibility tools, and interactivity help all students engage confidently and achieve mastery.
Strengthen Reading and Test Readiness
Prepare students for high-stakes testing with nonfiction content and questions that build key literacy and reasoning skills.
Look Inside Britannica Expedition: Learn!
Combine Britannica’s trusted content with intuitive tools that make science and social studies engaging, measurable, and easy to teach. Every feature supports instruction, differentiation, and student curiosity.
Reliable Content
For each unit, students take a four-part learning journey using exclusive Britannica content to spark inquiry and build mastery while aligning to key standards.
Make Data-Informed Instructional Decisions
View real-time student metrics and skills reports with dashboards that track usage at the school, class, and student level.
Time-saving Differentiation and Planning
Assign lessons at multiple reading levels and apply accessibility features like OpenDyslexic font, translation into 200+ languages, and read-aloud tools. Teachers get to save time ensuring that all students meet the same learning goals.
Integrated Hands-on Learning
Boost engagement with adaptable, step-by-step activities that invite students to observe, investigate, model, and explain their understanding through real-world application.
Glimpse a Lesson Before Diving In
Sample Expedition: Learn! and its transformative science and social studies content using our Content Spotlights. Download discovery-driven experiences your students will love—perfect for sparking ideas for your next lesson.
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Integrating Crosscutting Concepts in Your Science Instruction
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Back-to-School Refresh: Foundational Social Studies Skills
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Every Expedition: Learn! lesson is crafted by Britannica’s experts and built around trusted pedagogy, standards alignment, hands-on extensions, and embedded literacy supports—so teachers can focus on teaching, not searching.
Turning Questions into Quests
Assign grades 3–8 a range of age-appropriate topics, from geography to history and culture to civics and economics plus life, physical, and Earth and space sciences to STEM! Build a robot, compare organisms, explore ancient Greece, and get money smart, all in one place.
Next Generation Science Standards-aligned Lessons
Support three-dimensional learning through NGSS-aligned lessons that connect Science and Engineering Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Core Ideas in ways students can see and do.
C3 Framework for Social Studies
Deliver unbiased, inquiry-based content that strengthens disciplinary literacy and civic understanding, helping students ask good questions, think critically, and participate thoughtfully in democracy.
STEM Lessons That Stick
Encourage experimentation, creativity, and problem-solving with interactive, STEM-focused and hands-on lessons that make science and engineering concepts tangible and exciting.
Teacher Toolkits
Access mini lessons, scaffolds, and research-based instructional strategies that make planning faster and differentiation easier so teachers can focus on sparking curiosity and building mastery.
Recognition for Expedition: Learn!
“My teachers have found using Britannica Expedition: Learn! in direct instruction has been incredibly powerful as a tool.”
-DANIEL, District Science Curriculum Supervisor in New York
Instruction Solution Category
Digital Learning Platform of the Year
Level IV Aligned with Every Student Succeeds Acts (ESSA) Standards
Flexible Access & Integration
Access and Integration
From the classroom to remote learning and beyond, Britannica Education provides a reliable solution for uninterrupted teaching and learning.
Statewide Access
Britannica Education partners with organizations across the nation to provide statewide resource access to students, educators, libraries, and more!
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Live and on-demand training sessions to support educators with practical tips and best practices.
Blog
Insights, strategies, and inspiration from Britannica experts to spark curiosity and enrich instruction.
Teach Britannica
A free hub of classroom-ready ideas, lesson examples, and activities to bring Britannica resources to life in your school or library.
When Curiosity Leads, Learning Follows.
Let’s empower the next generation of critical thinkers, one curious mind at a time.
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