Parents' Guide to
This is my Weather - Meteorology for Kids
Common Sense Media Review
By Amanda Bindel
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based on child development research. How do we rate?
Rainbows, seasons, strong chance of informative fun.
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This is my Weather - Meteorology for Kids
Parent and Kid Reviews
What's It About?
In THIS IS MY WEATHER - METEOROLOGY FOR KIDS, users choose a friend from a selection of diverse cartoon boys and girls and then dress him or her for the current weather. While exploring each of the four seasons, they learn about wind, rain, thunder, lightning, snow, and more through interactive scenes. Kids make it rain on a sunny day to create a rainbow or roll snow into balls to build a snowman. Each scene includes more detailed written information, and kids earn stars as they learn. Each star then gives kids an idea for a science activity to do outside the app.
Is It Any Good?
Curious kids will love exploring all things weather. The graphics and wording are kid-friendly and mostly easy to understand yet still very informative. The app plays like an interactive museum exhibit wherein kids get to increase or decrease the force of the wind or actually rotate the earth to simulate a day. As kids complete activities, they earn a star, and the beauty of those stars is that kids aren't rewarded with points or stickers but with ideas for activities they can do outside, such as freezing soap bubbles or making their own rainbows. Though the amount of features is fairly extensive, a few more interactive elements on each page might keep kids hooked even longer, and the interactive elements that do exist aren't always totally clear. Also, in the description of the climate zones, the child's voice says "Temperature zones" instead of "Temperate zones," which might confuse some kids.
Talk to Your Kids About ...
Families can talk about the day's weather and have kids dress their characters in the app before choosing their own clothes for the day.
When kids ask questions about the weather -- "What are the clouds made of? What colors are the rainbow?" -- you can use the app together to discover the answers.
App Details
- Devices: iPhone , iPod Touch , iPad
- Subjects: Science : weather, Social Studies : geography
- Skills: Thinking & Reasoning : making conclusions, Self-Direction : academic development, Tech Skills : using and applying technology
- Pricing structure: Paid
- Release date: January 22, 2015
- Category: Education
- Topics: Science and Nature
- Publisher: urbn; pockets
- Version: 1.0.0
- Minimum software requirements: iOS 8.0 or later
- Last updated: July 29, 2016
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