Three learning laboratories each offer challenges, puzzles, and opportunities for experimentation, observation, and prediction. Students who complete all challenge levels are rewarded with the opportunity to create a multimedia concert. The school version includes teacher's guide, lesson ideas, and reproducible activity sheets. Package includes teacher's guide, activity sheets, and links to Web sites. The latest release in the Inspirer series is Asia Inspirer 4.0.
Students work in groups of four as they go on a scavenger hunt through Asia.
They plan their route, collect various resources and commodities, interpret data, study geographic patterns, and work together. The disc also contains a photo gallery with images of architectural elements from different historical periods, and it can be used in conjunction with Neighborhood Map Machine, another Tom Snyder product. History in Your Hands series is The Great Depression and the New Deal. Teaching Tools ExplorAsource is a reference tool for teachers that matches print products, software, Web sites, and videos to learning topics, grade levels, and curriculum. It provides information about each product, matches it to national and state standards, is appropriate for grades K-12, and covers English, language arts, mathematics, social studies, and science.