Children Develop Early Learning Skills in Reading, Maths and the Arts with their Favourite Star Wars Characters.
A celebration is taking place honouring the new-found friendship between the Gungans and the people of Naboo, and everyone is invited in Star Wars Early Learning Activity Centre. Children join in the celebration through exploring six different engaging and entertaining activities, designed to help develop early learning skills in reading, maths and the arts. Star Wars Early Learning™ joins the library of Lucas Learning award-winning titles, focused on providing children learning opportunities through exploration and discovery.
With Star Wars Early Learning, players join a variety of their favourite Star Wars: Episode I characters such as Anakin and Queen Amidala, and choose from three open-ended and three directed activities. Open-ended activities allow children to explore and create their own music, dances and puppet shows while the three directed activities provide practice in sorting, pattern recognition, and spatial and directional concepts. In the Gungan Treasure Hunt for example, children gain experience with spatial and directional concepts as they guide Obi-Wan through an underwater world, discovering hidden caves and uncovering treasures. All directed activities automatically increase in complexity and difficulty and are based on the basic activities found in a developmental pre-school or kindergarten.
"In keeping with the Lucas Learning vision, Star Wars Early Learning provides a 'learning through play' experience through both open-ended and directed activities," says Andrea Futter, project leader for Lucas Learning. "The activities were designed to nurture both creativity and critical thinking, while developing many of the concepts and skills that are age appropriate for 4-6 year olds including pre-reading and language development, early maths, music and dance."
About Lucas Learning:
Lucas Learning Ltd. develops and publishes engaging interactive entertainment and educational software that provides learning opportunities through exploration and discovery. Based in San Rafael, California, as well as on the Internet at www.lucaslearning.com, Lucas Learning is one of five Lucas companies. LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC is a leading international developer and publisher of interactive entertainment software. Lucas Digital Ltd., comprised of Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) and Skywalker Sound, provides visual effects and audio post-production services to the entertainment industry. Lucasfilm Ltd. includes George Lucas' feature film and television activities, as well as THX. Lucas Licensing Ltd. is responsible for the merchandising of all Lucasfilm's film and television properties.