Despite being fairly broad, we feel the Explorer kit actually provides a fairly well-balanced learning experience, covering topics in science, spelling, coding and creative art at a variety of age ranges. Age-Based Starter Kits A rather new and unique title in the Osmo series, this kit is designed around Osmo’s Math Wizard app series, an adventure/RPG series of educational math games that teach math up to grade 3.

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Of course, as nice as it may be, gameplay isn’t enough for an educational device like Osmo. It should actually provide a good amount of educational value. Other than the Osmo set, this kit includes maps, magnifying glasses and multiplayer game accessories for up to 4 people. Designed to cover the elementary school fundamentals of math, reading, creativity, geography, and coding, this Osmo kit throws in everything but the kitchen sink.This aims the camera at the area in front of the device where your child’s hands and the kit’s pieces will be, letting the software “see” them.

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With that said, there aren’t that many other educational augmented reality kits for young kids that provide a tactile-digital experience and cover such a wide range of subjects. Combines the base Little Genius and Genius sets, offering the Osmo set as well as all 9 basic games. Overall, a good option if you want a Genius set that grows with your child as it covers ages 3-10. Designed for preschool kindergarten learners, the Little Genius kit contains the Osmo set and four games that cover topics such as learning the alphabet, pre-drawing art, puzzles and emotional/social development.Osmo’s play-based learning approach is also quite well implemented, which is no surprise given that the device was actually developed with the help of child development experts.

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Designed for kids ages 5-10, the Explorer Starter Kit provides a fairly broad range of educational subjects. As educators and parents we also like that Osmo has separated its starter kits based around different learning philosophies, with age- and skill-based kits providing ready options for parents, i.e. whether they prefer to take a skill-based vs grade-based teaching approach. Bottom Line: Finally, Osmo’s game-like nature makes learning enjoyable, yet challenging, and gives students a strong feeling of accomplishment with plenty of audio-visual rewards for correct answers. Osmo Kits and Pricing Although Osmo can be expensive for many families, we do like the flexibility that is built into the system itself. In fact, it can run on pretty much any iPad that runs iOS 10+, with the notable exceptions of the first generation iPad, the Air 4, and the 11-inch and 12.9-inch iPad Pro series.Focused around art (particularly drawing) and creative thinking, this kit includes the Osmo set, a digital drawing board, some erasable markers and 3 apps (Monster, Newton and Masterpiece) that help develop creativity and drawing skill, as well as some drawing-assisted physics in the case of Newton. With fresh, modern graphics and animations and lots of engaging content (some from popular franchises, such as Disney’s Frozen), they really do feel like top-quality games and certainly kept our tester enthralled for hours. And, to their credit, Osmo produces new content pretty frequently so there is usually something new coming out. Interestingly, these coding programs use physical squares that fit together like a puzzle to create different programming instructions that are then played out on screen. Like a physical version of Scratch coding, which is pretty cool. Whether it’s using a pen to draw, arranging number tiles or letter pieces, with Osmo there’s a lot of hands-on play involved that is complimented by well-made digital animations and games that interact with what they’re doing in real life.