Features:
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Comprehensive
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- Includes more than 400 in-depth articles
- Contains nearly 1,000 color photographs
- Provides 21 sets of environmental data
- Features more than 90 minutes of audio-visual material
Interactive
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- Lets children decide how to navigate through the information and exercises
- Encourages users to explore different facets of each topic
- Offers a variety of environmental games and simulations
Educational
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- Uses data verified by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
- Provides both high-level and detailed articles
- Helps develop critical-thinking skills
Fun to Use
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- Features engaging games and exercises that make environmental topics come alive
- Presents data in colorful, easy to understand charts, graphs, animations, and videos
- Lets your whole family participate together
Earth Explorer gives children the most comprehensive and up-to-date information about our planet in a fun, easy-to-use format.
Continuing the Apple tradition of making education enjoyable, Earth Explorer provides a fascinating interactive tour of our home planet. With this program, children will learn about the natural and human forces affecting Earth through a variety of informational and explorative activities: lively articles illustrated with graphics and movies, simulations based on actual environmental data, animations that explain basic environmental concepts, and games that will both challenge and amuse them.
One of Earth Explorer's most valuable features is its interactive design. Children can move from topic to topic wherever their interest leads them. They can change the assumptions in environmental data and view the results, such as how a different life expectancy would affect a country's population growth. They can compare data of their choice, such as energy usage in various countries. With Earth Explorer, your children learn in the way they most enjoy.
Earth Explorer was developed in conjunction with the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and with support by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The program offers both objective data and a wide variety of viewpoints on controversial issues, so it helps children develop critical-thinking skills as they learn about the world around them.
Although Earth Explorer was designed for children nine years of age and older, parents and teachers will also find its encyclopedic information invaluable in learning about our environment.
Earth Explorer: It's the adventure guide to our beautiful, complex planet that your children will come back to again and again.
Product specifications are subject to change. Check with your Apple reseller for the most current information about product specifications and configurations.
Article Change History:
15 Feb 1995 - Reclassified and Changed format.
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