Thinkin’ Things also focuses attention on how students learn. In areas that may not come as naturally to some children, Thinkin’ Things offers warm, friendly experiences in which self-confidence is built, exploration and creativity are fostered, and persistence is rewarded with success. A student’s musical and rhythmic intelligence may shine when working with Toony the Loon and his xylophones, or visual and spatial intelligence in creating with BLOX, or logical and mathematical intelligence with the Fripple Guides and Feathered Friends. Thinkin’ Things celebrates intellectual diversity. Students blend music, art, science, and play as they experiment with motion and the illusion of depth, creating works of kinetic art as they control the motion of shapes and the sounds they make.įOR EDUCATORS - MORE ABOUT THINKIN' THINGS Students will learn about attributes, differences, patterns and analogies.įor a fun-filled lesson in Boolean logic, students visit the Fripple Shop and fill customer orders for Fripples while learning to observe, compare, contrast and recognize relationships. Young learners will need to put on their thinking caps to create the missing bird in the series. For an even greater auditory challenge, students can ask Oranga to play in the dark! Students need to watch and listen carefully as Oranga Banga plays on his funky drum set, and then repeat what he plays. They create their own memorable melodies with Toony’s wacky xylophones: glasses, strings, hollow logs, and even squawking chickens! Students build auditory and visual memory as they repeat Toony the Loon’s musical patterns. Click on the 'Software MacKiev's Web Site' link at the bottom of this page. With all instructions spoken by the characters, reading is not required so that non-readers can participate fully.įREE LEARNING GUIDE - A teacher's guide is available from the Thinkin' Things site. Set in Toony the Loon’s Lagoon, early learners encounter colorful, fun characters as they complete challenges that are automatically adjusted to meet individual learning needs. As they master the basic skills of the three R’s, they must now also develop a broader, higher-level set of thinking skills that will transfer to the workplace of the future.Įdmark® Thinkin' Things was designed to offer young students experiences with a variety of just such thinking skills: memory, critical thinking, problem solving, and creativity - in short, all the twenty-first century skills that today's young learners need. Our children will live and work in an Information Age that we can only begin to imagine.

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