Your mission is to stop Carmen Sandiego and her diabolical Babble-on Machine from destroying the English language! You must successfully complete twelve missions that require you to solve over sixty skill-building activities. Practice mode features thousands of exercises that develop spelling, grammar and vocabulary proficiency. This adventure motivates kids to learn essential language skills.
Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your LifeKnown as the father of the new science of positive psychology, Martin E.P. Seligman draws on more than twenty years of clinical research to demonstrate how optimism enchances the quality of life, and how anyone can learn to practice it. Offering many simple techniques, Dr. Seligman explains how to break an "I-give-up" habit, develop a more constructive explanatory style for interpreting your behavior, and experience the benefits of a more positive interior dialogue.
Reaching across life, earth, and physical science topics, this new, accessible, standards-based program helps kindergarten students develop essential science concepts and skills.
Discover languages early. Students develop conversational skills in four foreign languages and develop a foundation to more fully participate in future language study.
Through multicultural stories, games and songs, students engage in activities that build overall language skills and their appreciation of different cultures. Curriculum Skills
* Develop conversational phrasing
* Understand basic vocabulary
* Discover sentence structuring
* Hear and speak special pronunciations
Special Features
* Four languages: French, Japanese, Spanish, and English
A pioneering examination of the folkloric qualities of the World Wide Web, e-mail, and related digital media. These stuidies show that folk culture, sustained by a new and evolving vernacular, has been a key, since the Internet's beginnings, to language, practice, and interaction online. Users of many sorts continue to develop the Internet as a significant medium for generating, transmitting, documenting, and preserving folklore.
