Explore the wonders of science with Sammy!
In five fascinating activities students build early
science skills and practice important scientific processes.
Students also expand their science vocabulary as they learn about plants,
animals, seasons, and weather.
Special features include graphical and spoken instructions, questions, and
feedback, which allow students to work independently and enhance comprehension,
and a Field Notebook from which students can print creations and pages.
- Discriminate Attributes
- Construct Objects
- Follow Patterns
- Manipulate Weather Variables
- Investigate Animal Habitats
- Observe Seasonal Changes
- Explore Classifications
- Name Plants, Animals, Rocks and Fungi
- Build Logical Sequences
Discover the Wonders of Nature
What do shrews eat? Why does a squirrel flick its tail? Visit Acorn Pond during
winter, spring, summer, and fall to explore its fascinating wildlife.
Make Your Own Weather!
Kids learn weather terms, experiment with temperature, wind, and precipitation,
and see how different variables affect weather.
Explore the Field Notebook
Kids find great sketches and fun facts about the animals of Acorn Pond. Printing
pages allows kids to share their favorite animals with family and friends.
Play with the Order of Things
Lights! Camera! Action! Kids learn about beginnings, middles, and ends and
explore how things in nature change over time as they arrange frames of film in
logical sequences to Make-A-Movie.
Construct in the Workshop
Clocks tick, wheels spin, and robots spring to life as kids follow blueprints or
create original machines and toys.
Drop in at the Sorting Station
Three horns . . . it's a triceratops! Kids sort pictures of objects and learn
the names of plants, animals, rocks and fungi.
- Windows 95/98/Me (not XP or 2000 compatible)
- 486, Pentium or better (33 MHz or faster)
- Hard disk with 5 MB free
- 8 MB memory (RAM)
- 640x480, 256-color monitor
- Double-speed (2X) or faster CD-ROM drive
- Mouse
- Windows-compatible sound card
- Mac 7.5.6 to 9.x
- 68040 or 68030 processor (25 MHz or faster recommended) or PowerPC
- 8 MB memory (RAM), 16 MB recommended
- 640x480, 256-color monitor
- Double-speed (2X) or faster CD-ROM drive
