Maps and Graphs with Miss Melberry with Easy Track
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Item Description:
Maps and Graphs with Miss Melberry is intended for use with children in grades 2 through 6. Maps and Graphs with Miss Melberry is published by Micrograms Software and is available in different configurations to fit your needs.
In Maps and Graphs With Miss Melberry: For the youngest students, begin with Picture Maps and Picture Graphs. Introduce more challenging types of maps and graphs and more difficult levels when appropriate. In Level 1, Miss Melberry presents simple picture maps which show clearly that a map is in essence a small picture of the things around us. Students learn to recognize and find things on a map, to compare distances, and to refer to a compass rose to determine direction. During each work session, a student will view 4 maps and will answer 10 questions. In all, there are 18 different maps and 135 questions in Level 1.
In Level 2, there are 30 Mall Maps, Street Maps, and Road Maps which place greater emphasis on using a map key and scale of miles. Significant practice is also provided for determining direction.
In Maps, Level 3, Miss Melberry presents actual Road Maps, Historic Site Maps, and National Park Maps along with a variety of Weather Maps...90 maps in all. Students use map keys, the compass rose, and scale of miles to assist their logic and problem solving skills as they read and navigate for answers.
At Level 4, students are given an added challenge. They are first presented with a question along with multiple choice answers. The student must then find the answer by referring to one or more of 8 available U.S. maps. The students have access to a Regions Map, Latitude and Longitude Map, Time Zone Map, Major Cities Map, Relief Map, Geopolitical Map, and more. Use the Select Map button or choose specific maps by clicking on the books on the projector cart. Three of the maps are larger than the screen. Students may zoom in and out and scroll up and down or left and right to locate positions. Students advance their map reading skills and greatly exercise their reference skills and independent problem solving skills.
GRAPHS
When working on graphs, teachers may set the options to include one or more types of graphs: Picture Graphs, Bar Graphs, Circle Graphs, Line Graphs, and/or Double Bar Graphs. Also, when selecting Bar, Circle, and Line Graphs, you may select either Level 1 or Level 2.
The graphs and questions at Level 1 will be simpler and targeted at basic graph reading. Also, numbers used will be small (e.g., 1-10) and usually stepped by 1. At Level 2, larger numbers will be used, and units may be stepped by 5, 10, 50, 100, etc. A calculator is available from the menu bar if a student finds it helpful.
For all 110 graphs, the data is pulled from controlled variables at random. Therefore, though a student will likely see a specific graph more than one time, and may even have the same question repeated, it will be with different numbers. The bars, lines, and pie segments will also be different. It will not be possible to associate a specific answer with a given question. Varying data requires that a graph be read carefully even when a student “already had that one”.
OVER 140 MAPS
110 GRAPHS
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
Using Macintosh
Easy Track Updates
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
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 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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