BRAINtastic V2 Mega Bundle
by EdAlive
Irresistible learning motivated by gripping Reward Games
Fourteen award-winning motivating educational titles on one disk for ages 5 to 15+. Includes over 17,000 carefully sequenced learning activities from BRAINtastic Maths, BRAINtastic Word Skills and BRAINtastic Reading Success!
Winner of over 11 awards and endorsements
- Multiple BESSIE Award Winner
- 2008 Learning Magazine Teachers’ Choice Awards for the Family Multiple Winner
- 2007-2008 Multiple EDDIE Award Winner
- 2007 Multiple AIIA iAward Winner – Education and Training
- 2007 The NPC Seal of Approval
- Multiple iParenting Media Award Winners
Benefits and Features
The Reward-Based Learning System
BRAINtastic is the reward-based learning system, where the work is almost as much fun as the games! Every child is unique in their capacity for effort for reward, so BRAINtastic allows you to vary the amount of work to be completed before they can play a Reward Game. You choose the activities and your kids choose a cool Reward Game!
- Gives your child maximum motivation to keep on learning!
- Humorous twists, constant feedback and corrections to keep students engaged and on-task
- Activity types include text input, missing answer, drag-and-drop, multiple choice, true or false and more!
- “Questions Only” mode allows kids to focus on the content without playing the Reward Games
Reward Games
- Because each child is different, each BRAINtastic! title features three or more unique Reward Games to motivate every child!
- Children can track their personal high scores, or match themselves against each other for the highest overall score.
- Progress within each Reward Game is cumulative, so children can build on their previous scores.
- Maximise motivation by accessing extra Reward Games as you install new BRAINtastic! titles.
Target Your Child’s Learning Needs
- Use BRAINtastic straight out of the box or zero-in on individual learning needs with the diagnostic tools and custom content
- Customisable for individual players by setting the ability level and individually enabling or disabling different content categories
- Powerful administration and user-management features that can track the results of up to 10 users
- View results for specific progress levels and learning area categories
- Display, export and print detailed user statistics
- Create and allocate different content settings for each user
- Review actual questions answered correctly and incorrectly
This 14 Title Mega Bundle:
- Designed for ages 5-15+ over 14 titles: BRAINtastic Maths (5 titles), BRAINtastic Word Skills (3 titles) and BRAINtastic Reading Success (6 titles)
- Contains over 17,000 carefully-sequenced learning activities
- Correlated with the curriculum of each Australian state and New Zealand
- Includes all 10 Reward Games: BugWhack!, Extreme Fashion, Galactic Retrieval Squad, Hamster Hospital, Samurai Sculpt, Extreme Superheroes, Toy Storm, ReBop, Face Maker Guys and Face Maker Girls
What’s in this 14 Title Mega Bundle?
BRAINtastic V2 MathsexpandClick to collapse
BRAINtastic! Maths combines curriculum-based activities with fun Reward Games to motivate your child to learn, be they a Beginning, Emerging, Struggling or Power mathematician.
Each BRAINtastic! Maths title provides comprehensive coverage of mathematics curriculum in a way that promotes higher-order mathematical thinking and problem-solving skills, rather than mindless number crunching.
Benefits
- Three cool Reward Games: BugWhack!, Galactic Retrieval Squad and Extreme Fashion
- Suitable for ages 5 to 15+
- Fully correlated with mathematics curricula of each Australian state and New Zealand
- Over 11,200 carefully-crafted activities across five titles, each covering more than two years of schooling!
- Promotes higher-order mathematical thinking and problem-solving strategies
- Builds mental maths ability and recall of number facts
- Gives every student a positive and empowering mathematics experience
- Promotes confident enjoyment and understanding of mathematics
Educational content
Learning areas include:
- Numeration
- Addition and subtraction
- Multiplication and division
- Fractions and decimals
- Chance, patterns
- Algebra
- Data and graphs
- Measurement
- Shape, space and geometry
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Every BRAINtastic V2 Maths title comes with the following Reward Games:
- BugWHACK!
The house is infested! Do your best to ‘whack’ bugs off the wall or out of the sky without letting any escape. No cute bugs were hurt in the making or the playing of this game. - Extreme Fashion
Choose your model and create extreme fashion outfits for her from a huge range of clothes, shoes, hats and other accessories.
See what kind of a ‘look’ you can create… There are lots of different choices to co-ordinate with, but sometimes it’s fun to mismatch everything! - Galactic Retrieval Squad
Take control of the shuttle, retrieve all the missing items and return them to base. It’s up to you to make the mission a success!
GRS ( Galactic Retrieval Squad) – a manoeuvring game, in which players must move their space shuttle around various environments and retrieve items to meet the requirements for a successful mission.
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BRAINtastic v2 Word SkillsexpandClick to collapse
Give your child a positive and empowering language experience with BRAINtastic Word Skills. The carefully sequenced activities build vital practical language skills to promote confidence in understanding and using correct spelling, grammar and punctuation.
BRAINtastic! Word Skills is full of quirky characters, terrible puns and clever word plays, modelling the enjoyment of language for all learning styles. Motivation is maximised with 3 cool Reward Games!
Benefits
- Suitable for ages 5 to 15+
- Fully correlated with the curriculum of each Australian state and New Zealand
- Three cool Reward Games: Hamster Hospital, Samurai Sculpt and Extreme Superheroes
- Over 3,200 carefully-crafted activities across three titles, each covering at least three years of schooling
- Promotes higher-order language thinking and problem-solving skills
- Builds vital language skills and promotes confidence in understanding and using correct spelling, grammar and punctuation
- Carefully builds recognition of words that use both simple and complex spelling patterns
- Expands and enriches vocabulary and stimulates children’s ability to use words in context
- Fosters understanding and enjoyment of language
- Identifies and systematically resolves the more baffling aspects of English spelling and other common difficulties
- Provides explanation of more difficult concepts in spelling, grammar and punctuation
Educational content
Learning areas include:
- Letter tracking, matching, sorting and recognition
- Preparatory skills for very young readers and spellers
- Spelling patterns and rules, including phonics
- Prefixes and suffixes
- Synonyms and antonyms
- Homophones, homographs, homonyms
- Nouns, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, connectives
- Regular and irregular verbs
- Word origins including idioms, clichés, metaphors, similes, etc
- Punctuation
- Grammar conventions
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Every BRAINtastic! V2 Word Skills title comes with the following Reward Games:
- Hamster Hospital
Assist the hamster doctor by healing the sick hamsters. Be careful – you must choose wisely as your options are limited… - Extreme Super Heroes
Design your ultimate Super Hero! What kind of cool gadgets, flowing cape and distinctive costume will you choose? - Samurai Sculpt
Help Mr Samurai hack the marble into a sculpture by typing the correct code sequence within the allotted time. This gets HARD!
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BRAINtastic v2 Reading SuccessexpandClick to collapse
The incredible, curriculum-linked reading software that uses an integrated phonemic and text based approach to reading! BRAINtastic! Reading Success utilises Integrated Speech and sound support, going beyond phonics to establish reading foundations, build solid reading skills, develop fully rounded readers, grow a love of reading and cultivate comprehension power, all with activities at a level appropriate for each child!
Benefits
- Ages 4 to 15+ depending on the needs of your child
- Starts with sound support and integrated speech and progresses to help children think the words they are reading
- Four cool Reward Games: Toy Storm, ReBop, Face Maker Guys and Face Maker Girls
- Helps students learn to read the same way they learn to speak
- Over 2,900 carefully targeted activities across six titles for children aged 4 to 15+
- Over 3,800 audio files for phonemes, vocabulary, instructions, answers and more!
Integrated Speech
To help kids learn to read, Integrated Speech and sound support are used throughout the BRAINtastic! Reading Success titles ONE, TWO, THREE and FOUR. Each activity uses spoken instructions, sound reinforcements and corrections to take reading software into a whole new dimension. In titles FIVE and SIX, Integrated Speech is no longer required as children learn to think the meaning of words rather than hear their sounds.
Developing readers can be anywhere from still trying to learn their letters to devouring novels, which is why there is a BRAINtastic! Reading Success title which is just right for each child!
Children’s eyes and ears are both needed to make the difficult jump from speech to reading because kids begin to read by learning the sounds they hear in speech. That’s why BRAINtastic! Reading Success uniquely combines sight and sound for maximum learning potential. It’s like having a teacher sit and read to each child!
The Integrated Speech and sound support in BRAINtastic! Reading Success is extremely comprehensive, with over 3,800 sound files for phonemes, vocabulary, instructions, answers and more! Sound support reinforces sound/symbol correlations and frees the child from reading instructions – now what book can do that?
Educational content
Learning areas include:
- Pre-reading activities
- Phonemic awareness: learning to listen
- Grapheme (letter) and phoneme (sound) correspondences
- Experiencing text
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Every BRAINtastic v2 Reading Success title comes with the following Reward Games:
- Extreme Face Maker – Girls
Make the face you’ve always dreamed of, or maybe the one you hope you never have! There’s all sorts of crazy face shapes to choose from, with hundreds different eyes, noses, mouths, hair styles and skin colours. You can change the colour of any of the parts and then print it or paste it into your documents. - Extreme Face Maker – Guys
With Extreme FaceMaker – Guys, no two faces are exactly alike. Choose from hundreds of different face shapes, eyes, noses, mouths, hair styles and skin colours to create a completely new face every time you play. When you’re done, you can print it out or paste it into your documents. - ReBop!
Watch the ball bounce on the bubbles and remember where it Bops. Then, use your memory and the mouse to ReBop the bubbles! With bonus rounds and sweet spots ReBop will have your brain bouncing all over! - Toy Storm
It’s clean-up time and the toys are on the loose! It’s going to take all your toy tackling skills to get them back into line. They’ll be running, jumping, squirming and flying to try to escape being caught. If you can grab them, don’t put them in the wrong box, and whatever you do, don’t let any get out of the room.
Videos about BRAINtastic V2
Requirements and ResourcesexpandClick to collapse
Minimum System Requirements
- Windows
- Operating System: Windows 7, Vista, XP SP2, or later
- Processor: 600 MHz or equivalent
- CD-ROM: Required
- Operating System: Windows 7, Vista, XP SP2, or later
- Macintosh
- Operating System: Mac OS 10.4.11, 10.5.6, 10.6 or later
- Processor: Universal PowerPC or Intel
- CD-ROM: Required
- Operating System: Mac OS 10.4.11, 10.5.6, 10.6 or later
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BRAINtastic V2 Mega Bundle is targeted at the following age ranges:
- Early Childhood
- Early Primary
- Mid Primary
- Upper Primary
- Secondary School
BRAINtastic V2 Mega Bundle is designed to foster development in the areas of:
- Literacy
- Numeracy
- Problem solving
Users can access BRAINtastic V2 Mega Bundle in the following ways:
- Mouse/ Trackball/ Joystick
- Keyboard
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