Tami's Tower

Let's Think About Engineering with the Smithsonian!

It’s lunch time and Tami, the golden lion tamarin, is hungry! Help Tami reach the delicious fruit by building a tower. But watch out! Other animals can cause Tami’s tower to topple over.

From the Smithsonian Science Education Center, Tami’s Tower: Let’s Think About Engineering is an educational engineering design game that will help teach your student how to design a solution to a problem using basic engineering design principles.

Educational features:

• Aligned to educational science standards for kindergarten through second grade

• Designed for emergent readers

• Grounded in educational psychology research

• Metacognitive prompts provide students an opportunity to monitor and assess their own confidence

•  Teachers can assess student responses to metacognitive prompts through an in-game

summary screen

•  In-game tutorial to teach students how to play

• Introduces students to engineering design principles

• Students will learn how the shape of an object can help it function as needed to solve a problem

•  Students can reflect on previous attempts to improve design

•  Students can design a level in Sandbox mode

•  Designed to be used in the classroom or at home