Exploring the States
Published by Jackson and Tull's PCs In Space

Age Group: Age 8 and Up
Type: Social Studies
License: FREE!
 
Description:

Exploring the States uses images from NASA Landsat satellites and AVHRR to explore all 50 states with pictures and math. It also uses extremely simple instructions (switches and buttons) to guide students through three sections; Exploring the States, Naming the States and Traveling the States. The information presented is very basic, but made much more interesting by actual photo images of each state. Jackson and Tull has developed this software for free distribution to all schools. Our goal is to provide children the opportunity to learn about our states and to be able to do something they have never done before.The program is timed and keeps track off all questions answered. In Exploring the States, students identify the states from satellite photos, guess the capitols, calculate the state's area and population. The second section, Naming the States is a simply test on guessing the names of the states from region photographs. The third section, Traveling the States, teaches students how to use compass directions to answer questions . At the end of the session scores and timing information are available.

This program is recommended for grades 3-8, although I don't see why older students would not be able to use it, too. Be sure to delete the extra files once you've installed this one, it's a biggie.

Rename IBM file statewin.ex to statewin.exe after downloading

Download Details

Requires:
Windows or Windows 95, Intel 80486 based processor or better, Intel 80487 math Coprocessor or better (includes imbedded Coprocessor in 486DX), 8 Meg of RAM, SVGA or VGA monitor, A hard drive is required with about 15 Meg of free disk space

Filename: statewin.ex

Filesize: 5.6 meg

Download Sites:

US : http://hst-nic.hst.nasa.gov/

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