Create your dream town and make it happy and healthy with a city building app geared towards kids in My Green City. Then blast off into space and learn about how to get to the Moon and what to do once you get there in Moon Outpost. Plus, animal facts for the TikTok generation.
Garry Froehlich
Jellybean Tunes
My Green City
by Learny Land
Build a liveable town, stress-free, in My Green City. In the latest app from Learny Land, kids can lay out roads, sidewalks and bike paths, houses, apartments, businesses, parks, and more. The graphics are colorful, stylish, and fun, and as you build up your city, people appear to walk around, cars drive on the roads and the city comes to life. As the name suggests, the game is focused on creating a green city. You are encouraged to put solar panels on houses, build schools, parks, and hospitals, cut pollution, recycle waste, and enact edicts that prioritize health, education and equality. The game rates your city on how healthy it is and there are goals to guide you towards green, liveable cities. However, the game gives kids the freedom to build whatever they want, and cities won’t fall apart if the sidewalks aren’t in the right place, or they are missing infrastructure. My Green City is ultimately a fun sandbox to play around with while creating colorful, healthy cities.
Moon Outpost
by Outer Planet Labs LLC
Travel to the moon and prepare to stay with Moon Outpost. The app is divided into ten sections, covering the geography of the Moon, rockets used to get there, space stations, minerals, and polar ice, preparing an outpost, and more. Each section opens with a text explanation of the concepts and uses interactive 3D scenes to show what it would be like and to spark the imagination of budding young astronauts. In some scenes, the interaction is merely tapping to advance the animations, while in others you can drive a robot to analyze rocks, or walk around the surface. Some of the sections could use a bit more polish, and explanation as to what is happening or what needs to be done next, but this app does a good job of covering a topic different than the usual app store fare, and, hey, it lets kids play around on the Moon.
Animal Facts
Jaida Elcock does short videos every week for the TikTok generation covering all sorts of animals. This week: the surprisingly cute collared peccary.
For this week’s #animalfacts I present to you the Collared Peccary! They’re not pigs, they’re pig-adjacent lol. My friend @ahh_bees_art and I got to visit some as Southwest Wildlife Conservation Center in AZ and it was a blast!
Thanks so much @CParrotLady for this suggestion!🐽 pic.twitter.com/ZPEQuowOjw
— Jaida “Auntie Yay” Elcock (@soFISHtication) February 2, 2021
