In their miniworld each child can create art, furniture, and clothes they can use or even sell for scoops or gold. The scoops or gold earned by playing the learning games are used during down time to buy stuff and watch videos in miniworld. Topics include Language Arts, Math, Science, Geography and History, Music and Arts, Foreign Languages, Christian Education, Jewish Education, and Life Skills. As children play games they can choose to jump ahead several levels if they find it too easy. The difficulty level of the games are easily set by sliding the arrows on the grade bar to set a range from K - 8th grade. The games start off pretty easy but can be adjusted by learning levels. Discussions are always moderated and parents have the option of turning discussion off.Ĭhildren earn rewards, called “scoops” on the girl page and “gold” on the boy page, by playing fun and challenging educational games. While there is a definite social element, girls play on the girl site and boys play on the boy site. No advertisements, a rarity nowadays on internet sites, means your children are less likely to accidently click their way someplace you don’t want them to go. Johannes reports they “.are working on numerous exciting improvements, including additional Christian and other content, more ‘learning’ (rather than just ‘practicing’), and a new, scientific approach to optimize retention of newly-learned content.”Ī very conscious effort has been made to minimise undesirable influences on and distractions to young children while learning.
The site designers are Swenja and Johannes Ziegler, parents of five, created these two sites in hopes of providing a learning rewards system that would combine education and fun to motivate kids to learn.ĭr. Both are a perfect supplement for homeschool or for families seeking values- and education-based online alternatives for young children. Always Icecream is a subscription-based, girly-girl website created especially for girls ages 7-12! Clever Dragons is its sibling site for boys.
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