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.

Instructional Decisions Powered by Strong Data

The Administrator Dashboard offers self-service usage reporting for school and district-level administrators, while the teacher reports provide context-enhanced views of classes, student outcome reporting, and subject-area skills alignment.

Gain Visibility Into Usage Patterns

Administrators can use self-service data to optimize Expedition: Learn! adoption by user role and school site.

Compare Implementation Benchmarks

Administrators can compare lesson performance data by school and by teacher to increase productivity and efficiency.

Connect to Whole-Class Progress

Teachers can easily monitor group development with at-a-glance summary data on lessons submitted, average time spent in lessons, and average scores.

Improve Teacher Productivity with More Robust Student Data

Teachers can quickly pinpoint struggling students with sortable assignment data and a context-enhanced view of students’ assignment activity, and then deep-dive into individual students’ work.

Focus on the Skills Students Need

Pinpoint opportunities for growth with whole-class and individual skills reports that track general reading comprehension and critical-thinking skills, plus Science or Social Studies disciplinary literacy skills.

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.

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.

Leave more time for student connection and discovery with step-by-step activity guides that feature adaptable tasks and extensions in which students can demonstrate their understanding through investigation, modeling, research, and more.