Edmark House Series
ERAC has established an agreement with IBM Canada's K-12 Division, with support from the BC Ministry of Education, to provide The Edmark House Series software to BC schools and districts at no charge. The series helps to assist Pre-Kindergarten – Grade 2 children in building basic skills, both prior to their entering the school system and throughout their primary years of learning development. Access to resources is available on the Learn Now BC website, www.learnnowbc.ca which is operated by the Virtual School Society. This interactive software program is also available for home use.
Pricing
There is no cost to districts, schools or teachers for ATRT 3 Plus. This ERAC agreement covers the use of the software in schools and for teachers to install on their personal computers. The agreement does not permit the provision of copies of the software to students for home use. If, however, students are interested in purchasing a retail version of All the Right Type 3 for home use, a discounted price is available on Ingenuity’s website www.ingenuityworks.com/bcerac.
Summary
This agreement includes the following components:
- Early Reading with Bailey's Book House
- Exploring Numbers with Millie's Math House
- Life Sciences with Sammy's Science House
- Social Sciences with Trudy's Time & Place House
All four titles in The Edmark House suite are supported by corresponding print materials such as lesson plans, print activities (both in-class and take-home) and teacher guides. These are available on the web in PDF file format for downloading, printing and use, as required.
This agreement, which was established by ERAC, allows public and independent schools, StrongStart, Head Start and child care centres, public libraries and hospitals to access the material. Parents may also use the resources at home.
To proceed with the initiative, the resources needed to be hosted on a single server in BC. The Virtual School Society offered to provide this service for schools: ERAC appreciates their support.
Details
ERAC has entered into this agreement in order to provide The Edmark House series at no charge to the K-12 education sector. ERAC's evaluators reviewed the series and gave it a positive evaluation. The series helps to assist young learners in building basic skills, both prior to their entering the school system and throughout their primary years of learning development. While this series has been used in schools in computer labs and stand-alone computers for a number of years, it was recently updated with 30 percent new content and re-formatted for web delivery.
This agreement includes the following components:
- Early Reading with Bailey's Book House
Through nine playful activities, students can learn about letter names and sounds, rhyming words, adjectives, how text relates to contextual and visual clues, positional words, letter recognition, sentence building, and much more. These activities help students build language concepts and thinking skills they need to communicate and make sense of the world around them. - Exploring Numbers with Millie's Math House
Students build a foundation of fundamental math concepts and thinking skills. Through activities that feel like play, students explore numbers, shapes, sizes, quantities, patterns, and sequencing. New activities address measurement concepts and number sentences. - Life Sciences with Sammy's Science House
Sammy helps young scientists build their understanding of biology and time concepts with two new modules that explore stages of plant development over time, and look at how different animals age. All seven modules focus on discovering how to think like a scientist—learning how to observe, analyze, and test theories. - Social Sciences with Trudy's Time & Place House
Students will expand their knowledge of the world around them through new modules that allow them to visit and compare cities, towns, and the countryside. With Trudy's new jobs module, students can learn about people in the community and what they do. Students will also build their understanding of traveling by working with already well-loved landmark activities, cardinal and relative direction, and map symbols.
These titles are supported by corresponding print materials such as lesson plans, print activities (both in-class and take-home) and teacher guides. These are available on the web in PDF file format for downloading, printing and use, as required. All four titles in The Edmark House series have been aligned to the current Provincial learning outcomes, where possible.
Ordering Info
To access the series, go to the Learn Now BC website at www.learnnowbc.ca and click on Find Resources for Early Learners. There is no charge for accessing the series. The series is PC and Mac compatible.
Contact
For more information, please contact:
Steve Cuccione
Client Manager - K-12 Education Services
Public Sector Group
IBM Canada Ltd
(778) 327-7225
scuccion@ca.ibm.com
Where Can I Get More Information?
For further information about this agreement please contact ERAC at 604-713-5920 or by email at info@bcerac.ca.
