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Software and Games : Software Categories : Children's Fun & Learning : Children's Reference
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Avanquest Software
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Edalive
You're in a Volcanic Panic! Your plane has crash-landed on an island that's going to blow!Roll the dice to gather fuel credits, outwith opponents and escape before the eruption!
Up to four players can compete together as they play Volcanic Panic! Each answers maths questions at their chosen level.
Beginners or maths brains all have a real chace of winning!
Covers: Addition, Subtraction, Numeration & Place Value, Multiplication & Division, Fractions, Decimals & Percentages, Ratio, Proportion.
Correlated with the National Numeracy Strategy Key Stages 1-3.
Over 7,500 teacher-created questions in 26 carefully sequenced levels.
Smart record-keeping tracks each players progress through the activities, showing points of strength and areas that need attention.
Advanced 'Admin Options' give parents control over the learning process.
Covers over 90% of the National Numeracy Strategy when used together with Edalive's 'Baggin' the Dragon'
Single or multi-player, ages 4-15
Single or multi player.
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Avanquest Software
Become a Human Body Explorer is an interesting CD-ROM full of information about the human body. It's aimed at children aged 6-10 years old, but would be best suited to older end of this age range.Seemore Skinless, the helpful skeleton, guides the children through a wide range of games, quizzes and experiments. Children can play four fun interactive games, which involve, for example, collecting body parts by answering questions and learning about the body and choosing how Seemore should spend his day. There is an excellent search feature so that children can access information screens on a very wide range of topics. (Parents of younger children may want to supervise children's use of this, as there is information about reproduction and how our bodies change.) Children also have the opportunity to create their own Secret File, which contains information about themselves and can become a scrapbook of facts.
So once children have visited the information screens, played the games, answered brainteaser questions and found out amazing facts, they will have discovered all they need to know about the human body.
Become a Human Body Explorer would be a good buy for parents or teachers of children aged 8-11 years old. It encourages children to explore and find out about the human body in a fun and interesting way. --Amanda York
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Edalive
In Ultimate Maths Invaders players develop automatic recall of essential maths facts by quickly and accurately repelling waves of descending maths questions!Suits all players from the arcade addict to those with special needs!
Tackle as many as 100 questions in 10 minutes!
Teacher-designed learning sequences with built-in revision.
Customisable question selection.
Extensive record keeping and advanced 'Admin Options' gives parents control of learning.
Fully correlated with the National Curriculum Numeracy Strategy.
From number skills and essential maths facts for the very young through to advanced secondary school concepts, Ultimate Maths Invaders rapidly extends players' limits!
Key Stage 1:Counting & Numeration, Addition, Subtraction;Key Stage 2:Numeration and Place Value, Addition, Subtraction, Times Tables, Multiplication & Division Extension, Squares and Square Roots, Fractions & Decimals.
Key Stage 3: Numeration, Addition, Subtraction, Times Tables, Multiplication and Division Extensions, Squares and Square Roots, Fractions, Decimals, Percentages, Powers, Directed Numbers.
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Avanquest Software
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Avanquest Software
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Avanquest Software
Armchair adventurers relax. With the Become a World Explorer CD-ROM children can obey the call of the wild and see the world without leaving the comfort of their home. Once loaded, it's possible to whizz around the world in almost 80 ways with this fun and feature-packed CD-ROM learning adventure. As soon as you've filled in the virtual passport, you're off. The first stop on any interactive globe-trotting adventure is Sam's bedroom--it's perfect for click-happy kids with animations that come to life when you hit the objects scattered around.For beginner backpackers, a talking train gives a guided tour of how to find your way around the world, and what a choice there is. You'll find video clips, an interactive index, a country finder with each nation's flag and a wide range of fun games that test skills such as general knowledge and compass directions. A ringing phone launches more adventurous travellers straight into the globetrotting game that displays the strongest aspects of the software. Clues based on geographical sights and sounds lead players on an interactive journey around the world. Along the way, the players' knowledge of capitals, continents and customs are tested in a totally involving way with three difficulty levels encouraging repeat visits.
The beautifully detailed animated maps with pop-up info boxes and sticker book links are an impressive feature, as are the virtual postcards. And although the amount of features may mean younger players require some initial help, this superb software combines learning with plenty of fun and will ensure numerous repeat visits. --Martin Oliver
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Avanquest Software
Learning Ladder Year 3 is another excellent product from Dorling Kindersley. This CD-ROM is packed with a good range of activities tailored to support the Year 3 school curriculum. Children can navigate their way around the playroom, looking for fun activities. These include the printing machine, which they can use to create their own labels, invitations and cards.Children can then improve their literacy, numeracy and science skills by undertaking a wide range of activities that help to consolidate Year 3 work. Children can, for example, choose correct word endings, solve addition and subtraction problems, label skeletons and identify correct habitats for animals. These are just a few of the carefully thought out and clearly explained activities here.
Children should be able to use this program independently. They are rewarded with stickers for each activity they complete correctly and will enjoy collecting these and putting them in their own sticker album.
Learning Ladder Year 3 would be an excellent buy for any Year 3 child. It consolidates the learning that is taking place at school and develops children's competence on the computer. --Amanda York
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Avanquest Software
Learning Ladder Years 1 and 2 is an extremely good CD-ROM aimed at children aged 5-7. It presents a huge number of activities that would help to support the school curriculum.Children can navigate their way around the playroom, which will develop their confidence with the mouse. Children will enjoy making things move on the screen. There is also a range of fun activities, such as painting and copying the tune.
The program also helps to consolidate and reinforce what children are learning in literacy, numeracy and science at school. There are games involving identifying sounds, making words, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division and much more. Children are rewarded with stickers as they complete activities correctly, which they will love collecting and putting in their own sticker book. --Amanda York
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Avanquest Software
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Avanquest Software
Learning Ladder Year 4 is a fantastic CD-ROM aimed at Year 4 children. It is structured so that children listen to a lesson and then carry out exercises that help to consolidate the literacy and numeracy they are learning as part of the school curriculum.Exercises can be done at five different levels of difficulty, so that children are challenged and continue to make progress. For every 400 points that a child scores, they are rewarded with new pictures to use with the printing machine. As they gather more pictures they can enjoy making their own cards, invitations and labels, which can be printed out.
Children can also have lots of fun navigating around Science City and learning lots of facts along the way. For example, they can have a go at the science quiz and find out about roots, leaves and flowers. The progress tracker clearly shows how each child is getting on with a system of green and red lights. This would quickly show parents where more help is needed. --Amanda York
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Avanquest Software
Learning Ladder Preschool is an excellent CD-ROM packed with a wide range of activities for 3-5 year olds. Woody the Pencil guides children through the different activities, which are very well explained.Children will enjoy becoming familiar with the mouse and navigating around the room making toys move and change. They will also enjoy doing the different activities such as painting the colouring book, having a go at recording their voice, listening to a story, doing puzzles and much more.
By clicking on the different bears children can carry out activities related to words, numbers, time, directions/space, shapes and nature/objects. Each of these areas contains 18 different games for children to play, so there is plenty to keep them occupied. There's also a good range of activities, many of which support the Early Years Curriculum at school. For example, there are activities that work on identifying sounds in words and on ordering, counting, matching, etc.
Children are rewarded with stickers when they complete an activity correctly and they will love collecting these in the sticker book. This would be an excellent buy for parents who want to introduce their child to using the computer in a fun and educational way. --Amanda York
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Edalive
BRAINtastic has been developed to to motivate children to learn.Simply login and complete the selected content to be rewarded for your efforts with time spent playing a fun reward game. BRAINtastic is a self-contained learning system that works alone or expands as other BRAINtastic titles are added.
Powerful diagnostic and reporting capabilities zero-in on your child's learning needs.
Educational content is presented in a huge variety of question types including multiple choice, drag-and-drop, missing answer and more!
Develops core mathematical understandings.
Includes numeration, calculation methods, fractions, decimals, relative quantities (ratios), patterns and relationships, length, perimter, area, capacity, mass, time, position and direction, shapes and solids, timetable, charts and diagrams and more!
Fully correlated with the National Literacy Strategy - Key Stage Two
Contains approximately 3,000 teacher-created questions.
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Avanquest Software
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Avanquest Software
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Edalive
Typing Tournament is a powerful typing tutor designed specifically for children and young adults.Players must prove themselves worthy of challenging the Dark Typist and his Typing Machine by completing typing challenges along the way.
The quest progresses through 16 medieval typing environments. Each has a unique medieval character and cool typing games such as Siege, Powder Keg and Dragon Chase! No one ever thought learning to type could be so much fun!
Start at a novice level or where you feel most comfortable and progress through all levels. Others commence according to their typing skill.
Reinforces good typing posture and habits.
Animated, colour-coded keyboard highlights finger patterns.
Content is challenging, informative and entertaining.
Lessons and drills build typing memory by combining keys in Home Row groups, Vertical Keypaths and Common English Letter Strings.
Level by level, the typing drills, games, challenges and progression tests build on existing skills and incorporate new content.
Printable typing certificate & test results!
Advanced 'Admin Options' give parents control over the learning process.
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Edalive
In Baggin' the Dragon you compete against the other players to collect swords and subdue the fire-breathing dragon that casts its menacing shadow over your medieval world!Up to four players can compete together as they play Baggin' the Dragon. Each answering maths questions at their chosen level.
Beginners or maths brains, all have a real chance of winning!
Covers: Mass, Length, Area, Volume, Time, 2D & 3D Shape, Angle and Spatial Reasoning, Geometry, Transformations & Symmetry, Organising & Interpreting Data, Probability, Algebra, Functions & Graphs and more!
Correlated with the National Numeracy Strategy, Key Stages 1-3.
Over 3,200 teacher-created questions in 11 carefully sequenced levels.
Smart record-keeping tracks each player's progress through the activities, showing both points of strength and areas that need attention.
Advanced 'Admin Options' give parents control over the learning process.
Covers over 90% of the National Numeracy Strategy when used together with Edalive's 'Volcanic Panic!'
Single or multi player.
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Avanquest Software
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Avanquest Software
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Focus Multimedia Ltd
