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The Edmark House Series helps children develop essential skills

mary | 27 March, 2008 16:19

The Edmark House Series, by Riverdeep, is a series of software for children between the grades of Pre-K and 2nd. The software includes four different programs that are designed to help guide students towards success. The programs focus on developing early skills in reading, math, science, and social studies. And through the fun filled activities for the students, the teachers will be able to pinpoint their studetns weak areas with the learning management tools.

The four programs include:

Bailey's Book House

In this program children will learn the basic ideas of letter names and sounds, rhyming words, adjectives, how text relates to clues, positional words, sentence building, and much more.

Millie's Math House

In Millie's Math House children will learn about numbers, shapes, sizes, quantities, patterns, and sequencing.

Sammy's Science House

Students will learn concepts on how plants develop over time, how different animals age, and concepts on observation, analysis, and test theories.

Trudy's Time & Place House

Trudy's time and place house helps students compare cities, towns, and the countryside while also helping them to understand the ideas of landmarks, directions, and map symbols.

The Edmark Series also has features for children with special needs. It has built in universal access and pacing options, the ability to assign accessibility by student, closed captioning of all audio and controls, and screen scaling for larger screen views.

2008 Codie Award Finalist - InspireData 1.5 for Best Social Studies Instructional Solution

mary | 27 March, 2008 15:52

InspireData 1.5 by Inspiration Software is the most engaging way for students in grades 4-12 to examine data and explore relationships. InspireData 1.5 lets students see the data move right before their eyes with just the click of an icon. They can instantly explore and analyze data, easily switching between Venn, bar, stack, pie and axis plots to interpret social studies data. With this enhanced visual representation of data students are able to develop more insightful conclusions.


InspireData 1.5 includes over 40 social studies specific databases to jumpstart analysis. Teachers can create their own databases or import data from the Internet. When creating there own databases, the new InspireData 1.5 e-Survey tool allows them to easily publish an online survey and then download results to provide instant analysis. Additionally, InspireData 1.5's unique Time Series animation represents data as it changes over time, helping students understand trends and make predictions.

This visual learning tool comes with standards-based lessons plans and classroom projects. These lesson plans include ideas and instructions for achieving key data literacy standards, corresponding database templates to guide student data collection and exemplars for teacher demonstration and student assessment.

The Codie Awards holds the distinction of being the only peer-recognition awards program of its kind in the industry, providing a unique opportunity for companies to earn the praise of their competitors. The Codie Awards program, now in its twenty-first year, remains the standard-bearer for celebrating outstanding achievement and vision in our industry.

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