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Discover the exciting world of science and develop essential early science skills!

The award winning Sammy’s Science House introduces and builds essential early science and thinking skills while engaging young students with five fun-filled activities. Students sort names of plants, animals, and minerals at the Sorting Station, construct toys and machines in the Workshop, learn about animal habitats at Acorn Pond, and manipulate weather variables with the Weather Machine. Sammy also offers interactive, creative activities such as Make-A-Movie, where students arrange pictures in sequence to understand how multiple parts create a whole.

• Targets fundamental early learning science skills
  
• Immediate and positive feedback enhances learning, rewards persistence, and guides students to success
  
• Explore and Discover and Question and Answer modes provide opportunities for independent and structured learning
  
• Spoken and graphical instructions allow pre-readers and early readers to explore the program independently.

Features

• 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 favourite 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.

Learning Opportunities

• 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

Sammy’s Science House is available as:

• School/Educator version: enhanced package containing Teacher Resource Binders with a Teacher’s Guide, User’s Guide and Additional Resources. School licences may be used on stand-alone or networked computers.
  
• Home/Student version: contains one CD-ROM and a single user, single computer licence. Not upgradeable to multi-user.

System Requirements

• Windows
  
  • Operating System: Windows 98, Me, 2000, XP
    
  • Minimum RAM: 4 MB, 8 MB recommended RAM
    
  • Disk Space Required: 31 MB
    
  • Minimum Processor: Pentium II 200 MHz (or equivalent)
    
  • Minimum Display: SVGA, 640×480, 256 colours
    
  • CD-ROM: Min 2x
    
  • Sound Card: Windows compatible sound card
• Macintosh
  
  • Operating System: OS 8.6+, OS 10.2.x-10.4.x (Native)
    
  • Minimum RAM: 4 MB, 8 MB recommended RAM
    
  • Disk Space Required: 60 MB
    
  • Minimum Processor: G3
    
  • Minimum Display: 800×600 256 colours
    
  • CD-ROM: Min 2x

Network System Requirements – Server

• Operating System: Windows NT 4.0, 2000, 2003, or Mac AppleShare 6.0.3 or later (Macintosh only), or OS X Server
  
• Disk Space Required: 150 MB

Prices

	Code	Media	Platform	$AUD Price	$AUD GST
	Sammy's Science House - Home Licence	Not upgradeable to multi-user or school version. Does not include Teacher's guide or resources
	DWSSHHE	CD-ROM	Mac, Mac OS X, Win 98SE, Win ME, Win 2000, Win XP	$30.00	$3.00
	Sammy's Science House - School Site Licence
	DWSSHLS	CD-ROM	Mac, Mac OS X, Win 98SE, Win ME, Win 2000, Win XP	$560.00	$56.00