The screen shots and text give an overview of the learning game. If you're interested, check out our detailed storyboard and script used to in making the CD-ROM. It provides more detail of what you'll find on the CD-ROM and offers a view into how we create our projects.

The 4-H Children's Garden Exploration CD-ROM contains two unique experiences, Plant Problems Exploration and Virtual Garden Tour. (Note: The virtual tour is also available on the web. To view this tour, click here. The tour on the CD-ROM is the grownup tour, not the spatial kids' tour described elsewhere on the Comm Tech Lab site.)

Plant Problems Exploration

Help Dr. Norm and his friend, the Bee, with problems some plants in the garden are having. You'll get to do some way cool science as you figure out what the plant problem is. Then explore possible solutions, looking at how those solutions affect frogs, butterflies, dragonflies, humans and plants. Pick a solution and print out your lab report.

Virtual Garden Tour

Whether you've already been to the Michigan 4-H Children's Garden or are getting ready for a visit, you'll enjoy this virtual tour of the 56 different theme areas. See pictures of each area. Read about the inhabitants. And view a "Quicktime VR" 360 degree virtual reality spin-around of that area.

The 4-H Children's Garden CD-ROM was partially funded by a grant from the Michigan 4-H Foundation and developed by the Communication Technology Lab and the Department of Horticulture at Michigan State University.

The 4-H Children's Garden CD-ROM runs on Power Macintosh and Windows 95/98/NT and requires 16 MB of RAM.