Tami's Tower 4+

Name: Tami's Tower
Author: Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Institution

專為 iPad 設計

- 免費

描述

It’s lunch time and Tami, the golden lion tamarin, is hungry! Help Tami reach the delicious fruit by building a tower. But watch out! Other animals can cause Tami’s tower to topple over.

From the Smithsonian Science Education Center, Tami’s Tower: Let’s Think About Engineering is an educational engineering design game that will help teach your student how to design a solution to a problem using basic engineering design principles.

Educational features:

• Aligned to educational science standards for kindergarten through second grade
• Designed for emergent readers
• Grounded in educational psychology research
• Metacognitive prompts provide students an opportunity to monitor and assess their own confidence
• Teachers can assess student responses to metacognitive prompts through an in-game
summary screen
• In-game tutorial to teach students how to play
• Introduces students to engineering design principles
• Students will learn how the shape of an object can help it function as needed to solve a problem
• Students can reflect on previous attempts to improve design
• Students can design a level in Sandbox mode
• Designed to be used in the classroom or at home