Faces and Places with Easy Track

Item Description:

Faces and Places is a Social Studies software for children in grades 3 through 8. Faces and Places is published by Micrograms Software and is available in different configurations to fit your needs.

In Faces and Places, join host Bob Treebark for his second big game show hit! One player, two players, or two teams can test their social studies knowledge in a challenging game of Faces and Places.

Also have students follow a simple format to write and insert data for additional game categories that correspond directly to your curriculum, your community, current events, or special student projects.

Bob Treebark and the charming hostess, Vanessa, are ready to add a few new names to their list of Faces and Places Aces!

Faces and Places is fun and flexible. Play alone, with a friend, or with the entire class. Add categories that correspond directly with your curriculum at any grade level. Bob's game show question and answer format is great for building knowledge in specific areas and also can be used to focus on vocabulary and spelling. Unscrambling Vanessa's letter clues exercises critical thinking skills.

Bob's questions may coordinate more precisely with your curriculum if you add your own game categories. You may also find a fun and enlightening opportunity for students by having individuals or small groups research topics in order to create categories on their own. Game categories can focus on your curriculum, your community, current events, this week's vocabulary list, or special student projects.

Follow the simple directions within the program for entering a category title and the questions and answers (max.=256) that go with it. Remember that when playing Level 1 of Faces and Places, only the first 10 questions in a category are used. By entering the easiest and most basic questions first, you help to make Level 1 a good choice for beginners. You will be unable to enter questions or answers that will not fit on the gameboard.

Choose from over twenty existing game categories including:

Program Requirements for Windows: Windows Vista, XP, 2000, 98 running on PC's < 6 years old.

Program Requirements for Macintosh: Programs with Easy Track Mac OS 10.5.3 Leopard to OS 9 running on Macs < 6 years old, including Intel Core Duo machines with Rosetta.

Programs without Easy Track Mac OS 10.2.8 Classic to OS 8.6 running on PowerMacs or above

Using Windows 7, Vista, XP, and 2000
Micrograms products compatible with Easy Track run under all the Windows operating systems listed above. Network versions can be served off of Windows 2008, 2003, 2000, NT, and Novell (>3.x) servers; or they can be run from the local hard drives of individual workstations and/or stand-alone machines. We offer nothing, at present, designed for Cytrix, NComputing environments, other terminal servers, or the "CD tower" environment. We offer no web-based products

Using Macintosh
Micrograms products compatible with Easy Track run on OS 10 native and on Intel Core 2 Duo machines with Rosetta. This means OS 10.2 thru OS 10.6. Snow Leopard initially requires that Rosetta be downloaded free from Apple. Network Macintosh program versions can be served off of Windows 2008, 2003, 2000, and Novell servers with Macintosh partitions, as well as from Macintosh machines running OS 10 Server. They also can be run from the local hard drives of individual workstations and/or stand-alone machines. Micrograms programs run fine in hardwired Macintosh computer labs, and they run better with newer versions of AirPort than with old.

Easy Track Updates
Easy Track is designed to be easily updated from time to time. When new programs are released by Micrograms, Easy Track will be updated to accommodate them. Suggestions from users may be added to Easy Track, and if any issues are discovered regarding Easy Track's operation, updates can resolve the problems. So before you begin importing student names into the Easy Track management system, we strongly suggest you download Micrograms latest Easy Track update for free from www.micrograms.com. And, from time to time we suggest you revisit the update page of www.micrograms.com to keep your school up to date with the latest Easy Track version.

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