“This is a decidedly unique software game with enormous educational value….Kids will enjoy playing again and again.”- DiscoverySchool.com

This Holiday classic title gives students an outlet for exploring their own appreciation of music, while sharpening their listening and problem-solving skills and improving understanding of the basic concepts of music. The Nutcracker Music Game is an interactive adventure that celebrates music by challenging kids through participation and exciting game play. The premise of the program is to save the Nutcracker by earning nine golden keys through a series of musical games and activities that teach students about differences between sounds, exercises their memory skills, and increases their music vocabulary. The Nutcracker Music Game offers unique teaching tools, such as the ability to demonstrate, right in the classroom, every instrument of the orchestra and its interaction with other musical instruments. “What is so impressive about this CD-ROM is how much fun kids had while really putting their musical ears to the test”-The National Parenting Center report. The program is accompanied with easily printable supplemental student hand-outs, quizzes, crossword puzzles and other helpful teaching materials. In addition to its engaging and educational musical games, puzzles and riddles, the program features an animated Encyclopedia of Musical Instruments, an extensive Listening Room, Tchaikovsky's biography, the Nutcracker story, a History of the Nutcracker ballet, Music Trivia and more. Nutcracker Music Game won Learning Magazine’s Teacher’s Choice Award, the Distinguished Achievement Award from AEP (the Association of Educational Publishers), Instructor Magazine’s Teacher Raves Award and Parents’ Choice Gold Award, among many others.

Each CD-ROM contains:
• 5 Music Games
• 16 Musical Jigsaw Puzzles TM
• 8 Truly Twisted Music Riddles TM
• The Orchestra Game TM
• An Animated Encyclopedia of Musical Instruments
• The Finest Music Trivia
• The Complete Nutcracker Suite (London Symphony Orchestra)
• Tchaikovsky’s Biography
• A Brief History of the Nutcracker Ballet
• The Nutcracker Story in a Nutshell

System Requirements: Windows 98 or higher, Pentium II 360 MHz or higher, 64MB RAM, 200 MB available on Hard Drive