Contact: Teri Elgersma, 800-682-7391

 

ROCK RAPIDS, Iowa, July 8, 2013 /Christian Newswire/ -- Available from Alpha Omega Publications for the back-to-school season, the 2013 edition of Switched-On Schoolhouse includes three new CTE electives and first-time features.

 

The computer-based Christian homeschool curriculum has gained three career and technology education (CTE) electives that give high school students digital skills required for today's colleges and businesses:

 

·         SOS Office Applications I: Tutorials for Microsoft® Word®, PowerPoint®, and Publisher®

·         SOS Office Applications II: Tutorials for Microsoft® Access® and Excel®

·         SOS Small Business Entrepreneurship

 

SOS also offers a number of new time-saving benefits for homeschool families.

 

New SOS Features:

·         An answer finder that allows teachers to link directly to the lesson

·         Recyclable custom assignments

·         A teacher mode that allows parents to locate ungraded assignments easily

·         A student mode that lets students see tasks that are due that day

·         An attendance tracker

 

First released in 1997 on CD-ROM, Switched-On Schoolhouse provides the five core subjects of Bible, history and geography, language arts, science, and math, as well as over 35 electives for students in grades 3-12. The biblical curriculum offers automatic grading and recordkeeping, advanced lesson planning, and media-rich lessons packed with interactive games, movies, maps, and timelines. SOS is used by the Duggar family from the TV show 19 and Counting.

 

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