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Explore the wonders of science with
Sammy!
In five fascinating activities students
build early science skills and practice important scientific processes.
Students also expand their science vocabulary as they learn about
plants, animals, seasons, and weather.
Special features include graphical
and spoken instructions, questions, and feedback, which allow students to work
independently and enhance comprehension, and a Field Notebook from which
students can print creations and pages.
- Discriminate Attributes
- Construct Objects
- Follow Patterns
- Manipulate Weather Variables
- Investigate Animal Habitats
- Observe Seasonal Changes
- Explore Classifications
- Name Plants, Animals, Rocks and Fungi
- Build Logical Sequences
Discover the Wonders of Nature
What do shrews eat?
Why does a squirrel flick its tail? Visit Acorn Pond during winter, spring,
summer, and fall to explore its fascinating wildlife.
Make Your Own
Weather!
Kids learn weather terms, experiment with temperature, wind, and
precipitation, and see how different variables affect weather.
Explore
the Field Notebook
Kids find great sketches and fun facts about the
animals of Acorn Pond. Printing pages allows kids to share their favorite
animals with family and friends.
Play with the Order of
Things
Lights! Camera! Action! Kids learn about beginnings, middles, and
ends and explore how things in nature change over time as they arrange frames of
film in logical sequences to Make-A-Movie.
Construct in the
Workshop
Clocks tick, wheels spin, and robots spring to life as kids
follow blueprints or create original machines and toys.
Drop in at the
Sorting Station
Three horns . . . it's a triceratops! Kids sort pictures
of objects and learn the names of plants, animals, rocks and fungi.
- Windows 95/98/Me/ XP
- 486, Pentium or better (33 MHz or faster)
- Hard disk with 5 MB free
- 8 MB memory (RAM)
- 640x480, 256-color monitor
- Double-speed (2X) or faster CD-ROM drive
- Mouse
- Windows-compatible sound card
- Mac 7.5.6 to 9.x
- 68040 or 68030 processor (25 MHz or faster recommended) or PowerPC
- 8 MB memory (RAM), 16 MB recommended
- 640x480, 256-color monitor
- Double-speed (2X) or faster CD-ROM drive
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