| Grade Level | System Requirement | Product Number |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 5-6 | Apple 128K | A290 |
| Students take on the job of deciding who of the many willing candidates will be chosen to go on the next space station mission. They make their decisions by completing fact-finding tasks that cover such reading-comprehension skills as main idea, supportive details, and fact or opinion. | ||
Introduction
Space Station Freedom has two programs to learn and practice these skills:
- predicting where to locate information
- identifying the main idea
- finding facts that support the main idea.
- developing reading strategies
- identifying text structures and key words that signal important information.
- finding the meanings of words
- identifying fact from opinion
- finding personal information.
This disk has Management Options features that enable you to:
- set the number of tasks.
- set the mix of task types.
- set the scenarios to be used.
- set the candidates to be used.
- add, delete. edit student records.
- specify printer options.
Consult the manual for details on accessing and using these options.