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Unlike fixed, one-dimensional lessons found in textbooks, Switched-On Schoolhouse is a CD-ROM-based curriculum filled with a lively mix of lessons, assignments, practice sessions, and quizzes reinforced by enriching multimedia tools. Dynamically interactive, desktop-based lessons include movies, maps, timelines, learning games, and interactive projects. These lessons captivate student's interests and engage them in learning. Available for students in grades 3-12, Switched-On Schoolhouse provides a thorough and engaging Christ-centered curriculum that covers five core subjects and a variety of electives.

The trusted choice of thousands of homeschoolers, Switched-On Schoolhouse is highly reflective of student's individual needs and offers reliable lessons students love to learn. A homeschool curriculum award-winner, Switched-On Schoolhouse offers unique features that enhance the learning experience and the ease of homeschooling. Plus, SOS 2011 Edition offers even more options!

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New Features for SOS 2011 Edition

Math Drill Games

Math review is more fun with three new math games! Operantics is a multi-level game play that improves mental math skills by answering questions before stacking blocks in the right place. Math Flash Cards presents facts on one side with the corresponding answer on the other. Plus, Jeremiah Jones: Fact Quest® challenges students to find hidden clues and answer questions correctly without getting caught in a hailstorm.

Bible Verse Locater

Find your favorite Bible verse, passage, chapter, or book faster with the new easy-to-use Scripture search application available for the KJV or the NASB®.

Geography Drill Games

Turn your student into a geography genius! These helpful resources provide hours of fun review with countries or states listed on one side and their corresponding capitals on the other.

Teacher Search Feature

Save yourself more time! This handy tool enables SOS teachers to look up words or phrases within the lesson text for faster reference to important facts and details.

Student Attendance Calendar

Separate from your child's SOS coursework, this calendar feature allows parents to track school attendance for state homeschooling documentation.

Customizable Subject Report

Track your time! This helpful usage summary assists parents in quickly viewing the amount of time spent on any SOS subject, including custom subjects created by you.

Other Features & Benefits

Automatic Grading

Complete administrative tasks with a click of the mouse! Automatic grading and recordkeeping conveniently record student's assignments and scores and preview upcoming assignments. Approximately 85% of student work is graded automatically by the computer, giving you more hands-on time with your student. Teachers love the easy-to-use report features that print detailed grade reports and at-a-glance report cards.

Built-in Global Calendar

Never be caught off guard by holidays, events, or field trips with the time-saving built-in calendar. This feature allows you to assign or remove school days, exclude date ranges, and add or remove events like field trips and holidays. Organize your calendar with daily or monthly views to help you plan future events and assignments.

Custom Curriculum

Want to add your own ideas or lesson plans to the SOS curriculum? Now you can! With custom curriculum, parents can modify existing subjects by combining, adding, or removing units and assignments. Parents also can choose to build their own curriculum program from scratch using any available SOS materials. This flexible feature allows SOS to be used as a core curriculum or as a supplemental material.

     • Build learning programs that address learning gaps or offer remedial or review work
     • Add enrichment to challenge advanced students
     • Create compressed work tracks for students who enroll mid-year
     • Make mini-units of study

Advanced Lesson Planning

Put away those bulky lesson planners! Advanced lesson planning allows parents to create lesson plans in a sleek and convenient format. With this feature, parents have the flexibility either to plan lessons in accordance with a school calendar or tailor-make assignments for a class, group, or individual student. Parents also can use the tools to create or change semester or year-long schedules in a matter of minutes!

     • Tailor-make each student's school day by adding, removing, or resequencing assignments
     • Preview assignments or review student work
     • Adjust the pace for individual subjects at your student's level
     • View all student assignments and grading tasks on one page

Bible Translation Options

Give your student more learning options with two SOS Scripture translations. Choose to have Bible verses shown from either the King James Version or the New American Standard Bible®.

Individual Weekday Scheduling

With this flexible feature, you can easily assign courses to select days of the week. For example, you can assign your child math only on Mondays and Tuesdays or schedule history just on Fridays.

Text-to-Speech

With the user-friendly "Text-to-Speech" feature, students can focus or review specific passages. All they have to do is highlight the passages they want to hear, and the curriculum reads it to them. This feature is perfect for audio learners, students who have difficulty reading on the computer, or students who need help pronouncing complex words. Students also can choose from multiple voices.

Multimedia & Learning Activities

Keep students on the edge of their seats! Amazing multimedia and captivating learning games help students grasp difficult concepts and provide extra practice. Learning games also give students challenging and fun ways to remember facts.

Videos

Spark student's interests with eye-catching animation and colorful graphics! Filled with thousands of videos, this dynamic curriculum offers students front row seats to some of history's greatest moments, such as a space shuttle launch or Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech. These amazing educational tools cannot be found in traditional textbooks!

Vocabulary Games

Improve your child's vocabulary with SOS! Discover electronic flashcards and an arcade of six dynamic, interactive vocabulary games (Moon Match, Vocabulocity, Spelling Bee, Full Speed, Word Hike, and Balancing Act) that build comprehension through hands-on challenges.

Automatic Curriculum Updates

Don't worry about downloading content updates! Course revision updates automatically download via AOP's server, saving you time and giving your child up-to-date courses. (SOS users without an internet connection may request a CD containing revisions. The CD must be installed by the SOS user to receive updates).

Instant Audio Feedback

Give your child immediate feedback and positive reinforcement with SOS! This user-friendly feature gives instant audio feedback on answers to questions.

Personal Journal

Encourage journaling and improve writing skills at the same time! The SOS journal has a new look to engage students in their writing.

Resource Center

Find resources right at your fingertips! A calculator has been included for student and teacher convenience, and an interactive periodic table highlights the elements. Each element is hyperlinked to its own page to provide students with more information.

Message Center

Communication is easy with an internal messaging system! The message center allows parents to attach messages to lessons for their students to view in their personal mailboxes. Parents are notified immediately of student messages and can access, sort, and print messages in one convenient place. (Messages are between student and parent only).

Historical Timelines

This helpful feature puts history into perspective. Students simply click on any linked date in the curriculum to find out where the topic stands in history. Students can see the context of their studies and how the events of the past fit together.

Book Reports

Enriching book reports in grades 3-8 feature different genres, annotated book lists, and links to additional resources. Thought-provoking questions provide guidelines for students to reflect, evaluate, and write about books of their choice.

Printing Options

Take learning from the screen to the page in seconds! Flexible printing options allow students and parents to print entire assignments, lessons, vocabulary lists, problems, and records. Use this advantage for student work or review lessons.

Assignment Screens

Take the guesswork out of schoolwork with assignment screens. Student screens show daily assignments, curriculum overviews, due dates, subject reviews, and grades. Teacher's screens allow them to edit, add, remove, or reorder assignments, as well as change assignment due dates.

Zero Out Option

Want to zero out an entire SOS unit? Easily give a zero grade to any unit with this handy grading feature.

Practice Lessons

This feature allows students to look at the Switched-On Schoolhouse program and see how it works before starting the curriculum. Students are taught step by step how the different features and activities are used in the lessons. They also learn to take quizzes and tests and are introduced to different problem types. Both new and experienced users benefit from this feature.

Student Mode

Students can view presentations, answer lesson questions in or out of sequence, and record their own notes and questions on an electronic notepad with this unique feature! Students also can personalize their homepage with customizable themes.

Minimum System Requirements

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 or
• higher
• 600MHz or higher processor
• (1 GHz or higher processor
• recommended)
• 512 MB memory (RAM)
• 600 MB hard drive space
• 1024 x 768 or higher resolution
• monitor, 16 bit color
• CD-ROM drive
• Adobe Acrobat Reader
• Printer recommended

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 or
• higher
• 1 GHz or higher processor
• (1.5 GHz or higher processor
• recommended)
• 1 GB memory (RAM)
• 600 MB hard drive space
• 1024 x 768 or higher resolution
• monitor, 16 bit color
• CD-ROM drive
• Adobe Acrobat Reader
• Printer recommended

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SOS 2011 Placement Tests

This single kit contains tests to ensure students are properly placed within the Switched-On curriculum. Test subjects and grades include Bible 3-12, Language Arts 3-12, Math 3-12, History & Geography 3-12, and Science 3-12.

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SOS 2011 20th Century American History

Take a deeper look at America! With Switched-On Twentieth Century American History, high school students gain a solid comprehension of America's dynamic century of change, conflict, and growth. A six-unit elective for grades 9-12, this multimedia-enriched course examines nation-shaping events like the industrial age, progressivism, equal rights, the Roaring '20's, the Depression, the two World Wars, and the cold war conflicts. Hands-on history projects and lessons make learning fun and interactive!

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SOS 2011 British Literature

With Switched-On British Literature, students explore the dynamic, rich world of British Literature! Packed with enriching content, this course gives students an in-depth look at the beginning and development of written works in Great Britain. This one-semester course for grades 7-12 covers a variety of periods. Filled with works from acclaimed British writers, this course is a perfect supplement to the Switched-On Language Arts curriculum. Monumental writers included are William Shakespeare, Lord Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning, and many more!

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SOS 2011 Business Computer Information Systems

Explore computer technology with Switched-On Business Computer Information Systems! This 12-unit elective for grades 9-12 covers workplace skills, business technology, and keyboarding reviews. Filled with multimedia-rich, CD-ROM lessons, this desktop-based elective examines software and hardware, electronic communication, networks, presentations, and operating systems. Fun projects and learning activities also are included. Keyboarding is a recommended prerequisite.

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SOS 2011 Civics

Want a civics course students love? Filled with attention-grabbing activities and colorful illustrations, Switched-On Civics explains the foundations and structure of American government, state and local government, leadership roles, worldwide politics, the election process, economics, and comparative governments. Fun learning games are also included to aid comprehension in this one-semester course for grades 7-12.

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SOS 2011 The Civil War

Switched-On The Civil War for grades 9-12 improves students' understanding of one of the most important turning points in American history! This six-unit course covers topics like the Confederate States and the Union, war figures like Abraham Lincoln and Robert E. Lee, pivotal battles, and the Reconstruction Era. This engaging, computer-based course includes a look at the daily life of a Civil War soldier and interactive maps that show battles and troop movements!

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SOS 2011 College Planner

Switched-On College Planner, a five-unit course, helps soon-to-be graduates evaluate and select options for their future. Students are guided in finding the right college, preparing for college entrance exams and applications, paying for college, and considering non-college options. Filled with step-by-step instructions and reminders to seek God's will, this interactive course is a great prep course for high school students.

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SOS 2011 Consumer Math

High school students learn important money management skills with Switched-On Consumer Math! Packed with life-long practicality, this ten-unit course teaches students to plan and organize personal finances. Interactive lessons review basic math concepts and teach students to examine loans and credit cards. Useful topics like taxes, insurance, and retirement also are discussed. This course is appropriate for students who have completed Algebra I and Geometry.

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SOS 2011 Earth Science

Uncover the features of God's amazing world with Switched-On Earth Science! Digging into interactive lessons, students learn about Earth's formation, structure, interacting systems, and its place within the universe with this 12-unit elective. Made for grades 8-12, this hands-on elective is packed with fun-to-study topics like volcanoes, rocks, minerals, weather, the water cycles, the atmosphere, and the solar system! The lessons include knowledge-building projects and fun learning activities.

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SOS 2011 Vietnam Era

Help your student understand America's past with Switched-On Vietnam Era! This interesting six-unit elective for grades 9-12 examines the long, difficult conflict of the Vietnam War. The course's topics include the Vietnamese country and people, the United States' involvement and military strategy, the role of the cold war, the loss of civilian and soldier lives, and the war's influence and aftermath. Informative lessons include games and off-computer activities!

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