Overview+of+Available+Elementary+Software

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Scholastic Keys
A child-friendly interface for Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. (Tom Snyder Productions) Numbers vary by school. Please check with your CRS for specific numbers. Video Overview - [] Product Overview - [] Instructional ideas - []


A child-friendly database (Tom Snyder Productions) Numbers vary by school - same as Scholastic Keys. Please check with your CRS for specific numbers. Product Overview - [] Information Sheet - []

Kidspiration
 Planning, visual organization, and visual math tools. Students can create graphic organizers and outlines to help visualize and organize projects. Visual math tools enable students to form mathematical concepts as well as build reasoning and problem-solving skills. This software is intended for elementary students. (Inspiration Software)  District-wide site license (can be installed on every instructional laptop and desktop computer) Intro Kidspiration video - [] Classroom integration activities - []

Inspiration
Planning and visual organization tools. Students and teachers can create graphic organizers and outlines to help visualize, think, and organize projects. (Inspiration Software)  District-wide site license (can be installed on every instructional laptop and desktop computer) Inspiration Overview Video [] Classroom Integration Ideas for Inspiration []

Pixie
A simple paint program. Students can use a variety of paint and simple image editing tools to create original illustrations. (Tech4Learning) All elementary schools have at least 128 copies. Some schools have more. Please check with your CRS for specific numbers. Pixie Overview Video [] Sample Pixie Projects [] Tech4Learning Catalog []

WebBlender
A presentation and webpage productivity tool. Students and teachers can use this software to create webpages and presentations using text, graphics, video, and sounds. (Tech4Learning) All elementary schools have at least 128 copies. Some schools have more. Please check with your CRS for specific numbers. WebBlender Overview Video http://www.tech4learning.com/webblender Sample WebBlender Projects http://www.tech4learning.com/webblender/integration Tech4Learning Catalog http://www.tech4learning.com/userfiles/file/pdfs/Misc/T4L_Catalog.pdf

Timeliner
A tool for creating timelines that can be used in multiple curricular areas for displaying historical events; illustrating time, size, weight, distance, and temperature; presenting events from literature; and creating bar graphs. (Tom Snyder Productions) District-wide site license (can be installed on every instructional laptop and desktop computer) Timeliner Tutorials http://movies.atomiclearning.com/k12/timeliner5/ Timeliner Lesson Plans http://sites.google.com/a/tomsnyder.com/tsp-wiki/Home/timeliner Using Timeliner in the Classroom <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">http://schools.portnet.k12.ny.us/~jgilmartin/documents/TimeLiner%205.0%20Classroom%20Ideas.pdf <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Timeliner User's Guide http://schools.portnet.k12.ny.us/~jgilmartin/documents/TimeLiner%205.0%20User's%20Guide.pdf

MapMaker's Toolkit
<span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Students select, customize, and print current and historical world, continent, country, and state maps. (Tom Snyder Productions) District-wide site license (can be installed on every instructional laptop and desktop computer) Mapmaker's Toolkit User' Guide- []

Neighborhood Map Machine
A social studies learning tool. Students can create maps of their own neighborhoods or imaginary places. Maps can be customized by using a variety of graphic symbols. Students can add photographs, narration, and movies of buildings in their towns to enhance their maps. (Tom Snyder Productions) District-wide site license (can be installed on every instructional laptop and desktop computer Software Overview- []

Graph Club
A simple graphing tool. Students can use this program to create, explore, interpret, and print graphs. Data can be represented using five different graph types: picture, bar, circle, line, and table. (Tom Snyder Productions) District-wide site license (can be installed on every instructional laptop and desktop computer) Software Overview - [] Lesson Ideas - []

Understanding Numeration Plus
A math learning tool. This software teaches and reinforces math concepts in correlation with the current math curriculum, Everyday Mathematics. It is geared for K-3 but can be used with 4th and 5th grades for remediation. (Neufeld Learning Systems) License for 35 installations. Schools may have purchased additional licenses. Check with your CRS for specific numbers. Lesson Database Search [] Correlation to VA Standards []

Tenth Planet Literacy Years
Language arts learning tools. The six titles in this series introduce and reinforce word study skills. The titles include Letter Sounds; Vowels Short and Long; Word Parts; Consonant Blends; Roots– Prefixes and Suffixes; and Vowel Patterns. (Sunburst) Most schools have 50 copies each of the 6 titles. Please check with your CRS for your school’s specific numbers. Teacher's Guides [|Consonant_Blends_and_Digraphs.pdf], [|Letter_Sounds_Final.pdf], [|Vowel_Patterns.pdf], [|Vowels_Short_and_Long.pdf], [|Word_Parts_Guide.pdf] and [|Consonant_Blends_and_Digraphs.pdf]

Reading for Meaning
A language arts learning tool. This software targets the essential reading comprehension skills of main idea, inference, sequence, cause & effect, and compare & contrast. It is designed for whole-class instruction and cooperative groups. (Tom Snyder Productions) District-wide site license (can be installed on every instructional laptop and desktop computer) Reading for Meaning Product Overview []

Science Court and Science Explorations
Interactive science learning tools. Using real-world problems, students analyze scientific concepts, perform hands-on experiments, and work cooperatively in groups. Science Court (upper elementary students) includes titles on electric current, fossils, gravity, inertia, living things, particles in motion, seasons, soil, sound, water cycle, work and simple machines, and data and inquiry. Science Court Explorations (primary grade levels) focuses on friction and magnets. These tools are designed for teacher-directed, whole class use and cooperative groups. (Tom Snyder Productions) Each elementary school has at least one copy of each of the titles. Some schools may have purchased additional licenses. Check with your CRS for specific numbers.

Clicker
A writing support and multimedia tool. Teachers can design activities in which students use a talking word processor to compose text by typing as well as clicking on pictures and words. Activity collections on plants, life cycles, and ancient Egypt have been purchased for schools. (Crick Software) District-wide site license (can be installed on every instructional laptop and desktop computer) Clicker 5 Guide [] Clicker in the Classroom []