Educational Software products beginning with C

Used as a tool for teaching mechanical design investigation, this site contains a wealth of moving and still mechanical innovation. The professional models presented are mechanically challenging and provide inspiration: the prices commanded by some of the models encourage attention to detail and finish. Models can be rotated to let students examine complex mechanisms. The schools pages have interactive animation and relevant tips that are easily accessible.

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Cabri 3D provides the next step up from the 2D Cabri, Cabri 2 and Cabri 2+ programs and allows solid geometry models to be created and manipulated onscreen. Using familiar tools and interface, teachers and students can explore properties of 3D geometric constructions, model alternatives, derive proofs and improve reasoning. Models and views can be exported as high quality images to both Word and PowerPoint. Appropriate for higher tier GCSE through to higher education, this is a well thought out and high quality program.

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Cabri Geometry II Plus is an extremely powerful tool for mathematics students and teachers at Key Stage 3 and above. The program enables geometric concepts to be easily experimented with and understood. The user can create dynamic constructions onscreen that can be manipulated to test predictions and prove rules. A comprehensive set of manuals is provided including a section mapping suggested student activities to the Key Stage 3 Curriculum objectives, although more guidance in terms of expected answers and outcomes would have been useful.

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This double CD and DVD pack contains over a gigabyte of invaluable data for any Careers Department in Secondary Education with detailed information on over 1,800 careers, over 50,000 UCAS Higher Education courses, over 3,200 photographs of people engaged in different jobs, 50 subject linked articles, together with real-life case studies, high quality video footage, as well as current salary and labour market information. It also includes 20 Lifestyle articles aimed at 13 - 19 year olds ranging from Alcohol to Volunteering.

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Celebration is a resource for teaching poetry that is easy to access and provides good quality resources, exciting lesson plans and useful advice on topics such as setting up a poetry library. It is accessible to pupils with auditory or visual problems, because of the excellent quality of both the audio and video content. Celebration provides a fresh approach to analysing and writing poetry, allowing children, including some with Special Educational Needs, access to real poets.

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This is the website of the Centre for Alternative Technology. Used as a source of stimulus material, it would greatly aid any Citizenship lesson on the subject of Sustainability at secondary level. Students can search the site for content, much of which is well presented in terms young people can understand. However, if the site is to engage young people, it has to have more interactive tasks. It is very heavily text based which may switch some children off.

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Centre Stage is a powerful program that enables Key Stage 1 and lower Key Stage 2 pupils to create a multimedia presentation. Slides can feature information from the resources contained on the CD-ROM, such as clip art, video clips and sound, or information imported from the pupil’s own research. The title is easy to customise which means that virtually all children will be able to use it with varying levels of support and helpful tutorials are also included.

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The website is available in Spanish, French and German. Through the website pupils can get used to using the target language. There are plenty of things to see and do on the site, and there are a variety of activities based on the topics from the Channel 4 Extra videos. Some of the activities can be done online and pupils can check their own score in the target language. The teachers’ section provides notes and a transcript to the series.

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This easy-to-use multimedia CD-ROM helps Key Stage 1 children to develop modelling and problem-solving skills by helping Charlie Chimp organise his annual Caribbean island party. Activities can be worked on in isolation or followed through in sequence as part of an adventure scenario. Each activity has three levels of difficulty to enable differentiation and progression. Children will also develop spatial awareness, ordering and classifying, as well as being introduced to simple Logo. This is a useful addition to the classroom.

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Chatterbox is a fun and motivating way in which to offer a modern foreign language to Junior learners. It is a self-contained and comprehensive package that offers the opportunity to develop a basic grasp of the French language through a variety of approaches – work sheets, flashcards, games and spoken activities. It could be used by the individual, by small groups or as a class or club. The accompanying book offers full support in its detailed lesson plans.

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This is a very good site, but only if the site map is used for navigation – the icons and written links can be confusing to pupils. The content covers Key Stages 3 and 4, and possibly beyond in some sections. It is aimed at the American market, but can nevertheless be a useful information tool for pupils. The strong features are the high quality and simple graphics and the sections containing humour.

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This CD-ROM provides high quality animations and explanations of a range of Key Stage 3 Chemistry topics within a total of ten sections. These sections are simple to use and contain pages that each have an animation and a text box containing key words, relevant information and questions. The Chemistry information is clear and concise and text is spoken. Each page has a function which allows the teacher to write, draw and look at revision notes on an interactive whiteboard. The software does not contain worksheets or pupil activities.

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This CD-ROM provides an introduction to Key Stage 2 French and is based on Channel 4’s television series. It contains interactive activities, related to six topics, which use a variety of audio, graphics and animation. The program contains a facility to track pupils’ progress, both individually and as a class. The teacher’s area contains extra activities as well as transcripts and a glossary. The software is simply structured and activities are linked logically to the video content.

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This website introduces the subject of money and finance to young children. It contains a small collection of activities for children based around the theme of money, but these have entertainment rather than specific educational value. A very large collection of worksheets addresses most areas related to the use of money and some parental advice is given. The website is more suitable for home use, or teachers could download and print out the worksheets freely available on the site.

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This site supports the teaching of English, and reading in particular. The main body of the site contains online books which cover a wide range of reading abilities. The text often downloads before the colourful pictures, which is an advantage, as the children tend to read the text whilst waiting for the picture! There are also a few games and the option to print out some of the book illustrations to colour.

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This CD-ROM promotes Key Stage 2 English skills through a series of games and puzzles focusing on spelling, grammar and punctuation. Children select a level of difficulty and complete challenges to receive clues. The style is visually appealing but the sound quality is variable. The program is simple to use but its configurability is limited and it does not retain class lists or keep records. There is an extensive, narrated Help section on grammar and punctuation. A worthwhile purchase for revision and reinforcement purposes.

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The website is designed purely for use by teachers. There is a good selection of worksheets available to download and print off. It is not possible to view worksheets before downloading them, which does slow the user down when looking for suitable work. The site is very well set out. There are Numeracy Hour tips and a Maths policy page. The information offered is good as a supplement to other materials. The site has a facility to request information/ideas from other teachers.

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Clicker is a powerful and incredibly easy-to-use multimedia and writing support tool for children of all ages and abilities. With Clicker, children can write with whole words, phrases or pictures. Clicker 5 is the latest version of the award-winning Clicker. While Clicker 5 retains the familiar Clicker interface, it also offers great new features including almost-human UK English speech, pop-up grids and a completely new graphics library, as well as direct access to thousands of free downloadable resources from LearningGrids.com.

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Clicker Paint is an exciting new program that fully integrates with Clicker 5 and works as a powerful stand-alone program as well. Clicker Paint has been designed as an educational tool, incorporating unique and innovative features that add new dimensions to classroom creativity. Clicker Paint is incredibly pupil-friendly, yet includes many powerful features that will motivate children of all abilities. Clicker Paint is simply the best thing ever to happen to paint programs for children!

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This DVD contains video clips relating to historical events of the 20th Century. Topics covered include the major conflicts of the period, as well as India, Ireland and the Middle East. Suitable for Key Stages 3 and 4, each topic includes information on the length and context of the clip, as well as key words and a glossary. The clips are ideal for individuals working on computers or, using the higher resolution version of the clip, for presenting to groups on an interactive whiteboard.

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This DVD contains 228 video clips from Channel 4 programmes, providing thorough coverage of all the main topics of Biology, Chemistry and Physics. Suitable for Key Stages 3 and 4, each topic is introduced in a similar way and includes information on the length and context of the clip, as well as providing key words and a glossary. The clips are ideal for individuals working on computers or, using the higher resolution version of the clip, for presenting to groups on a projector.

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ClozePro is a program that allows teachers to use and create cloze procedure texts to enhance their teaching and students’ learning. It comes with a selection of Literacy and Numeracy activities suitable for children throughout the Key Stages. The activities can be used by the teacher as part of whole-class teaching or accessed at the computer by the children individually. Students who are unable to use a mouse alternative, keyboard or touch screen, can operate the program with switches.

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This is an excellent case study resource with video clips divided into manageable chunks to allow students to gather key data. The mixture of copiable text, pictures, maps and video clips helps maintain interest, and there is a wealth of vocabulary links into the word bank of geographical terminology. The teacher lesson plan provides activities and suggests further strategies. The section on coastal processes, aimed at Key Stage 3, could be used for revision at Key Stage 4.

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This excellent DVD has been produced in association with the London Fire Brigade and is aimed at Key Stage 3 pupils. Its purpose is to raise awareness of the frustrations caused to the fire service by hoax calls as well as the legal and potentially tragic consequences. The DVD features a dramatic presentation that students are likely to identify with strongly and there are frequent pauses for students to examine and discuss what they are viewing, as well as a quiz.

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This program offers an additional medium for History teachers to engage pupils. It should encourage students to learn independently, research key events of the Cold War and get a feel for the attitudes of the time through the archive film. Traditional ‘whole class’ teaching methods are required and ideally the program should be used with an interactive whiteboard. The program offers good potential for high quality learning and offers a new approach to teaching aspects of the Cold War.

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The website is a reliable, easy-to-navigate and well managed resource for teachers and students. It is informative and has the potential to support a wide range of teaching and learning activities. It can be used as a primary resource in teaching Geography, for data handling, and for independent studies on Commonwealth countries. The most exciting part of the site, however, is in the interactive projects – the school links section provides endless opportunities for schools to get involved in a variety of international projects.

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This useful DVD is aimed at upper Key Stage 2 and lower Key Stage 3 students and is ideal for the Citizenship Curriculum. A series of television drama-style video clips are used to help pupils understand the principles behind fair and effective face-to-face communication, in order to improve their own communication and speaking and listening skills. A teacher’s guide and comprehensive lesson plan for each of the six DVD stories is provided, plus a set of worksheets.

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This dictionary is a user-friendly, easy to install and practical program. It sits on the hard drive and can either run in the background while you are working in other applications like Word, allowing you to check spellings within your text, or it can be used as a standalone dictionary. It aids teaching of grammar and word types, and allows you to search not only for words, but also phrases, idioms, and grammatically similar words.

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The content of the website is excellent. It contains some four hundred and eighty lessons that can be stopped and replayed at will. Each lesson has a corresponding interactive worksheet and the students' scores and number of attempts are recorded for the teacher in their control area of the website.

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The site covers Chemistry and scientific investigations, the main Chemistry content is aimed at Key Stage 4 especially AQA modular Science syllabus material. The site can be used as revision, review or self-study. The feature I found most useful was the Scientific Investigation 'tune up' section. I feel the site would be best used in small groups, or individually due to some issues with download speed and access.

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The content is suitably grouped into topic sections and as it does not follow a specific course the content is broad. The interactive animations are well presented and true to life, with the option to view reaction details and simulations. The simulations are clear and easy to navigate and there is the option to also create personalised simulations, making this a useful package for any Chemistry teacher.

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Models of devices or systems are constructed either from scratch, or based upon one of the many inbuilt examples. These are built by compiling flow charts, and then the diagram or procedure is run to see the model or system in action. The examples and tutorials both include a spoken sound track accompaniment, and the use of characters to ‘perform’ procedures and programs is novel and appealing, and helps in motivating pupils.

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Crocodile Mathematics is designed to teach 88 Mathematics topics at Key Stages 3 and 4 using interactive demonstrations or models of mathematical concepts. This useful resource meets the National Curriculum requirements of developing ICT capability to use tools and solve numerical and graphical problems, represent and manipulate geometrical configurations and present and analyse data. Teachers can create interactive models to demonstrate a wide range of concepts and examples that would otherwise only be possible using hand-drawn diagrams.

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This program is flexible, easy to use modelling software for schools and colleges; it allows students to view pre-set simulations or to create their own simulations to test ideas in a variety of contexts such as electronics, optics, mechanisms & motion. Different sections of the software cover different aspects of KS3 and KS4 Physics with application at double award, separate Science and even some A level Physics.

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An elegant, intuitive and inexpensive solution to resourcing a complex, expensive area of the Design Technology Curriculum. A wide range of mechanical components, electromechanisms (motors, microswitches, generators) and electronic components ‘snap together’, can be rotated and examined in three dimensions. This makes it easy for students of all abilities to understand and modify designs.

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Crystal Rain Forest 2000 is an excellent, highly motivating introduction to logo, although some tasks were very challenging for Special Needs pupils, some of whom needed teacher support. Most pupils could work independently, but weaker readers needed the sound switched on because instructions written on-screen were too difficult. To aid pupils complete ‘Travelling up river’, ‘Rope bridges’ and ‘Safety nets’, the subject of angles and degrees should be covered in class prior to work with the program.

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Curriculum Complete gives quick access to a huge bank of objectives and activities relating to the schemes for each Year Group. These activities are constantly updated. Teachers can create Schemes of Work and other plans to track individual attainment at the click of a button. They can monitor students’ progress by specific objectives. Users need to be fairly confident, although there are video tutorials. Setting-up each class can be time-consuming, but once in place, the program is easily transferable to other groups.

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InfoNation provides very recent official data on 189 countries of the world. The data covers 41 fields, and is an excellent resource for teaching aspects of development issues in Geography. Countries can be readily compared and hypotheses about development can be tested quickly. More able pupils can explore the data to identify relationships and cut and paste the results into a spreadsheet. From this they can generate scatter graphs with lines of best fit, illustrating relationships they have discovered.

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