Frequently Asked Questions Thousands of web sites for educators and students. Support for long-term classroom planning and professional development. Information covering important topics for today's educators and parents. This CD-ROM, set up like a illustrated picture book for young children, tells the story in pictures and words of four dinosaurs as the dinosaurs speak, learn to read, save the rain forest, and avoid extinction in a time machine. The animated story, which pictures one page from the book at a time, is set millions of years ago and touches on twentieth century problems as the dinosaurs get books from a volcano and use skateboards, telescopes, bicycles and airplanes.
Children can read along with the narrator as each word of the story is highlighted as it is spoken.
Further animation can be added to the screen by clicking on the small animals that are pictured. The activities include a counting game where a child can learn to count to ten in six languages, a sliding puzzle for putting five pictures in the correct order, and a picture menu for returning to a particular page of the story. ENC does NOT distribute this resource.