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Infotainment Video Games You Don’t Mind Your Kids Playing

Jul 28, 2021 | Activities | 0 Comments | 249

Can video games be fun and addictive, and also be educational, and help kids build skills online?

YES!

It may not look it, but video games are a great learning activity for kids! Apart from building hand-eye coordination, many video games engage the problem-solving part of the brain, and teaches them essential life skills like cooperation, leadership, and creativity. With parental supervision, video games can be a great way to supplement learning in school.

Here are some video games which we absolutely love for the fun learning kids gain from them :

Minecraft

This classic video game which can best be described as “digital LEGO” builds your kids’ sense of exploration and problem solving. Players have to build sprawling cities while encountering several challenges and characters. To survive in this video game world of Minecraft, players need to be good problem solvers and manoeuvre through several obstacles. The game helps build that kind of thinking that helps both in Minecraft challenges as well as real life, and also teaches kids about shapes and geometry as they manipulate blocks. Kids learn best when having fun, and Minecraft is a great example of that!

Where on Google Earth is Carmen Sandiego?

This vintage game got a modern makeover! This detective-style game is going to entertain your kids, and help them learn about geography and world history and different cultures while using their powers of deduction and observation to find clues! The backstory: Carmen Sandiego is a reformed agent trained by the criminal organisation VILE. Players get to interview witnesses in different cities and gather clues, and then jetset around the world through the interface of Google Earth.  This super interesting game makes your child curious about the world!

Scribblenuats

Meet Maxwell, who can summon anything from his magical notebook just by writing in it! Scribblenauts is a unique action puzzle videogame that requires players to use their imagination to help Maxwell solve puzzles in different level. Making great use of creative play and vocabulary, this game requires players to type the name of any object they can think of, and utilise it to collect starites.

Crazy Machines

Turn cranks, rotate gears, build creative machines, test your contraptions, and put them to work in this imaginative game that teaches the basics of physics, electricity, gravity, and particle effects. Crazy Machine teaches players the spirit of experimentation, as well as physics and problem solving, as they try to build Rube Goldberg-style contraptions to advance to the next level! This video game really is more like a fun science experiment that kids are going to love!

SimCity

Simcity is a great game-based learning video game. It is intuitive and well designed, and lets kids build their own intricate cities – either individually or in groups, which encourages team-building. Decision making, problem solving, resource management and civic science are just a few of the lessons that this classic video game teaches kids.  We love Simcity for neatly working fun learning into gaming for kids!

Spore

In Spore, players develop a microscopic organism to an intelligent creature, to beings capable of intergalactic travel! This real-time strategy game uses creative play to teach kids about biology, adaptation, and ecosystems. It also teaches them about how decisions impact relationships – about the difference between being aggressive and friendly, and a whole lot more. Both kids and parents are going to love this game!

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