EDUCATIONAL DESCRIPTION
Bora Fruta is an innovative game that offers children challenges that draw on their attention, working memory and a number of executive functioning skills in the fun-filled context of sweets, the beach and summer activities! The game requires children to plan and meet various challenges within set periods of time to obtain coupons to be exchanged for pieces of popsicle. The first child to recover the three pieces of his or her popsicle wins the game. The game features six different categories of challenges: memory/ episodic memory challenge; scientific/logical reasoning challenge; investigative/selective attention challenge; secret/working memory challenge; picture-match/activation challenge; and, stop/ inhibition and flexibility challenge.
POSSIBLE APPROACHES:
The game allows explicit teaching and metacognitive strategy modelling easily transferable to learning and daily life: verbalisation (inner speech), automatic recall, visualisation, visual exploration, regrouping items based on their similarities, material organization, self-correction and self-assessment.
