THINKIN THINGS COLLECTION 3

Special features include helpful hint buttons, which provide encouragement and direction and as students succeed, Grow Slides automatically advance the level of difficulty.

Check out the Learning Opportunities, Features, Correlations, Universal Access and System Requirements for this product.

Learning Opportunities

• Strengthen Deductive and Inductive Reasoning
• Analyze and Synthesize Information
• Examine and Interpret Evidence
• Build Early Computer Programming Skills
• Predict a Series of Outcomes
• Identify Relevant Information
• Explore Gravity, Friction, Motion and Inertia
• Interpret and Test Rules
  

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!

Strengthen Deductive Reasoning
Put on your detective cap and solve the Case of the Empty Fripple House. The Fripples can't move in until you read the clues in each room, synthesize the information and determine where each Fripple belongs.

Carving BLOX
Enter a world where balls roll and collide on virtual metal that you shape and drill. Send balls up inclines, through grooves and down holes as you experiment with friction, motion and inertia.

Build Programming Skills
It's football season, and it's up to you to create the half-time show! Develop beginning computer programming skills as you link command tiles and control moving formations of marching bands, football players, and cheerleaders.
Manipulate Special Effects
Tiny green aliens, equipped with 22 special effects tools, have changed a photograph. Analyze the picture and line up the alien team that faded, dented, and twisted it. Use their tools to create your own outrageous images.

Grow with Your Child
As your child succeeds, Grow Slides automatically increase the level of difficulty. You can track your child's progress and adjust the slides from within the activities.

Windows System Requirements:

• Windows 95/98
• 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 Requirements:

• Mac 7.5.6 - 9.x68030, 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