Science Explorers

Client:

Scholastic

Audience:

Grades 1-6 elementary-school students

Goal:

Provide an in-depth series of science simulations and tutorials based on discovery learning principles. The eight-disk series features units on plants, shadows, skeletons, weather, animal adaptations, simple machines, nutrition, and day, night, and the seasons.

Role:

Concept development; creative and technical design; script writing, illustration, and animation; programming, testing, and project management.

. . Science Explorers approaches learning as a process of discovery guided by the young child's innate curiosity.

Children are natural explorers. They embark daily on journeys of learning launched with simple questions -- Why? How? What for? Science Explorers provides a complete set of computer-based and hands-on activities that will help students answer many questions about the world. Moreover, these activities will hone the habits of mind that transform curiosity into scientific inquiry.

Each Science Explorers unit provides a rich, interactive learning environment that will motivate students to observe their world, ask questions, explore relationships, record observations, make connections, reconceptualize, and ask new questions. In short, the Science Explorers series engages children in the world of scientific thinking.

- Teacher's Manual

It has been a great pleasure to work with you and your staff on the Science Explorers series. Your commitment to develop quality software, your knowledge of the subject matter, and your professionalism are all qualities that have contributed to making this project a successful one.

Denise Chew
Associate Editor (former)
Scholastic, Inc.