Thinkin’ Things Collection 3 aka Galactic Brain Benders
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.
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 in Thinkin’ Things Collection 3:
* Deductive and Inductive Reasoning
* Early Computer Programming Skills
* Predict Outcomes and Test Rules
* Gravity, Friction, Motion and Inertia
* Analyse and Synthesise Information
Thinkin’ Things Collection 3 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. Analyse 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.
Recommended for ages 7 to 12
UNIVERSAL ACCESS
This product contains Universal Access features including TouchWindow and Single Switch compatibility to address a variety of learning styles and abilities.
This program can be fully installed on your hard drive and played without the cd-rom!
Thinkin’ Things Collection 3 minimum System Requirements:
Windows 95/98/ME (enhanced mode)/XP SP2/works on Vista & Windows 7; administrative rights required for installation & playing; 486/33MHz, Pentium or better, Hard Disk with 12MB free, 8MB RAM, 640x480, 256 colour monitor, 4x or faster CD-ROM drive, Windows-compatible sound output device.
Macintosh System 7.5.6-9.x and OS X classic (not Leopard+), 68040 Power PC or later 8MB RAM, 640x480, 256 colour monitor, 4X or faster CD-ROM drive.
PACKAGING: Jewel Case
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