Nico & Nor Berry Garden app for iPhone and iPad

Design a way to protect the community garden from the bunnies! Choose from a limited number of fences and nets to create a solution that keeps the bunnies from eating all the strawberries. With clever leveling and thoughtful scaffolding, Berry Garden provides a gentle place to practice engineering, while engaging with the science of plants. Families can also choose to play in English or Spanish!


Features

- Playable in both English and Spanish
- 12 levels of fence designing
- Strawberry harvesting
- Adaptive feedback to support learning
- Co-developed by researchers, preschool teachers, and parents
- Alignment with early STEM learning trajectories
- No in-app purchases
- No advertising


Berry Garden and the entire curriculum supplement from Early Science with Nico & Nor® was rigorously researched and developed for home and preschool classroom use. It combines traditional hands-on activities with digital learning to promote young children’s engagement with science practices and concepts while also building their math skills and providing ways to participate in the engineering process.


About First 8 Studios @ WGBH

GBH Kids has pioneered childrens educational media for decades. First 8 Studios @ WGBH is dedicated to carrying this pioneering spirit into the digital, mobile world. First 8 Studios creates mobile experiences to support the healthy growth of children from birth through age 8. At the heart of this work is a commitment to research-based development and an ongoing collaboration with teachers and children to give them a voice in the digital media development process. Youll find evidence of the big hearts and little fingerprints of our partners throughout each Nico & Nor® experience.


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Copyright

Early Science with Nico & Nor® and the characters and related indicia are trademarks of First 8 Studios @ WGBH. ®/© 2022 WGBH Educational Foundation. All Rights Reserved.

This Early Science with Nico & Nor® app was produced by GBH Kids.

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. DRL-1813280. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of NSF.