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Animal Buddies

ID 1708
Title Animal Buddies
Published True
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Image https://www.wyethnutrition.co.id/sites/default/files/2023-02/5115415_GettyImages-177850950-RF.jpg
PWA Age month 24_36
PWA Dimensions cognitive_flexibility
PWA Duration(minutes) 5_15min
PWA Lead Pick animals with common features in this fun card game. How many can you find?
PWA Materials Pictures, printouts or stickers of a variety of animals
PWA Progress Marker Identifies animal pairs using multiple traits consistently;Pairs animals based on a single feature;Pairs animals based on more and more different features
PWA Question Body Was {LEARNER_FNAME} able to identify similarities between pairs of animals?
PWA Tags Animals;Indoor;Preparation
PWA Try this Prepare by printing or sticking at least 12 pictures of animals onto small cards or pieces of paper. Include some land creatures (such as a lion, dog, and spider) and sea creatures (such as octopus, dolphin and fish).    Lay all your cards out on the table and explain that different animals have some things in common. For example, a lion and a cheetah are both cats. They could also have the same number of legs, live in water or on land, or both have a tail. Challenge {LEARNER_FNAME} to find two animals that are alike in some way and try to guess why {SUBJ_PRONOUN} chose them. Then swap roles: you point to two animals, and ask {LEARNER_FNAME} to guess what they have in common.
PWA Variations
PWA What to look As {LEARNER_FNAME} chooses pairs of animals, make incorrect guesses and note whether {SUBJ_PRONOUN} corrects you. Can {SUBJ_PRONOUN} explain the right answer?
PWA Why this matters This game practices abstraction, or coming up with different ways to categorize objects based on different features, which helps develop cognitive flexibility. Finding features in common shows that {LEARNER_FNAME} is able to adjust his thinking and should be able to extend that skill to other things. UTM-EM-042-MAR-21
PWA Question Response Option first Seemed to choose two animals at random ;Chose two animals that had similarities but couldn't say what was similar ;Always chose animals based on the same feature (for example, number of legs) ;Chose pairs of animals based on different features ;Correctly identified common features of pairs that you chose
PWA Question Response Option second 0;1;2;3;4
PWA Collections
PWA Slug /flexible-animal-pairs
PWA Waiting for Review True
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