LeapFrog Leapster Game: Scholastic Animal Genius

Discover fascinating facts about many exciting animals of the wild! Build basic life science skills while playing unique thinking games and challenges such as: Self Guided Gameplay (choose any combination of games and earn the points needed to place animals in 5 different habitats), Progressive Challenges (use what you've learned to find and return the misplaced animal to its natural habitat), and Animal Trivia (a fast-paced trivia game that reinforces animal facts taught in earlier activities).

All Leapster games work with all Leapster Learning Game Systems (Leapster, Leapster L-Max and Leapster TV).

Learning skills:

• Basic science concepts

The study of science begins with something that children have in abundance: curiosity. Children observe, investigate and draw conclusions as they make discoveries about the world around them.

• Science vocabulary

Knowledge of science terminology allows children to participate in the joy of science: to compare, to experiment and to describe outcomes.

• Animal facts

Young children are naturally intrigued by animals and animal facts. Interest in animals provides the motivation for later work in life sciences.

• Geography

Geography refers to the study of the earth and its features, including the ordinal directions (north, south), physical characteristics (oceans and mountains) and the effects of human activity.

• Classification

Essential for math and science, classification is the ability to identify and group objects by attributes such as color, size, number, function, length, volume, weight, area, time and other familiar characteristics.

• Reasoning and problem solving

Toddlers use their curiosity and logical reasoning skills to solve everyday problems. By investigating all sorts of possibilities, they develop unexpected solutions and creative problem-solving strategies.

• Life science

To understand life science is to appreciate the diversity of life. Life sciences deal with living organisms and their environments.