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<p><b><font color="#000080">There's No Stopping a Kid with a JumpStart!<br><br><img border="0" src="http://img.productinformation.net/images/images/prodinfo.gif" width="500" height="17">

The adventure starts in a creaky elevator hidden in the schoolhouse wall. FollowCJ the Frog and his sidekick Edison on a journey into their secret clubhouse.Use your math, science, grammar, and other skills to solve the many challengesfound in 22 interactive games.<br><br><br><img border="0" src="http://img.productinformation.net/images/Images/skillrnd.gif" width="500" height="17">

• Writing
• Parts of Speech
• Complex Vowels
• "Carry Over" Addition
• :Borrow" Subtraction
• Simple Multiplication<li>U.S. Geography
• Musical Scales
• Social Science

<ul><li>Creative games<li>Challenging activities

Keep children involved for hours of learning fun

A learning adventure that teaches essential skills<p><br><br><br><img border="0" src="http://img.productinformation.net/images/images/reqwin.gif" width="500" height="17"><ul><li>Windows 2000, XP, Vista

Pentium II 266 MHz or faster processor  <li>128 MB RAM

10 MB free Hard Disk Space

640x480 display, 16-bit color with 256 color capability

Windows-compatible Sound Card and speakers

12X CD-ROM drive

Explore the world's amazing animals! Go face-to-face with wild animals as you witness fascinating habitats filled with untamed adventure. Includes over 40 unique animals in 16 action-packed activities!

Face the perils of the uncharted rainforest as you journey to the mighty amazon river. You will need to choose your guide wisely and manage your supplies carefully if you want to survive.

Send your science grades soaring (and have a blast doing it)! In three experiment-filled labs you’ll discover amazing facts and important principles about everyday science that’s all around you. Over 100 interactive ones make it fun (and safe) to do!

Use real world math skills to earn money for arcade games! Catch the bus,subway, or ferry to travel the city and tackle fun math challenges in the stores of Spectacle City. Build addition, subtraction, geometry, and problem solving skills while constructing a skyscraper, sorting toys at the toy store,counting types of candy at the outdoor market, and more. Earn money for each correct answer- then use it to play exciting games in the arcade!

In Mia's Science Adventure: Romaine's New Hat, we see Mia take her mother's new hat without her permission. When a sudden storm takes it down the sewer, it gets taken by Romaine Rat -- help Mia retrieve it & make it back home!

A collision with a meteorite has stopped Earth from rotating on its axis! Now half of the planet is turning to a ball of ice while the side facing the sun gets hotter... and hotter. If the planet is to survive, you must generate enough electricity to power a giant impulse machine, the only device that can get the planet rotating again. The only problem is with the impulse machine's electrical generators--not only are they scattered throughout the world, none of them is working correctly.

Physicus is a first-person role-playing game in the style of <I>Myst, designed for players aged 10 and older. Players click through a nearly endless series of gorgeously rendered scenes, scanning any stray objects they find and using them to repair and activate the electrical generators. The key difference between this and similar games, though, is that all the puzzles in Physicus are based on solid scientific principle.

Fortunately, you do not have to be a wizard in optics, Newton's principles of motion, or any other aspect of the physical sciences to play this game. The expert is provided for you, in the form of a virtual laptop, which can guide you through your world-spanning task. Within the laptop, the fundamental concepts of physical science are laid out in a clear and entertaining format, complete with diagrams and animated illustrations. This banquet of information is broken into bite-sized morsels for younger players, and is available for access at any point in the game. What's more, the game is very well cross-indexed, with links to the correct sections of the laptop appearing whenever a puzzle presents itself.<p><i>Physicus is one of the rare educational games that genuinely have it all: great story, super graphics, and truly interesting puzzles. Visually, it melds a lush Victorian retrotech sensibility with hardcore educational content. The first-person interface gives the players the opportunity to fully imagine themselves in this complex adventure. Engaging enough to hold the attention of adults as well as younger players, it makes an excellent shared project for a parent-and-child team. --Alyx Dellamonica

Join Ms. Frizzle and Her Class As They Explore the Solar System! Take an interplanetary adventure as Scholastic's The Magic School Bus blastsoff. You can help find Ms. Frizzle's hiding place by becoming a space traveler! Find clues and more.

Enter this virtual museum environment and bring the geological world into your classroom with comprehensive information about rocks, minerals, and the geophysical forces that shape our planet. Learn how Earth evolved over billions of years and how it continues to develop and change to this day! You'll see the Earth from a different perspective as you see each rock and mineral sample classified according to its structure and properties with in-depth information about each specimen. Using dramatic software technology, students can create their own 3D volcano, witness transformation of the planetary surface in an accelerated timeline or even set off an earthquake and watch its seismic effect on the surrounding town! Photographs, audio, video and text all combine to provide a comprehensive geological reference source.

STUDENT HOME LEARNING SYSTEM, is the most comprehensive and cost-effective system ever released for home education, comprising 200 educational software titles, 20 hours of DVD video, over 200 hours of audio books, a total of over 20,000 lessons, activities and Q&As, as well as an array of top reference materials—everything needed to provide a full range of educational materials for grades 2-12. This multi-sensory Learning System has in-depth coverage of math, geography, history, science, reading, writing, and English with tutorials, lessons, tests, quizzes, video and audio books and a full range of reference software such as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary & Thesaurus, Spanish-English and Medical Desk Dictionaries and the full Encyclopedia Britannica 2006 as well as Barron’s Book Notes. The Learning System is Windows and Mac compatible. It includes a Study Guide and printable tests which permit students and parents to monitor progress.