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Pentewa Interactive announces the release of three educational software titles on CD-ROM

Seattle, Washington (September 1, 2000). Ms Susan Olivier-Hirasawa, President of Pentewa Interactive, Inc. today announced publication of three multimedia CD-ROMS featuring folkart traditions from China, Mexico and Native America.

Pentewa is a Native American owned and managed educational software company whose publications introduce children to diverse cultures through the arts. The name Pentewa means writer in the Hopi language.

Each Pentewa Interactive CD-ROM provides a complete curriculum for the educator. Learn, Create, Celebrate — these activities are the basis for each Pentewa title. Students learn of different cultures through art, music, history and folklore traditions. Using the computer they create their own designs, stories and artifacts. Off computer the software promotes cognitive involvement by providing a series of art and craft projects related to the lessons. Then, students work cooperatively and celebrate with performances, ceremonies or exhibits. Most of Pentewa’s titles are bi-lingual and are effective teaching tools for the ESL or foreign language classroom. Each title presents a related language arts activity, such as playwriting or storytelling.

"These software titles are designed to immerse students in different cultures in an engaging, hands-on-way". Said Ms. Olivier-Hirasawa, "The educator will find a at least a week of educational curriculum in each title. These interactive titles provide a wonderful resource for the classroom in nearly all areas of study; art, music, language skills and multi-cultural awareness and tolerance".

The three titles currently available on CD-ROM are:
Mexico’s Day of the Dead (bi-lingual Spanish/English); celebrates this unique holiday by taking students on an interactive tour of a Mexican village, visiting folkartists in the marketplace, decorating the cemetery, helping prepare for the holiday in a Mexican home and making 19 colorful crafts.

Exploring Rock Art — A North American Field Trip; students discover the petroglyphs left by the continent’s first peoples. Students research rock art through an internet enhanced curriculum, they observe and record their discoveries in an explorer’s journal, create their own petroglyphs, pictographs, and murals, present slide shows and develop a museum of the art they produce.

Chinese Shadow Puppet Theater (bi-lingual English/Mandarin) introduces students to the exotic world or Asian shadow puppet theater. An animated puppet play is presented. Creativity is encouraged through computer-based puppet design and play-writing acitivities. Instructions are provided for making puppets, building a theater, creating scenery and presenting a play.

All Pentewa Interactive software titles are available on single CD-ROM’s, formatted for both Windows and Macintosh, with a suggested retail price of $ 29.95.
For more information, visit www.multiculturalarts.com.