Community Construction Kit
You can fax a copy of your valid School Purchase Order to:
Attn: Education Technology Services - Internet Division
Fax: 866-539-6077
You can phone your order in by calling:
Tel: 570-459-1400
You can mail your payment or a copy of your valid School Purchase Order to:
Education Technology Services - Internet Division
8 West Broad Street
Suite 304
Hazleton, PA 18201
Item Description:
Community Construction Kit is an easy-to-use tool enables students to design buildings on the computer and then turn them into 3-D paper cutouts. Community Construction Kit is published by Scholastic/Tom Snyder Productions and is for Grades 2 through 6.
MEETS STATE AND NATIONAL STANDARDS
Your students will:
- Learn about cultures from different historical periods
- Examine the interaction of humans and their physical environment
- Understand why artistic creation is a cultural expression
- Identify and use various sources for reconstructing the past
- Communicate their understanding of history in visual form
- Develop skills with spatial relationships
Instructional Focus
Social Studies
- Neighborhoods and community
- World History
- US History
- World cultures
Math
- Shape Recognition
- Spatial relationships
- Measurement and scale
Included: Mac/Win CD-ROM and Teacher's Guide with activities, classroom management tips, and reproducible masters
ˇHundreds of historically accurate architectural elements to create original buildings
ˇOver 30 ready-made buildings, printable in multiple sizes
ˇNarrated images of Native American, Medieval, Colonial, and Contemporary buildings
ˇDozens of printable characters in historical costumes to add to your community
ˇ Choose from dozens of building types and roof shapes, then add windows, doors, and other elements.
ˇ Print buildings in multiple sizes.
ˇ Includes a library of over 100 architectural elements, plus you can import your own.
| Type | Minimum Processor |
Operating System(s) |
Minimum Installed RAM | Minimum Display | |
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Stand Alone Hybrid CD | PowerPC 30 MHz |
Mac OS 7.0 - 8.1/ 8.6/ 9.x | 4 MB | 256 colors; 640x480 resolution |
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Stand Alone Hybrid CD | Pentium 40 MHz |
Windows OS 3.1/ 95/ 98/ 98SE | 8 MB | 256 colors; 640x480 resolution |
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Network Hybrid CD | PowerPC 30 MHz |
Mac OS 7.0 - 8.1/ 8.6/ 9 | 4 MB | 256 colors; 640x480 resolution |
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Network Hybrid CD | Pentium 40 MHz |
Windows OS 3.1/ 95/ 98/ 98SE | 8 MB | 256 colors; 640x480 resolution |
Community Construction Kit has not been Quality Assurance approved for Windows 2000 and Windows, but many customers do use Community Construction Kit on Windows 2000 and Windows XP.
