Price: 375 points or $3.75 USD
Subjects: games,receptiveLanguage,expressiveLanguage
Grades: 0
Description: Understanding Analogies Word Relationships - Critical Thinking activities for Semantic Development The ability to understand and complete an analogy is an important critical thinking skill. Analogies promote logical reasoning skills and a greater comprehension of complex information. They serve as mental models that help to conceptualize comparative relationships as well as abstract concepts. Analogies build on prior knowledge and expand vocabulary development. What’s the Connection? Quiz Game uses pictures to help visualize the possible relationship between a set of words. Students determine how two pictures are related. This quiz game is STEP 1 in a bundle of 4 quiz games organized to provide a series of scaffolds or “thinking steps” that lead to solving analogies by understanding word relationships. Players answer each questions and win dinosaur points: Triceratops 100 points, Stegosaurus 200 points, Dimetrodon 300 points, Protoceratops 400 points, Velociraptor 500 points, and Tyrannosaurus Rex 600 points.