Introduce the cultures of Argentina, France, Japan, Kenya, and Russia to your students. Students gain an appreciation for cultural diversity while comparing cultures through number and word activities, stories, songs, games, and crafts. Cross-curricular activities explore math, creativity, and language arts.
Special features include the ability for students to look up and hear words in Japanese, Swahili, Spanish, French, Russian, and English and an early introduction to the sounds and rhythms of foreign speech.
Features:
- Sing Along with Native Songs
Sing traditional songs in Spanish, Japanese, Swahili, French, and Russian. In the French song shown, a windmill spins quicker and quicker as the miller sleeps.
- Write Stories About Timmy & His Friends
Choose characters, settings and actions, then hear your stories read aloud in English or a foreign language as often as you like. Print them as books to read to others.
- Play Problem-Solving Games
Practice following directions and use logic as you move bugs around in a game from Kenya, match pictures on cards in a game from Argentina, and use strategy in a French game called Nimbi. Each game has a two-player option and three levels of difficulty. ·
- Discover Culture Through Arts & Crafts
Learn interesting facts about the people, places, and animals of other countries while you paint and decorate cultural artwork. Print, color, and assemble crafts for classroom art projects.
- Understand Numbers & Quantities
Recognize numbers and learn about quantities. Add people, animals, buildings, and familiar items to create villages. Build the towns that Stanley asks for, or dream up your own. Learn new foreign words, too. ·
- Use a Talking Picture Dictionary
This special dictionary is always at hand when you need to look up and hear new words in Japanese, Swahili, Spanish, Russian, and French. Click on Timmy to hear each word immediately translated into English
System Requirements
Macintosh
Mac 7.5.6 - 9.x 68040 or better or PowerPC
Hard disk with 3 MB free
8 MB memory (RAM)
13" monitor or larger, 640x480, 256 or more colors
Double speed (2X) or faster CD-ROM drive
Optional:
Edmark TouchWindow
Printer
True Network Versions
Client Computers Require:
30MB free on hard drive
Server Requires: 145 MB on hard drive
Windows
Win 95/98
486, Pentium or better 66 MHz or faster recommended
Hard disk with 10 MB free
8 MB memory (RAM)
Super VGA graphics, 640x480 256-color monitor
Double speed (2X) or faster CD-ROM drive
Windows-compatible sound card.
Optional:
Edmark TouchWindow
Windows-compatible printer
True Network Versions
Client Computers Require:
Windows 95/98; 486, 66 MHz or faster;
16 MB memory (RAM); 30 MB free on hard drive
Server Requires: 135 MB on hard drive
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