Amazing Animals 1.1
Exploring the wondrous world of animals
Thirty User Site License
Requires school PO faxed to 408-248-2000. Please allow 2 weeks for delivery.
Our Price: $599.95
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The Amazing Animal Expert notebook is packed with photos, maps, sounds, and amazing animal facts. Hear the snap and snarl of a bobcat and discover how fast a school of deadly piranha can strip an animal to the bone. Pop-up windows explain and pronounce unfamiliar words. Enter the exciting worlds of animals through dozens of live videos, where you'll see the natural habitat of exotic animals like sea horses and bloating toads.
When you can match the right facts to the right animals you'll earn sticker prizes! Play animal photographer and snap pictures of them while compiling your animal expert scrapbook of information. Learn enough and play the animal facts quiz to earn reward stickers that you can add to your scrapbook! Need some amazing animal postcards? How about some writing paper and envelopes? You'll find them in the Toy Box, along with labels, cards, invitations, and nearly a dozen masks to download.
Topics
- Animals names and behavior
- Camouflage and survival tactics
- Habitats and environmental awareness
- Basic life science
- Scientific classification
- Memory and critical-thinking skills
Key Features
- Fascinating facts for 120 animals
- 10 unique games and activities
- 30 stunning wildlife videos
- Dozens of collectible stickers and rewards
- 40 create-and-print activities
- Downloadable sounds, maps, images, and animal stationery
Product Reviews
"It's no secret that kids love animals, and this CD-ROM makes learning about them fun. Four stars"
-- Children's Software Revue
"Scads of cool photos, sounds and videos jazz up this feature-packed program. A real value."
-- Working Mother: Best Software of 1997
"The kids will go ape over this one!"
-- Family Education Today
"Bright animation and beautiful animal images give this disk ... visual sizzle. It strikes a balance between learning and fun. A rating."
-- Parenting
"A CD-ROM that proves, yet again, that learning and fun can be one and the same. Four stars."
-- Mac Home Journal
"Fantastically informative product."
-- Scripps-Howard News Service
"Like putting the old 'Wild Kingdom' shows on the computer."
-- Salt Lake City Tribune
"Truly amazing. ... It's as terrific as the show, and it's produced by DK, the people who create some of the most imaginative educational books and CD-ROMs you can buy ... a great learning tool for kids. Grade A."
-- Detroit News/Free Press