Monster Physics
By Debbie Gorrell,
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Colorful graphics, fun missions engage as kids experiment.
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What’s It About?
MONSTER PHYSICS offers up to five user profiles and has two main modes of play: Build and Missions. In Build, kids can use dozens of different parts to create a contraption including a rocket, car, crane, helicopter, and more. Parts are made with different materials such as metal, wood, and plastic, and kids can draw ropes or chains to connect parts. Additional options include rotating, coloring, scaling, and flipping parts. Once kids are finished building their contraptions, they can tap and drag to use the built-in physics engine, which shows how the contraption moves. In the Missions mode, kids can choose missions to solve, and the missions increase in difficulty from beginner to advanced. Learn is an additional mode that teaches kids some basic physics concepts such as speed, velocity, mass, and density.
Is It Any Good?
Monster Physics does a fantastic job of combining physics content with a highly engaging digital platform. Kids will have fun and feel empowered as they build their own contraptions and solve challenging missions. The missions are open-ended and require kids to use strong critical-thinking skills, but a tutorial and tips along the way help guide the learning process. Since kids can keep trying until they're successful, they learn important lessons about trial and error and perseverance.
Talk to Your Kids About ...
Families can talk about fun goals when building contraptions. For example, ask your kid to build a contraption that can fly into space and capture limes.
If kids get stuck solving a mission, encourage them to think about forces and motion and how each concept will help solve the mission.
App Details
- Devices: iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad
- Subjects: Science: engineering, gravity, motion, physics
- Skills: Thinking & Reasoning: decision-making, hypothesis-testing, part-whole relationships, problem solving, thinking critically
- Pricing structure: Free to try, Paid, Free (The free lite version comes with fewer missions than the full version.)
- Release date: September 13, 2013
- Category: Education
- Topics: Monsters, Ghosts, and Vampires
- Publisher: Freecloud Design, Inc.
- Version: 1.3
- Minimum software requirements: iOS 4.3 or later
- Last updated: August 17, 2016
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