# Tami's Tower

> Let's Think About Engineering

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1438143259](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1438143259)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id1438143259`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Smithsonian Institution
- **Category:** Puzzle
- **Rating:** 5.00 / 5 (14 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.5
- **Last updated:** 2021-05-01
- **First published:** 2018-12-13
- **Size:** 68 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-03
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tamis-tower/id1438143259)
- **Website:** [https://ssec.si.edu/tamis-tower](https://ssec.si.edu/tamis-tower)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://www.si.edu/Privacy](https://www.si.edu/Privacy)

## Description

It’s lunch time and Tami, the golden lion tamarin, is hungry! Help Tami reach the delicious fruit by building a tower. But watch out! Other animals can cause Tami’s tower to topple over.

From the Smithsonian Science Education Center, Tami’s Tower: Let’s Think About Engineering is an educational engineering design game that will help teach your student how to design a solution to a problem using basic engineering design principles.

Educational features:

•  Aligned to educational science standards for kindergarten through second grade
•  Designed for emergent readers
•  Grounded in educational psychology research
•  Metacognitive prompts provide students an opportunity to monitor and assess their own confidence
•  Teachers can assess student responses to metacognitive prompts through an in-game 
summary screen
•  In-game tutorial to teach students how to play
•  Introduces students to engineering design principles
•  Students will learn how the shape of an object can help it function as needed to solve a problem
•  Students can reflect on previous attempts to improve design
•  Students can design a level in Sandbox mode
•  Designed to be used in the classroom or at home

## Rankings

- #277,152 — Overall

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