Tami's Tower
Let's Think About Engineering
Free · Designed for iPad
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
Performance improvements and bugfixes.
The developer, Smithsonian Institution, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Smithsonian Institution
- Size
- 71.2 MB
- Category
- Puzzle
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 10.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 10.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 10.0 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 10.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Copyright 2018 Smithsonian Institution. All rights reserved.