This user-friendly CD-ROM allows students to explore—on their own or in classroom study groups—the life cycles of plants, animals, and humans through close-up film action scenes and photographs. This is the companion piece to the Life Cycles video.

• Click on a specific animal or plant

• Click on a stage in its life, or...

• Select its Life Story and learn everything about it!

A "Life Stages" screen provides access to photographs and videos accompanied by text that can be read, or click on a speech icon to hear an audio track.

• Click on "Did You Know?" and hear interesting or surprising facts about the plant or animal.

• Look up definitions of highlighted words in a glossary.

• Answer related questions and complete assessment activities that appear on-screen.

Easily accessible graphs and diagrams give information on how long things live, the number of offspring they produce, their size, and more. Data cards summarize information about each plant or animal.

Used with the Life Cycles video, the CD-ROM provides a technology-integrated approach for maximum educational benefit. Each item may also be purchased separately.

The CD-ROM may be used with either Windows or Macintosh.