MarcoPolo Ocean is a beautiful free-play and puzzle app that includes five fun activities. Its colorfully animated and narrated to help kids of preschool age and up form an overall concept of what undersea environments look like and what animals live in them. Kids can explore a coral reef in shallow areas of the ocean, or take a dive to see what lives in the dark depths of the ocean. They can assemble pictures of marine animals and learn their names and body parts and then make the animals swim through the water with realistic motion. MarcoPolo Ocean also invites kids to build a ship and a submarine, puzzle-style, to explore human-made transportation above and below the water. Throughout play a narrator gives kids brief facts about more than 30 species of fish and marine mammals as well as some marine-vessel vocabulary, too.\r
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Diving into the wonders of the ocean is easy with MarcoPolo Ocean, as kids simply tap, drag, and swipe to explore. The friendly narrator keeps facts brief, indicating only the term for many of the puzzle pieces (Fluke, she says as kids place the orcas tail into the puzzle) and a slightly longer explanation for other environments or animals. If kids cant find where a puzzle piece fits, it flashes to give them a clue. There are a few tidbits that arent totally in line with real ocean life. For example, in the section about marine mammals, theres a manatee pictured in the same environment as a polar bear, which may make it seem as if those animals live in the same area of the ocean. Also, sometimes kids will need to practice trial and error to find out how certain parts of the free play work. The kid-protected parent section includes explanation of the apps activities and settings, as well as extension ideas for parents.
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Diving into the wonders of the ocean is easy with MarcoPolo Ocean, as kids simply tap, drag, and swipe to explore. The friendly narrator keeps facts brief, indicating only the term for many of the puzzle pieces (Fluke, she says as kids place the orcas tail into the puzzle) and a slightly longer explanation for other environments or animals. If kids cant find where a puzzle piece fits, it flashes to give them a clue. There are a few tidbits that arent totally in line with real ocean life. For example, in the section about marine mammals, theres a manatee pictured in the same environment as a polar bear, which may make it seem as if those animals live in the same area of the ocean. Also, sometimes kids will need to practice trial and error to find out how certain parts of the free play work. The kid-protected parent section includes explanation of the apps activities and settings, as well as extension ideas for parents.
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