Gracie & Friends AR Adventures

In AR Adventures, players can visit a farm and go to a fair right in their own room as they practice spatial thinking! The app uses augmented reality (AR) technology that incorporates characters and scenes onto the player's real world. Navigate through a farm to pick apples and feed the animals! Visit rides at the fair to get stickers and fill in a map! This app supports children's math skills like understanding vocabulary for spatial relationships, using maps to plan and follow paths, and making maps to show spatial relationships.

Features
- 2 augmented reality adventures
- 2D maps to explore and create
- Cute barnyard animals
- Fun fair rides
- Alignment with research-based early math learning trajectories
- Free, no in-app purchases
- No advertising
- No personal or tracking data collected

This app provides a variety of ways for children to practice their spatial thinking skills. Spatial thinking is the math that is used when navigating, reading maps and diagrams, and following directions to put things together.


Learning Goals

This app is designed to help children strengthen their spatial thinking skills as they:

- Understand spatial relationships and use spatial vocabulary such as: in front of, next to, and between
- Use maps and diagrams to plan, describe, and follow paths
- Connect maps to their real-world locations or objects


Early Math with Gracie & Friends® is a math-focused preschool curriculum supplement that includes resources for classroom and home use. AR Adventures and complementary activities for preschool classrooms and families were created as part of a research and development project to explore how AR can support young children's spatial learning.

Check out more math apps and hands-on, non-digital activities for early learners 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 part