Plumo at the Zoo

Plumo
at the Zoo !

This title has met the California Learning Resources Network review criteria and is included on the CLRN web site.

This CD-ROM is a set of 13 educational activities designed and developed for 3 to 6 year old children by multimedia educational games specialists.

Each activity exploits the potential of multimedia to develop the child's cognitive skills such as observation, discrimination, counting, logic, etc.

Plumo is a charming and attractive parrot who guides children in their discoveries of the world.


	In Plumo at the Zoo !, he invites them to visit the zoo animals, and to learn by playing games with them. The animals speak out the directions for the children, provide encouragements and positive feedback and help them reach the learning objectives.




	Learning objectives : · Recognize and discriminate colors. · Recognize and discriminate geometrical shapes. · Complete 2-, 3- and 4- item logical series.

Other objectives :

· Understand spatial relations

· Recognize numbers from 1 to 10

· Count objects (1-10)

· Know the number series from 1 to 10

· Identify similarities

· Identify differences

· Name objects

· Make series of objects based on their sizes

· Classify objects according to size and color

· Complete pictures, with or without the help of a model

Within the zoo, children can chose the following games :

· Match identical pairs of spots on Giraffe's skin

· Dress up Bear with clothes and accessories to match his silhouette

· Classify different birds according to their colors and sizes

· Count the flowers, butterflies and balloons that come out of the Kangaroo's pouch

· Order, according to their sizes, the eggs that Mother Ostrich has lost in a labyrinth

· Color the feathers of Peacock's tail in order to complete a logical series

· Draw Turtle's shell following a model

· Identify the animal that was swallowed by Snake, based on its silhouette

· Feed Pelicans with fish of the appropriate sizes

· Match animals with skins that dry on the "clothes line"




	· 80486 processor or faster · Windows 95,98,2000 or XP · 8 MB of RAM or more · 256 Color, 640x480 monitor and card · CD ROM drive · Sound card






		· 680x0 or PowerPC processor · System 7.1 or higher · 8 MB of RAM · 256 Color, 640x480 monitor · CD ROM drive

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