Neighborhood MapMachine 2.0

Item Description:

Neighborhood MapMachine 2.0 is used by students and teachers in grades 1 through 5 to create, navigate and print community maps while building essential skills! Neighborhood MapMachine 2.0 is published by Tom Snyder/Scholastic and available in many different configurations for purchase.

Neighborhood MapMachine 2.0 is a hands-on program, students create maps of their own neighborhoods, other communities, or imaginary places. As students create and navigate community maps, they learn challenging concepts such as grid coordinates, location, scale, and compass navigation. Students can customize maps with pictures, movies, and Web links; print maps in multiple sizes; or present them in a slideshow or on the Internet.

MEETS STATE AND NATIONAL STANDARDS
Your students will:

• Locate places using the four cardinal directions
• Use scale to determine the distance between places on maps
• Identify and use the compass rose, grid, and symbols to locate places on maps
• Use written language to communicate directions
• Calculate, compare, and convert length, perimeter, and area

Instructional Focus in Social Studies

• Compass direction
• Map-reading skills
• Neighborhoods and community
• Scale
• 2-D and 3-D relationships

Instructional Focus in Math

• Mesurement
• Grid Coordinates
• Estimation
• Numbers and operations

Instructional Focus in Language Arts

• Writing Directions
• Reading and interpreting directions
• Descriptive writing

Product Features

• Easily create and customize community maps
• 25 standards-aligned activities in social studies, math, and language arts
• Solve map mysteries using compass for navigation
• 80 fun map symbols plus paint tools
• Pre- and post-tests to assess students' understanding
• On-screen notebook with audio recorder for students to describe their maps orally or in writing
• Add photos, sounds, and movies to any map symbol to personalize your maps
• Link directly to the Internet from any symbol, and publish interactive maps on the Web
• Create 3-D models of neighborhoods with paper cutouts of buildings
• Bilingual - switch easily between English and Spanish

System Requirements for Neighborhood MapMachine:

	Type	Minimum Processor	Operating System(s)	Minimum Installed RAM	Minimum Display
	Stand Alone Hybrid CD	PowerPC 66 MHz	Mac OS 8.6/ 9/ X.1/ X.2	12 MB	256 colors; 800x600 resolution
	Stand Alone Hybrid CD	Pentium 133 MHz	Windows OS 95/ 98/ 98SE/ ME/ 2000 / XPhome/ XPpro	32 MB	16 bit colors; 800x600 resolution
	Network Hybrid CD	PowerPC 66 MHz	Mac OS 8.6/ 9/ X.1 / X.2	12 MB	256 colors; 800x600 resolution
	Network Hybrid CD	Pentium 133 MHz	Windows OS 95/ 98/ 98SE/ ME/ 2000 / XPhome/ XPpro	32 MB	8 bit colors; 800x600 resolution