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Oregon Trail History Learning System
Oregon Trail 5 & Liberty's Kids
Get two great learning games, flashcards and reward stickers. Liberty's Kids: Kids 8-12 can live the adventures of the American revolution with Sara and James, the Liberty Kids. This CD is based on the hit PBS Kids show, Liberty's Kids. Benjamin Franklin is in England trying to win freedom with words. He left his print shop in the hands of Moses his apprentice and two hopeful reporters. With a little help, Sara and James travel to important locations to interview famous people, heroes and everyday folks, experience battles and collect interesting historical items. After collecting all the facts Sara and James are ready to publish front-page articles about the American revolution. Kids supply the headlines and choose content from their observations and interviews. Reporters can publish and print their papers. Kids can really understand the important events of the American revolution when they experience it for themselves. Students learn about The Boston Tea Party, Lexington and Concord, The Declaration of Independence, Washington Crossing the Delaware, Saratoga, Valley Forge and the Battle of Yorktown. Young reporters must listen and observe carefully, separate fact from opinion and compose reports and articles. The CD also includes mini movies from the PBS Kids television show. With this CD kids can live history and learn history! Oregon Trail 5: This is the 5th and latest edition of a thrilling trailblazing adventure that kids and parents have enjoyed for years. This program by The Learning Company is not only fun but helps kids develop real-life decision making and problem solving skills. Players apply history, geography and math in real-life settings. Your goal is to lead a wagon party across the unknown to the new land. First you must organize your party, choosing people and supplies needed the complete the rugged journey. Should you choose a team with money or strong survival skills? Next you must decide how to spend your money. You have a limited budget for food and supplies. Then you are off! Consult your guidebooks, read maps and study the landscape to find the best route. Can you survive the dangers of the journey, raging rivers, buffalo stampedes, sickness and more perils are around the bend. Kids learn history firsthand and experience what it was like to live in the 1800s. There are authentic journals to read, maps and newspapers from the 1840s, and lots of people to meet and talk with. Listen carefully to their advice. The newest edition is packed with exciting new features including new characters, and an enhanced user interface. Players can really understand what is was like in the old west with animated mini-movies, campfire tales and a detailed journal with sketches of the west. This is an outstanding game that is great for kids and families to play together enhancing collaboration and cooperation. A great game for family night. Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/Vista*, Pentium 166 MHz, 64 MB RAM (128 for XP), 60 MB hard disk space, 8X CD-ROM, 16-bit high color, sound card. *We tested both programs on Windows Vista Home Premium. We were able to run Oregon Trail 5, but were not able to run Liberty's Kids. When attempting to start Liberty's Kids we received an error advising us to rerun install because we needed Indeo Video Decompressor. Rerunning install did not correct the problem. Macintosh Power PC G3 180 MHz+, System 8.6 - 9.1, OS X 10.1.5, 64 MB RAM (128 for OS X), 40 MB hard drive space, 8X CD-ROM, 1000s of colors 800X600, sound card. Check out some other great social studies programs: |
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