Edmark - Sammy's Science House

Provides five fascinating activities that help children practice sorting, sequencing, observing, predicting, and constructing. Children learn simple scientific classification and discover how plants and animals live and respond in a real pond environment. They can read and print a 'Field Notebook' of interesting information about animals and build toys and machines, they can print, too.

Workshop - Construct toys and machines. Follow a blueprint or make your own designs. Paint and print your creations.

Acorn Pond - Investigate plants and animals as they adapt to seasonal change. Print a Field Notebook with interesting facts for future reference.

Weather Machine - Manipulate weather variables. Listen to the weather report and watch animations illustrating the weather you've created.

Sorting Station - Sort pictures into categories with the help of friendly bins. Hear the names of plants, animals and minerals.

Make-A-Movie - Arrange pictures in sequence to make a movie. Play your movie forward or backward.

Four of the activities have an Explore and Discover mode as well as a Question and Answer mode. It encourages exploration and creativity and rewards persistence. Spoken instructions ensure that even pre-readers can work independently.

Sammy's Science House includes built-in scanning for single switch users.

Retail version is a CD only; the School Versions comes in a ring binder, complete with Teacher's guide, lesson ideas and photocopiable master sheets.