Daniel Tiger for Parents vs Preschool Data Toolbox

Help your toddler learn life's little lessons with their friend & neighbor, Daniel Tiger. Instill valuable lessons and strengthen your familial bond with parenting tips. The Daniel Tiger for Parents app empowers parents and caregivers with songs and videos from the hit PBS KIDS series Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood. Is your child learning about sharing? Struggling with trying a new food? Working on what to do with mad feelings? Daniel Tiger for Parents has a song for these important social-emotional skills and many more of life's little lessons! Designed with busy parents in mind, the app is simple, educational and entertaining for caregivers and children. It features over four dozen Daniel Tiger songs, supporting videos from Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood, and helpful hints for parents about the important skills children need to be ready for school and life. Features: Over four dozen of the most popular songs from Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood, covering important topics like feelings, self-control, and responsibility, all available in English and Spanish. Over 160 episode clips to watch and share with your child, modeling how Daniel Tiger and his family use these songs, available in English, Spanish, English Descriptive Audio, and Spanish Descriptive Audio. Over 220 conversation starters and tips in English and Spanish with practical ways to use Daniel Tiger songs in everyday life. The free Daniel Tiger for Parents app is based on Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood, a Fred Rogers Productions series. For decades, Fred Rogers and Mister Rogers' Neighborhood helped generations of parents and children navigate the ups and downs of everyday life. Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood and this app extend that philosophy to empower parents and caregivers with confidence in their ability to help their children learn important social and emotional skills. For more family fun with Daniel Tiger, visit pbskids.org/daniel ABOUT PBS KIDS Daniel Tiger for Parents is part of PBS KIDS' ongoing commitment to helping kids build the skills they need to succeed in school and in life. PBS KIDS, the number-one educational media brand for kids, offers all children the opportunity to explore new ideas and new worlds through television and digital media, as well as community-based programs. Privacy Across all media platforms, PBS KIDS is committed to creating a safe and secure environment for children and families and being transparent about what information is collected from users. To learn more about PBS KIDS' privacy policy, visit pbskids.org/privacy

Collect data, create graphs, and analyze your findings with Gracie & Friends® in the Preschool Data Toolbox app! Choose one of our six investigations with preschool-appropriate research questions, or create your own investigations and turn them into a data story. These data collection and analysis activities help children to engage in meaningful mathematics while developing computational thinking and problem-solving, communication, and inquiry skills. Features - 6 investigations provided - Create your own investigations - Collect data in the app - Visualize data with pictographs, bar graphs, and tally charts - Tools to analyze and sort data - Drawing tool to annotate on top of graphs - Graph comparison - Slider to change pictograph to bar graph - Discussion prompts to guide analysis and learning - Data story feature to present your findings - Teacher's Guide with lesson plans - Alignment with research-based early math learning trajectories - No in-app purchases - No advertising Learning Goals This app and its corresponding data collection and analysis investigations are designed to help preschool-aged children practice and learn early mathematics concepts, engage with meaningful questions about the world around them, and use active problem-solving to answer these questions. Specifically, children will: - Collect and organize data, create visual representations like charts and graphs, and use and discuss data to answer real-world questions - Practice mathematical concepts like (counting, sorting, comparing, and ordering) Early Math with Gracie & Friends® is a math-focused preschool curriculum supplement that includes resources for classroom and home use. The Preschool Data Toolbox app and the corresponding hands-on investigations were designed to support children’s data collection and analysis skills as well as their computational thinking. The app and hands-on investigations are based on rounds of iterative research and development with preschool children and teachers. Research has shown that the use of this app and hands-on investigations help preschoolers learn about data collection and analysis, and improve their mathematical knowledge. Early Math Gracie & Friends® is not just apps! Our research shows the importance of engaging learners in hands-on, non-digital play. In fact, for every Gracie & Friends® app, we have created and researched around five hands-on activities! Check them out at http://first8studios.org About First 8 Studios @ GBH Kids GBH Kids has pioneered children's educational media for decades. First 8 Studios @ GBH Kids is dedicated to carrying this pioneering spirit into the digital, mobile world. First 8 Studios creates mobile experiences to support the healthy growth of children from birth through age 8. At the heart of this work is a commitment to research-based development and an ongoing collaboration with teachers and children to give them a voice in the digital media development process. You'll find evidence of the big hearts and little fingerprints of our partners throughout each Gracie & Friends® experience. Privacy Policy First 8 Studios @ WGBH is committed to children's safety and well-being. No personally identifiable data is collected. For our complete Privacy Policy, please visit: https://first8studios.org/privacypolicy.html Copyright Early Math with Gracie & Friends® and the characters and related indicia are trademarks of First 8 Studios @ GBH Kids. ®/© 2022 WGBH Educational Foundation. All Rights Reserved. This Early Math with Gracie & Friends® app was produced by GBH Kids. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. DRL-1933698. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of NSF.