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WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT        3
WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT
Table of contents
1. Introduction    4
2. Overview of the Apps    4
Toca Builders    5
Thinkrolls: Kings & Queens    5
3. Dispositions for STEAM    6
Toca Builders: Promoting Creativity and Exploration    6
Thinkrolls: Kings & Queens: Nurturing Logic and Persistence    8
4. Excitement and Wonderment for STEAM    9
Toca Builders: Sparking Curiosity Through Open-Ended Play    9
Thinkrolls: Kings & Queens: Engaging Through Storytelling and Challenges    9
5. Play-Based Learning    10
Toca Builders: Freedom to Explore    10
Thinkrolls: Kings & Queens: Structured Play with Purpose    10
6. Inquiry-Based Learning    11
Toca Builders: Encouraging Exploration and Experimentation    11
Thinkrolls: Kings & Queens: Hypothesizing and Testing Solutions    12
7. Conclusion    12
Refrences    14
1. Introduction
At the early childhood, stage children have an important opportunity to create STEAM learning fundamentals. Studies demonstrate that young children possess natural curiosity about their environment thus making STEAM concept introduction in play-based and inquiry-based frameworks suitable during early childhood development. The educational methods motivate children to explore issues through active experimentation where they investigate questions and find solutions to problems. Educational apps serve as effective instruments to teach STEAM education in an engaging manner for children within the age range of 3-5 years old.
The analysis within this report evaluates the STEAM education capabilities of two popular apps, which are Toca Builders and Thinkrolls: Kings & Queens. STEAM concepts receive enhanced interest from children through inquiry-based activities in both educational apps, which supplement play-based learning approaches. Toca Builders empowers children to develop their virtual worlds while honing creativity and engineering capabilities thus enabling the development of engineering abilities. Thinkrolls: Kings & Queens offers physics-based puzzles in a medieval scenario that encourages problem-solving and logical thinking skills.
This paper investigates how each application advances children's involvement with STEAM concepts. The research will analyze the support provided by these apps as tools for developing four essential personality traits including creativity and curiosity and persistence and problem solving. The analysis explores the methods used by each application to deepen children's interest in STEAM learning while they build vital skills for educational growth.
2. Overview of the Apps
Toca Builders
Toca Builders is a creative design and construction app aimed at preschoolers that encourages open-ended exploration and experimentation. The app features a 3D environment where children can build their own virtual worlds using blocks. The central feature of the app is its team of six unique builder characters, each with special abilities—such as dropping, painting, or smashing blocks—allowing children to interact with the building process in various ways. This character-driven interface makes the app intuitive and accessible for young users, as children can use simple drag-and-drop mechanics to place blocks, alter colors, and experiment with their designs.
The app promotes key STEAM skills, particularly in the areas of engineering, creativity (art), spatial reasoning, and problem solving. By building structures, manipulating blocks, and experimenting with shapes and layouts, children engage with the basic principles of engineering and design. The emphasis on free-form creation and problem solving enables children to develop a deeper understanding of spatial relationships and the iterative nature of engineering processes. The app’s lack of predefined goals encourages self-directed learning, allowing children to explore at their own pace and make their own discoveries.
Thinkrolls: Kings & Queens
Toca Builders presents preschoolers with open-ended exploration and experimentation features through its creative building app design. Within the app, children can create their virtual worlds through a 3D environment by placing blocks. The six different builder characters within the app provide special abilities for children to participate more constantly with building tasks through features like block dropping and painting and block smashing functions. The character-based interface provides approachability to children through simple drag-drop block placement so they can try out multiple design variations using color changes (Erol & Erol, 2023).
The application guides learners through STEAM subject skills with a focus on engineering expertise together with artistic creativity and spatial ability as well as problem-solving competencies. Through building activities along with block manipulation along with shape exploration and layout, testing young children participate with foundational engineering concepts and design principles. The design of the app encourages creative building and problem solving which helps children build stronger spatial abilities and engineering process iteration comprehension. Children can experience uninte
upted self-directed learning through the app because it does not impose any built-in goals for them to follow.
3. Dispositions for STEAM
Early childhood education requires educators to establish positive attitudes toward STEAM disciplines because this practice enhances students' lifetime commitment to scientific and mathematical subjects. Children demonstrate their learning activities through their natural attitudes together with tendencies and inclinations (Ng,...