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Banco de Contenidos AulaPlaneta

Banco de Contenidos aulaPlaneta is a comprehensive Spanish-language database designed for native Spanish speakers, bilingual students, and ESL/ELL program participants. From the world’s largest and most respected Spanish-language publishers, aulaPlaneta includes more than 140,000 articles, 8,000 web links to additional information, and 9,000 images, videos, animations, sounds, and interactive media.

About

Banco de Contenidos aulaPlaneta is the upper-level Spanish language database, intended for high school students through adult learners.

  • A comprehensive Spanish database with more than 170,000 articles, images and videos designed for native Spanish-speaking researchers and advanced bilingual and ESL students.
  • Features include a virtual museum, an entire encyclopedia devoted to Mexico, STEM resources, and more.
  • Perfect for use alongside both Student and Advanced as an English/Spanish supplementary resource.

Look Inside

Take a look inside Banco de Contenidos aulaPlaneta!

Content

The content contained in aulaPlaneta offers broad coverage of all fields of knowledge written from a Latin American perspective with special emphasis on the areas of science, technology, history, and art.

Intuitive search options allow easy navigation of the more than 170,000 resources: articles, images, videos, and more.

Features

AulaPlaneta has many features designed for more advanced Spanish speakers:

  • Banco multimedia (Multimedia bank), is a multimedia space where researchers can navigate to look for videos, images, audio, and maps.
  • Find a wealth of content solely relating to the country of Mexico in Enciclopedia de México (Encyclopedia of Mexico).
  • Museo virtual (Virtual museum) contains resources organized by era/time period.
  • An interactive Atlas that offers thousands of maps with up-to-date information on all countries of the world for a true global perspective.
  • Cartografía (Cartography), which provides multiple types of maps, including physical, political, population, economic, and climate.
  • En profundidad (In Depth) takes an in-depth look at topics of debate paired along with multiple related articles to provide options for exploring more deeply into the topic.
  • Navegador visual (Visual Navigator) to help students not proficient in Spanish find the topic they're looking for by theme.
  • Temapedia (articles organized by theme) organizes articles by theme, including experimental sciences and technology, social sciences, language and literature, and math.
  • Cronología (Chronology) allows users to develop a historical perspective through interactive research.
  • Discover definitions and a wealth of multimedia resources centered around the human body in Cuerpo Humano (Human Body).
  • Biblioteca Universal (Universal Library) provides information about literary works and other historical documents organized by theme or by author.
  • Estadísticas (Statistics) allows researchers to find world or regional statistics organized by country or variable.
  • Sala de Audición (Audition Room), a large musical library that provides resources, including short audio clips, organized by composer or work of art.

Contact Training

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