"Imagination Express/Dest Rainforest"

Destinations

Destinations provide everything you need to use with "Imagination Express's" powerful E-BOOK maker. Each destination includes valuable educational and thematic information, art, music, sound effects, and animation. For example, click to select Destination: Desired; then click each of the icons below:

Fact Book: Learn more about the characters and background
Story Ideas: Children offer advise on writing, story ideas, plot, and characters

Dear Parents: Edmark Vice President Donna Stranger, award-winning software designer and a teacher for twenty years, shares thoughts about the writing process and answer parents' questions.

Destination: Rain Forest invites students to step into a Panamanian rain forest, where they craft exciting, interactive adventures filled with exotic plants, insects, waterfalls, and Kuna Indians. Students build essential communication skills as they select scenes and characters, plan plots, write, narrate, animate, and record dialogue to create remarkable adventures.

Special features include the Rain Forest Fact Book and easy customization for students of different ages, abilities, and skill levels.

Features:

• Destination: Rain Forest's Main Screen What's in your story? Choose from hundreds of stickers including Kuna Indians, plants, animals, and Explorer Kids. Do you want the jaguar to walk in front of-or behind-the waterfall? You decide! Animate stickers with a click! Make the Kuna chief speak or the jaguar roar. You can make sounds for every sticker! Water birds and other stickers automatically grow or shrink as you move them close to you or far away.
• Rain Forest's Edit Screen For a close-up of rain forest plant life, choose a "Zoom" scene and add your favorite insects, amphibians and arachnids!

Rain Forest's Fact Book Where do spider monkeys live? In the canopy! Learn about rain forest life in the Fact Book and include details in your stories.

Print storybooks in color or black and white, or watch them come alive on-screen in View Mode.

Use the Sticker Editor to change a sticker's size and appearance.

Use Text Tools to write and edit text.

In Dear Parents, a former teacher with 20 years of experience offers parents advice about encouraging their children's writing.

Story Ideas will spark your child's imagination!

Adult Options let you customize the program to suit your child.

Auto-sizing stickers grow as you move them to the front of a scene and shrink as you move them into the background.

Use Sound Tools to make stickers sing, laugh, speak or bark; to narrate your story page by page; and to choose theme music to set the mood!

Learning Opportunities

• Strengthen Creativity
• Build Writing and Editing Skills
• Explore Story Development and Structure
• Incorporate Multimedia Components into Storymaking Process
• Develop Verbal Communication Skills
• Expand Vocabulary

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View Cart	Title (Click on title for Review)	Publisher	Ages	Media	Price
	Imagination Express/Dest Rainforest		6-12	(Jewel Case) 95/98 & MAC

System Requirements

WIN® Requires:
Win 3.1/95/98, 386/25MHz, 8 MB RAM, 5 MB available disk space, SVGA, 640x480, 256 colors, 2X CD-ROM, Win-compatible sound card, Microphone recommended, Printer

MAC® Requires:
OS 7.0.1or high (Not Including OS10), 68030, 68040 or PowerPC, 8 MB RAM, 5 MB available disk space, 13" monitor, 640x480, 256 colors, 2X CD-ROM, Microphone recommended, Printer

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