Kids love this appealing chimp who introduces children to critical thinking skills required in math and science.  Charlie Chimp is planning a party and children are asked to help him solve problems to make it run smoothly.

It consists of seven games at three levels, with levels controlled by teachers or parents.  The activities include fun tasks like lifting and lowering lifts in a maze to get Charlie through and delivering invitations to elephants and bats.  In the Sweet Shack where children have to choose, rotate and place tiles to enable sweets to travel down a grid into the bag and Magical Fireworks where one has to create a piece of music from samples then set a firework display to the music.

Modeling skills covered in the exercises are

building routes from selections of different directional tiles

ordering sequences of movements enabling Charlie to exit a maze

arranging small pieces of images into the correct order to create pictures

deciding which direction a series of lifts have to move to enable Charlie to exit the maze

providing Charlie with directions

selecting appropriate clothes from a selection of correct and incorrect garments, then dressing Charlie in a logical sequence

experimenting with different sized elephants to see which one weighs enough to fire a ball the correct distance

using simple instructions in Logo, a children's programming language,  in a problem-solving situation

composing a piece of music and creating a fireworks display 

Minimum System Requirements

PC: 95 or later,

Mac: OS 8.6, 9, 10.2 or later

Pentium 233MHz, 64 MB RAM, 16 bit color and sound card