Grades Kindergarten-2
In Hide & Seek, Spade hides with an object on the beach, and students work with Bucket to describe his position relative to the object. As with other activities, Spade benefits from students' success as he is rewarded with his favorite treat-ice cream cones! Student will also enjoy visiting the orange hut, where they'll discover the Shape Show and have fun exploring the properties of shapes.
The content is broad enough to provide both support for lower achievers and sufficient challenge for the more able. Bucket and Spade are always on hand to help and instruct as they visit their favorite seaside locations, all vividly brought to life with rich photographic textures and colorful animations.
Activities:
Rock Pool teaches children to use directional arrow to guide Crab around her new rock pool.
Hide and Seek helps bucket locate Spade, who is hiding on the beach, by using the correct positional language.
Light House introduces the concept of moving a quarter, half and whole turn
Beach Patterns has children complete patterns
Lost in the Hut has children locate objects in the dark, seeing parts at a time with a flashlight
Shapes Shelves has children locate 2 and 3 dimensional shapes, based on written and verbal descriptions.
Symmetry Shells has children create symmetrical patterns out of sea shells.
What's in the Bucket describes shapes verbally and children have to select the shape being described.
Features:
� Interactive Shape Demonstrator-great for whole class instruction.
� Teacher Options to customize general settings as well as settings for each activity.
� Record-keeping facility to track student progress.
� Full narration.
� 8 activities; 4 levels for most naming 2D and 3D shapes and identifying their properties; position, direction and movement; repeating and symmetrical patterns; whole, half and quarter turns
� 30 shapes covered by the activities.
With 3 activity levels, teachers can easily configure the program to match their specific teaching objectives or inclusion teaching needs. The range of content is broad enough to provide support for lower achievers as well as challenges for the more able.
Minimum system requirements
Win 95+, P-233 MHz, 64MB RAM suggested 16 bit color, sound
Mac OS 8.6/Classic, OSX 10.2/Native, 233 MHz, 64MB RAM, 16 bit color, sound
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