That's Baloney! Kids Quiz Game
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Pros
- App has a cute, child-friendly design that makes it feel more like a trivia game than an academic app.
- App addresses a broad variety of academic topics in an age-appropriate way.
- Students receive immediate feedback on each answer to learn quickly from mistakes.
Considerations
- App does not save results/incorrect responses for later follow-up.
- The app provides little in the form of rewards and incentives.
- App provides correct answers but does not provide thorough explanations.
Mindprint Expert Review
This is a cute app that quizzes students on basic academic knowledge but feels more like a trivia game than academic work. The app uses a sandwich theme, and students must decide whether the given statement is true or "baloney". Wrong answers lose a "pickle" and the game is over when all four pickles are gone. Up to four students can create a profile with their names and grade levels 2 through 6. In "snack" mode, students select from science, math, language arts, social studies or mystery meat and answer ten true-false questions. "Sandwich" mode is 20 or 40 random questions across categories. There is no timer in either mode, so students can spend as much time as they need to read the statements, decide on the answer, and absorb correct answers. The statements are all one to two age-appropriate sentences, and the correct answer is given immediately after an incorrect response for reinforcement. Students must wait until the end of the game for more complete explanations of "baloney" answers. The explanations are fine though not thorough and adults cannot receive a summary of results, so adults may want to be available to help students to reinforce learning. Overall, this is a fun app to review and reinforce previous learned material.
Academic Benefits
Improves academic skills
- Provides sufficient and varied types of practice problems to maximize understanding and generalization of the targeted skill/concept
- Manufacturer claims alignment with Common Core/Known Standards
- Presents educational concepts accurately
- Explains answers so students can learn from mistakes
- Better for teaching the skill to new or struggling learners
- Better for practicing or refreshing the skill
- Skills are practiced through authentic, meaningful problems (not just rote practice)
Fun
Engaging for the Mindprint recommended age range
- Appropriate for a broad age range to use and enjoy
- Subject matter and problems are relevant, interesting and authentic to students
- Visually appealing to children in the target age range
- Provides virtual rewards or incentives after meeting specified goals or objectives
- Provides a "break activity" between academic problem sets
- Offers ongoing, progressive challenge
- Overall - Enjoyable. Given the option, students would choose this option
Easy to Use
Understandable for children in the Mindprint recommended age range
- Has a free or trial version
- Provides teaching guidance for adults to support the child and set appropriate goals
- Provides an age-appropriate tutorial/first time users can work independently
- Student should be able to use independently after first use
- Has a multi-player option to foster in-person collaboration or cooperation
- Multiple users can save a profile
- Student graduates to the next level or topic only after meeting a benchmark
- Can play without sound and not distract others
- Students can save work between sessions
- Can effectively understand and monitor student's progress (email report or in product)
- Provides options to play in languages other than English/Good for ELL
- Presents information in multiple formats (voice over, pictures and text, etc.)
- Overall - Easy to use
Cognitive Concerns
May not be advisable for students with the following cognitive needs
- General Information
- Assumes specific knowledge or vocabulary without "look-up" options
- Organization
- Includes long written questions or text that students must be able to read on their own
- Reading Basics
- Includes long written questions or text that students must be able to read on their own
- Reading Comprehension
- Includes long written questions or text that students must be able to read on their own
- Reading Fluency
- Includes long written questions or text that students must be able to read on their own
- Verbal Reasoning
- Assumes specific knowledge or vocabulary without "look-up" options
- Includes long written questions or text that students must be able to read on their own
- Vocabulary
- Assumes specific knowledge or vocabulary without "look-up" options
Manufacturer Description
Based on the best-selling Edupress™ card game, That’s Baloney! is a wacky quiz game that both kids and parents can enjoy together!
Featuring cross-curricular educational gameplay for grades 2 through 6
“The largest living spider on Earth is the camel spider.”
That’s Baloney! …or is it? You decide!
Guess correctly and nibble your way to a perfect game. Guess wrong and face The Pickle of Truth!
P.S.-
That’s Baloney! The biggest spider is the Goliath bird-eating spider!
Features:
• Nearly 2,500 thought provoking quiz statements that spark conversations between parents and kids!
• 5 diverse categories to discover: Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies, or Mystery Meat
• 5 grade levels to choose from: Grades 2 – 6
• Parent and teacher approved Edupress™ content
• Earn Perfect Snack trophies by showing off trivia skills
• Statements are compatible with common core and state educational standards