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Educational Excitement
Quiz Bowl, a fun and interactive game for one or two
players, has been added to 3rd through 6th grade, so students can
practice what they learn in History & Geography, Language Arts,
Math, and Science.
Further Customization
Grade reports and report cards in the 2009 version
allow you to create reports for specific date ranges. This gives you
additional flexibility to provide customized reports for your
student or your own reference.
Automatic Grading
Complete administrative tasks with a click of the
mouse! Automatic grading and recordkeeping conveniently record
students' 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.
Videos
Spark students' 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!
Custom Curriculum
Want to add your own ideas or lesson plans to our
proven 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
convenience 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!
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Tailor-make each students' school day by adding,
removing, or resequencing assignments
• Preview assignments or
review student work
• Adjust the pace for
individual subjects at your students' level
• View all student
assignments and grading tasks on one page
Practice Lessons
This feature allows students to look at the
Switched-On Schoolhouse program and see how it works before starting
the curriculum. Step-by-step, students are taught 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 15 unique themes,
including customizable themes.
Book Reports
Enriching book reports 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. Grades
3-8.
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 homework or review lessons.
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 like
Farmer Frank and All Right give students challenging
and fun ways to remember facts.
Assignment Screens
Take the guesswork out of schoolwork with assignment
screens. Student screens show daily assignments, curriculum
overviews, due dates, subject reviews, and grades. Teachers' screens
allow them to edit, add, remove, or reorder assignments, as well as
change assignment due dates.
Revised Content
The goal is to constantly improve lessons to help
students master concepts. Using current multimedia, new problems,
various practice activities, and up-to-date content, students stay
on the cutting edge of education.
Historical Timeline
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.
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). |
