The examples can be removed so the program can be customized to any local library. Designed for use by high school students and media center staff, the stack allows the user to browse topics for research ideas, subject heading locators, and possible information sources. The stacks include significant details about the pro-democracy demonstrations and their suppression in the spring of 1989, which provide a point of reference for the information in other parts of the data base. It contains profiles of more than 150 people, descriptions of more than 100 events, and the possibility of navigating between related items in all stacks. Jim Bryant A simplified simulation of the workings of the New York Stock Exchange over a ten-day trading period.
Teachers can produce new stock listings easily.
Its purpose is to provide a game-like format that will familiarize stduents with the procedures for buying and selling in the stock market, and give some practice in the necessary math skills. Robertta H. Barba Insects introduces the user to common insects. Three major sections include an extensive and well-illustrated tutorial, an insect classification activity, and an insect trivia quiz. Graphics are numerous and excellent. The insect classification section is thorough and useful.