Animals UK
Animals UK is a program for easy identification of common British Animals and fulfils
many of the requirements of National Curriculum Science, Life Process and Living Things, Key Stage
2 and 3 and Information Technology. It has been created by a teacher for teachers and is
artistically unique in that all the animal pictures are full colour original illustrations.
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this page.
The following are all actual reduced screenshots and pictures from Animals UK.
Choose one of the eight databases from the top level key and database selection form. The databases are Freshwater
Invertebrates, Land Invertebrates, Butterflies, Fish, Amphibians, Reptiles, Birds and Mammals.
Answer as many questions as you can on each of the identification forms by clicking on the buttons with the best answers.
Each question has a help button and an additional information button to help you choose. The additional information
available includes full colour illustrations for some questions.
Buttons use a variety of attractive full colour paintings, logos, photos, pallettes or cartoons according to context.
When you click the match button on an identification form the best matches are presented to you
as a cascade of full colour species plates. Exact matches are identified by a score of 100%, partially matched items
with a lesser score.
Every plate has full colour original paintings of the species together with essential details about it.
Click the button on the page for a full text description. Both pictures and text may be copied or printed
for children to use in their own presentations.
If you prefer you can choose to have the matches presented on the thumbnail browser. Click on any picture
to open the species plate.
The thumbnail browser can be used at any time to access any species in the database.
There is also a smaller name browser that lets you choose a species by click on the common name.
Much additional information is available on attractive scrolling pages with many pictures, much of it
on a context sensitive basis from the identification forms. It is all also accessible from a central pictoral index.
Topics include complete overviews of each category of animals in the eight databases, classification,
insects, spiders, insect larvae, metamorphosis and aquatic adaptations.
There are nine interactive exercises accessed from a pictoral index page and covering topics such as sorting
with keys, food webs, butterfly feeding,
habitat and feeding adaptations, colouring outlines, parts of an insect and SATS style questions.
Interactives will also run in Internet Explorer.
Additional material on the CD can now be accessed from within the program. Includes printable worksheets and outlines
for pupils to colour and an excel log file for recording species.
Simple context sensitive help is available on use of all forms. Fully detailed help is available from the menu.
Complimentary resources are available for this program. Log sheets and worksheets are included on the CD.
Pocket Packs and
Gatekeeper Guides may be purchased separately.
Pocket Packs are laminated identification cards, one species per card.
Gatekeeper guides are laminated identification sheets.
Both are ideal for field trips.
Whenever possible, any updates we make to this program will be made available on our website free of charge
to users of previous versions. Animals UK has been designed so that content may be changed and new species plates,
information or interactive pages added by downloading a self unpacking zip file containing text-based script files
and pictures only. Updating the executable or modifying your system files or settings is not required.
Animals UK comes on CD-ROM and requires an IBM compatible PC with Win 98, 2000, XP or Vista and
minimums of 85 Mb disc space, an 800x600 pixel 16 bit colour display and Internet Explorer 5.
A 1GHz Pentium 4 and 180Mb of memory or better are recommended for good performance.
You may use this shopping cart to purchase Animals UK online with a card or by email or to create a printable
form to post to us. Options will be presented when you view the cart. Schools may use their elcs for this product.
We are not registered for VAT.
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| Description | Price Each |
| Animals UK CD in educational pack for installation on one machine |
£30 |
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| Description | Price Each |
| Animals UK CD in educational pack with ten user licence |
£80 |
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| Description | Price Each |
| Animals UK CD in educational pack with full site licence |
£120 |
