Peep and the Big Wide World, produced by WGBH, offers a great collection of online games, videos, and offline activities designed to help pre-K and elementary school students learn and develop math and science skills. In all there are fifteen online games available through Peep and the Big Wide World. The games cover skills like pattern recognition, color and shape recognition, distances, and counting.
The educators and families sections of Peep and the Big Wide World offer great activities designed to extend the science and lessons provided in the Peep and the Big Wide World videos. In fact, when you’re on the video page you will notice that there is a suggested Anywhere Activity listed with each video.
In addition to the browser-based activities Peep and the Big Wide World offers six free iPad apps for students. The iPad apps offer six of the games provided in the browser-based version of Peep and the Big Wide World.
Applications for Education
Peep and the Big Wide World is a good place to find resource for pre-K and early elementary school science and mathematics lessons. In your next newsletter or blog post for parents point out the family activities section in which parents can find activities to do with their children to support what they’re learning in your classroom.
