DK Eyewitness Virtual Reality Birds | 
 enlarge | From: Global Software Publishing
Category: Software
List Price: $9.99
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Sales Rank: 14787
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Xp, Windows 95
Genre: Children's Early Learning Software
ESRB: Everyone 10+
Media: CD-ROM
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 1.2
MPN: A1277M2W
Model: A1277M2W
UPC: 836330001277
EAN: 0836330001277
ASIN: B000SAXALI
Release Date: June 11, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Explores the diversity of bird species, their habitats, and challenges to survival. | | • | Designed in the shape of an eye with three main rooms, corridors, and galleries. | | • | Within each main room exhibit, graphics and artifacts are clustered by topics. | | • | Displays include text, labeled visuals that can sometimes be enlarged, videos, and pop-up windows. A button on the bottom of the screen reveals see also references and hyperlinks to related information. | | • | The Aviary introduces bird habitats around the globe and 12 families of birds, including domesticated birds, seabirds, and Sightless birds. |
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Product Description
The objective of this multimedia/exploration program is for students to learn about avian behavior, anatomy, challenges to survival, and remarkable roles in mythology and art. Students take a guided tour through a virtual natural history museum. The museum has three main rooms., corridors, and various galleries. Each room groups graphics and artifacts by topic, and all displays include text. Visit the section on Birds of Prey and see a ten-second video of the world's largest bird of prey, the Andean Condor; learn about the importance of the falcon to the Egyptian culture; or turn a stuffed Eurasia Kestrel 360 degrees for 16 different views. See the world from a vulture's viewpoint where the central portion of the visual field is magnified 2.5 times. Learn about bird habitats from around the globe. Learn about courtship, nesting, feeding, or anatomy. Other galleries hold exhibits on flight patterns with migration maps, environmental factors affecting bird population, endangered species, songs and calls where users can listen to birds like canaries and owls, and birds in art where some artwork can be rotated to view all sides. A navigation icon displays a map of the current location and can be used to move to another part of the museum Bird Behavior covers topics such as courtship, hatching, nesting, and feeding. In the Anatomy Room, students can explore bird structure in four layers - exterior, muscles, organs, and skeleton. The mouse can be turned into an x-ray window to see body parts in greater detail. Exhibits in this section also include wings and flight, feathers, senses, and respiration. Other galleries have displays and activities about bird watching, flight patterns, songs and calls, bird beaks, and birds in art
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