Common Sense Media Review
By Dana Anderson
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based on child development research. How do we rate?
Kids make motion and action with trucks, cars, and more.
Parents Need to Know
Why Age 4+?
Any Positive Content?
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More Trucks -- by Duck Duck Moose
What's It About?
Kids choose one of four scenes and then listen to the instructions. For the Monster Truck scene, kids tap a truck and then drive it by pressing and holding a back or forward arrow button to move it or an up arrow to jump it to collect coins. On the Fire Truck scene, kids play tic-tac-toe and fight a fire. For the Tow Truck, kids swipe vehicles onto a flatbed to move them to the junkyard where they can help crush them. At the Construction Site, kids pick up shapes and build a tower to knock down. This app offers a lot of fun moving, building, and crushing.
Is It Any Good?
MORE TRUCKS -- BY DUCK DUCK MOOSE is a fun exploration of motion and motored vehicles for preschoolers. The four games all involve distinct alternative play for kids; there's not just a simple change of scenery or vehicles as with some preschool apps. For example, in the Fire Truck game, kids can play tic -tac-toe against a cute firehouse dog before driving the truck to a building on fire and spraying it with water. In the Monster Truck game, kids drive and jump the monster truck to collect coins. Some silly details, such as the growling junkyard dog or an egg-laying pterodactyl, don't have much to do with trucks, but kids seem to like them. The app's background music is varied, and the voice is that of a 12-year-old boy, which makes it relatable for kids.
Talk to Your Kids About ...
Ask your kids about the vehicles they're seeing and what they're doing in each game. Quiz them on colors, shapes, the directions they're moving, and what's changing.
When your kid plays the tic-tac-toe game, point out some common strategies on this classicly first and most basic of strategy games.
App Details
- Devices : iPhone , iPod Touch , iPad
- Subjects : Language & Reading : following directions , Math : sequences , shapes , Science : motion , physics
- Skills : Thinking & Reasoning : decision-making , problem solving , strategy
- Pricing structure : Free
- Release date : March 28, 2013
- Genre : Kids' Games
- Publisher : Duck Duck Moose
- Version : 1.0
- Minimum software requirements : iOS 4.3 or later
- Last updated : November 11, 2020
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