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Playing with eToys

Give the car some instructions in a certain order and watch it respond to your commands. Can you guess the next action the car will take?

Paint a picture or take a picture with the camera and then create objects that work with it in the eToys Activity.

Create objects of different weights and change how gravity works on each.

eToys screenshot

What am I learning?

You are learning how to make an item respond to commands and react to the environment you create for it. You are making objects and giving the objects certain attributes and actions, which is similar to computer programming.

Why is this important?

Understanding how to make things helps you understand how systems work. In this simulated environment that you set up, you can test out ideas that you have about how the world around you works.

See Also

Learning and exploring with the XO

Browsing and reading on the Internet

Writing with the XO

Drawing with the XO

Chatting with other XO people

Recording with the microphone and capturing images with the cameras

Learning with Turtle Art

Playing with Pippy

Calculating with the XO

Measuring waveforms with the Measure Activity

Memorizing with the XO

Playing Connect

Playing with TamTam

Installing new Activities