Exciting and informative CD-ROMs from Discovery Channel School (Only $49.95 each)
Chemistry
PuzzleMaker
Cells
Oceans
Explore chemistry's ubiquitous presence in our lives, from cleaning products to medicines. Popular PuzzleMaker NOW on CD-ROM! Create over 10 types of puzzles. Includes a dictionary and clip art library. (Win Only - $39.95) Discover the diversity of single-celled organisms, then compare them to complex plant and animal cells. Waves pound the shores, huge underwater rivers come alive, and beautiful fish are in abundance in this superbly produced CD-ROM.
Nuclear Energy
Forces & Gravity
Genetics
Universe
Visit the Laboratory to learn about nuclear energy and much more. Discover Newton's laws that have helped us fly, travel to the Moon, and explore outer space. Bring the modern uses of genetics to your kids. The universe — and the subsequent planets, stars, and galaxies — is endlessly fascinating.
Invertebrates
Volcanoes
Magnetism
Bacteria
Spiders; Octopus; Jellyfish; and Giant Squid are all on this one CD-ROM. This CD-ROM features spectacular footage to bring an explosion of excitement into your classroom. Magnetism plays a big role in your students' daily lives. How can something so small play such a big role in our lives?
Weather & Climate
Inventors & Inventions
Weather and Climate
Universe
See how weather systems are comprised. Learn how moisture, heat and air comprise every weather system. Follow a tornado, enter the eye of a hurricane, and learn how storms start, move, and dissipate. See what causes the greenhouse effect and what's being done about it. Sample some amazing inventions! Video Adventures include: Animal Tracking; Baby Stretcher; Biodegradable Gold Tee; Boomerang; Velcro; Leonardo da Vinci; Galileo's Telescope; The Wright Brothers; Lowell's Observatory This interactive CD-ROM is a must for your weather unit. Build a model of a raindrop by baking it, simulate weather pattern, observe and write about the formation of weather fronts, or learn the difference between a snowflake and diamond dust. How do you get students involved in something they can't even see? Let this interactive CD-ROM help with 25 minutes of stunning video clips and amazing footage.
Elements
Rocks & Minerals
Space Exploration
Sound
Get down to bare essentials. You students will rock out to Introducing Rocks & Minerals and these four other video clips! You can conduct hands-on explorations in spaceships of the future and telescopes plus much more. The importance of sound and hearing in our daily lives cannot be underestimated.
Rocks & Minerals
Motion
Forensics
Life Science Bundle
 
Travel to Arizona to check out igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks. Learn how the Earth has be shaped and reshaped by erosion. Explore the Grand Canyon and discover clues to the history of our planet. Get a speedy understanding of how design, force, and type of motion affect an object's speed. Crime Scenes; DNA; Forgery; Mummies; and Arson all on this one CD-ROM. Discovery Channels lively Life Science materials provide everything students need to know about the nitty gritty of existence on Earth and under the water. The entire collection covers topics from Forensics and Genetics to Viruses and Bacteria.
Light
Motion
Forensics
Life Science Bundle
Light touches your students in so many ways. Video Adventures include Introducing Light, Bioluminescence, The Eye, Fiber Optic, and "Invisible" Light — including how telescopes help us "see" ultraviolet light and radio waves. Explore electromagnetic radiation, light as an energy source, the technology of light, lasers, and holograms.

Try this interactive CD-ROM for your biology unit. It offers tons of great stuff about what makes the human body click.

Let your students watch Video Adventures on Introducing Human Biology, plus four others. Are they feeling nervous? They won't be after exploring the Nervous System, Endocrine System, Respiratory System, Bones, Skin, and Muscles. Research articles on everything from anemia to zygotes. Do seven hands-on lab experiments.

Students can learn the basics of electricity from your classroom demonstrations and experiments. This interactive CD-ROM makes static, current, and circuit-electricity come alive.

Build a battery with pennies, learn about Ben Franklin's experiments, or build a telegraph! Video Adventures include Introducing Electricity, Body Electric, Harnessing Electricity, Live Wires, and Producing Electricity.

Whirling bodies. Gaseous fireballs. Uncharted planets. Tumbling asteroids. This interactive CD-ROM from Discovery Channel brings the solar system to life.

Build a scale model of the solar system, study the rate of rotation of the planets, learn about Earth's sun screen, or observe and write about solar flares. Video Adventures include Introducing the Solar System; Fireball; Comets, Meteors, and Meteorites; Heavenly Bodies; and more!

Habitats of the World
Bacteria, Viruses & Allergies
People & Space
Butterflies and Bees
Where would an alligator live? How do animals adapt to our world's unique and diverse habitats? Discover that what an animal eats often determines where it lives-in rainforests, saltwater marshes, grasslands, or the polar ice of Antarctica. Reference the library articles on the life cycles, eating habits and characteristics of reptiles, birds, mammals, insects, marsupials and big cats; predator and prey relationships; migration and rain forests. Follow the path of bacteria germs from one host to another. Learn why a wasp sting can be painful to one person, but deadly to another. Watch the flu virus multiply in Holly Jones's throat and find out what her body's secret weapon is for destroying this invader. Travel with the space shuttle crew. Video Adventures include: The Space Shuttle; Support Staff; Zero Gravity; Living in Space.
 
Break the cocoon and see where graceful butterflies really come from. Discover the fascinating differences between a butterfly and a moth. Find out why moths, butterflies and bees are all considered insects, and learn the eating habits and predators of each. Probe into the role a bee takes in pollination, and understand why bee farmers are so vital to their life cycles.
 
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