Scholastic Keys 1.4

Grade Levels: K-5

Unlock the kid power in Microsoft Office!

Scholastic Keys helps teachers incorporate technology skills and enhances lesson plans in reading, writing, and math, while maximizing your school's investment in Microsoft Office. Complete with a variety of helpful templates, drawing tools, and hundreds of colorful graphics, sound effects, text-to-speech reader, and movies, this program provides an early introduction to using Microsoft Office now - and for years to come.

Product Features

Easy-to-create and customize documents, spreadsheets, and presentations

Templates—a variety of pre-designed document layouts

MaxPaint—robust doodle-pad drawing tool

Text-to-speech reader

Clip art library with over 800 images

Import your own pictures, sounds, and movies

Dozens of pre-recorded sound files

Voice and sound recorder

Math activities for counting, matching, and grouping

Intuitive, kid-friendly interface

Large toolbar icons

Scholastic Keys is a suite of 3 great programs:

MaxWrite for Word

Create stories, letters, and invitations with an artistic flair

Students can create their own Microsoft Word documents using MaxWrite's easy-to-use icons and tools, including a doodle pad

Choose from dozens of fun templates for invitations, flyers, letters, and cards that spark students' creativity

MaxShow for PowerPoint

Share your work and present to friends, family, and classmates

MaxShow lets students create exciting PowerPoint presentations with pictures, animations, and movies.

Children can record their own sounds and voices to insert in presentations. The text-to-speech function allows children to present to non-reading friends.

MaxCount for Excel

Learn about numbers, spreadsheets, and charts the easy and fun way

MaxCount gives students a fun way to learn many of the basic skills associated with using Microsoft Excel - graphing, counting, making tables, sorting, grouping, and matching.

What's included:
A Windows CD-ROM of 3 great programs, with learning activities and a Teacher's Guide. Microsoft Office software not included.

System Requirements

Windows

Pentium III 500 MHz minimum processor

Windows OS 98/ 98SE/ ME/ 2003 SP3/ XP SP1

64 MB minimum installed RAM

16 bit colors; 800x600 resolution

Is not compatible with Office 2007