Quench your thirst for knowledge with our newest CD-ROM, The Digital Field Trip to The Desert. Let us transport you to five North American desert locations using QuickTime Virtual Reality. Visit the surprisingly lush, green Sonoran Desert, the brightly colored landscape of the Painted Desert and the Cattail Falls oasis in Big Bend National Park. Explore the barren landscape of the Black Rock Desert or experience the blinding glare and oppressive heat of Death Valley--without the heat stroke.

However, like our other award-winning CD-ROMs, the field trip is just the starting point. Students and nature enthusiasts will learn about all aspects of desert ecology in four other major sections of this comprehensive package:

Desert Types
Discover what makes a desert a desert. Learn about all of the world's major desert regions, including pictures collected from all over the planet.

Desert Mechanisms
See the processes that formed and shape the deserts. Topics include: rocks and minerals, how wind and water can affect the landscape, weathering and a landforms quiz.

Desert Study
The Desert Study includes an extensive section on the ways desert plants and animals are adapted to survive the challenges of living in arid regions. You can also create your own desert ecosystem in the Build-a-Desert game using the more than 50 organisms featured in The Digital Field Trip to The Desert. Also in this section is a primer on homeostasis.

Human Impact
Examine how human impact and desertification shape and distort deserts, and how arid lands contribute to the over-all health of the planet.

Like all Digital Frog International products, The Digital Field Trip to The Desert also includes a host of other features:

      An interactive map

      Definitions of every word and pronunciations of
        scientific words

      Ability to bookmark favorite screens

      Online updates

Educational version: The student workbook included with the educational version of The Digital Field Trip to the Desert acts as an excellent study guide, leading students through the CD-ROM with tips, suggestions, quizzes and even graphic resources for K-3. The accompanying teacher's guide includes answers, as well as teaching suggestions. And if the workbook doesn't fit your needs exactly, all of the files are included on the CD for you to modify to better suit your classroom.

Multi-platform
The Digital Field Trip to The Desert is a hybrid disc--the same disc runs on both Macintosh and Windows platforms.

Minimal hardware requirements
Macintosh: PowerPC 120, System 8.5, 20 MB available RAM, 8 MB of hard drive space, thousands of colors
PC: Pentium 120, Windows 95 (also runs on 98/NT/2000/ME), 32 MB of RAM, 8 MB of hard drive space, VGA, 16-bit color

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