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Cosmo’s Play and Learn™ software is a family of educational and computer games that aim to entertain children of developmental ages 2-to-8 years. This unique, developmentally appropriate software was created by a team of educators; physical, occupational, and speech-language therapists; and assistive technology practitioners. Children empower a virtual robot “Cosmo” to explore new adventures in a playground filled with activities, by utilizing the specially developed analog functionality of Mission Control (purchase separately).

Playground Discovery, the first software program in the Cosmo’s Play and Learn series, motivates the child with entertaining activities that are designed to meet individual goals.

Playground Discovery features highly interactive software with quality graphics that targets the goals of literacy, cause and effect, attention to task, and verbal skills. These targeted individual goals are reinforced with activities included in the Curriculum Guide plus the extra bonus of specially designed Magnetic Manipulatives (purchase separately).

• Features a brightly animated virtual robot named Cosmo™.
• Animations and character designed to capture a child’s interest and motivate them to learn.
• Targets developmental ages 3-5.
• Accessible via the Mission Control device
• Sound recognition functionality. A child can use his/her voice to control the software with Mission Control recognising the volume and duration of a sound. For example, in the Bubble-a-Tron activity, Cosmo asks the child to blow a bigger bubble than the one he has blown. By using his/her voice, the child can blow the bubble. The louder the sound, the faster the bubble blows; the longer the sound, the bigger the bubble is.
• Uses innovative prompt system to support the child through a variety of learning experiences.
• Global default settings are adjustable to enable customization to each individual child’s physical or cognitive skill level.
• Database saves the settings for each child for future use.
• Content and process goals were designed using development curriculum guidelines.
• Content/Process Goals include: colour identification, relative size and amounts, directionality, prepositions, introductions to numbers and shapes, self mastery, attention and focus, sustained play and exploration, and problem solving.
• Playground Discovery features real learning opportunities set in a playground.
• Includes a carefully designed Curriculum Guide that serves the dual purpose of operations manual and activity guide.
• Curriculum Guide reinforces the learning objectives of the software through the use of pre-activities and post-activities.

Click here to find out more about Cosmo’s Play and Learn: Playground Discovery Software.

Click here to find out more about Cosmo’s Play and Learn™ Software benefits and features.

Additional Tools

Cosmo’s Learning Systems™ is an interactive learning system designed for young children and children with disabilities. To help reinforce the concepts taught in the Playground Discovery software program, numerous activities have been developed to complement what the child has learned on the computer. These hands-on tools allow the child to practise the concepts experienced with Cosmo™, the virtual robot, while in the outer space playground in Cosmo’s Play and Learn™ software.

Click on this link to go to Cosmo’s Fun and Games and download the featured worksheets that reinforce the educational and therapeutic goals introduced in Cosmo’s Play and Learn software. Check back regularly as new ideas will be added to Cosmo’s Fun and Games to allow the child to creatively play while practising new concepts learned in school or during therapy.

“The handbook contains great extension activities for the classroom, as well as useful at-home tips. It is far more detailed than any other software handbooks I have encountered. It can and should be utilized as a curriculum guide, rather than just a handbook to the game.

“The games are vibrant and high-interest, and cause and effect is done well. Multi-step direction is a useful skill for children with developmental delays to practise. Special education teachers will appreciate the way the games make this skill more fun to practise.” Angie Schafer, Teacher, Preschool Program for Children with Disabilities, Baty Elementary, Del Valle, Texas, US

“I really enjoyed the software handbook and was impressed with the wonderful and well thought out extension activities; the activities tie in nicely to what the child is learning in the software program. Not only does the software handbook provide a great guide for the teacher, but it is also an informative resource for the parents.

“The software program is child-friendly; the colourful graphics are very appealing. The software program covers basic and fundamental areas of learning in early childhood education (i.e., colours, shapes, numbers) in a welcoming and positive way. Children at all developmental ages can learn from this program at their own rate in one way or another. It appeals to all learning styles (i.e., visual, auditory, tactile).” Anthe Gimenez, Teacher of Three-Year-Old Toddlers, Good Shepherd School, Austin, Texas, US

Related Products

• Cosmo’s Learning Systems
  
• Mission Control input device
  
• Cosmo’s Magnetic Manipulatives and Board

Minimum System Requirements

• Mission Control input device (purchase separately)
  
• USB port for connection of Mission Control device
  
• Windows
  
  • Operating System: Windows 98, 2000, XP
    
  • System RAM: 128 MB
    
  • Processor: Pentium III or equivalent
• Macintosh
  
  • Operating System: OS 9.2, OS X 10.1.5, 10.2.6, 10.3
    
  • System RAM: 128 MB
    
  • Processor: Macintosh G3

View/Download

• Info at a glance about Cosmo’s Learning Systems (pdf 97 KB)
  
• Curriculum Guide sample (pdf 1 MB)
  
• Scope and Sequence Document (pdf)
  
• Additional Fun and Games
  

Prices

	Code	Media	Platform	$AUD Price	$AUD GST
	Cosmo's Play and Learn: Playground Discovery - Single User Licence	Does not include Mission Control input device or Magnetic Manipulatives
	AKCPLPD	CD-ROM	Mac OS 9, Mac OS X, Win 98, Win 2000, Win XP	$239.00	$0.00