Feel Electric!
- Devices: iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad
- Price: Free
- Category: Kids Games
Common Sense Media says
Electric Company app helps kids learn to express emotions.
- Devices: iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad
- Price: Free
- Category: Kids Games
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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
Subjects
Language & Reading
- reading
- vocabulary
- writing
Skills
Creativity
- imagination
- producing new content
Emotional Development
- developing resilience
- handling stress
- identifying emotions
Communication
- conveying messages effectively
- multiple forms of expression
Engagement, Approach, Support
Exceptionally interactive, engaging, and just plain fun. Many games, a "zany" story maker, videos, and more make this entertaining educational experience chock-full of activities.
The emotional awareness, expression, and language skills built into the videos, photos, games, and emotions-related vocabulary activities all star the hip cast of PBS's The Electric Company.
Four user accounts can keep individual digital diaries and game scores. While created with a military organization that supports kids who have parents in the military, this app supports all kids in growing in emotional literacy.
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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?
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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!
Families can talk about...
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.
App details
| Devices: | iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad |
| Price: | Free |
| Pricing structure: | Free |
| Release date: | November 1, 2011 |
| Category: | Kids Games |
| Size: | 137.00 MB |
| Publisher: | Sesame Street |
| Version: | 1.0 |
| Minimum software requirements: | iOS 3.2 or later |
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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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"I Got to Get out of Here" giggle
My son loves this game! It's important to me that my kids learn how to identify their emotions. It has several little games that use feeling words, and it has a billboard so they can select how their feeling. the game is loud enough that I can hear, and can sometimes generate a conversation with him. It also has a few short videos, one of which talks about tone of voice expressing feeling, hence my title quote.
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A brilliant, free, educational app about describing emotions and linking facial expressions with words used to describe feelings provides students with anger/emotion management tools that could provide the first steps towards controlling them. Cleverly used to promote the TV show that it is based on using media related to the show. Promotion for the show is constant but not dangerous compared to other advertising tricks used these days. Now available for Android. Mood Tales and Moodosphere are my favorite features.
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