Work It Out Wombats Family App app analytics for December 1

Have fun exploring preschool computational thinking (CT) with the Work It Out Wombats! Family App! It’s packed with hands-on activities and your favorite animated stories and songs from the PBS KIDS show Work It Out Wombats! Watch videos, try activities using everyday items found at home, and capture memorable moments with photos, all right in the app. Then, celebrate with music videos starring your child! Features * 12 PBS KIDS Work It Out Wombats! animated stories and songs * 24 hands-on activities with step-by-step instructions * Guided photo-taking for each activity * Customized music videos starring your child * Information for parents about computational thinking * Tips and reflection questions for engaging with your child and deepening their learning * No internet required after app is installed * No in-app purchases * No advertising Learning This app is designed to help preschool-aged children practice computational thinking, a creative way of thinking that helps children solve problems in more organized ways, using a toolkit of skills from computer science. CT prepares children for school success right from the start! It’s important for math, science, and literacy, and it can help children learn computer programming later on. About Work It Out Wombats! Work It Out Wombats! is a PBS KIDS show for preschoolers featuring Malik, Zadie, and Zeke, three energetic wombat siblings who live with their grandmother in the fantastical "Treeborhood" apartment complex. Through their adventures, the Wombats solve problems, accomplish tasks, and express their creative talents—while using computational thinking. This app is used in the Work It Out @ Your Library program. Find more information on PBS LearningMedia in fall 2024. Watch Work It Out Wombats! on the PBS KIDS Video App. Play games from the series on the PBS KIDS Games App. Find more Work It Out Wombats! resources at http://pbskids.org/wombats Funders and Credits Funding for Work it Out @ Your Library is provided by the National Science Foundation. Corporate funding for Work It Out Wombats! is provided by Project Lead the Way, Target, and McCormick. Major funding for Work It Out Wombats! is provided by: a Ready To Learn Grant from the U.S. Department of Education; the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a private corporation funded by the American People; and public television viewers. Additional funding is provided by the National Science Foundation, the United Engineering Foundation, Siegel Family Endowment, The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, and the GBH Kids Catalyst Fund. This content was developed under grants from the Department of Education and from the National Science Foundation. However, this content does not necessarily represent the policy of the Department of Education and/or the opinions, findings and conclusions of the National Science Foundation, and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal Government. The project is funded by a Ready To Learn grant [PR/Award No. S295A200004, CFDA No. 84.295A] provided by the Department of Education to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and by a grant from the National Science Foundation (DRL-2005975) to WGBH Educational Foundation. Work It Out Wombats! is produced by GBH Kids and Pipeline Studios. Work It Out Wombats!, TM/© 2024 WGBH Educational Foundation. All rights reserved. Your Privacy GBH Kids is committed to creating a safe and secure environment for children and families and being transparent about information that is collected from users. The Work It Out Wombats! Family App collects anonymous, aggregated analytics data for the purpose of improving our content. No personally identifiable data is collected. Photos taken with the app are stored on your device as part of the app’s core functionality. The app does not send or share these photos anywhere. GBH Kids does not see any photos taken by this app. For more about the GBH Kids privacy policy, visit gbh.org/privacy/kids