Here, Toca Boca includes the Periodic Table as a pull-down window that is quite stylized, containing numbered yet un-named (presumably as Toca Boca apps are language-neutral in their nature) whimsically illustrated elements, also including hints that encourage users to experiment with these anthropomorphized building blocks leading to the idea that one can freeze, heat, spin, or even magnetize their way to totally different elements. Others may want to avoid the science fiction included within this app. Said to be an app developed to encourage curiosity of science with elemental changes not meant to be taken literally, some parents may enjoy sharing this app with their children based on the ability to work together safely with lab equipment and the general representation of the Periodic Table a plus. The degree that this may bother parents is personal. Can these substances be separated? Would one use the centrifuge or once again separate the liquid by heating it to a gas? The possibilities for an open-ended app that focuses on physical changes are endless, but instead Toca Boca has married the Periodic Table to this application, which in-turn delivers it into the world of fantasy that may be entertaining but lacks any true scientific merit. Maybe in some of the available mixes, both liquids and solids would be combined. My hopes included different mixtures that one could freeze into a solid or melt back into a liquid, if not also being able to go further by heating it to the point of turning into a gas, capturing it via a contraption a user may build from glass tubing, and a receiving flask.
I was looking forward to seeing how Toca Boca, known for their digital toys, would tackle something as classic as a chemistry set. As one may expect the look of this app is quirky and inviting, with pleasing colors and sound effects that Toca Boca is known for. A cooling agent to freeze mixtures is offered, as are other tools found in this laboratory. As the name may express, Toca Lab takes place in a laboratory setting where one has a chance to perform experiments with many of the same tools I used in eighth grade physical chemistry such as a Bunsen burner to heat or a centrifuge to spin solutions in order to separate solids and liquids.
Toca Lab is an interesting new interactive app by Toca Boca.
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