Monday, October 9, 2000		Cyber kids

Chemistry no longer a mystery

Hello kids and welcome to the cyber world. As always, we will navigate through the world of Web sites and discover all that is in store for us. Happy surfing!

This is not for you, yes not for you. Well, it’s for your kid brother or sister who is just learning to read. Research shows that children do not learn to read sitting aloof, not even with a computer. They need the assistance of an adult who would expose them to the verbal complexity of the written language gradually. This program is based on this research. Explicit phonic approach is used where the child can fully decode the text all by himself/herself. Teams of experts, giving hundreds of illustrations, beautifully write the stories and what’s more, each story rhymes, helping the child understand the relation between the sound and letters. The child no longer needs a grown-up.

Ever thought you could travel back in time? It is hard to believe the stories grandma narrates. Don’t you sometimes wish you could witness some major events that happened that time? Well now it can be true. Not only your grandma, you can even go return to her grandma’s time. Even further if you want to. Using this console you can instruct the program to go to any date back in history.

Through the front window you will see the outside world and by clicking on the timeline tab, you can see major events that happened then. Real life colour photographs are sure to give you the "feel" of that period. Go travel back, but remember to come back, for tomorrow is your future.

You are already a grown-up but can’t help misspelling certain words. God, what an embarrassment you have to face. When and how will you get rid of such persistent errors? Get rid of such nuisance once and for all. Learn to spell new and old words correctly. Get rid of these habitual errors. User generated word list along with specialised word lists to download not only help in language learning but can also help you in impressing others by using some specialised occupational vocabularies.

Talking of impressions, using thought provoking quotations do help in impressing others. Go through "creative quotations from classy people" by over 530 persons who have really been classics in their field. Even a published reference source is provided for each quotation. This is a must see for speakers, writers, teachers and students.

All subjects are interesting and if you know the art of learning, it becomes even easier to learn. Chembalancer is one such game, which can make chemistry an interesting game. Yeah, a game! This software uses a game like interface to teach chemical equations and the method of balancing them. So, using this software you can play while you learn and also impress your friends by balancing chemical equations real fast. In this software, you type numbers in front of each molecule until there are the same number of atoms on both sides of the equation, then click the ‘balanced’ button, which makes the equation balanced. So guys play the game and score good marks in chemistry.

You like fairy tales, but are tired of the old monotonous style in which they are written. You almost know those lines by heart. Now read these playful, computer-generated retellings of 10 classic fairy tales. These are so hilarious that they are sure to have you rolling on the floor. Each reading is unique in itself, with beautiful presentation, gorgeously illustrated with all graphical main screen. Enjoy Hansel and Gretel in a lush woodland setting or Cinderella’s ball dance in a magnificent palace.

This is a yet another interesting site for kids as well as their parents. You can play games, answer quizzes, and read a lot of other interesting stuff on this site. Most of the games available on this site are based on your subjects, for example there is game called Math baseball. In this game you will be given a math problem, you will have to enter the answer and hit the swing button adjoining the question. If your answer is correct, then you will get a hit and based on several other factors the decision on single, double, or triple hit would be taken, and this way you can play it. Similarly, there is another game called Grammar Gorillas. It is a cute game based on your knowledge of grammar. If you give right answer to the question, your friend Gorilla gets a banana. There are several other games like this.

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