The series is designed to facilitate students' intellectual capabilities at all levels of Bloom's Taxonomy and to integrate classroom experiences and learning with the students' life experiences. The teaching module explains how it is keyed to the curriculum, outlines the content information, and provides learning objectives that can be used for assessment. The teacher's guide outlines the interdisciplinary activities and the time requirements and uses icons to identify the related fields. The CD-ROM contains a video stressing the relationships between living and nonliving things in nature and explains terms such as habitat, community, and biosphere. For example it describes a niche as an organism's job and labels the frog niche as eater of insects.
Teachers can control whether the video is interrupted with onscreen text, which they can edit.
A bulletin board contains text that the teachers choose as background information for the students to read. The default text on the bulletin board discusses threats to the environment. Students may take multiple choice, ten item quizzes, which divert the students to related video clips if they select an incorrect response. The tests in the program ask questions from the same bank as the quizzes and the students responses are saved for the teacher to review or print. One activity in the teaching module asks the students to consider how the names of plants and animals are descriptive.