For grown-ups
CurioTots is a little cabinet of curiosities. A young scientist opens a drawer, looks closely at a real treasure, and sorts it — the very first move of science: notice, then group by what you notice.
How to play together
- Pick a way to sort: shiny or dull? · hard or soft? · was it ever alive?
- A treasure comes out of the drawer. Look at it, then tap the right drawer for it.
- A good sort tells you something you noticed, out loud. When they're all sorted, a real fact is read aloud.
- Not sure? The cabinet never says “wrong” — it just asks “which drawer?” and lets you look again.
Take it into the real world
- Find real things at home — a spoon, a leaf, a pebble, a sock — and sort them the same three ways.
- “Is it shiny or dull? How can you tell?”
- “Was it ever alive? A leaf grew on a plant — a spoon never did.”
What it's good for (and what we don't claim)
CurioTots builds classifying by an attribute (K.MD) and the living / non-living idea (K-LS1) — real early-science habits. It is not a brain-training program and makes no claim it raises IQ or test scores.