MeL Minute

Incorporate Encyclopedia Britannica Resources into your browsing experience

Britannica School has been available in MeL for several years and now additional access is available with Britannica School Insights, a free Chrome browser extension. Support information literacy skill development and ensure your students can bring a trusted research companion along with them on their Web searches.

Best suited for middle and high school students, Britannica School Insights brings fact-checked Britannica School content to the top of search engine results. When Britannica School has highly relevant results, the results will populate in the top right corner of your search page. Additional benefits include:

• Supporting digital literacy skills development by surfacing trusted resources in parallel with regular Web search results.
• Maximizing Britannica School usage with a free extension that supports student research.
• Surfacing unique relationships – like related events and people – and uncommon insights – like related topics and unknown facts – that encourage deeper exploration of content and context.
• Use with any English-language search on the Google Chrome browser, using search engines Google, Yahoo or Bing.
• Moving to curriculum-correlated content at any of three reading levels, depending on which is most appropriate, after clicking through the extension results into Britannica School.

Rest easy knowing that you'll be getting the most out of your resources and students are getting the information they need right where they are. Add Britannica School Insights to Chrome individually or Learn How to Roll Out to Your Google or Microsoft District.

Brought to you by Liz Breed of the MeL Team.

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