6 Early Learning Apps Reviewed
Tribal Nova
Art Maker by ABC's Play School creates an engaging scrapbook-style environment for children to create, narrate and imagine. Art Maker gives children a variety of backgrounds to choose from with lots of characters and objects that are easy to add, resize, and manipulate. Each picture can be saved in app, assembled into a storybook, or transformed into an interactive video as your child narrates and moves the images around. Art maker created a very informative "for parents" page that gives tips and ideas to help you get started.
Australian Broadcasting Company
Sums Stacker is an important educational app that takes number sense beyond simple equations. Encouraging higher order thinking, Sum Stacker provides an interactive experience for children to build quantities in a non-traditional way. Using fingers on hands, dots on dice, or roman numerals, children are asked to drag values from stack to stack with the objective of building the correct sum. With two difficulty levels, two modes of play, and nine different game features, children will have ample opportunity to be challenged and learn how to think about numbers in a meaningful way.
Carstens Studios
Sid’s Science Fair delivers a rich, educative experience that is captivating and meaningful for children ages 3 to 6. The app has a large collection of activities that a scientist would engage in that encourages thinking and discovery. Children will explore small details with a magnifying glass, chart data on graphs, and sequence how objects change over time. Sid’s Science Fair excels in integrating meaningful scientific vocabulary with interesting photography.
PBS Kids
Howie Hungry Monster: Build Words presents children with a colorful learning environment and parents a way to be involved in their child’s progress. Focusing on increasing vocabulary, reading power, and overall phonics growth, Howie Hungry Monster is an app early readers will benefit from. Adult users are able to adjust the difficulty and see how well their child is learning with 5 different levels of word practice.
PlaySmart Kids
Ansel and Clair Adventures in Africa is a complete learning experience that integrates Science, Social Studies, Math and Language learning into one brilliant app. Through questioning, exploring, and completing challenges, primary aged children learn and develop higher order processing skills. Ansel and Clair Adventures in Africa will provide children with hours of engaging education through enchanting game play and authentic learning.
Cognitive Kid.
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