Mia's Science Adventure: Romaine's New Hat is the second title of Mia's Big Adventure Collection

Mia's Big Adventure Collection

Mia's Big Adventure Collection is an edutainment software series created in 1998 by Kutoka Interactive. The series consists in four subject-based titles for children in elementary school.- Gameplay :...

software series created by Kutoka Interactive

Kutoka Interactive

Kutoka Interactive is an educational software company founded in Montreal, Quebec, in 1995. The company produces, develops, and distributes both subject-based and grade-based video games for Windows and Macintosh.- Background :...

. Released in 2000 in Canada and the United States, the game teaches sciences to children between 6 and 10 years old.

Adventure

Mia lost Romaine's new hat. The player helps her on a quest to find it back and return home safely.

Activities

The game's 12 educational activities teach about plants and their parts; animals, their habitat

Habitat

* Habitat , a place where a species lives and grows*Human habitat, a place where humans live, work or play** Space habitat, a space station intended as a permanent settlement...

s, eating habits and classification; weather, clouds; the solar system

Solar System

The Solar System consists of the Sun and the astronomical objects gravitationally bound in orbit around it, all of which formed from the collapse of a giant molecular cloud approximately 4.6 billion years ago. The vast majority of the system's mass is in the Sun...

; earth science

Earth science

Earth science is an all-embracing term for the sciences related to the planet Earth. It is arguably a special case in planetary science, the Earth being the only known life-bearing planet. There are both reductionist and holistic approaches to Earth sciences...

; the human body and its systems; heat energy; properties of matter fossil

Fossil

Fossils are the preserved remains or traces of animals , plants, and other organisms from the remote past...

s; electricity

Electricity

Electricity is a general term encompassing a variety of phenomena resulting from the presence and flow of electric charge. These include many easily recognizable phenomena, such as lightning, static electricity, and the flow of electrical current in an electrical wire...

 and magnetism

Magnetism

Magnetism is a property of materials that respond at an atomic or subatomic level to an applied magnetic field. Ferromagnetism is the strongest and most familiar type of magnetism. It is responsible for the behavior of permanent magnets, which produce their own persistent magnetic fields, as well...

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Critical reception

Mia's Science Adventure received positive reviews from the Los Angeles Times, USA Today.com, eToys.com, Parent's Choice, National Parenting Center, Review Corner and others on account of the value of its educational contents, graphics, story and appeal to kids.

Awards

The game received several awards such as the National Parenting Center's "Seal of Approval", the Coalition for Quality Children's Media's "Kids First Endorsement", Parents' Choice's "Gold Award".

External links

• Mia's Science Adventure at Kutoka.com