Step inside to test your knowledge in the Quizinator

Choose different levels and topics

Are your little ones just starting to learn about science? Have them try their knowledge in Level 1: a fun way to introduce youngsters to the subject!

Match pictures to words in Level 1

Maybe they’re looking for something a bit more advanced? Level 2 ups the ante and introduces harder questions and a timer. Answer the questions faster for more points!

Can your child beat the clock for more points?

And for your big kids, there’s Level 3 – packed with our toughest questions. Hope your kids like a challenge!

Let your kids test their most advanced science knowledge

For the latter two levels, correctly answer the questions as quickly as possible to earn the most points!

Can your child earn the high score?

Also, for easier entry, check out the new Uncle Milton®’s Amazing ScienceLand FunZone DownTown.

See our scientacular FunZone!

Admire the aquarium from the outside or use it as an extra access point to enter Uncle Milton®’s Amazing ScienceLand!

Gaze into our awesome aquarium!

Keep a lookout for these new additions and let us know what your kids think!

It’s easy- start by simply entering your child’s name and grade.  You can choose between Preschool through 4th Grade. Then select up to three answers to a few simple, age-specific questions about your child, such as their favorite game or their favorite thing to read.

When you’re done, the JumpStart profiler will match your answers to the two Jumpstart characters that fit your child best! Each character comes with a specific learning style, along with links to find out more about each character and their type of intelligence, to help you best understand how your child learns.

Head over to the JumpStart All-Stars Learning Styles Test and find out about your child’s learning style today!

Does your child want to play baseball like an All Star? You’ll need to reach level 4 to gain access to this winning ensemble!

Baseball Uniform

To get the royal treatment, your child will have to reach level 10! What a crowning achievement that would be!

Princess Outfit

Reaching level 8 to get this buzz-worthy flight suit sure takes a lot of hard work!

Buggy Flight Suit

Your children can celebrate their birthday in style if they reach level 6!

Stylin' Birthday Threadz

And at JumpStart, the dress-up fun never ends! New clothes are arriving all the time! Fresh summer looks arrived today, so encourage your kids to play JumpStart so they can get some fun new clothes!

What motivates your children to play? Are new looks as exciting to them as they are to us?

We hope this new layout means less time navigating through the game and more time learning and playing!  Have fun with it!

Uncle Milton®'s Amazing ScienceLand

In this adventure-filled anthill, Jumpeez can bounce high in the gravity defying Gel Colony…

The Gel Colony Bounce House

 take a flying tour on a winged ant…

Flying Ant Ride

pick up interesting “factoids” about science by clicking on giant ants…

Fun Science Factoids

and even meet the Queen after successfully completing the Queen Ant Maze!

The Queen Ant Maze

Interested in outer space?  Take a video tour of our solar system using the StarScope at the top of the anthill!  Explore Jupiter’s moons, learn about supernovas, see the clouds of Venus and much, much more!

The StarScope

 Also, coming soon to Uncle Milton®’s Amazing ScienceLand is the Quizinator, a trivia game that will challenge your science smarts! Be sure to check back here for updates on this and other new additions to Uncle Milton®’s Amazing ScienceLand. 

That green top is off limits until I level up...

Lately, we’ve received a few questions about ranks so we thought this would be the perfect time to take you behind the scenes and show you how ranks work. The ranks at JumpStart.com are powered by stars…JumpStars that is! As you earn JumpStars, you’ll level up and reach new ranks.

Wondering how many JumpStars you have? Just click on your JumpStart Communicator and select the JumpStars tab. You’ll be able to see your current rank as well as how many stars you need to level up.

Yipee! Level 4.

So where do these mysterious JumpStars come from? Great question! Jumpeez are rewarded with JumpStars for exploring new areas and playing new games! There are stars waiting to be earned in MainStreet, in the Lands (FutureLand, MarineLand, AdventureLand & StoryLand) and in the downloadable games that are included with a JumpStart membership.

In MainStreet, try playing new levels of Ghost Town Grab or stop by the Sound Bop or Robo-A-Go-Go kiosks in the arcade for stars. In the Speed Drome, race your way through the various levels of Buggy Racer to see if you can level up! In the Lands, complete missions and try all of the learning game levels – each new level that you achieve mastery (more than 80% correct) in will boost your star count! Finally, if you are a member, make sure to try out the downloadable games…there are hundreds of additional JumpStars waiting to be earned!

Now that you’ve got the scoop on the best spots to land some JumpStars, make sure to keep an eye on the competition in the Hall of Fame. There, you’ll be able to see how you stack up to Jumpeez around the world.

Such talented Jumpeez!

So next time you’re in one of the shops DownTown and discover the item you want is locked, head on over to a learning game and give a new level a try. You’ll earn JumpStars, rake in some coins and train your brain, all at the same time!

In honor of St. Patrick’s Day, we wanted to find out what gives a leaf its signature green appearance.  The answer is complex, but most of it stems from its pigments, the tiny materials that give off color in paint, fur, and even our skin.  In this experiment, we will bring out the green pigments that give a leaf its color and see what other colors a leaf can hide!

What you’ll need:

• Coffee filters
• Small Drinking Glasses
• Rubbing Alcohol
• Tree leaves (preferably from trees that change colors with the seasons)
  

  Our example uses a maple leaf.

• Hot water
• Pencil or pen
• Tape
• Optional: Plastic wrap

What to do:

1. Collect several green leaves from a tree. Trees that really change color in the fall are the best, but you can use leaves from any “deciduous” tree, a tree that loses its leaves in the winter.
2. Tear the set of leaves into several pieces and place them in a small drinking glass.
3. Add just enough rubbing alcohol to barely cover all the leaf pieces.
4. Cover the container with foil or plastic wrap to keep the alcohol from evaporating into the air. (optional)
5. Put the container in a dish of hot tap water for about 30 minutes.
6. Watch for the alcohol to go from clear to green.
7. Cut a strip out of the middle of a coffee filter, about one inch wide and just long enough to dip into the alcohol from the rim of the glass, for the leaf sets that you want to test.
8. Tape one end of the filter to a pencil or stick, and suspend it across the container, with the other end just touching the alcohol and pigment mixture.
9. Allow some of the mixture to travel slowly up the filter slice.
10. Wait about 90 minutes.

Wow, a lot happened over those couple of hours! Let’s investigate…

First, why’d the rubbing alcohol turn St. Paddy’s Day-green?  Well, the alcohol turns green as the pigments from the leaves are absorbed into it; the heated water warms the alcohol, encouraging the pigments that color the leaf to rush out of the cut-up leaf pieces and spread out in the absorbing alcohol, giving it the leaf’s green color too!

After you placed the coffee filter into the resulting green mixture, did you see the green color break up into several different colors?  Out of our mixture, we saw the coffee filter slip pull out the different color pigments.  After they separated, we ended up with dark and light yellows and green pigments.  You can bet that those yellow pigments would have become more active with the arrival of fall later on, when the green pigments start to break down with the season.

The color pigments hidden in our leaf!

What kind of colors did your leaves reveal?  Apparently leaves can hide a lot of different colors, as well as leprechauns!

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“Following and creating patterns, making comparisons, cause and effect, hand-eye coordination, following multi-step directions, life skills, goal setting, computer use, interaction with technology, etc. are all elements involved while playing in JumpStart”, says Heather Tuttle, Curriculum Writer.

Let’s take a look…

It takes quite a bit of hand-eye coordination to get to navigate Free Fall Mountain.

And navigating that chocolate maze requires pattern and letter recognition skills.

Even the pre-programmed chat words in the game are based on Dolch’s sight words, a set of words that should be standard knowledge by the third grade.

Plus, dance moves and emoticons help kids learn about social cues and body language. (After all, the Jumpeez showing angry emoticons are never as fun to make friends with.)

And the Jumpee Creator teaches body parts, colors and more.

Heather explains, “When a kid is playing at JumpStart they are drowning in opportunities for learning. Without even realizing it, this child is exploring, discovering, and beginning to make connections with prior knowledge, creating new knowledge.”

So tell your kids to go explore, chat, and play at JumpStart.com. You can relax, knowing that they are learning math and reading…but also much, much more.

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Jumpeez can pump up their brains and earn coins at the Brain Training Center!

What you may not realize is that lots more learning is available in FutureLand, at the IQ Actionizer!  FutureLand is a great place to check out if your child is toward the older end of JumpStart’s age range.

Your little adventurer can kick butt at learning games in FutureLand!

The IQ Actionizer is packed full of learning content for students in the third, fourth, and fifth grades, which means reading, writing, and arithmetic feature prominently.

Looks like we’re going to need a pencil and paper for this one…

Of course, there’s a lot more math content than just multiplication. Players can also practice addition, subtraction, division, fractions, place value, counting money, and much more!

In the reading games, students will learn about complete sentences, parts of speech, prefixes, suffixes, spelling, capitalization, and homonyms, among many other topics.

We’re glad Uncle Max is happy, but is that a complete sentence?

Geography games will teach your explorer about world and U.S. geography, states and capitals, U.S. government, world currency, reading maps, and units of measurement.

Science questions round out the learning with information about astronomy, science history, critical thinking, and graph reading.

Reading graphs and charts is an important skill for many subjects, particularly science.

Best of all, this is a great opportunity for players to earn lots of coins, so they’ll be jumping at the chance to learn. Next time your big kids are on JumpStart.com, make sure they check out FutureLand for a great chance to learn and earn!

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