Twing prepares unique journeys including hundreds of activities for kids. They can discover their talents, design infinite number of projects or go for an adventure. With 138 skills and 6 different character journeys, they can develop themselves in their favorite fields. New activities are introduced each week so that they can go beyond their imagination.
2) Prepare the lunch box and go for a picnic.
Kids can get ready for challenges of the world this summer. Prepare a fruit salad or sandwich together and go for a picnic in the closest park. Do not forget to talk about your life because sharing is caring. Tell them about your childhood and teach them the games you used to play. What about hide and seek?
A camp includes many other activities in it. While strengthening family bonds, you get the chance to discover nature and get some fresh air. You can watch a movie in the tent or observe the stars all together. Do you know which one is Ursa Major?
5) Feed the stray animals.
Summer days are going quite warm and stray animals need food and water more than any time. Caring about others is an important lesson in life. This way, your children grow up to socially responsible adults.
6) Grow a plant.
Teach your kids to love other living things. Plants are also a big part of this nature as well as animals. Growing a plant is the easiest and cheapest contribution to both world and your child’s development. Some kids might not find this interesting. You can leverage gamification and give a little present to the one that plants more flowers.
7) Make delicious cookies.
Kids love spending time in the kitchen with their parents. It might get a little bit messy but it is worth the joy! Try to get some help from your kid while cooking this summer. Make a shopping list and buy them together. Prepare the cookies and let the kids taste first! Do not forget to offer some to your neighbours. Enjoy!
8) Learn sign language together.
Sign language is one of the most frequently used languages. This summer can be the best time to learn it for your kids. You can start with Youtube videos or books related. There are branches of sign language. Discover the one that fits you best and start learning! Getting used to a language together will be a lot of fun.
9) Arrange a mini-olympics
Remember those days we were watching sports people and holding our breaths in the final rounds? You can bring the olympics to your house. You can plan your own race tracks with box games, puzzles and etc. Keep the results in a scoreboard and learn who the leader is. With such mini competitions, your kids can have fun while developing themselves to be a better team member.
10) Prepare a healthy diet bingo.
It is not very interesting for kids to taste new food. In order to change their eating habits, use gamification! Determine 10 fruits & vegetables and put them on a bingo table. You can give them little presents if they can manage to complete the bingo that week. For example, you can go watch their favorite movie or go for a picnic. Try to keep playing this bingo game until it turns into a habit.
BONUS! : Take a breath and do Yoga.
Get your yoga mats ready! With the current trend of going online and sitting for hours, physical activities gain a lot more importance. You can try simple yoga practices with your kids anywhere you want. While relaxing your mind, you make your muscles move. Yoga builds self-conscious individuals and teaches how to live in a peaceful manner. At early ages, yoga’s lessons are exactly what many parents should nurture their kids with.
If you want to enjoy this summer with your kids, keep reading! Even though it is holiday time, you can still learn and have fun with your kids. We have 8 different activities for you.
Twing prepares unique journeys including hundreds of activities for kids. They can discover their talents, design infinite number of projects or go for an adventure. With 138 skills and 6 different character journeys, they can develop themselves in their favorite fields. New activities are introduced each week so that they can go beyond their imagination.
2) Code your game together.
Coding might seem a little bit challenging in the beginnig. Twin Code Lab makes it easier for you. Twin Code Lab is a block coding platform that works on computers. It is simple and easy to use for a better learning. You can learn how to code with your kids and design your own creative games as soon as possible!
3) Design a robot that waves hand.
Building a moving robot or a car is exciting for all kids. Making their own projects enhance their curiosity and build self esteem. Twin Science Kits have electronic modules and craft materials with a guidebook with pilot projects. You can design your own robot at home and learn about basic engineering concepts while having fun.
4) Autonomous car racing time!
We know many kids love car auto racing! It would be great to make your own race with the autonomous cars you designed, wouldn’t be? Building an autonomous car might seem tough at the beginning. However, Twin Autonomous Car Kit gives you the opportunity easily design your own car. You can learn coding step by step and control your car with your own codes. First build your own autonomous car then arrange a competition. May the best one win! Let us know who wins, send us a message on Instagram.
5) Make your artwork with Spin Art project.
Coding, robotics and now it is time for art! Kids have interest in many different fields of art at early ages. It is very important to enhance their interest and give them a space to try. Summer holiday is a great opportunity to discover their artsy souls and combine it with science. Spin Art project is an introduction to robotics. You can design your own piece of art while discovering the science behind it. Buy Robotic Art Kit now and start discovering Spin Art and many more.
6) Design your first cartoon.
We all have at least one favorite animation. Have you ever wondered how it works? Thaumatrope project is the way to it. This summer, you kids can design their own cartoons easily with Robotic Art Kit at home. You just watch and enjoy!
7) Build a fruit piano.
Combine art and science in a very creative way! Choose your favorite fruit: Banana? Apple? Can you make a piano with these fruits? With Twin Coding Kit, kids can design inspiring projects and build their own music instruments. You can learn basic coding and design your own piano with Twin Control Center.
8) Give a secret message to your friends with Morse Code.
A code special for you! Sounds great, right? You can design your Morse Code project with Twin Coding Kit and send a secret message to you peers. By the way, we also have a secret message for your on Twin Curiosity Kit box. Let’s see if you can solve it!
The holiday season is about to end and we are all going back to school soon. This summer was a little bit different from the previous ones. We all wonder if the school year is also going to be different. This era of uncertainties might be stressing for many parents. In order to help you with it, we came up with 7 tips for back to school season.
Establish a consistent sleep schedule at least 2 weeks prior to school season.
Your kids love sleeping late and waking up late in summer, we know! Waking up early in the school season might cause lack of concentration and lassitude. For a better start to school season, make sure your kids have a consistent sleep schedule at least two weeks prior to the first day of the school. Not all kids like waking up early. Try to leverage gamification in such circumstances. Give him a present for each time he accomplishes to sleep early and wake up early.
2) Give them a hygiene tip each day.
Due to Covid19 wearing a mask, washing hands more frequently and using hand sanitizers have become much more important. With the school season, it might be tough for kids to apply all these tips by themselves and can cause stress. Therefore, tell them one hygiene tip every day with the detailed explanation of its importance. If he finds it difficult to manage, try to go on with gamification! For example, if he wears his mask and pays attention to social distance for one school day, give him a little present to appreciate his effort.
3) Set goals for school together.
School seasons can shift kids’ focus areas due to frequent homeworks and exams. You can set goals together to make sure that they develop themselves in all fields they like. Find goals different than homeworks and exams such as reading 30 books in the first term, designing 10 projects, visiting 5 museums or taking part in a social responsibility project.This way, kids can develop their personality as well as their skills.
4) Prepare a comprehensive shopping list for school.
As the school season gets closer, you may forget some important stuff due to high volume of to do’s. In order to make sure that you purchase everything needed, prepare a comprehensive list of materials. If you do not know how to start, Twin is here for you! We already prepared a back to school shopping list. You can check our shopping list that fits every age group here!
5) Visit your kid’s school together.
If your kid has just started school or changed his school, it might be a good move to visit the school together to swipe the worries away. Meeting his teachers, walking around the school garden and introducing him to authorized people might have an impact on decreasing his anxiety.
6) Meet the teachers before school season.
You as parents might have several concerns these days as well as your kids. The first guide you can consult is surely the teachers. Ask whatever you have in your mind to them and do not hesitate to take their advice.
7) Build a healthy meal plan for your kids.
Chips, burger and pizza! All kids love fast food, don’t they? However, having a healthy diet is crucial for a successful school year for kids. Two weeks prior to school season, get rid of junk food and change your eating habits towards fruits and vegetables. The kids might not enjoy this a lot. You can prepare a healthy diet bingo for each week so that he likes it as much as you do. For each bingo completed, do not forget to congratulate him!
The summer holiday is almost over and the bells ringing for classrooms. The long and complicated back to school shopping lists might seem challenging. We prepared a comprehensive school supplies list that fits every age group for you! You can manage your time and budget well with the help of our list.
Today, teachers focus on growing kids with a social responsibility to build better futures. Twin is a great tool to integrate into your lectures in order to grow kids with a technology know how and an urge to solve world’s problems. How can you use Twin in classrooms? We came up with 5 tips for you to use Twin as a complementary tool for your ongoing curriculum.
Students love learning interesting facts about science. It would be great to learn about these facts in an exciting competition, wouldn’t be? STEM Quest Show is a Youtube show designed by Twin in collaboration with Creative Futures Imperial College London and Royal Academy of Engineering. The shows welcome students from all over the world. It is a one hour of science discussion with interesting and funny facts about science!
Twin Science Kits give kids the opportunity to design many projects from autonomous cars to robots, art projects to flashlights. Divide the classroom into groups and assign a project for each theme of the lecture. Students can develop their soft skills when they are part of a team. They will also learn a lot about science behind the daily technologies while having fun.
3- Recommend one activity from Twing App everyday.
Twing is a free application designed for kids to discover their talents. The app includes hundreds of experiments and teaches science in the funniest way. With 138 skill set and 6 different character journeys, kids can focus on their favorite fields from robotics to art. You can choose one experiment that fits your topic of the day and recommend your students to complete it. Do not forget to share your experiences in classroom!
4- Let your students design their own game with Twin Code Lab.
Coding might seem tough when you first meet. Twin Code Lab makes it easier for you with block coding experience. It is an online platform that students can use on their desktop. Its simplified features make it fun to learn programming step by step. With coding, students can design thousands of creative projects. You can divide the classroom into groups and ask each group to design their own games. Then, you can play these games all together.
5- Integrate 100 weeks Twin Robotic Curriculum to your lectures.
Artificial intelligence, autonomous systems and many more… They look complicated at the beginning but actually they are very easy to develop. The Twin Robotic Curriculum aims to teach daily technologies with connections to daily life challenges. Geliştirdiğimiz Twin setleriyle uyumlu 100 weeks curriculum is compatible with Twin Science Kits. It engages students with basic engineering concepts besides a socially responsible mindset. Your students can upload their codes into Twin Coding Module and create infinite number of projects!
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We are all trying to choose the right educational applications for our children’s social, cognitive, and emotional development. Choosing these apps is a challenging process, not only does Apple’s iOS App Store have 270,0001 educational applications, the number of these apps grows by 5% monthly. In order to excel and take a responsibility to deliver the right solutions, application developers should remember the educational elements and inform their decisions with the science of learning.
In the article, “Putting Education in Educational Apps: Lessons from the Science of Learning”, Hirsh-Pasek et al. guide educational app and content developers with the principles from the new science of learning. The new science of learning is beginning to provide knowledge to improve significantly people’s abilities to become active learners who seek to understand the complex subject matter and are better prepared to transfer what they have learned to new problems and settings. This newly minted field asks not merely what we should teach children— that is, what content—but also how children best learn the strategies they will need to cope flexibly and creatively in a 21st-century world3.
The article introduces four pillars of developing educational mobile experiences:
Active Learning: Mental and physical activeness of the student.
Engaged Learning: Keeping the student’s focus during the educative event
Meaningful Learning: Introducing students to the science behind the subject
Socially Interactive: Allowing active communication with peers, family, and experts of the field if necessary
The application, which is based on these four pillars, should provide the student with a space to play and gain experience. In this scaffolded experience, they should be given a space that is both wide enough to explore freely and narrow enough to follow a solid learning goal.
So, how can we put these four pillars in an educational app for smartphones and tablets?
Ideally, it is necessary to be aware of the capacity of both mobile devices and children. Additionally, we need to evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of mobile devices in different learning environments with different learning types. For example, smartphones are great devices for perceiving the environment. Thanks to all the sensors it has, we can use our smartphones as an amateur physics lab. On the other hand, children are great at questioning and exploring their physical environment, thanks to their amazing curiosity. So, If we want to teach physics, we can start by seizing the potential of both children’s and devices. Further, children can become physically active when using sensors such as accelerometers and cameras and might increase their cognitive skills by interpreting incoming data. However, in order to maintain their focus, it is vital to keep their internal and external motivations high during learning. Providing intrinsic motivation requires a quality experience; we must retain their joy of learning. Boosting external motivation is relatively easier, we can start our development process with gamification elements. Lastly, the stations on the student’s learning journey must form a logical route in sequence. All the people students meet on this route should give students active and constructive feedback.
In addition, we have a multimedia device that students already love and enjoy playing with. Mobile applications have a great potential in terms of accessibility of education; With their connection features and accessible prices, they reach places that computers cannot reach and can deliver education to any environment. This device has the potential to have a great impact on our entire lifestyle with increasing mobility and information availability which will naturally affect our learning styles. Therefore, educational application developers have the chance to meaningfully affect our lives and contribute to bringing education to the whole world with the new science of learning.
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