Nico & Nor Ramps Journal

Ready! Set! Go! Use the Ramps Journal while sending toys down ramps. Which one makes the toy go farther? Keep track of the results in your digital science journal. Are the toys speeding by too quickly? No problem. Record videos in slow motion! The Ramps Journal offers scaffolds for children as they document their own science experiments on force and motion.

Features
• Supports real-world experiments with ramps
• Captures slow-motion videos of objects in motion
• Charts results of experiments over time
• Aligns with research-based early science learning trajectories
• No in-app purchases
• No advertising

This app is designed for children to to strengthen their science investigation skills and explore the concepts of force and motion as they:
• Describe the speed of an object using words such as faster and slower.
• Describe how an object’s motion changed, slowed down, stopped, or changed direction after bumping into something.
• Understand that gravity is a force that pulls things down.
• Describe the incline of a pathway using words such as steep, gentle, steeper, less steep.
• Describe the surface texture of a pathway or an object using words such as smooth, slippery, bumpy.
• Begin to understand that friction slows objects down, and that the rougher the object, the more friction it creates when it rubs against another object.
• Understand that objects generally move farther and faster on steeper or smoother pathways.
• Carry out experiments about how an object will move on different pathways and about how objects with different surface textures will move on identical pathways.
• Begin to make predictions, to record data, to compare observations to predictions, and to construct explanations of the observations.

The Ramps Journal and the entire Ramps curriculum supplement from Early Science with Nico & Nor™ was rigorously researched and developed specifically for preschool classroom use. The Ramps unit contains two apps: Coconut Star and the Ramps Journal. Children and teachers use the Ramps Journal to record videos and results from their ramp experiments.

Each Early Science with Nico & Nor curriculum supplement combines traditional classroom activities with digital learning to promote young children’s engagement with age-appropriate science practices and concepts during circle time, learning centers, read-aloud boo