Scientific Thinking

Kids' have a natural curiosity about how the world around them works, and, you can help satisfy their questions.  Science is a subject that will help them hone their thinking skills as they learn how to make observations and use their deductive reasoning skills to predict what will happen.   At Learning Is Fun Store, we have a selection of fun software that will enable them to do simple experiments on and off the computer that will keep them engaged and entertained as they learn.

With eight different interactive environments for children to traverse, MyFirst Amazing Science Explorer is packed with learning activities.  Children learn the answers to hundreds of questions, such as; why is grass green or how does a light switch work?  There is information about electricity, forces and energy, heat, light and sound, living things, materials, reactions, simple machines, and space.  Included are twenty printable experiments that use simple household items and a printable scientific notebook that children can use to document their observations just like a real scientist!

Thinkin' Science - ZAP! is another engaging program that is loaded with entertaining interactive experiments in an accurate onscreen environment.  Children will get to observe reactions as they experiment with bending, bouncing and blending light; see, hear and control soundwaves to make BoogieBots dances; tinker with electricity by manipulating onscreen images of circuits and switches and learn about voltage, current and resistance.  Complex scientific concepts are explained in an easy to understand fashion.

One of the coolest software programs ever, The New Way Things Work is a wild ride through history that explores 150 of the greatest inventions of mankind.  With the help of author/illustrator David Macaulay, this program is packed with awesome machines, movies and animations that explain the workings from 7,000 BC to the present.  There are clickable maps loaded with links that will help users solve questions and the Mammoth School House where children can test themselves on their newfound knowledge.