The module enriches your child’s imagination, fortifies your child’s knowledge base, and lends a new perspective to history, geography and social science.
 
Discover the relationships between the earth, a globe, and a world map.
 
Learn to tell time on both kinds of clocks by hour, half hour, and quarter hour
 
Learn about units of time as you move forward or backward in an animated movie by months, days, hours, minutes, and seconds.
 
Learn to use relative and cardinal directions by directing a hungry ant left, right, and forward — or north, south, east, and west
Place symbols on a sandbox map and watch hills, roads, lakes, and cities grow before your eyes.


EISE-10220-M04 E-KIPS NPE GEOLOGIST

E-KIPS NPE GEOLOGIST'S five playful activities will enchant students with lively music, engaging manipulative, and a variety of friendly talking characters.

 

The activities develop time and geography skills, helping students build a solid social studies foundation. With Trudy, students will:

 

·        Practice telling time

·        Explore the concept of time passage and the units of time used for measurement

·        Discover the relationships between the earth, a globe, and a world map

·        Locate and name continents, oceans, and world landmarks

·        Develop mapping and direction (both cardinal and relative) skills

·        Relate a “bird’s-eye” map to a “driver’s seat” perspective

·        Learn about map scale

·        explore the relationship between a map and a “real life” landscape

·        Exercise creativity and much more

 

E-KIPS NPE GEOLOGIST encourages exploration and rewards persistence. Each activity has an Explore and Discover Mode as well as a Question and Answer Mode. This allows students to either explore freely or direct the learning or to learn with gentle prompting and feedback. The complexity of the activities can be customized to ensure your students are challenged, but never overwhelmed.

 

The Curriculum Connections section in this Guide provides dozens of interdisciplinary, teacher-developed activities for use in the classroom and at home. Reproducible activity sheets and illustrations are included to help you provide additional learning opportunities before and after using the software.

 

Powerful technology and proven educational methods have been combined in E-KIPS NPE GEOLOGIST to ensure success for a wide variety of students. Spoken instructions allow pre-readers and readers alike to work independently. Built-in scanning is available for single switch users. Using the computer as a tool, students gain a sense of accomplishment and skill as they create, play, and learn.