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Feel Electric!
- iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad
- Price: Free
- Category: Kids Games
Common Sense Media says
Electric Company app helps kids learn to express emotions.
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What parents need to know
Parents need to know that Feel Electric! is a tremendously creative app that teaches kids emotions and language skills. The app's features -- videos, photos, games, and emotions-related vocabulary building activities -- star the talented young cast of the PBS show The Electric Company showing kids how to express their emotions with words. This app was created in conjunction with a military organization called Military Families Near and Far that supports kids who have parents in the military. There's not much direct focus on military families on this app (at the time of this review, just one video features people in uniform); it's more generally an app to help all kids learn ways to express their emotions in healthy ways and improve their command of the English language at the same time.
What kids can learn
Kids can learn emotional awareness, expression, and language skills from Feel Electric! The features -- videos, photos, games, and emotions-related vocabulary-building activities -- star the cast of the PBS show The Electric Company. While the app was created for military families, it can be helpful for kids of any background. It's chock-full of activities that are instructive and entertaining. Feel Electric! is a creative, engaging, and fun way for kids to learn about emotions.
Skills
- Collaboration
- Communicationconveying messages effectively, multiple forms of expression
- Creativityimagination, producing new content
- Emotional Developmentdeveloping resilience, handling stress, identifying emotions
- Health & Fitness
- Responsibility & Ethics
- Self-Direction
- Tech Skills
- Thinking & Reasoning
What's it about?
Kids learn how to use expressive words to convey a wide range of emotions via many play options. There are three games; a story maker; Electric Company videos; photos (which you can tag on the screen with stickers); an emotion-words glossary with more than 50 words; and a digital diary to record your moods with the help of "Mood Dude." Kids can also add videos and photos to their own diary. Videos cover a variety of language-related educational topics that help kids know how to use the English language effectively to express themselves.
Is it any good?
FEEL ELECTRIC! shows clearly how interactive, instructive, engaging, and just plain fun quality, well-planned educational apps can be. Whether your kid is feeling "content," "annoyed," "stressed," or "proud," there are many options here to help him or her learn how express emotions more clearly. Options include three games; a "zany" story maker; Electric Company videos; photos (which you can tag on the screen with stickers indicating how the photos make you feel); an emotion-words glossary with more than 50 words; and a digital diary to record your moods with the help of "Mood Dude," an adorable mood-defining character. Kids can also add their own videos and photos to their own diary. This app is part of a military families initiative to help kids whose parents are deployed express their difficult emotions, but all kids can benefit from learning to connect inner emotions to spoken and written words, rather than repressing them or acting out in destructive ways. So much helpful, real-life learning packed into one free app ... and it's tons of fun, too!
What kids can learn
Kids can learn emotional awareness, expression, and language skills from Feel Electric! The features -- videos, photos, games, and emotions-related vocabulary-building activities -- star the cast of the PBS show The Electric Company. While the app was created for military families, it can be helpful for kids of any background. It's chock-full of activities that are instructive and entertaining. Feel Electric! is a creative, engaging, and fun way for kids to learn about emotions.
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- Language & Reading: reading, vocabulary, writing
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Skills
- Collaboration:
- Communication: conveying messages effectively, multiple forms of expression
- Creativity: imagination, producing new content
- Emotional Development: developing resilience, handling stress, identifying emotions
- Health & Fitness:
- Responsibility & Ethics:
- Self-Direction:
- Tech Skills:
- Thinking & Reasoning:
How kids will learn
With so many activity options and opportunities for interactivity, kids can take control and create an experience that works best for them with Feel Electric. They'll also build understanding of concepts relevant in their real lives. Plus, kids will return again and again, because there's so much fun stuff to do. They can play games, make stories, and upload their own videos and photos to their diaries.
How parents can help
- Watch the videos on this app with your kid. They're fun, funny, and insightful for both kids and adults!
- Encourage your kids to use the emotional language they hear on this app by asking them questions about their feelings and using these words yourself.
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Kid, 11 years old
November 18, 2011
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Awesome App!:)
Great app! I just downloaded it and one thing that rocks is it is free and no WI-FI needed.
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| Category: | Kids Games |
| Platforms: | iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad |
| Price: | Free |
| Size: | 137.00 MB |
| Publisher: | Sesame Street |
| Version: | 1.0 |
| Release date: | November 1, 2011 |
| Minimum software requirements: | iOS 3.2 or later |
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