Thank you to LeapFrog for sponsoring this review. For more information about the LeapFrog Tag Human Body Discovery Pack, please visit their website #LeapFrogTag #spon
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Science. Girls. There is a known educational chasm between these two words. Thankfully, there are daring people who care to bridge the widening gap; folks like Bill Childs of Spare the Rock Records who just this summer put together and released the wonderful Science Fair album, a benefit CD to promote science and engineering education for young women. The disc is stocked with brilliant songs from Mates of State, Lunch Money, Elizabeth Mitchell, Renee & Jeremy, Frances England, Babe the Blue Ox, and many more. And there’s also this Tag Interactive Human Body Discovery Pack, which not only shows a curious cartoon girl on the front of the package, but also a photographed pair of children on the cover with the bright little lady in control of the Tag pen. [swoon]
The mixed gender fun continues on the inside of the expanded Human Body Tag fold-out ‘book’ and on the interactive sticker sheets included (the pen works with those too! — [mind still blown]) and it’s just one of many reasons you’ll fall right in love with this genius product from LeapFrog.
The book operates more like an encyclopedia than the girls and I expected, especially after interacting so much with the Get Ready for Kindergarten book earlier in the week. While we very much enjoyed hearing about the ins and outs of the human body — from skin to muscles to skeleton and beyond — the girls were not quite as enthusiastic about proceeding through it to the mini board game at the end. Where I believe the Tag Interactive Human Body Discovery Pack will earn its bones is DURING the school year, to enhance and elevate critical points the girls will learn during their days spent in the classroom. Where the Kindergarten Tag Reader works as a post-modern-ish stand alone activity book, the Human Body book will excel as a complementary piece to school itself. Hence, the encyclopedia reference.
The Bear, age 8.5, who already asked for and received a science-themed birthday party last year, grabbed the Human Body book out of my hands straightaway and sneaked off into the corner to examine the skeleton of this body alone, and sans pen. She is well on her way to being a part of the bright future for women in science and LeapFrog’s Tag Interactive Human Body Discovery Pack is here to encourage, enlighten, and make science education really, really fun for kids from Kindergarten through the 3rd or 4th grade or maybe even 5th grade!
I put the Leapfrog Tag Get Ready for Kindergarten book under a microscope early this week. If you’ve got a child approaching or just entering their first year of school, you’re gonna wanna give that one a serious look.
*I was selected for this opportunity as a compensated member of Clever Girls Collective and received free product from LeapFrog to review. The content and opinions expressed here are all my own. #LeapFrogTag #spon
