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Module IV Hardware for Educators Software  1. The Graph Club The Graph Club, by Tom Snyder Productions, is an easy-to-use graphing tool every elementary classroom should have! You can create activities in which your students conduct research and graph their findings. The Graph Club allows students to construct and interpret pie, line, picture, and bar graphs. Students learn to use graphs to analyze data and solve problems, as well as write about graphs they create. Graphs can be printed by the page or even made in poster size for classroom use. The Graph Club is an innovative way to help your students understand and interpret graphs and is an excellent resource for standardized test preparation. 2. The Oregon Trail Award-winning Oregon Trail® expands your curriculum to cover history, geography, and social studies by letting your students walk in the footsteps of courageous pioneers through compelling 3-D simulation adventures. With Oregon Trail, your students use logical reasoning and critical thinking to develop real-life decision making as they select their wagon party, supplies, read maps, plan their route, and guide their team through the wilderness. Students develop solutions to help their teams of friends and family survive the dangers of the long journey with a different scenario every time that can include attacks from wild animals, sickness, raging rivers, starvation, and more. Your students get the opportunity to not only read about a story, but also be part of the story by traveling across the Oregon Trail — with the triumphs, trials, and tribulations of a cast of characters that seems to come alive. 3. Make-A-Story Your students can learn to interact and write stories about Timmy & His Friends with Make-A-Story. Students choose different characters, settings, and actions, and then they can hear the stories read aloud in English or a foreign language. Students can work through 18 exciting activities to gain an appreciation of different cultures while comparing those cultures through number and word activities, stories, songs, games, and crafts. This is excellent software for developing cross-curricular activities for language arts, math, social studies, and creativity. 4. Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia Teachers and students need to work successfully on research reports and multimedia projects. Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia can assist your students in creating awesome multimedia presentations with thousands of links, images, full audio features, videos, animations, dynamic maps, and panoramas of amazing sites. Research reports will be a snap for students with more than 100,000 articles and the Millennium feature, which chronicles important world events for the last 1,000 years as well as Internet links. Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia is an excellent resource for any classroom.  With Geometer's Sketchpad, by Key Curriculum Press, your students can explore and analyze geometric figures and concepts they are learning in the classroom. While preserving the geometric relationships of the shapes, students can manipulate the geometric figures created in Geometer's Sketchpad. Use Geometer’s Sketchpad for presentations or allow your students to work alone or in groups. This software is extremely versatile and can be used from grades 5 through college. The software comes with an instructional video and documentation. The documentation includes tutorials and sample classroom activities. Extensive Internet resources also are available.