How Can Teachers Use It?
Teachers can use Bugs and Buttons to supplement kids' learning. Students who need to improve their fine motor control, working memory, and visual processing skills will appreciate the diversity of the mini-games and probably won't even realize they're developing skills as they play. Teachers can also use this app to supplement activities on counting and alphabet identification. Note that spiders and roaches are avaiilable for play but are turned off by default. They can enable them in the settings.
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What's It Like?
In Bugs and Buttons, a collection of 18 games, kids will tap and drag bugs and buttons around the screen to achieve various goals. Several puzzles focus on recognizing numbers, letters, colors, and patterns, while others rely on more subtle learning components like prediction. An animated tutorial demonstrates the steps to take, and kids try until they succeed, gradually proceeding to more difficult levels and eventually winning insect stamps for a digital stamp collection.
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Is It Good For Learning?
Games enable kids to work on beginning math and reading skills, plus are great for helping a wide variety of kids with fine motor, visual processing, and working memory issues. The game Pinch & Grab can help kids improve the pincer grasp. Butterfly Valley helps students with motor control as they hold the device to catch flowers. Catch'Em introduces kids who need help with their visual perceptual ability. Find it! and Matching help kids with working memory skills.
Teachers can create multiple user accounts and customize the language (from 14 options) in the settings.
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Realistic bugs are the stars of each activity.
Practice working with numbers, letters, patterns, sorting, and fine motor skills.
Choose from 18 different mini-games.
Add to a bug collection book.
On-screen tutorial shows how to play each game.
