Hutchinson’s
Encyclopedia
An essential GCSE aid, the Hutchinson’s Encyclopedia is all you need to get the right results.Containing over 10 million words and 52,000 articles with accompanying video and sound clips, a fully integrated atlas, and special feature essays, this is the richest GCSE coursework resource available.This essential reference title has been directly tested in UK school classrooms and fully checked by teachers, educational advisors and experts. Designed with ease of use in mind, all entries are written in clear, jargon-free language easily understandable for students aged 12 and upward. For tough topics where words alone are not enough, thousands of animations, pictures and diagrams have been incorporated.
A menu bar along the top of every screen gives single click access to all areas of the encyclopedia and ensures you are never far from where you want to be.
Features include: The ability to update your Encyclopedia monthly via the Encyclopedia’s own ‘Home Page’ on the Internet.More than 4,500 photographs plus an extensive selection of video clips bring to life selected events, people and places. 52,000 articles, bibliographies, quotations, feature essays, tables and chronologies Integrate information into your projects or studies by simply cutting and pasting or printing directly from the article for a future keepsake. Contains over 40,000 hyper links and 5,000 links to web sites.
With its easy to use interface this product offers you the choice of seven categories: Introduction A detailed overview of the product to help you to get started.National Curriculum This special section with thousands of links to every article relevant to the National Curriculum Key Stages 3 & 4 –this is the first ever encyclopedia to focus on this crucial area.
Articles: This comprehensive section features over 52,000 articles linked to 200 topics of your choice.Multimedia Bank Features thousands of animation, sounds, pictures and video clips covering all topics.Atlas & Timeline The integrated Atlas and Timeline, have 13,847 entries ranging from 570 million years BC to date.Fun File Helps to make learning more fun, complete with 16,000 quiz questions in all subject areas, Competitions, Tours, Memory Joggers, Did you know? Humorous Quotes, On This Day and Quote of the Day, making it the perfect learning companion to overcome pre-exam nerves.
