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Time Trek Maps
Watch history unfold before your eyes! Animated maps, teaching notes, worksheets, blank timelines, and maps bring history and geography alive, making this a perfect supplement to any history curriculum. Or, use as a spine along with living books of your choosing to create a personalized history and geography study. Everything you need is in one CD-Rom: instructional material, student reproducibles, and interactive maps.
Teaching notes are in PDF format and include introductory material, activities, map commentary, blank timelines, student maps and teacher maps (answers). The PDF student materials are reproducible for your family. The Interactive Maps use Adobe Flash, a free downloadable computer program. Maps are shown in chronological order at the click of a button and progress in time, showing how civilizations, countries, and continents have changed over time. Quizzes and encyclopedic entries are included and can be turned on and off at your discretion. Topics included: Ancient China, Black Death, European Explorations, Fall of Roman Empire, Rise of Islam, Rise of Roman Empire, and Slave Trade. 75 maps.
Available for Mac® or Windows®. System Requirements: For Windows-Windows XP, Vista or 7. Intel Pentium or Celeron 1400 MHz or higher, 1GB RAM/Hard Disk, 100 MB memory free space and Sound card (Audio is included but not required for operation) Internet connection is required for the additional resource (TimeMaps.com). Mac requirements: Mac processor with Intel Pentium or Celeron 1400 MHz or higher, 1 GB Ram/Hard Disk, 100 Mb free space, Sound Card and Speakers (Sound is included but not required), and Internet access for the additional resource (TimeMaps.com). ~ Deanne
