Level One Software Programs

Level Two Software Programs

(Social Studies, Geography, Values)

You can build your own farm microworld. Select from the various animals, props, and multicultural characters. Place them anywhere in the three-screen farm scene. Record speech files for the people and animals on the farm.

Investigate vocational options. Create your own bustling metropolis with everything from mounted police officers to mass transporation. Select vehicles, park animals, props, and multicultural characters. Place them anywhere in the city scene.

Use Alaskan Village to explore and create a native Eskimo community. The realistic scenes based on an authentic village help children think about what life might really be like surrounded by snow most of the year. Learn more about Eskimo children by reading the book: Mama, do you love me? by Barbara M. Joosse.

Students use Island to investigate basic topographical features including oceans, mountains and beaches and how these impact living conditions and economic opportunities in a community. Students record narrative sequences to expand their thinking and bring life to their community scenarios.

Level Three Software Programs

(includes Phonemic Awareness, Alphabet Recognition, Vocabulary Development)

Helps young children develop phonemic awareness and word recognition skills! Press on any letter and words appear beginning with that letter along with a picture. Hear the word voiced aloud in English or your home language. Add your own personal words (family members, friends, pets, etc.) to the list to individualize the experience and make practice meaningful. Print your own individual picture dictionary. Teachers can add vocabulary lists. Import pictures from Electronic Easel, Electronic Builder, or Face Maker to customize your word list.

Here's another way to practice phonics! Build students' understanding of how print represents the sounds of speech. Select and print objects that can be used to create thematic murals or make puppets to use in other classroom centers. Objects are organized into six categories and available in two sizes. Teachers can add their own pictures. Teachers can also incorporate Mural Maker pictures with notes to parents. Children are sure to deliver these notes home!

Explore a world of designing and constructing. Create abstract and representational designs. Rotate your shapes as you explore positions in space. Use the rubber stamp to make multiples of a shape or color. Save your designs and offer these as challenges for others to reconstruct. Teachers can adjust levels of complexity for each child individually. Integrates easily with math manipulatives--tangrams and geoforms!

Level Four Software Programs

For those teachers who understand the strong connections between mathematics and music, Music Maker, does the work! Use this program to compose your own musical tunes. The color-coded system makes it easy to explore, combine, and discriminate between different notes. Record and play your musical creations or listen to old favorites. Print your tune in color and play it on a toy xylophone. Make songbooks to share with others.

Use this program to support meaningful literacy experiences for a variety of learners. This basic desktop publisher is easy to use for typing, editing and printing stories to go with your pictures and creations. All KIDWARE programs easily access KIDWARE Writer. Select fonts from many different sizes and styles of type including script. Use the recording feature to have the student read her own story.

Level Five Software Programs

(Self-concept Development, Meaningful Math, Science)

Select from a wide variety of features to construct your own character. Choose from multicultural and ethnically diverse possibilites. Completed pictures make an interesting classroom portrait gallery. Program your character to dance, smile, wriggle its ears, and more. Play a memory game with your character's actions.

Aquarium offers learning activities that stimulate creativity and require problem-solving. Actively explore the set-up and maintenance of a school or home aquarium. Select the plants and the types of fish that live together peacefully to create a balanced ecosystem. Consult books for information needed for a successful aquarium. Use the "build your own fish" activity for a whimsical experience. Make an underwater creature like no other in nature--lots of creative fun!