A Relaxation Guide: Classroom Exercises That You Can Do in 5 Minutes or Less!August 15 is National Relaxation Day. Introducing stress management, mental health care, and relaxation techniques to K-12 students provides them with powerful mindfulness tools that they can use throughout their life.We’ve put together 11 stress reduction exercis ...READ MORE

Luis here again! If you have been following the #BrINTERNS through their delicious journey of visiting the best doughnut shops in Chicago, then you probably know about all the great choices these great little shops have.Doughnut runs began as a way for the interns at Britannica to get together and share our experiences in different departments in the office and what challenges w ...READ MORE

Top Five Tips from the Britannica Professional Development Team!As a part of the Britannica Professional Development team, I travel around the country…a lot. While all of this travel can be tiring at times, it’s also – by far – my favorite part of the job. Nope, it’s not the varying quality of Dunkin’ Donuts coffee to be found acro ...READ MORE

One incredible challenge for today’s teacher is to uncover effective uses of classroom technology in ways that lead students to engage deeply, think critically, and work collaboratively so that they may learn, solve problems, and create results that wouldn’t be possible without the tools being employed.This is no easy feat—teachers must ...READ MORE

How to choose transformational digital resources for the K-12 science classroomHow we teach science is changing, and it’s changing fast. In the face of all of this change, it's vital to consider what teachers and students, the end users of digital science classroom resources, actually want and need.The question is no longer whether or not ...READ MORE