If your child likes science themed games...

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This game is fabulous.

littlealchemy.com/

What do you get if you mix fire + water? There are 580 different things you can make starting from air/earth/ fire/ water. Promotes thinking.
Free, of course. My ds is hooked at the moment.

This is so good! Thank you!

Once you can make "life"(swamp + energy) it will be really interesting.
I really recommend it, it does encourage so much logical thinking coming up with the mixture.

Actually, this is even better with simple explanation on every element you found and better graphics, perfect for primary aged scientist.

littlealchemy2.com/

Science teacher here. This really isn't very good. I assume you are promoting it. Top tip. Fire, earth water and dust aren't elements. Reported.

Thanks for reporting, but I am just a parent, who thought this game was great for logical thinking and wanted to share. Of course I know they aren't element. That's how they call them on this game. Earth isn't element. Grass isn't element.

err since when are we no longer allowed to recommend things to each other? irvine is a regular on these boards and has recommended many different things, some of which I have used to great effect/pleasure and probably neglected to thank her for the recommendation...

I've just had a look and it seems fun indeed! Should be doing other things though...

earth, air, fire and water are certainly elements, of course they are only "classical elements", but they are elements.

Thank you, brilliotic

Miaow

Ah ok, apologies if this is genuine, I didn't AS the OP and the first 4 posts of this thread when I saw it read like repeated promotion of a resource I found lacking in much educational benefit from a science point of view. It seems harmless fun though.

I love Alchemy, though finding the last few elements can be frustrating!

Please don't call them elements to your DC!! Materials or substances perhaps? Although not sure that even covers some of the things I saw even in a short trial. Beach?! That's where it totally lost me.

I guess the use of the word 'elements' in context of a 'sciency' game (or at least a thread that recommend a game for sciency kids) sort of implies that elements is meant in a science way. And then the four initial 'elements' are those we know from classics, which is a bit jarring; and all further elements are not really 'elements' in any science meaning at all.

But I don't think there is anything wrong in using 'elements' in the everyday use version of (roughly) 'parts of a whole': There are certain essential elements to every well functioning work place.... elements that contribute to being successful are... A village is constituted by the following elements...

I think the game plays with the term, but also points out that anything that is the result of certain sub-parts, can also itself be a part contributing to a different whole. So a beach is made up of certain things, things that are essential to it being a beach. There might be non-essential things too but they don't count. So, sand or pebbles or stones, a gentle gradient, water. But a beach is also an essential part of other things, e.g. a 'beach resort'.

The science aspect of the game has decidedly little to do with the chemistry elements, but that does not mean there is no sound science in the game.

I thought it might be spam too but changed my mind once I’d had a look. There is science in it: bread and time making mould. Doctor and mould making penicillin.

Ha ha. Sorry. I think I was just over excited with discovery of this site.

We made Jedi and Darth Vader on 1, but no clue how to make Yoda.
I think 2 is slightly more scientifically logical compared to 1.

Light sabre and swamp.

You are more expert than us!

life is via 'primordial soup' in V2... currently working on getting beyond grass etc to trees, and wondering if there are apes/humans to be had in there somewhere... you know, to populate the towns and cities...

Animal + time = human.

Please don't call them elements to your DC!! Materials or substances perhaps?

I fint this such a strange comment, we have a thread talking about verbal reasoning improvement and it's all about improving vocabulary (which I find odd in itself, I assume the test is actually not reasoning but pretends to be but they can still rig it so the "right people" do well) Yet here there's the suggestion to limit vocabulary, I really can't see how there's any confusion with a word having more than one meaning!

Fortunately my dc have the intellectual capacity to understand that a word can mean different things in different contexts. I am not concerned that they will go into their GCSE chemistry exam thinking that the periodic table consists of water, air, Earth and fire. But thank you for your concern

Same here. Ds knows number of protons defines element in chemistry. But also he plays video games uses elements to describe "fire" "earth" "wind" etc. No way he would mistaken that "earth" or "water" is "element" in scientific sense.

But maybe I gave wrong idea to Emaline by starting thread sounding like a spam.(Sorry about that!)