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YouTube Videos
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2018-12-13T14:39:34.000Z
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1,657
Video Title:
Tami's Tower: Let's Think About Engineering Gameplay Demo
Description:
Available on the App Store at https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tamis-tower/id1438143259?mt=8 Available on Amazon Apps & Games Store at https://www.amazon.com/Smithsonian-Institution-Tamis-Tower/dp/B07L16ZS1S Available on Google Play Store at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=edu.si.ssec.tamisTowerLetsThinkAboutEngineering 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
Video Duration:
30 sec
YouTube Keywords:
Smithsonian Science Education STEM Edtech "Teacher Tips"
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Education  Search this
Topic:
Education;Science  Search this
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Smithsonian Science Education Center
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SmithsonianScienceEdCenter
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