Carmen Sandiego Collection
Product Description
Travel through time and discover world history!
Discover centuries of historically rich events as you try to capture Carmen Sandiego
and her crooked cronies. It’s up to you to preserve the world’s historic
inheritance. You’ll begin your search in the tombs of ancient Egypt and finish over
3,000 years later with the launching of the first person into space!
With two CD-ROMs, worth of time travel, over 50 historical figures to meet, and the ACME
Chronopedia™ full of historical information, kids expand their knowledge of history.
For ages 9 and up.
Product Features:
Special features engage kids' minds and imaginations:
- Multi-player! Up to four players at one computer!
- Players can compete against or collaborate with each other.
- Over 1,000 fascinating questions in seven subject areas.
- Create your own questions to target learning of specific subjects.
- Subject content based on national curriculum standards for grades 4-6.
Outsmarting Carmen Sandiego helps kids expand their knowledge of:
- U.S.A. history
- World history
- Historic events, personalities and achievements
- Ancient civilizations and cultures
- Scientific advances
And develop skills in:
- Deductive reasoning
- Chronological thinking
- Research skills
- Listening comprehension
- Historical analysis
This is a 2 CD-ROM Set!
Where in the USA is Carmen SanDiego?
Kids experience America's cultural and geographic diversity firsthand as they travel to 51 U.S.A. cities and learn interesting facts about each state's geography, history, and people. To solve cases or gather information for school assignments, a rich electronic database is included, featuring narrated video clips, regional music, maps, and comprehensive essays.
Get on the case!
The United States has lost Lincoln's Log Cabin, Seattle's Space Needle, and the
Continental Divide. As a detective, your job is to interrogate informants, track clues,
and arrest the thief before your battery meter runs out!
Educational Benefits:
Knowledge of U.S. geography
Almanac Reference Skills
Electronic Database Research Skills
Reading and Vocabulary Development
Deductive Reasoning
Map Reading
Electronic Reference Database
Unravel clues using a rich database filled with over 50 video clips, maps, and flags.
Essays highlight each state's geography, economy, historic events, landmarks, and most
celebrated people. Includes keyword search capability.
Explore Mode™ enables research for school assignments.
51 Locations Nationwide
Beautifully painted landscapes
Regional music
Spoken clues
Over 200 animated characters
Carmen Sandiego Math Detective
Thrilling missions challenge you to achieve math
success by mastering essential math skills, geometry, hundreds of word problems and 34
easy-to-use problem-solving strategies.
As you infiltrate forbidden V.I.L.E. hideouts to uncover the secrets of Carmen's pilfering
power, you'll practice multiplication and division, convert fractions and decimals,
calculate percentages, create 2D models, solve hundreds of word problems, and collect
critical codes to deactivate Carmen's Quantum Crystallizer. You'll also be challenged to
use math strategies such as estimation and conversion. So boost your brain power and stop
Carmen and her sinister shrinking device from stealing the world's most cherished
landmarks! Recommended for ages 8 to 14.
The world is in desperate need of your clever mathematical mind! Carmen Sandiego has developed a sinister shrinking device that has already taken the Mount out of Everest and the Grand out of the world's most famous Canyon! To restore these and other cherished landmarks to their rightful size, you must embark on 12 strategic adventures to solve hundreds of skill-building word problems and equations.
Product Features:
Thousands of exercises
Where in the World is Carmen SanDiego?
#1 Geography Software More than 120 awards and accolades!
The infamous Carmen Sandiego is at it again. This time she's run off with a rare and valuable edition of the "Travels of Marco Polo." Worth millions! And this is just one of many historic heists that'll have you hopping the globe. Expand your world geography skills. Ignite your critical thinking and decision-making talents. Match wits with the elusive Carmen Sandiego as you recover the stolen treasures of knowledge!
Product Features:
- Explore the World
- Chase Carmen from country to country, as you gather valuable geographic and cultural knowledge.
- Discover Intriguing New Places
- Immerse yourself in different cultures as you learn about countries around the world.
- Decipher Secret Codes
- Solve puzzles and unlock secret codes to complete each mission and retrieve the stolen items!
Improve your skills in:
- Social Studies
- Geography
- History
- Map Reading
- Deductive Reasoning
- Reading
- Following Directions
- Data Collection
- Database Research
Expand your knowledge of:
- World Geography
- Landmarks
- Diverse Cultures
- Key facts on 50 countries around the world!
Packed with Special Features
- Challenging world missions
- Multiple puzzles and mind teasers in countries around the world
- 15 amazing high-tech virtual gadgets
- Talking translator with phrases from 13 different countries
- Replayable adventure provides endless hours of fun
Carmen Sandiego Word Detective
A Complete Grammar, Spelling, and Vocabulary Program!
The all-in-one language learning adventure! 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. Ages 8 - 14 Key Features and Benefits A complete grammar, spelling and vocabulary program Complete 12 missions that require you to solve over 60 skill-building activities Packed w/skill-building activities & thousands of exercises in Practice Mode Customizable spelling lists 3 levels of difficulty for each activity Electronic dictionary with over 3,000 words Spelling, grammar & vocabulary activities in each mission Infiltrate hideouts, find clues and complete activities to save ACME agents from the sinister Babble-On Machine 18 fact-filled stories shed light on science, history, geography and even the elusive Carmen Sandiego On-screen progress report.
Features:
System Requirements:
Windows 95/98/ME/XP
Pentium 166 MHz or faster
8x CD-ROM drive
32MB RAM
16 bit high color display
