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Learning.com Helps Schools Maximize Interactive Whiteboard Investments with Aha!Science Whiteboard Edition

New supplemental science curriculum combined with interactive whiteboards give teachers effective tools to engage and motivate elementary students to be science thinkers for life

Portland, Ore. – April 8, 2009
Learning.com offers schools an easy and effective way to make the most of their interactive whiteboards and improve students' science learning with its new Aha!Science Whiteboard Edition. Aha!Science Whiteboard Edition is a Web-delivered supplemental science curriculum for grades 3-5 that helps teachers to:

• easily access a dynamic curriculum they can immediately put to use with their interactive whiteboards
• grab students' attention and improve participation through a combination of interactive games and instruction modules
• provide broad science content for teachers in Life, Physical, and Earth and Space sciences
• teach the way students expect to learn — with technology

The Aha!Science Whiteboard Edition provides schools with building-wide, unlimited teacher use, and teacher training to ensure successful implementation. Introductory pricing is available through June, with a 25 percent savings for new customers to Learning.com.

Teachers find Aha!Science simple to use with their whiteboards or projector systems, and students love the interactive and lively results. With broad instruction and exploration of Physical, Earth and Space, and Life sciences, Aha!Science provides teachers with interactive instruction, science games and quizzes that all work well in whole-class settings.

Aha!Science, paired with an interactive whiteboard, frees teachers to continuously monitor their students for understanding. While Aha!Science’s digital teacher provides instruction, teachers can pause and restart the action to engage students and direct discussion, ask questions to build students’ skills in conceptual thinking and understanding of the scientific process, and assess minute-by-minute how well students are grasping what they are learning.

Aha!Science also provides schools with an effective professional development tool in science. Teachers often say they feel unprepared to teach science or to include it in their teaching. Aha!Science provides models of instruction along with an extensive array of curriculum and science games. Teacher coaches can also use Aha!Science with an interactive whiteboard to help teachers improve their science instruction.

About Learning.com
Founded in 1999, Learning.com helps educators improve student performance in core curriculum and 21st century skills through Web-delivered curriculum and assessment, in use by more than two million students. Our unique integration of technology literacy with core curriculum instruction enables states, districts and schools to simultaneously improve student proficiency in technology skills and core disciplines. Using our Digital Learning Environment, teachers easily customize curriculum, individualize instruction, and obtain professional development. Learning.com’s solutions include EasyTech, a proven, K-8 technology literacy curriculum that helps students develop and apply technology skills in math, science, language arts, and social studies; TechLiteracy Assessment, providing valid measurement and reports for critical technology skills and knowledge in K-8; 21st Century Skills Assessment, providing valid data aligned to ISTE NETS 2007 standards; Aha!Math, K-5 supplemental math curriculum that builds contextual understanding and conceptual fluency, and Aha!Science, supplemental science curriculum for grades 3-5 that helps students become science thinkers. Learning.com is a member of the Partnership for 21st Century Skills. For more information, please visit www.learning.com or call 800-580-4640.