Expedition: Learn!

Reliable, Trusted, and
Ready-to-Teach!

Reliable, Trusted, and Ready-to-Teach!

Support your science and social studies instruction with reliable, standards-aligned, interdisciplinary lessons that build content knowledge, enhance reading comprehension, vocabulary, and critical thinking skills. Your journey begins now!

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Science and Social Studies Lessons

Ready-to-Teach Curriculum

Engage students with quality, fact-checked, standards-aligned science and social studies content to develop content knowledge and disciplinary literacy skills.

Real-Time Data

Provide immediate feedback with real-time data-driven, skill-based reports and formative assessments, allowing teachers to make informed instructional decisions.

Save Teachers Time​

Maximize instructional time with ready-made teacher materials and toolkits; adapt lessons to meet student needs, drive engagement, and increase academic achievement.

Access Britannica Exclusive Content

All lessons within Expedition: Learn! take students on a four-part learning journey using carefully crafted lessons that incorporate exclusive Britannica content. This instructional framework provides students with reliability and consistency, so content is delivered effectively.
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Spark Videos That Ignite Interest

Dive into learning videos that define key terms and encourage interactive response. Perfect for making every topic shine!

Multi-modal Experiences That Build Knowledge

Explore topics through leveled, in-depth Britannica articles that can be read aloud or translated into over 100 languages; engage visual learning with images, charts, infographics, interactives, and videos.

Questions That Connect
Learning And Check For Understanding

Guide students to think critically about topics with scaffolded questions that increase in complexity, enabling them to demonstrate comprehension and practice a variety of skills.

Extend Student Learning with Britannica Exclusive Content

Enable students to choose related interest areas to explore independently, or extend class learning with provided activity ideas utilizing these resources.

“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

Support Success and Growth for Everyone

Empower educators with adaptable lessons for any classroom setting —whole-class, small groups or individuals. Designed to meet students where they are, each lesson ensures every learner can achieve success.

Assign content complexity at the class or student level to match the reading proficiency of each individual while maintaining the same learning outcomes for all.

Differentiate learning and promote inclusivity with embedded tools for reading text aloud and translating text into over 100 languages.

Jumpstart student access to disciplinary literacy with vocabulary featuring definitions provided by Merriam-Webster.

Teacher toolkits offer research-based, ready-to-implement mini lessons and strategies designed to support critical thinking and disciplinary literacy into content area instruction. Teachers can use these resources to introduce, model, and scaffold the students’ work.

Multiple report lenses allow teachers to view dynamic assessment data focused on scores or skills, and to review the whole class or individual performance. Administrators can access usage and activity data by school and district.

Awards and Certification

EdTech Cool Tool Finalist for Britannica Expedition: Learn!

 Instruction Solution Category

EdTech Breakthrough Award for Britannica Expedition: Learn!

Digital Learning Platform of the Year

ESSA Level IV Validation for Britannica Expedition: Learn!

Level IV Aligned with Every Student Succeeds Acts (ESSA) Standards

Easily integrate our tools into your classroom

With easy access and integration, Expedition: Learn! offers a single-click sign-on solution, ensuring quick access for teachers, students, and staff.

Get a Demo

See for yourself how Expedition: Learn! increases student engagement, improves learning outcomes, and saves teachers time.

UPCOMING WEBINAR

October 1, 2024

11:00 AM CT

Britannica’s Expedition: Learn! has Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) aligned lessons built to engage and support student academic achievement. See how our ready-made science lessons support effective instruction.

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Expedition: Learn! Scope & Sequence

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View the available lessons for elementary and middle school science and social studies

Expedition: Learn! Teacher Toolkits

Expedition: Learn! Reading Levels

Choose between 4 reading levels to meet the needs of every learner

Expedition: Learn! Spark Video

Each Expedition: Learn! Lesson begins with a video to spark students’ interest in the topic

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Britannica Expedition: Learn!

Ignite the spark of curiosity and accelerate learning

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