Carmen Sandiego Junior Detective Edition, takes your children on a journey to explore the globe, broadening their knowledge of geography and deepening their understanding of the variety and diversity of the many peoples and cultures who share our world.
The Teacher’s Guide is an excellent resource designed to help you introduce the CD-ROM to your pupils, provide materials to accompany program play, and to extend the computer experience through a variety of off-the-computer activities.
Carmen Sandiego Junior Detective Edition, School Edition, like other Carmen Sandiego CD-ROMs, encourages logical thinking and problem solving. The activities in the Teacher’s Guide cover many curriculum areas such as English, Geography, History, Maths, Science, Design and Technology and Art. Teachers can consult the curriculum matrix for curricular links to activities.
There are other activities recommended in the ACME Handbook (included in the School Edition) to help you supplement the suggested activities.
You will find many opportunities to use collaborative learning strategies in the activities provided. Children will learn from each other as to how to manipulate the features of Carmen Sandiego Junior Detective Edition, and about the learning activity in which they are engaged.
Even though your pupils may take many different routes to find a villain, you can still make sure that collaborative groups visit each of the seven regions of the world by following the ideas given to teachers in the Guide.
