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Made by Aspex
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Spex Classic is a simple
3D design software for children. It is great for computer modelling,
graphical modelling and for introducing spreadsheet modelling in both
primary and secondary schools. Design rooms in a home in 2D Plan View and see them in the
3D View, use a budget, and display the objects in the design on a simple
spreadsheet.
The software is more
colourful and intuitive than ever, with budgeting, 2D and 3D bar graphs and
pie charts. Teachers love Spex+ and the children just won’t leave it
alone! Spex has
proved its worth in Design & Technology,
Mathematics and for ICT
QCA Unit 5a.
Children can progress
from designing homes to designing loads more places; How about
designing a Street, a Garden, a Classroom, or a Swimming Pool in
Geography, or bring a History
project right into the 21st Century by designing a tomb for
Pharoah on the computer!
Use Spex
to plan and design the rooms in a house and all the other places
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Simple 3D Designs: |
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Spex Home.
Design a kitchen or a bathroom,
a bedroom or a lounge.
Children get to grips
with simple 3D design, spatial awareness, budgets and handling money, dimensions,
modelling, mapping
and much more.
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Spex Leisurepool.
Design the local swimming pool with eating and changing
facilities. Children plan a public building and deal with issues of
health and safety, finance and aesthetics. |
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Spex Moonbase.
Design a moon base consisting of moon buildings, moon cars,
bio-dome and satellite dish and more moon equipment.
Spex Moonbase adds a new twist to work on space travel
and the Moon. |
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Spex Street
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Plan a street, or city block, with houses and shops, vehicles,
road signs etc.
Excellent for urban development projects in
Geography. Spex Street can be used to introduce mapping and symbols in 2D and 3D. |
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Spex Egyptian Tomb.
Become a tomb builder in the Valley of the Kings. There are
mummies, masks, wall paintings, gods and all the necessities for
life in the afterworld. |
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Spex Garden.
Design a cottage garden, a formal garden with a modern detached
house, or an informal garden with a thatched cottage. Spex Garden
contains flower beds, fences, gates, patios, paths, a pond and
many other garden ornaments.
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Spex Shop.
Design a corner shop with food stands and checkout.
Also includes Spex Shopping so you can choose the
weekly groceries and see how it all costs! |
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Spex Shopping.
Go
shopping with Spex, fill your virtual trolley with virtual food
and pay with virtual money!
It’s fun and doesn’t ruin your
appetite.
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Spex Classroom.
Plan
a primary classroom, furniture, colour scheme and layout.
Children
deal with issues of safety, cost and convenience.
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Spex IT Room.
Design an IT Room for a school with PC’s, computer desks,
chairs and other IT items.
Spex ITRoom Includes labels for each of the items
to help pupils demonstrate awareness of the IT environment. |
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Spex Play.
A colourful
variety of items to design your
own playground.
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| Design your room to a budget and see the effects of
using different items and prices in the graphs and spreadsheet. |
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There are 2D, 3D graphs and pie charts |
A great introduction to spreadsheet modelling |
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"Spex + is my
favourite
game
I like spex
because it is cool
and you
get to design
a setting like
a room
or a road."
Year 5 pupil |
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