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Play new PBS KIDS games available in English and Spanish
October 18, 2024 Leave a Comment
New PBS KIDS games featuring Lyla in the Loop and Work It Out Wombats! are available to play in English and Spanish. Each game has a computational thinking focus with playful opportunities for children to problem-solve, design, test and have fun.
Work It Out Wombats!
Work It Out Wombats! is an animated series for kids ages 3-6 starring a playful trio of marsupial siblings — Malik, Zadie and Zeke — who live with their grandmother, Super, in their treehouse apartment complex. Work It Out Wombats! introduces computational thinking concepts that help young viewers solve meaningful problems, learn flexible thinking and how to express themselves — all while using the practices and processes at the core of computer science. The new games, Story Emporium and Toy Maker offer even more fun for children and caregivers to learn these concepts through play.
Toggle between English and Spanish languages in the game Story Emporium, which invites little learners to help create up to four stories in the Work it Out Wombats! “Treeborhood” by choosing where the story takes place, who the main character is and what they do in the story. Then, press play to experience the digital storybook with text boxes and colorful backgrounds.
Work together in Toy Maker to build toys and test your designs! Choose from three different toys to create with simple directions, and then test it out to see if all of the parts work together. After testing, you can try to fix the toy by re-building and testing again.
After playing the games, be sure to check out the associated activities like “Mr. E’s Shell Garden” and “Let’s Draw Zeke,” focused on simple patterns and sequencing (also available in English and Spanish).
Lyla in the Loop
The Lyla in the Loop series is made for kids ages 4-8 and supports a wide range of learners, modeling flexible approaches to finding and designing solutions, and creative self-expression. Lyla and her sidekick Stu introduce and explore foundational computational thinking concepts, leading to some comedic disasters and creative solutions, while helping others in their community.
The games Stu’s Delivery Service and Vacuum Hockey invite children to participate in creative solutions through unique challenges.
Toggle between English or Spanish languages and play Vacuum Hockey together by selecting the characters, dodging obstacles and aiming in just the right direction to score a goal! Players gather more tools as they earn points and navigate added interesting hurdles on the game field to win.
Stu’s Delivery Service invites players to deliver items to friends and family. The catch? Stu must avoid plenty of everyday obstacles to make deliveries with all the goods intact. Players earn tools in new levels for the Stu-Mobile to successfully drive through, above or even into the objects on the delivery routes.
After playing the games, explore more hands-on activities like Lyla’s “Secret Message Symbols” to match symbols and letters to figure out what the code says, or the “Every Sand-Which Way Challenge” to invent a new Loops lunch special with certain ingredients.
For more educational content available in English and Spanish, visit the PBS LearningMedia website.
