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Scope and Sequence
Overview
Switched-On Schoolhouse Scope and Sequence Chart
The
2008
version of Alpha Omega Publications CD- based
Switched-On Schoolhouse is
the latest revised and enhanced version. Containing
complete curriculum for grades 3-12, Switched-On
Schoolhouse
2008 is the perfect solution for today's
students who are growing up in the Information Age. It is dynamic, functional and organized, with new tools for teacher preparation and student success.
The Windows-based navigation screens allow students and teachers to effortlessly move around the curriculum, and dynamic home pages complete with Flash animation provide an inviting doorway into your student's learning odyssey.
SOS
2008 provides an
interactive learning experience, making your
student's education seem like an adventure. The
clever animation and special effects spread a
contagious energy that gets kids excited about
learning.
The core curriculum for the
Switched-On Schoolhouse builds upon the solid foundation
of the LIFEPAC curriculum which has been repeatedly proven in homes and schools for decades. All five core
subjects are included - Bible, Language Arts, Math,
History & Geography and Science, with eleven
additional electives, and more to come.
Surpassing its predecessor,
Switched-On Schoolhouse
2008 provides an interactive,
multimedia-learning environment. Having been thoroughly
rewritten and adapted to the electronic medium,
Switched-On Schoolhouse immerses your student in the
subject through a dynamic mix of text and multimedia
presentations. Questions and activities provide instant
interactive feedback and will challenge your student's
grasp of the information. Quizzes and tests then prove
the student's comprehension and understanding.
Switched-On Schoolhouse
2008
Key Features
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*New in 2008
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Text-to-Speech Feature
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Custom Projects
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Automatic Lesson Plans
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Automatic Grading with Instant Feedback
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Thousands of Multimedia Videos
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Animation and Graphics
with new games!
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Book Reports
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Custom Curriculum - Create your own lesson plans!
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Work Mode with Flexible Navigation
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Internal Student-Teacher e-mail System
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Interactive Student Resource Center
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Separate Student and Teacher Applications
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Enforced Mastery Learning Loop Enhancement
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Extensive Tracking, Reporting and Printing Capabilities
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Highlighting tool allowing students to highlight
points and details for subsequent review.
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Printable student journal entries and other useful
printing options.
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Flexible editing of assignment titles and additional
editing options.
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New
help button offering specific assistance for working
different types of question formats.
This engaging educational software
delivers interactive Christian curriculum in all core
subjects (math, language
arts, history/geography, science and Bible) and a
variety of electives. In 2005, Alpha Omega
Rewired
for easy installation and user simplicity. They Revised
for learning accuracy. We believe you'll agree that
R2
gets an A+ for installation, ease, accuracy, and appeal.
Switched-On Schoolhouse 2.0R2
includes: an easy to use Setup Wizard to guide you
through installation and set-up, practice lessons,
on-line answer keys, revised content with more
instruction, more media, new games, learning activities
and comic strips, and custom projects.
*Text-to-Speech
integration
Students can select the passages they want to hear
and Switched-On Schoolhouse
2008
will
read aloud to them! Use this feature for students
who struggle with reading long passages or are not yet
fluent readers.
*Custom
Projects
SOS
2008
allows you to customize a project for your student(s). You can type the directions right into
SOS, save the file, and assign it using the Custom
Curriculum options.
Automatic Lesson Plans
Organizing your lesson plans and setting due dates is easier than ever. Automatic lesson plans are based on your school calendar. Generate a year's worth of lesson plans with the click of a button. The schoolwork is spread evenly over the year according to the number of questions. You can even change the lesson plans if you have to adjust your school calendar partway through the year. Due dates are automatically computed and posted for the student. What a great way to stay organized! Better yet, the teacher
or parent is automatically notified when a student falls behind.
Automatic Grading and Instant Feedback
Imagine being able to eliminate that large stack of grading that is sitting on your desk demanding your attention. Your students won't have to wait to get their work returned. Instant grading saves you time and gives immediate feedback to the student. Grades are automatically computed and recorded as lessons are completed. For teacher-graded paragraph answers and essay questions, answer keys provide suggested answers and marking guidelines. Grading has never been such a pleasure.
Full Multi-Media
Education comes alive through multi-media. Science experiments are first demonstrated by multi-media with full instructions for hands-on completion. In geometry, three-dimensional objects are illustrated with computer-generated video clips of these objects rotating in space. Video clips illustrating events in the Bible, literature and history are used to enhance and bring the curriculum to life. Sound captures of the vocabulary words allow students to hear how each word is pronounced, and spelling tests are given directly by the computer. Students will enjoy the
flash animation, Spelling Bee or Vocabulocity learning
activities, and Timelines.
2008
contains Farmer Frank and All Right! which are exciting
new multi-media activities, which will help your student
grasp difficult concepts and give them additional
practice.
Book Reports
Designed to integrate reading, writing, and thinking, Language Arts book report projects for grades 3-8 feature genre highlights, annotated book lists, and links to additional resources. Thought provoking questions provide a structure in which students can reflect upon, evaluate, and write about the books they choose.
Custom Curriculum
This feature allows you to modify existing SOS subjects by combining, adding, or removing units and assignments. Or, you can choose to build your own curriculum from scratch using any of the available SOS materials. Teachers can build learning programs that address student learning gaps or offer remedial or review work. Now you are able to create a course tailored to the individual need of your student!
Work Mode
With flexible navigation, the Work
Mode in SOS
2008
will allow students to view presentations, complete
lesson problems in and out of sequence, and record notes
and questions on the electronic notepad. Utilizing the
status bar, students will be able to track their
progress through quizzes and tests. Electronic text
highlighting in multiple colors will allow students to
emphasize key concepts to aid in their review of
lessons.
Internal E-Mail System
Communication is made easy with improved internal
messaging. Switched-On Schoolhouse
2008
messaging allows you to attach messages to each problem
in the lesson and add instructions or comments for your
students to view in their personal electronic mailboxes.
Teachers are notified immediately of messages and
can access, sort, and print messages in one convenient
place.
Student Resource Center
Important resources are now at your fingertips! A
calculator is integrated into Switched-On Schoolhouse
2008
for student convenience. An interactive periodic table,
with zoom feature and element highlights, makes
physical science or chemistry fun and exciting. Each element is hyperlinked
to its own page to provide more information.
Mastery Learning
Focused learning is an important ingredient of success
in SOS 2.0R2.
Students may be given unlimited opportunities to achieve
100% mastery before they move to the next lesson.
Incorrect answers will automatically spiral again.
However,
2008
also allows
the ability to limit the number of attempts.
The software will automatically calculate the chosen
penalty for guessing attempts, thus encouraging the
student to dig deep for important information and learn
it well!
Tracking, Reporting and Printing
Flexible printing options take learning from the screen to the page.
Parents and teachers can easily print entire assignments, lessons, problems, and records. These options give the busy family greater flexibility and mobility, or easier homework distribution for the Christian school.
Better yet for the Christian school, an electronic
homework solution, which allows students to complete
their homework at home through an Internet connection,
will allow students to save time. Parents will
have access to all their student's grades.
For your personal demonstration of Switched-On Schoolhouse,
call 1-866-585-3774.
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 LIFEPAC GOLD
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Scope and Sequence
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view the LIFEPAC Overview Chart.
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the LIFEPAC Scope and Sequence.
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view the LIFEPAC Select Scope & Sequence
Flexible, complete, award winning—these are just some of the words used to describe Alpha Omega Publication's LIFEPAC curriculum for students in grades K-12. LIFEPAC stands alone in its teacher-friendly layout and instructional flow.
 Serving as the foundation of the entire Alpha Omega curriculum, LIFEPAC is a complete, 12-year Christian curriculum designed to teach five core subjects (Bible, Language Arts, Math, History & Geography, and Science), plus an array of secondary electives. Composed of consumable textbook/workbook combinations that conveniently combine subject text, exercises, projects, review, and tests, this worktext format is designed for active teachers and home school educators who want the advantage of extensive, pre-developed curricula with integrated lesson plans.
Mastery Learning
LIFEPAC's full-color, worktext curriculum is based on the principle of mastery learning, in which students truly master the context and skills of one unit before progressing to the next. Different students learn at different speeds, so mastery learning ensures success by allowing each student to move at his or her own speed.
Critical Thinking Skills
Many specific LIFEPAC curriculum activities and questions require students to go beyond simple objective recall, asking them to instead, think analytically and draw conclusions that require a conceptual understanding of the material. More than just recalling facts, your student will grasp concepts through analytical and evaluative thinking skills.
Additional LIFEPAC Key Features
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Individualized — Tailor a course of study to meet your student's individual need
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Integrated Biblical concepts and principle reinforcement
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Minimal lesson planning
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Flexible and customizable
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Substantial savings over traditional hardbound texts
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Balance independent study with parent interaction
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Complete spiral-bound Teacher's Guides for lesson planning and charting student progress.
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HORIZONS
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Math and Language Arts are critical study areas acting as an anchor for the success of your student. Brightly illustrated lessons for grades K-6 include a variety of activities, making learning fun. Complete teacher materials make it easy to chart your student's progress. Each of the 160 lessons begins with a new concept or an expansion of a previously covered concept. Every concept follows a deliberate pattern of introduction and gradual development, ensuring mastery.
Horizons Pre-School - This
program will serve as both a complement and an
introduction to the other fine Horizons products.
Preschoolers will gain a strong foundation which will
help them be successful in kindergarten Biblically-based
lessons and hands-on activities give an introduction to
social studies, language arts, math,
 phonics,
and science. Additional topics such as health &
safety, arts & crafts, music and physical education add
variety and depth to this foundational curriculum.
This program can be easily adapted to a variety of daily
schedules and program objectives with a flexible
organization structure. This built-in flexibility
has been developed to meet the needs of two different
types of preschool programs: activity centered or
academically centered.
Penmanship
- Horizons Penmanship teaches the
basics of proper writing to students in grades 1-4 in a
series of lessons over 32
weeks. Your child will practice both printing and
cursive writing styles by following the actions of
friendly, colorful cartoon characters. In addition, the
course helps your child become more familiar with
Scripture by writing out weekly Bible verses.
 Horizons Phonics and Reading
- Horizons Phonics and Reading is a program for kindergarten
students that begins to comprehensively develop the reading skills acquired in preschool. This phonics-based word recognition and early reading program, an alternative to the kindergarten LIFEPAC Gold curriculum, uses brightly illustrated readers to teach the alphabet and letter sounds, reading, spelling, rhyming, sequence and elementary parts of speech. Mastery learning ensures concepts are mastered before your child advances to the next lesson.
(Also available for 1st grade)
The
 Horizons Mathematics
program (one of Cathy Duffy's 100
top picks!) is an alternative to the LIFEPAC Gold Curriculum for the early grade levels, which concentrates on building elementary skills in math. Available for students in K through 6th, Horizons Math lays a solid foundation for math success.
Using hands-on learning with manipulatives combined with
memorization and drill, students will also develop
higher reasoning abilities by applying them to real-life
situations.
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WEAVER
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 The Weaver Curriculum supports group learning with a strong Scriptural focus. Weaver is a unit study designed to let you educate a group of students - from preschool to high school level - at the very same time while catering to the specific needs of each age group. The Weaver Curriculum promotes hands-on education and supports you with teaching tips and techniques, learning benchmarks, and guidance on child development. Your students will grow in their shared instruction and biblical discovery. Curriculum options are:
Volumes and Supplements - The basic unit of study, a "Volume" represents one year's study in Bible, Science, History & Geography, and Language Arts for grades K-6. For grades 7-12, an additional unit of study is called a "Supplement."
 Day by Day
- This daily lesson planning book reduces the teacher's work to just the recording of reading, arithmetic, and special activities. Day by Day saves time and was created so that you can spend your time teaching- not planning!
 Interlock
- This multi-level preschool and kindergarten program was designed for combination teaching of kindergarten and/or preschool children. It provides detailed instruction in each lesson while equipping the teacher with presentation techniques.
1-2-3 Read! - This program is for children in grades K-2 or those who do not yet read fluently. 1-2-3 Read! begins with reading readiness then progresses to teaching recognition and sounds of the alphabet, phonics, and independence in reading.
Teacher's Friend - This little helper can make the difference in getting started with the Weaver curriculum. Complete instructions are given for starting your education program, from opening binders to opening minds!
Weaver Review Questions
- These review questions help Weaver teachers assign grades when necessary. Questions are divided into Grades 1-2, 3-4, and 5-6, and areas of Bible, Social Studies, Science, and Language Arts.
Spelling and Penmanship
- Success in Spelling is a level-by-level guide to spelling. Penmanship to Praise is a penmanship program for grades K-6 featuring step-by-step writing processes, and designed to encourage motor skills development. Both may be used independently of the Weaver curriculum.
Other Resources include: High Way to English Grammar, Wisdom Words, Teaching Tips and Techniques, Skills Evaluation, Learning to Love Literature, Reading Between the Lines, On Eagles Wings,
and 3-D Body Book.
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Computer Literacy
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Odyssey Learning Services provides
unique and educational computer courses produced by
Alpha Omega Publications. These courses will
teacher your students the basics of nine of the most
common Microsoft software packages. These courses
include a tutorial CD-Rom with step-by-step
instructions, practical exercises, and helpful
narration. (Each course will require the
Microsoft software to be installed on your computer in
order to use the LIFEPAC Computer Literacy CDs.)
Courses Available:
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- Excel
- FrontPage
- Outlook
- PowerPoint
- Access
- Windows
98/2000/XP (each ordered separately)
- Word
Minimum Recommended Specifications:
Pentium PC or higher
OS Windows 95/98/2000/NT/XP
16 MB
RAM available
2 MB Hard Drive space available
256 Color VGA or higher display
Sound Card with speakers or
headphones
Double-speed CD-Rom drive
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