Starlight Ridge: Learn Space

Starlight Ridge is a stargazing lookout on a high desert ridge in central Oregon, with junipers, ponderosa pines, an observatory dome and a camp lantern. Nova is a northern saw-whet owl, tiny and round with big golden eyes, and Nova is your child's guide to the sky. Every Mission your child finishes earns Nova a new piece of astronaut gear: a mission patch first, a helmet, a flag and a star map by the eighth.

Starlight Ridge teaches children aged 5 to 10 the solar system and space, one small step at a time. At every stop your child meets two or three new space wonders: the sun, the planets, moons, dwarf planets, comets, stars, galaxies and the spacecraft that explore them. Then they play with what they learned: drag each planet onto its path around the sun, match the moon's shape to the name of its phase, connect the stars to draw the Big Dipper and Orion, and put the steps of a rocket launch in order and watch it fly. Every Mission ends with a little picture book, read aloud.

REAL SCIENCE, CHECKED
- 90 space wonders, each with a picture, what kind of thing it is, what it is known for and three facts, checked against NASA's published pages
- Eight Missions: Sun, Earth and Moon; The Moon; Rocky Planets; Giant Planets; Small Worlds; Stars and Constellations; Rockets and Astronauts; Galaxies and Seasons
- Over 330 questions and 8 picture books
- Ten star patterns you can find from your own backyard
- Honest about what changes: Pluto is a dwarf planet, and the game says kindly why
- The first rule of stargazing is in the game from the first minute: never look straight at the sun
- Nothing is asked before it has been taught

LEARNS WITH YOUR CHILD
- A spaced-practice engine keeps track of every space wonder 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 Sky Patrol: one short mixed lesson a day
- A wrong answer is never punished: Nova helps, and the question comes back a little later

LOTS OF ENCOURAGEMENT
- Spoken praise, streaks, stars, a sticker for every stop, medals, badges and a trophy shelf
- My Sky Map: a map of the solar system and the night sky that fills in with color as your child masters each space wonder
- A girl or boy astronaut in five skin tones, so every child can pick the one that looks like them, with a matching narrator voice and a wardrobe of jumpsuit 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 Mission's progress and what is worth practicing next
- Sound, music and voice switches, 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
Mission 1 (the sun, Earth and the moon: 11 stops and the first picture book) is free. One single purchase, made by a grown-up inside the grown-ups area, unlocks Missions 2 to 8 for good. No subscription.