Knowledge First 1 - Activity List
1. Moving Targets
The child is shown several pictures in motion. They are then given a word and are asked to select the corresponding picture.
Motor Skills, Hand/Eye Coordination and Visual Discrimination
2. Matching
The child is given the sound of a certain letter. They are then shown a real animal picture along with six stuffed animal pictures. The child is asked to drag on the matching stuffed animal picture to the real animal picture.
Object Recognition, Visual Discrimination and Cognitive Development
3. Silhouettes 2
The child is shown a silhouette and asked to match it to one of six full color pictures. The child is then asked to find the word for the picture that was just identified.
Visual Discrimination, Long-Term Memory, Reading and Shape Discrimination
4. Word Crunching
The child is asked to use one hundred words that can be combined to make fifty new words.
Reading, Fluid Intelligence, Vocabulary Development and Cognitive Development
5. Pictures and Places
The child is asked to place pictures into eight categories; e.g. crab to ocean and apple to orchard. Then they are asked to place those learned words into eight categories.
Cognitive Development, Reading and Crystallized Intelligence/Knowledge
6. Fill It Up Please
The child is asked to select words to complete fifty different sentences.
Reading, Sentence Comprehension and Auditory Intelligence
7. Can You Guess?
The child is shown a picture and asked what would happen next, or what the next logical step is.
Auditory Intelligence, Cognitive Development and Deductive Reasoning
8. Identify Me
The child is shown a picture with objects that are not easily identified and then asked to identify what it is they are looking at.
Visual discrimination, Deductive Reasoning and Cognitive Development
9. Put This Away Please
The child is shown seven rooms on the left side of the screen and six objects are shown on the right side of the screen. The child is asked to place the objects in the corresponding room.
Deductive Reasoning, Visual Discrimination and Categorizing Skills
10. Predictions
The child has to make a prediction about an initial picture; e.g. colt turns into horse. Then they have to choose the correct word for the learned picture.
Reading, Visual Discrimination, Deductive Reasoning and Cognitive Development
11. Things That Relate
The child is shown six pictures, they must then select two pictures that have the same kind of thing happening in them, same kind of use, or even look the same.
Visual discrimination, Object Recognition and Categorizing Skills
12. Catch a Glimpse
The child is asked to look at a picture and then asked three questions about the picture.
Categorizing Skills, Object Recognition and Background Knowledge
13. What am I?
The child is shown three pictures; one is selected based on three clues that are given one after the other.
Deductive Reasoning, Speed of Thinking and Visual Discrimination
14. Mind Over Matter
The child is presented with a series of verbal brainteasers with three answers to choose from.
Sequential and Deductive Reasoning and Vocabulary Development
15. True Thoughts
The child is shown two pictures and then asked four questions about the pictures. Then they are asked to select what is true about both of the pictures.
Deductive Reasoning, Fluid Intelligence and Visual Intelligence
16. Placing Pieces and Pictures
The child is shown a picture with some "pieces" missing and they are asked to find the missing "pieces" from several other pictures. Then they are asked to complete a story in order from a series of given pictures.
Sequential and Deductive Reasoning, Visual Intelligence and Object Recognition
17. Think and Pick
The child is asked to find eight things that go together out of a pool of eighteen pictures; e.g. Can you find eight things around the house that need electricity to operate?
Quantitative Reasoning, Knowledge and Fluid Intelligence
18. Hide and Seek
The child is shown a picture and then asked to identify the hidden object or animal in it. Then they must select a symbol from a row of figures to complete a pattern.
Visual Discrimination, Working Memory and Visual Intelligence
19. Letter Sounds
The child is asked to find the picture that begins with the letter sound presented. They are then asked to find the letter that corresponds to the letter sound presented.
Reading, Working Memory and Auditory Intelligence/Processing
20. Flip Flop
The child is shown six pictures and asked to find the picture that represents the corresponding word. They are then asked to find the word that represents the voice clue given.
Reading, Long-Term Intelligence and Working Intelligence
21. Connections
The child is shown a picture and then asked to select words for objects that relate to the picture.
Deductive and Long-Term Reasoning and Cognitive Development
22. Discovery
The child "visits" nine different locations and is asked to discover objects at each location from clues that are given.
23. What Comes Next?
The child is shown one primary picture and a series of secondary pictures. The secondary pictures are all related to the primary picture and they must select the picture that depicts the next action taken.
Deductive Reasoning, Processing Speed and Thinking Abilities
24. Puzzling Pieces
The child is asked a series of question about colors, for each question that is answered correctly they are given a piece to a puzzle. If all of the questions are answered correctly, they are given all of the puzzle pieces that they have collected and asked to complete the puzzle.
Visual Discrimination, Object Recognition and Shape Discrimination
25. Finish Line
The child is given a picture on the screen, along with eight words each with a letter missing, and eight letter choices. They are then asked to drag the missing letter to complete the word that matches the picture.
Reading, Spelling and Phonics
26. Spelling with Sounds
A photograph of an item or animal is shown. The child then has to phonetically spell the seventy 3, 4 and 5 letter words by selecting from twenty-six letters of the alphabet.
Reading, Fluid Intelligence, Fluid Reasoning and Long-Term Memory
27. Blending Two Letters
The child matches twenty-two different blends four times to eighty-eight pictures. They are then asked to identify all previously introduced words by clicking on the word called out.
Auditory Intelligence, Reading and Thinking Abilities
28. Three Part Words
The child is shown a picture and is asked to spell the word that corresponds to the picture with three phonic sounds.
Phonetic Development, Reading and Auditory Intelligence
29. Twister
The child hears a sentence and sees the text on the screen. Then the words are represented again, but this time out of order. They are then asked to place the words back in the correct order to re-form the sentence.
Reading, Working Intelligence and Auditory Intelligence
30. State Pursuit
The child is shown a blank map of all fifty states and also given each individual state shape below the map. They are then asked to put the states in the correct place on the blank map.
Visual Discrimination and Shape Discrimination
31. Brain Squeeze
The child is shown a series of pictures and they are asked to find objects in the given pictures that have the same attributes.
Cognitive Development, Processing Speed and Quantitative Knowledge
32. Counting Sounds
The child hears a series of animal sounds, musical sounds and voices. They are then asked to identify the number of times a specific sound was played.
Quantitative Knowledge/Reasoning and Auditory Intelligence
33. Geometric Shapes and Colors
The child is shown a number of colored shapes on the screen and they are then asked to find the certain colored shape specified.
Visual Discrimination, Object Recognition, Color Discrimination and Shape Discrimination
34. Building Blocks
The child is shown a pattern made up of shapes on the left side of the screen. On the right side is a blank box and below it are all of the shapes that are contained in the left box. They must recreate the pattern in the left box by placing the given shapes in the blank box.
Visual Discrimination, Object Recognition and Shape Discrimination
35. Placing Numbers and Colors
The child is shown three number words, three color words and three pictures. They are then asked to identify a specific number word, a specific color word and a specific picture to create a phrase.
Reading, Object Recognition and Cognitive Thinking
36. Zone In
The child is shown five pictures and then read three words. They must place three of the five pictures in the order that was stated.
Mathematical Thinking Processes, Working Memory and Quantitative Reasoning
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