Habitat Hollow: Learn Animals

Habitat Hollow is a ranger camp at the edge of a Pacific Northwest forest. Juniper is a fox kit and a ranger in training, and Juniper is your child's guide to the wild places of the world. Every habitat your child explores earns Juniper a new piece of ranger gear: a hat first, then a vest, binoculars, a backpack and more, all the way to the head ranger's feather.

Habitat Hollow teaches children aged 6 to 12 about animals and where they live, one small step at a time. Eight habitats: the temperate forest, the grassland and savanna, the desert, the tropical rainforest, the ocean, the rivers, lakes and wetlands, the polar lands, and the mountains, caves and islands. At every stop your child meets a few animals on a fact card that is read aloud: its animal group, where it lives, what it eats, what its baby is called, when it is awake, its adaptation and a fun fact. Then they play with what they learned: find the animal hiding in its habitat, name it by its picture, sort animals by group, by what they eat and by day or night, match each adaptation to what it is for, and put animals in their homes. Every habitat ends with a little picture book, read aloud.

REAL SCIENCE, CHECKED
- 96 animals, 12 in each habitat, with facts checked against zoo, park and wildlife references
- Six animal groups taught with what makes each one special: mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish and invertebrates
- Nearly 500 questions and 8 picture books
- Nothing is asked before it has been taught: every question's answer is said to your child first

RANGER GAMES
- Food Chain Builder: 40 real food chains, each told first, then built
- Life Cycles: from egg to tadpole to froglet to frog, and 12 more
- Day and Night, Home Match and the Animal Groups Lab
- Ranger Stories: six true stories, from John Muir to the return of the bald eagle
- A Daily Sighting: one animal a day, with a streak to keep

LEARNS WITH YOUR CHILD
- A spaced-practice engine keeps track of every animal and fact, brings back the shaky ones and moves on from the strong ones
- The Practice button builds a lesson from exactly what your child needs
- A wrong answer is never punished: Juniper helps, and the question comes back a little later
- Every word the narrator says is also on the screen

LOTS OF ENCOURAGEMENT
- Spoken praise, streaks, stars, a sticker for every stop, medals, ranger badges and a trophy shelf
- The Field Guide: a collection board of all 96 animals that fills in with color as your child gets to know each one
- A girl or boy junior ranger in five skin tones, so every child can pick the one that looks like them, with a matching narrator voice and six outfit colors
- Up to three players on one device, each with their own progress

FOR GROWN-UPS
- A grown-ups area (behind a multiplication question) shows each habitat's progress and what is worth practicing next
- Narrator, music and sound volumes, and a reset for each player

SAFE FOR CHILDREN
- No ads, ever. No accounts, no sign-in, no chat, no links out
- No data is collected: progress and an optional first name stay on this device only
- Works fully offline

TRY IT FREE
Habitat 1 (the temperate forest: 11 stops, 12 animals and the first picture book) is free. One single purchase, made by a grown-up inside the grown-ups area, unlocks Habitats 2 to 8 for good. No subscription.