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It's aimed at children around your daughters age (might be a few years too young, I'm not sure). It covers lots of fun science, craft, music topics and has many small activities that can be made at home.
There is a lot on YT: https://m.youtube.com/user/CuriosityShow
Some of the segments are a bit out of date now but most are still totally relevant today.
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I don't Minecraft but I do have kids. Can you unpack some of those terms? What is Java Minecraft vs "regular" Minecraft? What is "modded technical Minecraft"?
There are two versions of Minecraft. Java version is the original Minecraft, but Microsoft rewrote it and called it "Bedrock" for Xbox; this version is ported to a number of platforms including the PC. It supports "data packs" which can change the game but not as extensively as "mods" for Java Minecraft. "Technical Minecraft" involves building various machines in Minecraft; either in vanilla (unmodded) using red ston…
https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/store/minecraft-java-bedrock...
And do I need to run the server, or is that only for multiplayer?
I teach creative coding and maintain a site that has a list of creative tools (graphics, music, coding, writing, game-making) that are mainly free, and web-based. You can filter them by "easiness". https://digitalcreativitytools.everythingability.com/ I made the site for university students, but I have tested/vetted all of the tools myself, often with my child who is now just 11. There are some activities you could d…
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I don't Minecraft but I do have kids. Can you unpack some of those terms? What is Java Minecraft vs "regular" Minecraft? What is "modded technical Minecraft"?
There are two versions of Minecraft. Java version is the original Minecraft, but Microsoft rewrote it and called it "Bedrock" for Xbox; this version is ported to a number of platforms including the PC. It supports "data packs" which can change the game but not as extensively as "mods" for Java Minecraft. "Technical Minecraft" involves building various machines in Minecraft; either in vanilla (unmodded) using red ston…
There's an old game from the 90s I loved : The Incredible Machine . It's all about devising elaborate Rube Goldberg machines to solve puzzles. The cat knocks a ball into the goldfish bowl, which tips over and fills a bucket that operates a pulley that flips a switch that opens a door. That kind of thing. I remember it being very freeform and exploratory, teaching cause and effect and physics and thinking through comp…
Mia Mouse/Mia’s Big Adventure Collection was something I recall playing as a kid.
I definitely think I was much younger than 7 though, I’d been playing RuneScape for close to 3 years by the time I was 7. Mia’s is probably still appropriate & engaging enough for that age though.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mia%27s_Big_Adventure_Collec...
I think I’m specifically remembering Mia Math, but it looks like there’s Math/Science/Reading/Language, seems to be marketed for education.
Something I liked to do around that age was make "newspapers" for my parents - no need to buy or download anything (except paper and staples, I guess). Fold some paper in half a couple times, cut it, staple it together, until you have a booklet that's vaguely small-newspaper-shaped. Give it to her and let her imagination run wild writing whatever she feels like, reporting on recent activities at school, at home, coul…
And, for the love of all that is holy, please do not throw them away in a couple of years thinking it's junk! Saying this as a kid who used to write books/newspapers and then got most of them thrown away...
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There are two versions of Minecraft. Java version is the original Minecraft, but Microsoft rewrote it and called it "Bedrock" for Xbox; this version is ported to a number of platforms including the PC. It supports "data packs" which can change the game but not as extensively as "mods" for Java Minecraft. "Technical Minecraft" involves building various machines in Minecraft; either in vanilla (unmodded) using red ston…
Thank you. I have a spare debian box that will make a great server, I hope.
https://www.alibris.com/Way-Things-Work-David-Macaulay/book/...
For the unfamiliar - the book is an illustrated guide to how different kinds of mechanisms and designed systems work starting from simple machines, levers, wheel and axle, etc. through to nuclear fission and moving on through computers in the sequels.
David Macaulay's writing and illustrations are top-notch. Honestly, all of his books are great, but this is the one that I actually owned when I was younger so I read it all the time - hard to put into words the impact it had on me at around that same age.