Outback Hovercraft Trek

Outback Hovercraft Trek is an activity in JumpStart Advanced 2nd Grade: Fundamentals. It is designed to teach math and language arts skills at a second grade level.

Premise
CJ and Edison must cross an Australian desert to retrieve lost mail for the mail carrier Brucy.

Description
CJ and Edison travel across the desert in a hovercraft. The player moves the hovercraft up, down, left, and right by using the arrow keys, and fires a beam by using the spacebar.

As the hovercraft moves across the desert terrain, the player must avoid hitting obstacles such as rocks and bushes. The hovercraft's beam can destroy obstacles in its path.

Fuel cans with numbers, letters, or words on them will also appear on the terrain. The player must collect only the fuel cans whose number, letter, or word match the category in the box at the top of the screen. The player must not let the hovercraft run out of fuel before it reaches the lost mail.

Digital manual description
Game Play Instructions

It seems the postman has gone on a walk-about and the agent needs you to find a lost box of mail. You, CJ and Edison take the ATH (all-terrain hovercraft) to search the desert of Australia for the missing box of mail. The agent will give you the desired gadget piece only when you've found the missing mail. Get ready for a bumpy ride! You must avoid all the obstacles and find the correct answers in order to track that elusive box of mail! Can you get there in time? Use the arrow keys to steer the ATH and the spacebar to send out sonic waves!

Educational Skills


 * Blends and Digraphs
 * Odd/Even Number Skills
 * Ordinals
 * Pronouns
 * Common Nouns
 * Possessive Nouns