Plum's Island Explorer


Plum's Island Explorer
  • Publisher: WGBH
  • Genre: Education
  • Released: 18 Sep, 2017
  • Size: 366.5 MB
  • Price: FREE!
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Description

The Plum’s Island Explorer: Land and Water app offers early elementary students an opportunity to navigate around a virtual island as they explore and learn about landforms and water bodies.

Navigate around a virtual island to explore various landforms and water bodies in this interactive game from PLUM LANDING.
--Journey around the island and pick up trash to unlock information about specific landforms and water bodies.
--Innovative videos from WGBH and spectacular ground-view and aerial-view images from NASA offer a unique platform for classroom exploration of key elementary science concepts.
--Students use the interactive game and associated supports to observe, identify, and record characteristics of common landforms and water bodies as they use an aerial perspective on a map to navigate the landscape.
The content in the game is aligned to NGSS Earth Science curriculum. Learn more at pbslearningmedia.org and pbslearningmedia.org/universe.

Our host is Plum, a colorful alien who is featured at PLUM LANDING, an exciting environmental science project from WGBH in Boston. PLUM LANDING helps kids develop a love for and connection to this amazing and beautiful planet we call home, and it invites kids ages six to nine to get to know their world through a collection of fun and engaging games, apps, videos, and hands-on science activities. For more information, visit pbkskids.org/plumlanding.

What's New in Version 1.0

This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.

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