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Albert’s House is
an interactive program aimed at the lower
end of primary. Essentially the game involves
finding Albert mouse in the house. The activities
vary from a simple search through the house
to the interactive ‘Find Albert Mouse’
and would appeal to a wide range of abilities.
The program consists of five options which
can be used to enrich topic work on the
theme of 'Where I live'. The aims of the
program are to develop the language of familiar
objects, foster logical thinking and problem
solving skills,develop the language and
understanding of direction and position
and foster speaking and listening skills
and co-operative work.
The software fulfils these objectives well.
The content offers much in terms of developing
speaking, listening, positional and vocabulary-based
work. It is accurate, age appropriate and
current and the vocabulary is age appropriate
and clear. It would be a useful starting
point for lots of literacy activities and
other cross-curricular activities.
Navigation through the activities is clear
and the minimum of icons on each page ensure
that the interface presented to the child
is clear and enables them to focus on the
task.
Written by Angela Jones
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This is an inexpensive
piece of software that has the potential
to save teachers hours of work when they
need to produce relevent and differentiated
topic tests, mock examinations and revision
exercises. The CD-ROM contains 600 specimen
and examination questions, from the 1999
to 2001 papers, that are specific to the
new Edexcel AS/A2 Chemistry specifications
supported by the Nelson Advanced Science:
Chemistry publications. Each question links
to the examiners marking scheme, a time
allocation for completing it, the examiners
report on how students answered that question
in a past exam, the current syllabus and
any related teacher’s notes for that
question. The licence allows the database
to be installed on to any computer that
is owned by the school or any computer used
by a teacher working at the school, including
those they use at home.
The Exampro software, which allows questions
to be selected from the database, will be
familiar to teachers who have used the Testbase
CD-ROMs of KS3 test questions. It is easy-to-use
and allows any permutation of questions
to be searched, sorted and printed out.
Having direct access to the time the questions
would be expected to take, the official
mark breakdowns, the specifications for
each section of the syllabus, and the examiners
comments, is a real bonus. The questions
cover a lot of paper when they are printed
directly, but it is very easy to export
them to Word for editing.
Written by Pam Large
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