Intelliglobe II Deluxe Interactive Globe, 12-inch Diameter

How to Use Your Intelliglobe II Deluxe Interative Globe: The Intelliglobe II uses a wireless pen to "read" microscopic symbols on the globe and World Discovery Book. Touch the wireless Intellipen to the globe or book to play games, explore, and discover amazing educational facts about the world. The Intelliglobe II is one of the most advanced globe featuring thousands of facts.

Explore Features: To learn about a city, country or area, use the tip of the pen to touch one of the Explore categories on the feature panel (located on base), and then point your Intellipen to a place on the globe. Touch different categories to learn more exciting information about the world. Explore Features include: Geography - Continents - Cities* - Countries & Territories - States & Provinces - Population - Music - Language Spoken - History - Life Expectancy - Economics, Currency, Main Industry - Ecology - Climate - Area in Square Miles - Current Time - Tourism - Animals - Food - Geology/Natural Resource - Distance & Flying Time

* City Population includes greater metropolitan area.

Compare Features: To compare information between two places, touch two locations on the globe one after the other. Compare Features include: Population - Land Area - Life Expectancy

Games: The Intelliglobe offers a number of different games you can play. To play Find Games, touch one of the find categories with your Intellipen. The Intellipen will tell you to find a certain location on the map. Find the locations as quickly as possible to obtain the best score before the time runs out. Find games include: Find Continents, Countries, Capitals, Waterways, Cities. Locations and Landmarks

To play Trivia Challenge, touch the Trivia Challenge category. The Intellipen will ask you random trivia questions. Touch the proper location on the globe for each question. Try to achieve a perfect score!

To play Multiple Choice Challenge, touch the Multiple Choice Trivia Challenge category. Test your knowledge. To answer the question, touch the A, B, C or D button or a place on the globe. Try to achieve a perfect score of 10 correct answers.

Facts & World Records: Touch the pen to the Earth facts and Amazing facts category found on the base to learn interesting & amazing facts about the world we live in. Facts such as, "The coldest temperature on record, -128.6 F (or -89.2 C), occurred in 1983 at Vostok Station, Antarctica and the hottest temperature on record, 136 F (or 57,7 C), occurred in 1922 in El Azizia, Libya."

World Discovery Book: The included World Discovery book includes a tremendous amount of fun information, maps and more, such as: World Flags, Supplemental United States Map, Flags of the United States
Europe Map, Lakes and rivers, Landmarks, Oceans, Standard Time Zones, World Mountain Peaks, Olympic Games Host Cities, Animals, Food, Explorers, Internal Structure of the Earth and Moon, Moon Map, The Solar System, The Northern Sky (Constellations), The Southern Sky (Constellations) and much more!

The Intellipen has internal rechargeable batteries that are charged using the provided USB cable. The USB cable can also be used to download and install future updates to the pen!