Osmo - Genius Starter Kit for iPad - 5 Educational Learning Games - Ages 6-10 - Math, Spelling, Creativity & More - STEM Toy & Coding Starter Kit for iPad - 3 Hands-on Learning Games - Ages 5-10+

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The basic Osmo set up involves a few pieces of hardware that work together to create an augmented reality experience for kids that is actually pretty impressive. Which iPhones are compatible with the Osmo Coding Games, the Genius Starter Kit games, Reading Adventure, Monster, Pizza Co. Osmo has a number of starter kits that you can purchase that include the device as well as an assortment of games to get you started. Designed to cover the elementary school fundamentals of math, reading, creativity, geography, and coding, this Osmo kit throws in everything but the kitchen sink. While it isn’t exactly cheap, Osmo’s augmented reality technology provides an impressive blend of cool physical and digital activities that can provide kids ages 3-12 with focused and effective skill-based practice in a variety of areas, while captivating and delighting them at the same time.

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Centered around reading, phonics, vocabulary and spelling, this kit includes the Osmo set, letter squares and sticks (for younger users) and 5 literacy apps that develop letter recognition, vocabulary, construction, and phonics skills. Designed for kids ages 6-10, the Genius kit comes with the Osmo set and 5 games that cover spatial relationships, spelling, math, basic physics and drawing. As demonstrated in the video below, when kids move pieces around, draw or otherwise interact with Osmo’s provided physical objects, what they do is represented on the screen in real time through sophisticated computer vision. Math Wizard teaches addition, counting, place value, multiplication and mathematical thinking using interactive fantasy stories and game-like elements like creating potions out of specific item quantities, measuring dragons.Whether it’s using a pen to draw, arranging number tiles or letter pieces, with Osmo there’s a lot of hands-on play involved that is complimented by well-made digital animations and games that interact with what they’re doing in real life. Whether it’s in completing puzzles, filling in answers, moving characters around, or digitally transforming their drawings into fun animations, the technology itself is quite impressive and worked quite reliably for us. Despite being fairly broad, we feel the Explorer kit actually provides a fairly well-balanced learning experience, covering topics in science, spelling, coding and creative art at a variety of age ranges. Play experience for Masterpiece and Newton is improved with the use of the Monster game/Creative Set. Designed for kids ages 3-5, the preschool starter kit takes the Little Genius Starter Kit, which itself is already designed for younger kids, and adds a digital drawing board and a variety of early childhood skill-building apps that work on shapes, counting, the alphabet, spelling and science.

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Designed to cover Pre-K to 3rd grade math skill development, this includes the Osmo set, a variety of number/dot tiles and silicon math pieces, a play mat and 6 game apps that cover counting, addition, multiplication, shape, number and color recognition and more. When he’s not writing about educational tech, he likes to chill out with his family and dog at home. Designed to hone the skills developed in kindergarten , this kit is very similar to the elementary school starter kit in that it includes the osmo set, a digital drawing board, number, letter and coding tiles and 11 apps that cover cover spelling, math, science, art and even basic coding (which is something a little more unique in the kindergarten education space). The various components and manipulative packages that you need to play the games can cost into the hundreds of dollars in some cases…and that’s before considering that you also need a tablet and will probably need to purchase a special protective case for it, which costs extra. If you’d like to get a bundle of games at once, generally centered around a theme (literacy, math, family game night), you can as well.With that said, there aren’t that many other educational augmented reality kits for young kids that provide a tactile-digital experience and cover such a wide range of subjects. Because these kits are designed for very young kids, the play pieces are brightly colored, and soft play pieces that we think really grab their attention while still being safe to use. These can be a welcome addition to families, particularly homeschoolers, looking to supplement specific at-home learning curricula with Osmo’s skill building activities. This kit includes an Osmo set and actual, physical blocks for block coding and 3 coding apps that teach coding fundamentals such as sequencing, loops, logic, conditionals, variables, computational thinking and more.

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Combines the base Little Genius and Genius sets, offering the Osmo set as well as all 9 basic games.And, to their credit, Osmo produces new content pretty frequently so there is usually something new coming out. At the younger age range, due to the need to use your own tablet, we would recommend some parental supervision as there is a lot of hands-on learning and accidents happen. Once everything is set up, the result is a fairly impressive and unique digital-tactile experience for kids. So while Osmo has excellent compatibility with Apple devices, Samsung and other Android users will have to look elsewhere. In this way, we think Osmo really can be an interesting option for parents who are concerned about too much screen time and the lack of interactive play, but also want some of the flexibility and advanced features that digital apps can bring to the table.

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Fresh, hands-on content keeps your child engaged while they build 1st and 2nd grade math curriculum skills in an expansive and magical world. Osmo is always introducing new kits and offering new deals and discounts so make sure you check out their latest offerings. In fact, the digital apps gripped our young testers right away, and we think they are easily on par with the better children’s game apps on the market.It includes the Osmot set, plus games from the Genius kit (spatial relationships, spelling, math, basic physics and drawing), Coding Family (block coding, computational thinking and logic) and the Monster (interactive art). Kids being kids, this can lead to some fairly expensive damage without proper parental supervision, so this probably isn’t a toy you should leave your kids alone with unsupervised. Osmo kits provide a variety of physical objects and items (manipulatives) that can be picked up by the Osmo software, through a tablet, and brought to life on screen through a variety of digital games and activities that teach coding, math, reading, spatial recognition and more. As educators and parents we also like that Osmo has separated its starter kits based around different learning philosophies, with age- and skill-based kits providing ready options for parents, i. Being more tightly focused and, really, smaller kits, these tend to be a little more affordable than the other starter kits available and can be a good introduction to Osmo if you have a specific area you’d like your child to work on.