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My Amazing Human Body
Age Range: 5 - 10
Learning: Introduction to all the major operating systems of the human body (skeleton, organs, muscle, nervous system, and circulation)
Platform: Windows & Mac
Ratings: Educational: 4.7 Design: 4.3 Ease Of Use 4.6
Introduction: My Amazing Human Body is an interactive "junior encyclopedia" program for younger children. You are guided by an animated skeleton character and the program provides 4 different areas of exploration. See More
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Magic School Bus Explores Bugs
Age Range: 9 -14
Learning: Life Sciences : comprehensive introduction to the world of bugs and their habitats.
Platform: Windows & Mac
Ratings: Educational: 4.8 Design: 4.3 Ease Of Use 4.2
Introduction: Scholastic’s The Magic School Bus Explores Bugs is an interactive tutorial and adventure game that explores the wide world of bugs in all its diversity. See More
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The New Way Things Work
Age Range: 8 & Up
Learning: Introduction to the inventors, the history and the scientific principles of the mechanical world, from pianos, to toasters, to rockets.
Platform: Windows & Mac
Ratings: Educational: 5.0 Design: 4.5 Ease Of Use 4.5
Introduction: The New Way Things Work is an interactive junior encyclopedia of the mechanical world. From the main page your can access the program's content by either starting with the machines themselves, or with the history of invention, scientific principles, inventors, or choosing from a warehouse of all kinds of machines and devices. See More
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Pinball Science
Age Range: 9 -14
Learning: Introduction to the basic principles of physics and science - mechanical, electrical and magnetic energy, force and resistance, sound, gravity, and more - and how these principles work in machines from faucets to ships to satellites.
Platform: Windows & Mac
Ratings: Educational: 4.8 Design: 4.3 Ease Of Use 4.2
Introduction: Your off screen narrator is a rather eccentric inventor who has created 3 "Great Works", in fact, 3 massive and very interesting pinball machines. Through events you will hear, he has become stuck in a rocket circling around the moon and his great pinball machines back on earth have fallen apart. To rebuild them, he needs help. From guess who? See More
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The Digital Field Trip to the Rainforest
Age Range: 9 - 18
Learning: Introduction to the world of biology - specifically animal wildlife, insect, plant, and tree life and the ecology (i.e. how it all works together) of a rainforest.
Platform: Windows & Mac
Ratings: Educational: 5.0 Design: 4.5 Ease Of Use 4.7
Introduction: Open up this program, click on "Field Trip" and you are immediately transported to the Blue Creek Rainforest Reserve in the country of Belize, Central America. You see a picture of the trail leading into the rainforest, a field journal with an introduction to the rainforest and a map of the 28 locations you can visit on your virtual journey. See More
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Starry Night Complete Space & Astronomy Pack
Age Range: 12 & up
Learning:Identification and movement of individual stars, planets, constellations and other celestial objects using a simulated night sky. Many astronomical concepts are also covered, such as eclipses, black holes and comets.
Platform: Windows & Mac
Ratings: Educational: 5.0 Design: 4.8 Ease Of Use 4.5
Introduction: Starry Night Complete Space & Astronomy Pack (CSAP) is a versatile, comprehensive and very interactive software program that allows you to navigate around our solar system and beyond as a way of understanding and learning the basics of astronomy.. See More
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Starry Night Enthusiast
Age Range: 12 & up
Learning: Identification and movement of individual stars, planets, constellations and other celestial objects using a simulated night sky. Many astronomical concepts are also covered, such as eclipses, black holes and comets.
Platform: Windows & Mac
Ratings: Educational: 4.8 Design: 4.7 Ease Of Use 4.8
Introduction: Starry Night Enthusiast is the next step up to Starry Night Complete Space and Astronomy Pack and is designed for the fairly knowledgeable astronomer. It is designed and operates in the same fashion - i.e virtually identical layout and navigation - to Starry Night CSAP, but has a much larger information base and some interesting additional guided tours. See More
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Science Matrix
Age Range: 13 -16
Learning:Plant, animal, and prokaryotic cell types and the 20 substructure component parts of cells. Cell composition and an understanding of the varied nature of different cell types.
Platform: On Line. Require internet Connection
Ratings: Educational: 5.0 Design: 4.5 Ease Of Use 4.5
Introduction: Digital Frog's ScienceMatrix is a comprehensive information and interactive learning resource that explores prokaryotic and eukaryotic cell structure and function. This program is designed primarily for students who are involved in learning the nature of cell structure and function in Grades 8 and 11, in their biology stream.See More
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