Experience a tropical rainforest and learn about the wonders of this incredible environment.

Immersive

Join the Digital Frog International team as we visit the Blue Creek Rainforest Reserve in Belize, Central America. Surround yourself with the sounds of a tropical rainfroest as you learn about rainforests, the plants and animals found there and the mechanisms and processes that keep them alive and vital.

Explore 360-degree panoramas using QuickTime Virtual Reality. Climb into the tropical rainforest canopy without leaving the ground or come face-to-face with a jaguar or a three-toed sloth.

Interactive

Become actively involved in learning about dependencies between organisms and about the controversial issues surrounding human impact and conservation. Play the niches game or the rainforest riches game as you learn more about this fascinating environment.

You will never be bored with The Digital Field Trip to The Rainforest. Find out what howler monkeys do when they first wake up (it's not pleasant). Create an intricate dependency web of rainforest organisms or test your knowledge with the Rainforest Riches Quiz. While you're at it, see if you can place rainforest organisms in their appropriate niches. You can even operate the mighty biomass machine. And that's just before lunch break!

Learn about rainforest botany and wildlife through stunning photographs and videos on topics such as ant symbiosis. Animations lure you into a wide variety of subjects from succession to soils and decomposition to tropical rainforest types. Learn through exploration, such as "tasting" a variety of insects to find out about warning and mimicry strategies.

Something for everyone

Students of all ages, from 3 to 90 plus can enjoy exploring this program.

Easy-to-use

We've incorporated all of our award-winning features into The Digital Field Trip to The Rainforest, from our simple point-and-click interface and handy interactive map to context-sensitive help and an integrated dictionary with more than 3000 definitions and over 700 pronunciations.

Our Find feature allows you to quickly jump to screens by typing in the topic you are searching for, while user added bookmarks allow you to maintain a list of screens to easily return to later.

Workbook Materials

All workbook materials are included on the CD in a variety of formats allowing you to print just what you need when you need it and also to customize worksheets to better suit your classroom. The Digital Field Trip to The Rainforest workbook acts as an excellent study guide, leading students through the CD-ROM with tips, suggestions, quizzes and crossword puzzles, and . The teacher's guide includes answers, as well as teaching suggestions.

Easy to install

The Digital Field Trip to The Rainforest runs directly from the CD-ROM, installed on the hard drive of standalone computer or, with the purchase of a network license, over a LAN.

Multi-platform

The Digital Field Trip to The Rainforest uses hybrid CD technology; the same disc runs on both Macintosh and Windows platforms.

Key benefits

Teacher friendly
Supports a wide range of curriculum requirements at multiple grade levels.

Student friendly
Students love engaging in the multitude of activities on this CD.

Integrated dictionary
Context-sensitive definitions on virtually every word and spoken pronunciations on significant words support ESL learners .

Built-in text-to-speech
Supports blind and visually-impaired as well as slow readers and auditory learners.

Fast Find
Allows users to quickly find any topic.

Interactive concept map
Provides a visual overview of all topics and ensures users never get lost.

Workbook materials
Included on the CD are extensive workbook materials. Print them out. Make copies. Modify them to fit your exact classroom needs.

What's new in 1.6a?

Native OSX
Now runs natively in both Power PC and Intel

Vista-compliant
Now updated to run under Vista

Software updates
The Digital Field Trip to The Rainforest now automatically checks for updates.

Screen preferences
Allows for full screen or window display.

System requirements

Windows

Windows 2000, XP, Windows 7 or Vista (32 bit) (some features may not work in the 64 bit version of Vista)
32 MB of RAM (64 or more recommended)
75 MB of hard drive space for QuickTime

Macintosh

Mac OSX 10.3.9 or later
30 MB of available RAM

The Digital Field Trip to The Rainforest Evaluation Version -This is the full version of the software. You can use parts of the software.