Thinkin' Things Collection 2 Galactic Brain Benders!
Students build their problem-solving, reasoning, and evaluation skills with five challenging and engaging activities. With Stocktopus, Fripples and other Edmark friends, students analyze and synthesize information, strengthen inductive and deductive reasoning, identify multiple solutions for a problem, understand cause and effect, and test and validate hypotheses -- advanced thinking skills for critical thinkers.
Thinkin' Things Collection 3 combines with Galactic Brain Benders to teach higherlevel thinking skills and encourage creativity. In five challenging, animated activities, students utilize deductive and inductive reasoning, and explore simple physics concepts including friction, gravity, motion, and inertia.
Features
- Five challenging animated activities
- Question & Answer and Explore & Discover modes provide opportunity for independent and structured learning
- Grow Slides automatically adjust to each student's learning level, advancing in difficulty level as each student successfully solves a problem
Learning Opportunities
- Introduces and reinforces deductive and inductive reasoning, logic, observation, visual analysis, creativity, basic elements of computer programming, and problem solving
- Strengthens pattern and sequence recognition
- Provides practice in finding multiple solutions to a problem
Windows
- Windows 3.x, Windows 95 thru XP
- 486, Pentium or better, 33 MHz or faster recommended
- Hard disk with 2 MB free
- 8 MB memory (RAM) required
- Super VGA graphics, 640x480, 256 or more colors
- Double-speed (2X) or faster CD-ROM drive
- Windows-compatible sound card
Optional
- Microphone
- Edmark TouchWindow
Macintosh:
- System 7.0.1 or OS X
- 68030, 68040, or PowerPC
- 4 MB memory (RAM), 1900K unused, 5 MB for System 7.5 or later, 8 MB highly recommended
- 13" monitor or larger, 256 or more colors
- Double-speed (2X) or faster CD-ROM drive
Optional
- Microphone
- Edmark TouchWindow
Packaging:
- School Editions will have two program CDs and one Teacher Resource CD.
- Lab Packs will have six program CDS and one Teacher Resource CD.
- Networks will have one Network CD, one Standalone CD, and one Teacher Resource CD.
- All packs will contain a printed Quickstart Guide.
- Teacher and User Guides in pdf format on a Teacher Resource CD.
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