オランダ ハーグには子供向けの自然科学博物館 Museonがあります。
Museonは定期的に展示が変わるので、いつ行っても子供が楽しめるミュージアムになっています。子供連れの家族にはありがたいミュージアムの一つです。
Museumカードがあれば好きな時に何度でもミュージアムに無料で行けるのがオランダの素晴らしい所です。
そんなMuseonの一角にiPadが自由に使える部屋があります。そこでは、一台ごとに異なるAppが使えるように設定してあって子供の知育に役立ちそうなAppが沢山あります。
Museonで展示されている選りすぐりの知育用のAppをご紹介します。
オランダ在住でもMuseonが遠い場所に住んでいる方、日本在住の方でもMuseionレコメンドの知育Appを試すことができます。
Appは有料のものもありますが、無料のAppもあります。
また、日本のAppストアでは取り扱いがないAppもあります。
Toca Nature
価格：¥400
*App Store Best of 2014*
自然界はまるで魔法の世界。Toca Natureはワンタッチで魔法の世界をお届けします。
自然を創造しその成長を観察しましょう。木を植え、森を作ります。山に登り、景色を楽しみます。野イチゴやキノコ、木の実を採って、動物たちに与えます。どの動物が何を食べるのか、熊を追い払うのにどのくらい食べさせたらいいか観察します。森をあちこち散歩して、キツネと仲良しになります。木々の間を飛び回るキツツキを追いかけていたら、いつの間にか夕焼け空に変わっていました。
新しい友達と冒険に出かけよう。思いっきり楽しんでください！
何が起こるかワクワク、ドキドキです。どこに辿りつくのか、誰にもわかりません。
大自然の魔法をお楽しみください！
このアプリ、ほんと子供大好きなんですよね。
ゲーム性があるわけではなく、ゲームの世界で好き勝手に建物の中に配置してあるモノを動かしたりするだけなのですが、なぜか子供は大好きで飽きずにずっとやっています。
子供心をわしづかみにする不思議なアプリです。
このトッカボッカはシリーズが沢山あって、どれも楽しいのですが、子供が別のも欲しいと言い始めます。ねだられるたびに購入すると高くつくので、割引のあるApp バンドルを購入しています。
10個セットを買うのが一番安いですね。
4個で1200円＝1個 300円
5個で1600円＝1個 320円
9個で2300円＝1個 250円
4個で1200円＝1個 300円
10個で2400円＝1個 240円
6個で1800円＝1個 300円
10個で2400円＝1個 240円
2個で600円＝1個 300円
4個で1200円＝1個 300円
10個で1800円＝1個 180円
Monument Valley
価格：¥480
**アップルデザイン賞2014の勝者。**
モニュメントバレーのすばらしく美しい世界の中、あなたは現実にはありえない建築物を操作して沈黙の姫を導くことになります。
モニュメントバレーでは、空想上の建築物やありえない幾何学模様のはざまで超現実的な冒険が展開されます。神秘的なモニュメントの中で、沈黙の姫アイダを導いてください。隠れた道を探し出して錯覚を解き明かし、ミステリアスなカラス人間を知恵で打ち破りましょう。
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「2014年のもっとも美しいiPadゲームかもしれない」 – Wired
「エッシャーのようだ。あなたは、いつもと違う華やかな世界を見ることになる」- Kotaku
「モニュメントバレーは幻想の世界を見せてくれる」 – Touch Arcade
「視覚トリックの芸術」- Polygon
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美しい世界
探検するモニュメントは、ミニマリストの3Dデザイン、目の錯覚、世界の宮殿や寺院などから影響を受けており、それぞれユニークで手作りの世界になっています。
このアプリも子供が大好きなのです。ちょっと難しいんじゃないの？と思ったのですが、子供があーでもないこーでもないとずっと集中してやってるんです。下手な鉄砲かずうちゃ当たるじゃないですが、クリアできると喜んで次のステージに進むという。
アニメーションやサウンドも洗練されており、ストーリー仕立てになっているので子供が興味をもって取り組んでくれます。漢字で出てくるメッセージにも興味をもって『コレなんて書いてあるの？』と聞いてくれます。それだけでもうれしいです。
これは買いだと思って、1と2のどちらを買おうか迷ったんです。まとめて買うと840円とか出てたので即買いでした。
価格：¥600
価格：¥840
iStopMotion
価格：$9.99
ipad専用です。
*** Winner Macworld Best of Show 2013 ***
*** Winner Macworld Best of Show 2012 and Mac Observer Editors Choice Awards ***Join many thousands of iStopMotion fans and enjoy the excitement of creating stop motion animations (AKA claymation or stop action movies) and time lapse recordings with the highly-rated iStopMotion on your iPad or iPad mini.
You can be a master filmmaker, directing your own blockbuster animation movie. It’s fun and easy for everybody from kids to grandparents to tell your story frame by frame, featuring your favorite toys. Turn the time spent with your children into a great creative experience and wow friends and family at your opening night.
iStopMotion for iPad is also used in hundreds of classrooms all over the world in all disciplines, honing creativity, problem-solving and communication skills in students of all ages.
KEY FEATURES AND BENEFITS
Camera Overlay – Overlay the current live camera image with the previous one and see the changes unfold before your eyes. Animate more quickly and with a higher degree of accuracy.
Instant Playback – Being able to play back your work at any time without a long wait leads to instant gratification.
Beautiful Timeline and new Navigator – Never get lost and quickly navigate through your movie, even if there are hundreds of frames.
Import or record audio – Easily animate to a prerecorded sound track like the pros or dub your movie after shooting. A waveform view helps you recognize significant events in the sound track making it easy to match sound with the animation.
Crazy Gears
価格：$2.99
Are you ready to watch your child kick their learning into high-gear? Crazy Gears is a new-aged digital puzzle game, designed with a real mechanical engine and with children’s critical thinking skills in mind! Hours of fun guaranteed for everyone who is up for the challenge, yes, even you Mom & Dad!
*** Children’s Technology Review Awards 2015 ***
*** Parent’s Choice Gold Winner Fall 2015***
*** App of the week by Fun2Tap ***
*** Best of the Best by Best Apps For Kids ***
*** Featured worldwide by App Store as a Best New App ***ABOUT CRAZY GEARS
Explore a captivating digital playground in this tantalizing puzzle game! Children manipulate gears, chains, rods, and pulleys, to pull themselves through each level, which teaches them how different mechanisms affect one another when constructing a machine. Each reasoning challenge was carefully designed to adhere to the theories of educational technology pioneer, mathematician, computer scientist, and designer of the first programming language for children, Seymour Papert.“The best use of games is to leverage their tendency to enhance learning”- Papert
Recommended Ages 5-9As a child, Papert fell in love with gears. Their movement fascinated him in every way and inspired his career. Crazy Gears was conceived not only as a tribute to him, but with the hope of providing a child with the inspiration to discover and understand the physical properties of mechanisms found in their everyday lives. Such complex notions include tension, motion, and gravity. We achieve this by encouraging the child to manipulate the objects in each level to determine how they work together to accomplish a goal. Interactions with technology give kids the power to construct their understanding of STEM/STEAM subjects in meaningful ways. Here we engage them in play that does just that!
FEATURES
• No rules
• No explicit instructions
• Kid-Friendly Design
• Powerful Artificial Intelligence
• Seamless Interaction
• Multiple Language Support
• Crash Resistant Design
• Bold, bright colors
• Automatic Memory
• Special mode for children with CVISTEM/STEAM TOPICS EXPLORED
• Gears
• Mechanical Systems (simple and complex)
• Action and Reaction
• Motion (circular, rotary, and reciprocating)
• Ratios
• Tension
• Torque and Speed
• Mechanical Advantage
Quiver-3D Coloring App
価格：無料（App内課金有）
The original augmented reality coloring app “colAR Mix” is now Quiver!
Coloring pages have never been so much fun! The Quiver App combines physical coloring from “back in the day” with state of the art augmented reality technology to bring you and your children an extraordinarily magical experience.
You can find our free pages by downloading the app and on our website (http://www.QuiverVision.com). Save and print the pages directly from the Quiver App or from a computer to start enjoying the fun. By using our unmatchable expertise in augmented reality, the Quiver App enables children and adults to unleash their inner artist and interact with their personally customised creations.
Every colored page comes to life in its uniquely colored way, giving the artist an immediate and special sense of ownership and pride! Not only is the app incredibly fun, but it is also a great tool for developing skills and knowledge on various topics. Try it out yourself and we are sure you will agree.
Available Quiver coloring pages include:
– Quiver characters (Murphy the Sheep, Penfold the Penguin and Ruby the Rabbit).
– Quiver education pages (Earth, Volcano and an Animal Cell).
– Amazing Animals of New Zealand (Kea, Hectors Dolphin, Yellow-Eyed Penguin, Kiwi, Giant Weta and the Tuatara).
– Animal and Mammal Pack by Dover Publications (Butterfly, Dinosaur, Fish Bowl, Horse, Dragonflies and a Shark).
– BBC Children in Needs Mascot “Pudsey the Bear”.
– B-Daman Robots from the famous Japanese “B-Daman” cartoon show.Features:
– Enjoy a traditional physical coloring experience combined with the latest augmented reality technology.
– Watch your artwork magically come to life on your smart device screen.
– View the animation from any angle.
– Interact and play games with the animated characters by touching the screen.
– Educational pages include a quiz to test the user’s knowledge.
– Capture photos and videos of your coloring creations
– Zoom functionality.
– Play and pause the animation when it comes to life.
– Different sound effects associated with each page.Follow these simple steps to enjoy the magical Quiver App experience:
– Visit http://www.QuiverVision.com to find and print out the Quiver coloring pages.
– Color in the Quiver coloring pages using your favourite colors.
– Open the Quiver App and tap the play button (the button with the Quiver Butterfly logo on it) to open the viewer.
– Look at the colored Quiver coloring page with your smart device camera. Make sure you can see the entire page – it will turn blue to confirm.
– The Quiver coloring page will come to life just the way you colored it.
Osmo Newton
価格：無料
Solve creative physics puzzles by drawing lines or placing items in front of the screen.
“..games that interact with just about any physical object—pen, paper, blocks, even toys your kids already own.
– The Wall Street Journal“This interplay between the physical and digital realms looks and feels like magic.” – Forbes
“Osmo has been a revolution in our family.” – Wired
Awarded:
**Best Design** – Good Design, 2016
**Best Product Designs** – Fast Company Finalist, 2016
**Innovative Toy of the Year** – TOTY Finalist, 2015
**Best Inventions** – TIME, 2014Works with any object or drawing – Mom’s keys, hand-drawn basket, even toys you already own. Simply place the object/drawing in front of the screen and manipulate it to guide the falling balls into the target zones.
Kapu Forest
価格：無料
Come and discover the fantastic animals of Kapu Forest LITE! Build a dam with the beaver, feed the hungry-fox until he’s full and help the busy bees find nectar. All that and much more for free with Kapu Forest!
Kapu Forest is a colorful and fun digital toy for kids.
FEATURES
– 4 mini-toys and animals to play with
– No time limits, no rules, always fun
– Playful sounds and colorful animations
– Lovable characters & original artwork
– Kid-friendly interface
– Intuitive and educational experience
– Parental controls
– No in-app sales
– No third party advertisingIn Kapu Forest there are no timers, no limits and no high scores. Your kids have complete control and can explore whichever toy they want to. They’ll never be stuck on a level and always have fun!
MORE KAPU TOYS
KAPU PLANET – Kapu Planet expands the world of Kapu Forest and reveals the secrets of the globe! Go explore the environments of different continents and all those amazing animals that live there!
KAPU FISHING – Come fishing with Mr. Fox and catch the biggest whoppers in the lake! Catch funny fish and surprising sea-creatures, cruise with your motorboat, build lures, tickle and feed the fox friend and much more! Kapu Fishing is perfect for children 2-5+ years old.
KAPU BLOOM TUNES – Let your kid paint the world with melodies! Kapu Bloom Tunes not only combines the two of the most awesome pastimes, creating music and painting, but it also teaches the small users the basics of how melodies and tunes are crafted in a fun and surprising way.
KAPU BLOCKS – the perfect digital toy for young craftsmen, which
feeds children’s creativity and offers hours of fun. It teaches the
children the basics of physics and the rules of gravity, but at the same
time providing a world full of surprises and possibilities to build the
wildest creations.KAPU TICKLE TOY CAMERA – a super fun digital toy that activates and entertains
kids with a surprising gameplay. Teaches children how to use the
mobile phone or a tablet camera safely and in a fun way and at the same time guarantees laughs for the kids and fun for the whole
family.ABOUT KAPU
Kapu is the digital toy box filled with smiles for kids.
We believe in fun play and clever apps. We’re on a mission to create digital toys that spark the imagination, inspire families to play together and let kids learn along the way!
Lightbot
価格：無料
Get kids hooked on coding within minutes!
Lightbot : Code Hour is a programming puzzle game- a game whose game mechanics require using programming logic to solve levels. This short teaser is meant to introduce players to programming who may have little to no experience. Anyone, anywhere, from grades K-12 can play, have fun and learn real programming logic!
Simply guiding a robot to light up tiles and solve levels using commands, Lightbot cultivates a real understanding of procedures, loops, and conditionals.
Educators around the world are choosing to use Lightbot first when introducing their students to programming, coding and Computer Science.
Lightbot : Code Hour features 20 levels. The follow-on Lightbot : Programming Puzzles features 50 levels and 20 challenge stars to collect for when you want more of a challenge!
This version of Lightbot can be played in English, French, Russian, Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Norwegian, Slovenian, Romanian, Indonesian, German, Polish, Danish, Croatian, Dutch, Slovak, Czech, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Thai, Hindi, Swedish, Finnish and Hungarian! Just hit the associated flag icon on the main screen to select a language.
Lightbot features multiple save slots and separate progress tracking for multiple players. Multiple players can advance at their own pace in their own save slot, and also compete on number of levels finished, number of stars collected and number of overall commands used to complete the game.
There are NO in-app purchases in Lightbot.
このアプリはやばいですね。手続き型プログラムと関数化の考え方を遊びながら自然と学べるようになっています。Museonでやったときはよくできとるなーと思ったのですが、家に帰って調べたらなんと無料。
好き嫌いは分かれるかもしれませんが、もし子供が興味をもってやっていたとしたら、自然とプログラムの考え方が身につくかもしれません。
まとめ
日本でも知られているアプリもありますが、知らなかったアプリもありました。
有名どころではMonument Valley1/2は鉄板でしょうし、トッカボッカも子供は飽きずにずっとやっています。
個人的にはLightbotをやったときについに時代はここまで来たか、とちょっと感慨深いものがありました。
