Ten file templates also let students enter notes into their CE devices while in class. The topics include geography, literature and world records. A shareware application for Palm users that helps middle and high school students store their class schedules and work assignments. For earth science students, a software and hardware combination that, when hooked to Palm devices, will take measurements of light, soil and water temperature, and voltage. Sensors are sold separately.
Players solve division problems to help a robot fuel a space ship.
It can be downloaded free from the math section at Palm Central. Most school-age children write their schedules in notebooks, scribble appointments on the refrigerator or just rely on their parents to remind them. A two-toned chime will sound on the Palm III in his back pocket 15 minutes before a friend is due to arrive or on the night before a report is due. For many children, of course, Palm Pilots and similar handheld organizers are attractive because of the many games that can be played on them or because of the programs for things like calculators or dictionaries that can be loaded onto them to help with schoolwork. But increasingly, students are following their parents' lead, using the devices to help schedule their lives.