Hey, Hey, are you ready to Play to the Music with the Tweenies? An amazing 50 per cent of pre-school children in the UK watch the loveable characters on TV, and this new package picks out the element they love the best: singing action songs. When the Tweenie clock stops on "Dance Time", Bella (as usual!) takes the lead, and youngsters can either help Fizz copy Bella's moves, or they can boogie along, copying the steps on the dance mat (included, with a microphone). In the "Music Garden", you must help Judy and Jake grow a song bush, whereas in the "Tunearoonie Maze" your task is to guide the Tweenies around a maze and collect musical notes. But beware of the dinosaurs, or you could be singing the blues sooner than you think. Meet the "Tweenie Band", find out what instruments they like by trial and error and then sing along with the tunes they play. These somewhat prescriptive activities are fantastic for the target age group: they improve colour recognition, musical awareness and singing ability, basic mouse and PC skills, as well as artistic awareness, concentration, hand-to-eye coordination and finer motor skills. But the real fun comes in the more open activities, where children can plug in the microphone and sing along with the Tweenies. The special video clips included are taken from the live, sell-out shows of early 2001, TV programmes and the Tweenies' unforgettable appearance on Top of the Pops. Karaoke wannabes can even record their voice and become a real Tweenie pop star themselves. If this all sounds a bit raucous, concentrate on the educational value: BBC production values mean this is fun, entertaining and wonderfully designed, but it also stays true to the underlying developmental slant of the TV show. [+]

This interactive print program allows you to add characters from Disney's Toy Story 2 movie, such as Woody and Buzz Lightyear, to your personal art projects. From calendars and certificates to bookmarks and greeting cards, Toy Story 2 Print Studio helps you design and print them all in a few easy steps. You can even use this program to create all the banners, place mats, and name tags you need to decorate your own Toy Story 2 theme party. You can choose among 400 Toy Story 2 images, 100 ready-made projects, and many sizing and background options to make your creations. This application also lets you integrate photographs from a digital camera or scanner, so you can paste images of yourself right next to your favourite Toy Story 2 characters. However, Toy Story 2 Print Studio's best feature is that it is easy for young children to use. With its drag-and-drop simplicity, children only need to know how to use a mouse. And, because the menus are graphic, the software is even accessible for kids who don't yet know how to read.

Astronomy is a very popular hobby, and many people find computer software helps them to pursue this interest. Redshift 4 just goes to show that software can be very flexible in its approach, helping you both to identify what you are looking at in the night sky on any particular date, and learn more about astronomy in general. Past incarnations of this title have been regarded by many as the best astronomy software available. The great thing about Redshift 4 is that it works well for both novice and experienced astronomer. The Sky Diary is on hand for you to look up interesting events for the month ahead from meteor showers to phases of the moon and eclipses. You get an explanation of what each event is, and when best to look out for it. Manipulating the night sky is easy too. You can add and remove objects easily, and can even plot spacecraft as they track across the sky if you want to observe them. If armchair learning is more to your liking, then you can browse the Photo Gallery, with its 400 plus photos taken with some of the most sophisticated telescopes in the world, or view the multimedia tutorials which talk you through the history of the solar system, the Big Bang, double stars and more. And for a real treat, how about observing the night sky from the surface of Mars, or Jupiter, or the Moon? RedShift always was a powerful piece of software. [+]

Sure to satisfy the curiosity of any would-be fossil hunter, 3D Dinosaur Hunter is excellent for learning, exploring and walking with those fascinating creatures of history. Using a dinosaur museum as a metaphor, the explorer (you!) works through the fascinating process of digging up a fossilised skeleton, preparing the bones for transport, learning about the species and uncovering how the creature died. But this museum goes far deeper than that-there are 50 different species to learn about, each with their own story and habits. The second of the set's two CD-ROMs includes six dinosaur habitats built in a 3-D environment. Controlling the mouse moves you through the environment like a ghost, watching the dinosaurs in a given habitat as they move about. Everything here is both well rendered and animated, and while this part is fun, it's almost too good-it will leave you hungry for more when you reach a wall (i. e. the limit of the environment). An especially nice touch: embedded throughout the program are video clips of scientists at work, actually uncovering and preparing dinosaur bones in the desert. It's a terrific glimpse into the process, a look at all the hard work that comes long before the final stage of exhibition in a museum. [+]

BRAINtastic has been developed to to motivate children to learn. Simply login and complete the selected content to be rewarded for your efforts with time spent playing a fun reward game. BRAINtastic is a self-contained learning system that works alone or expands as other BRAINtastic titles are added. Powerful diagnostic and reporting capabilities zero-in on your child's learning needs. Educational content is presented in a huge variety of question types including multiple choice, drag-and-drop, missing answer and more!Refines basic skills using enjoyable, stimulating material that thoroughly illustrates the richness and diversity of the English language. Includes advanced spelling, prefixes, suffixes, synonyms, antonyms and homophones, word origins, idioms, cliches, metaphors and similes, functions of nouns, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs and connectives, regular and irregular verbs and punctuation and grammar conventions. Fully correlated with the National Literacy Strategy - Key Stage Three. Contains over 1,000 teacher-created questions.