Software:Mia's Science Adventure: Romaine's New Hat

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Mia's Science Adventure
Mia's Science Adventure - Romaine's New Hat Coverart.png
Cover Art
Developer(s)Kutoka Interactive
Publisher(s)Kutoka Interactive
SeriesMia's Big Adventure Collection
EngineMacromedia Director
Platform(s)Windows , Macintosh
Release2000
Genre(s)Educational
Mode(s)Adventure Mode, Activities Mode

Mia's Science Adventure: Romaine's New Hat is the second title of the Mia's Big Adventure Collection software series created by Kutoka Interactive. Released in 2000 in Canada and the United States , the game teaches sciences to children between 6 and 10 years old.[1]

Adventure

Mia lost her mother's hat to the rat Romaine. The player helps her on a quest to find it, buy it back and return home safely.

Activities

The game's 12 educational activities teach about plants and their parts; animals, their habitats, eating habits and classification; weather, clouds; the Solar System; earth science; the human body and its systems; heat energy; properties of matter fossils; electricity and magnetism.[1]

Critical reception

Mia's Science Adventure received positive reviews from the Los Angeles Times, USA Today.com, eToys.com, Parent's Choice,[2] National Parenting Center,[3] Review Corner[4] and others on account of the value of its educational contents, graphics, story and appeal to children.[5]

Reception

Reception
Review score
PublicationScore
Review Corner4.5/5 stars[6]
Award
PublicationAward
Review CornerAward of Excellence[6]

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".[7]

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Mia's Science Adventure: Romaine's New Hat". Kutoka.com, retrieved on 2009-06-17
  2. "Mia's Science Adventure: Romaine's New Hat - Fall 2000 Software". Parent's Choice, retrieved on 2009-06-17
  3. "Seal of Approval Winner Fall 2000 - Mia - Just in Time!". TNPC. 2009-06-17
  4. "mia's science adventure (Romaine's new hat)". Review Corner, retrieved on 2009-06-17
  5. "Mia's Science Adventure: Romaine's New Hat - Press Review & Awards". Kutoka.com, retrieved on 2009-06-17
  6. 6.0 6.1 "Mia's Science Adventure - Review Corner". August 2000. Archived from the original on April 5, 2004. https://web.archive.org/web/20040405152011/http://reviewcorner.com/software/mia2hat.html. Retrieved March 17, 2016. 
  7. "Mia's Science Adventure Awards ". Kutoka.com, retrieved on 2009-06-17

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