This game teaches her facts about US states as well as how to identify them and place them on a map. It has been remarkable to see how quickly she can spot a new bird in the wild and quickly use the app to identify the bird and learn interesting facts.Įven more recently in this process she has begun playing a game called Stack the States fairly regularly. My oldest daughter (age 9) and I both have the app on our iDevices, mine on my iPhone and hers on the iPod Touch. My family and I live just outside San Jose in an agricultural / rural part of the area and because of that we see quite a wide variety of birds we never encountered in the city. One of my favorite examples of how we have done this was with an app called iBird Explorer Western. ![]() Being immersed in the technology industry as I am, I naturally add technology as a part of that process. One of the goals we have in my household is to develop and maintain an inquisitive culture and the desire to learn.
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