Click on a history tab, and you can head for current events, and see actual film footage of Nelson Mandela taking power in South Africa. Other categories are science, nature, culture, geography and atlas. A search engine and a key words glossary are there to help.
Large photos offer users a chance to explore each element.
An ocean photo, for example, shows a scuba diver. If you want to learn more about scuba diving, you click on the diver, and off you go. Individual topics in the encyclopedia can be printed out, and students can take notes on topics. The atlas offers useful information about a country's people, climate, currency, government and history. Young users will learn how to pronounce such names at Vladivostok, simply by positioning their mouse cursor above the city on a map of the Russian Federation.