Product Description

It's An Action-Packed Adventure That Teaches 6th GradeEssentials!



Use your 6th Grade problem-solving skills as you save the earth in this globalmission quest!  Pack extreme fun and exciting adventure into learning asyou travel the globe, chart the stars, and put a stop to pollution.  Masterover 25 skills in Math, Reading, Social Studies, Science, and more!

Play as either Jess or Zack, two courageous teens helping their genius Uncle Eliprotect the planet from environmental devastation. Players ages 10-12 thwartdeforestation, pollution, extinction of endangered species, and the destructionof famous world monuments while learning math, history, language arts, science,and more.

• Reading Comprehension
• Vocabulary
• Spelling
• Grammar
• Geometry
• Fractions
• Decimals
• Ratios and Percentages
• Environmental Science
• Biology and Life Science
• Social Studies
• Critical Thinking and Reference Skills

Endless Fun

• Creative Games
• Challenging Activities
• Exciting Adventures
• Keeps children involved for hours of learning fun

Continuous Challenge

• Auto-leveling helps children learn at the pace that suits them
  

• Windows 2000, XP, Vista
• Pentium II 300MHz or faster processor
• 128MB of RAM
• 10MB of free hard disk space

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1090 in Software
• Brand: 1552
• Platforms: Windows XP Professional, Windows XP Home Edition, Windows 2000
• Format: CD
• Dimensions: .35 pounds

Features

• For Ages 9 - 12
• Biology & Life Science; Social Studies; Critical Thinking & Reference Skills
• Kids Learn: Reading Comprehension; Vocabulary, Spelling, & Grammar
• Geometry, Fractions, & Decimals; Ratios & Percentages; Environmental Science
• Windows 2000/XP/Vista

Customer Reviews

holding the child's interest
I purchased this jumpstart 6th grade cd the summer before school started. Came in the mail and installed it in the laptop . My daughter seemed to have an immediate interest in the subject matter- we began going over science subjects.. I rememeber her finding interest in the geology questions like type of rocks.
Many of the questions had me guessing - guess a loss of memory is to blame.. and some of the questions seemed to be above a 6th grader's mindset - like names of chemical bonds.
The software's interface was about a 3 out of 5 stars. The reason for this is because the user has to manuever an object over a location on the screen and drop - cant remember what it was- something... The program then starts a new set of question and answer table, but only only 1 at a time - so one has to do this manuevering everytime for a new question to appear. I'm not sure if the entire cd is like this or if it was just in the science section.
A complaint i had to my daugther about the software was when a correct answer was chosen the original question text would immiedialtly disapear - not allowing one to reread the question and correct answer. The software needs a simple time delay of some sort to allow the user to re-read the original question/correct answer combo.

We had fun using the software and we seemed to learn much during or short time using it.