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Orchard Algebra 1 Exit Skills (140SB)

Publisher: Orchard
Format: Mac OS 10.6 or Win 7 DVD
Grade: 8-12

Prepare students for skills taught in ninth grade and that appear on exit exams including graphing problems, expressions, equations, inequalities, and problem solving.

Math and Algebra Concepts Skill Trees teach and assess skills stressed in the NCTM standards. Step-by-step instruction and Learning Games reinforce key skills in a motivating learning environment.

Orchard Algebra, Patterning, & Logic (73MC)

Publisher: Orchard
Format: Mac OS 10.6 or Win 7 DVD
Grade: 4-6

Students learn key concepts through highly engaging, interactive, and focused tutorials with challenging activities. In this engaging program students work through activities including networks, sum search, logic rules, patterning, equivalence, value of missing terms, and factor trees.
Carefully selected lessons teach and encourage application of key concepts including variables, expressions, patterns, relationships, equations, inequalities, graphs, graphing relations, interpolating and extrapolating.
•  Recognizing, identifying, and analyzing patterns
•  Demonstrating equivalence and determining the value of missing terms in equations
•  Solving logic activities
•  Factor trees

Orchard Algebraic Foundations (187MC)

Publisher: Orchard
Format: Mac OS 10.6 or Win 7 DVD
Grade: 7-10

Students use their problem-solving skills to master algebraic foundations that are essential in any math curriculum. They work through tutorials and test their skills.
•  Numbers
•  Polynomials
•  Factoring
•  Rational expressions
•  Equations
•  Inequalities

Orchard Basic Operations & Order of Operations (68MC)

Publisher: Orchard
Format: Mac OS 10.6 or Win 7 DVD
Grade: 4-6

Students learn key concepts through highly engaging, interactive, and focused tutorials with challenging activities. In this engaging program students work through activities including networks, sum search, logic rules, patterning, equivalence, value of missing terms, and factor trees.  
This program contains a balanced mix of computational and conceptual programs. Math Concepts titles teach and assess skills stressed in the NCTM Standards. Computational skills are covered through SkillBuilders and Learning Games.

Orchard Biology Concepts: Cellular Respiration (127SC)

Publisher: Orchard
Format: Mac OS 10.6 or Win 7 DVD
Grade: 4-10

Students become active note takers, problem solvers, and scientists as they work through engaging activities covering the breakdown of enzymes and the process of fermentation. This program constantly challenges students to hypothesize, analyze data, and draw conclusions.
•  Defining energy and cellular respiration
•  Understanding the process of cellular respiration
•  Explaining anaerobic and aerobic respiration

Orchard Biology Concepts: Ecology (126SC)

Publisher: Orchard
Format: Mac OS 10.6 or Win 7 DVD
Grade: 4-10

Students become active note takers, problem solvers, and scientists as they work through engaging activities involving the carbon dioxide and water cycles. This program constantly challenges students to hypothesize, analyze data, and draw conclusions.
•  Comparing and contrasting photosynthesis and respiration
•  Explaining how plants and animals are dependent on each other
•  Understanding the conditions needed for evaporation and condensation

Orchard Biology Concepts: Life & Non-Life (129SC)

Publisher: Orchard
Format: Mac OS 10.6 or Win 7 DVD
Grade: 4-10

Students become active note takers, problem solvers, and scientists as they work through engaging activities on living and non-living organisms. This program constantly challenges students to hypothesize, analyze data, and draw conclusions.
•  Distinguishing between life and non-life
•  Determining the characteristics of living and non-living organisms
•  Researching the existence of life on Mars

Orchard Biology Concepts: Photosynthesis (128SC)

Publisher: Orchard
Format: Mac OS 10.6 or Win 7 DVD
Grade: 4-10

Students become active note takers, problem solvers, and scientists as they work through engaging activities about plant pigmentation and plant leaves. This program constantly challenges students to hypothesize, analyze data, and draw conclusions.
•  Understanding the nature of light
•  Defining the visible spectrum
•  Explaining the role of plant pigments
•  Understanding how water flows from plants to leaves

Orchard Biology Concepts: Pollution (130SC)

Publisher: Orchard
Format: Mac OS 10.6 or Win 7 DVD
Grade: 4-10

Students become active note takers, problem solvers, and scientists as they work through engaging activities focusing on the different types of pollution. This program constantly challenges students to hypothesize, analyze data, and draw conclusions.
•  Explaining the conditions of air, land, and water pollution
•  Predicting the effects of rainfall on smog conditions and how smog affects living organisms
•  Understanding which materials are biodegradable and why

Orchard Biology Exit Skills (149SB)

Publisher: Orchard
Format: Mac OS 10.6 or Win 7 DVD
Grade: 6-10

This assessment prepares students to master skills found on tests given in modern classrooms. Feedback is provided in meaningful contexts.
•  DNA and genetic engineering
•  Extinction and reproduction
•  Homeostasis, ecosystems, and biotechnology

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