May 9, 2019
The Smithsonian Science Education Center's educational engineering design game, Tami's Tower: Let's Think About Engineering, has received four out of five possible stars in a review from Common Sense Media. In particular, the review praises the engineering design learning process, visual design, and educational scaffolding demonstrated in Tami’s Tower, which was also featured on Common Sense Media's lists of "Best Engineering Games for Kids," "Free Educational Games," and "Games for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math." Common Sense Media is the leading family-focused reviewer of games, apps, movies, TV shows, and other digital media. Tami's Tower is a freely available digital resource for students ages 4 - 7 which combines animated Smithsonian animals such as the golden lion tamarin, bewildering building-block engineering design challenges, and research-based metacognitive prompts that can help young learners consider their own thinking as they design solutions to STEM problems.
Read more at https://www.commonsensemedia.org/app-reviews/tamis-tower