It’s easy to get sidetracked when faced with all the gadgets and gizmos in the lab. Focusįocus is the thinking skill that helps us maintain our attention and effort, start tasks and keep working on something without getting distracted. Help them think about their experiments as question-and-answer, cause-and-effect. Your child may really like to freeze elements, but what happens when they are electrified? They wanted to find something new by boiling an element, but instead it disappeared. Toca Lab: Elements is an excellent low-pressure setting to exercise these aspects of flexibility. To make progress in science (as in life), we need to try new things, work around obstacles, and be willing to try again when things don’t go as planned. Science is built on theory supported by facts, and sometimes new information changes a little or a lot about what we know. The first lesson a scientist learns is to stay cognitively flexible. USE THIS APP TO HELP YOUR CHILD WITH: Flexibilityįlexibility is the thinking skill that helps us adapt to new situations, learn from mistakes and change what we are doing in order to deal with different challenges. Toca Lab: Elements is rated E (for everyone) by the ESRB and kids 4+ on the iTunes App store, but we feel that kids who aren’t strong self-led learners (and need help when it comes to an Internet search) should have parental guidance and input. They’ll also learn how to ask questions and think outside the box, all while getting important practice with focus, flexibility, and working memory. Your child will poke, squeeze, burn, freeze, spin, electrify, and magnify their way to an understanding of what makes up the world around them. Toca Lab: Elements helps kids gain valuable factual knowledge, build thinking skills, and develop an understanding of the field of science in general.
Users are able to learn about all 118 elements in the periodic table the way a real-life scientist would - through experimentation.
As with all of Toca’s “digital toys,” Toca Lab: Elements offers kids a traditional learning-through-play experience in a mobile gaming package. Toca Lab: Elements is a science education app from Toca Boca.
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