Series of CD-ROMs, each including a 360-degree panorama, maps, multimedia books, and artwork. There are also various activities and extended project ideas. Students have an electronic journal that they use to write about what they learn and a camera to take photographs of anything on the CD.

The web is growing in importance as a means for student inquiry. Given this growth and the failure of search engines to adequately cover the nearly billion current pages, better tools must be developed for the location and analysis of information. VisIT is a tool for the visualization of this web-based information.