Review on can you fill it

From http://pbskids.org/cyberchase/games/liquidvolume/liquidvolume.html

Print screen of “Can you fill it"

For children 3 years and above (3+)

As seen from above, children are needed to fill up containers with water with three types of pots. The main objective is to fill the container with the FEWEST number of pours without spilling over. Children will be able to gain a understanding of the volume

There are also a variety of containers for children to fill up.

Our Review:
When children are playing this game, children are exposed to a lot of science concept.

Firstly, children gain an understanding of volume concept. When they experience seeing the water being filled into the container visually, children can grasp the concept that water or liquid takes up the shape of the container.

Secondly, in this online activity, it involves alot of trial and error to get the correct answer. For example, when the water overflow, they need to try filling again with different containers. This activity emphasizes on exploration and problem solving.

This activity is realistic and relevant to young children as there is realistic representations of objects in meaningful situations or settings. It is relevant also because children are trying to make sense of their world and therefore, through this activity children can understand different science concepts.

Fourthly, this activity allow children to apply counting skills when they need to count the number of containers to use and try to aim for the minimum number of pots needed to fill the container.

Lastly, this activity encourages child control and independence because children can set their own pace of the online activity and the content of the site is thorough and current without any stereotyping (child-secure).

Sadly, the variety in terms of containers is rather limited as there is only three; this gives the game a rather short shelf life in the classroom. As the children may get bored with the game in a short period of time or feel that the game is no longer fun or challenging as they already have all the answers

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Review on Magic Paintbox

Review on Magic Paintbox
from http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/getsquiggling/fun/

Print screen of Magic Paintbox

For children aged 2 and above (2+)

As seen from above, this allows children to choose between squiggling on a blank page or to follow a story line to squiggle something to help the characters in the story. Children will be thrilled by the effects provided for.

1) Draw a picture- Children can choose between different drawing materials.
The list of drawing materials includes, crayon, color pencils, spray cans*, paint brushes, stickers*, pattern paint brushes*, rollers*, animation* , symmetrical crayons, symmetrical color pencils and symmetrical spray cans.

-Spray cans*
-Stickers:

-Pattern paint brushes*
-Rollers*
-Animations*
-Symmetrical crayons*

2) Choose a story: Draw something to help the character (number of stories: 5)

Example: Help Katy the caterpillar use magic spray paint to decorate Katy’s wing to turn her into a butterfly.

After coloring, it changes into a butterfly on the ‘done’ click.


When children have completed, they can keep their pictures too! This online activity is child-friendly and allows teachers to print out children’s work.


Our Review:

With the child-friendly page, children can navigate the page themselves. This activity is age-appropriate for preschoolers as it offer picture menus, meaningful icons, and proper instructional support that is simple and includes auditory instructuibns

This online activity is colorful, animated, have sound effects, and are quick to respond which is what preschoolers prefer. It also allows children to use another media to express their creativity and emphasizes exploration, imagination and problem solving. Furthermore, when children do the picture story version, they are learning language and also, their drawing become more meaningful as well. Behind each story, there will also be a level of listening skills acquired as they need to follow the instructions. As the activity is very interactive with the audio input, it offers children a way of experiencing creative play using unusual art techniques.

At the end of the drawing session, children would click the done button and watch Squiglet tell them what he thinks of their masterpiece! As Squiglet comments positively, it boost children’s self-confident and assure them that their work is nicely done.

Teachers can choose to print out their artwork as well. When done as a class, your classroom can be filled into a ‘mini gallery’. Allowing the children to have a sense of identity and teaching them to appericate not only their own artwork but also others

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