Tami's Tower: Let's Think About Engineering
Tami's Tower: Let's Think About Engineering
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.
Tami’s Tower: Let’s Think About Engineering is available as a website for desktop and laptop computers. For use on tablets and smartphones, download the application from the Amazon Apps & Games Store, Apple App Store, or Google Play Store.
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
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Primary funding provided by a Youth Access Grant from the Smithsonian Institution's Office of the Associate Provost for Education and Access.
