Chicken Yard vs SignCueQuest

Play with chickens in the chicken yard. You never know what will happen next. Chickens walk around the chicken yard in various states of focus and excitement. Follow them around and see what they do! Purpose: To teach young children fundamentals of systems thinking by exposing them to an observable, emergent environment whose parameters and behaviors are clearly communicated by the interface. Usage: Tap the left and right arrows at the top of the screen to toggle between chickens and observe what each one is up to. For teachers: Chicken Yard is designed to demonstrate the "Systems and System Models" Crosscutting Concept: "Systems in the natural and designed world have parts that work together." Use and reference the app in conjunction with the following Next Generation Science Standards: K-ESS2-2: Earth's Systems K-ESS3-1: Earth and Human Activity Topic suggestions for classroom discussion: - What do we mean when we refer to an object's "state"? - How is a chicken's state reflected in its attributes? - How a chicken's state is reflected in its behavior? - What elements of the environment do the chickens interact with? (tiles, boundaries) - How do the attributes of the environment affect the states of the chickens?

This adventure game challenges the player to find new lands while practicing ASL, Fingerspelling and/or Cued Speech. Complete the first 10 mini-quests to win the game, then there are 10 more mini-quests in the expanded universe! There are more than 2,200 ASL terms, 900 Cue terms, and 900 FS terms used to select random terms used in the mini-quests. Use the handy study dictionary to lookup terms, or to see example sentences. The first 10 mini-quests focus on: vocabulary, numbers, colors, math, patterns, shapes, directions, the alphabet, conversation words and phrases, and emergency words and phrases. The next 10 mini-quests, available in the Expanded Universe, randomly lets the player practice any of the terms. The handy scroll shows which quests you've completed, and the handy map shows the places you've visited and allows teleportation to previously visited places. Select the communication style you want to use: ASL, Fingerspelling or Cued Speech. Set the game level to use: Beginning, Intermediate or Advanced. When you successfully complete the game, you can play the mini-quests in the Expanded Universe, or you can restart it with new settings to play again. Sign-Cue-Quest.com