In the title of Bear's Sense of Adventure (Knowledge Adventure), the word "sense" has a double meaning. It refers to the fact that Bear (of the television show Bear in the Big Blue House) has a set of adventures planned for kids that involve finding hidden objects and it also refers to the five senses -- hearing, tasting, touching, seeing and smelling. This program is the closest thing to interactive television your kids have probably ever seen, so if they love the TV series they should enjoy this software. Bear draws kids right into his comfortable home. He sings songs about the five senses and comments about them at every opportunity, adding interesting trivia along the way. (Did you know that giraffes' tongues are long enough to clean their own ears?) Bear sets up two sets of activities for kids that happen simultaneously. Throughout the game, kids search for items to make a tripleberry pie which they bake with Bear at the end and put them in their onscreen basket. Kids also help Bear's friends explore the five senses. For example, the little bear Ojo wants to build a house for his stuffed toy, Snowbear. Bear discusses the sense of touch and kids make choices about the textures to use to make the walls, doormat, and roof. Then they go around the house searching for those elements. Some problem solving goes on as kids need to think about where those materials might be hidden (like tar for the roof out in the garden), while finding other materials is more random (pennies to strengthen the walls found in a jar in the attic). When kids successfully find all the objects, Bear makes up a storybook that recounts what they were looking for and where they found it (this can also be printed out). Bear does a LOT of talking in this program, so remember to press the escape key to keep the action moving along and click on the Big Blue House on the tool bar to quickly jump from room to room. Each sense activity can be played differently each time, which gives this program some replay value (although only fans seemed interested in playing along more than once).