Develop
problem solving skills essential for success!
PRODUCT INFORMATION
Thinkin'
Things Collection 3 is brimming with learning opportunities for
students working
on their own or with others.
Activities help students build reasoning strength, spatial and
sequential thinking skills, and an aptitude for conducting experiments
and predicting results. Students learn to identify a problem, plan a
problem-solving strategy, and predict outcomes. Thinkin' Things
Collection 3 provides build-in scanning for single switch users and is
TouchWindow-compatible. Helpful hint buttons provide encouragement and
direction.
As students succeed, Grow Slides automatically advance the level of
difficulty. For students who need practice reading to gain information.
For students who need to strengthen problem-solving skills. For
students who need to increase understanding of oral directions.
SKILLS LEARNED
- Deductive and Inductive Reasoning
- Early Computer Programming Skills
- Predict Outcomes and Test Rules
- Gravity, Friction, Motion and Inertia
- Analyze and Synthesize Information
Product Features
Assess,
Deduce & Trade!
With Stocktopus as your broker, exchange items with traders from around
the world. Make the trade sequences required to achieve your
"portfolio"
goals. Next step: Wall Street!
Carving BLOX
Enter a world where balls roll and collide on virtual metal that you
shape. Send balls up inclines, through grooves and down holes as you
experiment with
physics properties.
Manipulate Special Effects
Tiny green aliens have used special effects tools to change a
photograph. Analyze the picture and line up the alien team that faded,
dented and twisted it. Create your own images!
Strengthen Deductive Reasoning
Solve the Case of the Empty ripple House. The Fripples can't move in
until you read the clues in each room and determine where each Fripple
belongs.
Build Programming Skills
It's football season - create the half-time show! Learn beginning
computer programming skills as you and control moving formations of
marching bands, players and cheerleaders.
Requirements - Windows
- Win 95/98/Vista - enhanced mode (not XP compatible)
- 486/33 MHz, Pentium or better
- Hard disk with 12 MB free
- 8 MB RAM
- 640x480, 256 colors
- Double speed (2X) or faster CD-ROM drive
- Windows-compatible output sound card
Requirements
- Macintosh
- System 7.5.6 - 9.x
- 68040 PowerPC or later
- 8 MB RAM (RAM)
- 640x480, 256 colors
- Double speed (2X) or faster CD-ROM drive
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