Elementary students need a solid foundation of knowledge and skills to prepare them for a lifetime of learning. Tom Snyder Productions has bundled the most essential software tools for your classroom to help ensure that foundation. With focus on the fundamental skills students need later in school and life, this bundle makes it easier for students and teachers to engage in classroom learning and deepen their understanding of the curriculum. The software titles in this bundle are not only perfect for use with your interactive whiteboards, but also research-based and aligned to national and state standards, complementing all aspects of your elementary curriculum.

Included programs:

Scholastic Keys®2007

Unlock the kid power in Microsoft Office®2007!

Scholastic Keys provides elementary students with a kid-friendly interface and educational enhancements for Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint® 2007.This software comes with a collection of lessons—including lesson plans, activity files, and worksheets—to help teachers integrate technology into their language arts, math, science, and social studies curriculum. Complete with drawing tools, hundreds of colorful graphics, sound effects, text-to-speech reader, and movies, this program provides an early introduction to using Microsoft Office now—and for years to come.

Scholastic Keys 2007 System Requirements

MaxData 2007

The kid-friendly database tool!

Databases have never been easier...or more fun! MaxData 2007 works with Microsoft Excel 2007—Microsoft Access not required—to give students an age-appropriate introduction to databases. Students learn all aspects of data handling from the first steps of simple representation of data to learning database concepts such as fields, field types, records, tables, and filters. Plus, MaxData's easy-to-use interface has three grade-appropriate levels so students can concentrate on the ideas, relationships, and information being explored.

MaxData 2007 System Requirements

Timeliner® XE

Information to Knowledge™

Timeliner XE is the powerful and intuitive software program students use to organize data—anything from historical events, to scientific processes, to story arcs—to see the connections, and transform a world of information into real knowledge. This all-in-one tool supports students as they:

gather information from anywhere, including the Web;

visually organize information on a timeline, sequence, or cycle;

and communicate understanding in rich, multimedia presentations

Timeliner XE System Requirements

The Graph Club® 2.0 Deluxe

Make graphs easy to create and understand!

Enhance your students' math skills with The Graph Club! The Graph Club is an innovative, easy-to-use software tool for creating, exploring, interpreting, and printing graphs. The program's friendly, hands-on environment helps young students make the transition from graphing with manipulatives to graphing in the abstract. As students create and compare up to five different graph types, they develop essential graphing and math skills.

The Graph Club 2.0 System Requirements

Neighborhood MapMachine® 2.0 Deluxe

Create, navigate, and print community maps while building essential skills!

With this hands-on program, students create maps of their own neighborhoods, other communities, or imaginary places. As students create and navigate community maps, they learn challenging concepts such as grid coordinates, location, scale, and compass navigation. Students can customize maps with pictures, movies, and Web links; print maps in multiple sizes; or present them in a slideshow or on the Internet.

Neighborhood MapMachine 2.0 System Requirements