Alpha zoo in app3/26/2023 Welcome five brand new species to your zoos! These are the meerkat, southern white rhino, African penguin, fennec fox, and sacred scarab beetle. I’d like to see how this project could develop with a wider testing pool but as it is now, I can’t recommend it.Embark on an unforgettable African adventure with the Planet Zoo: Africa Pack! Adopt and raise five stunning new animals, featuring four habitat animals and one exhibit animal master the challenging timed scenario set in a picturesque oasis bazaar and build out the zoo of your dreams with over 180 beautiful new scenery pieces predominantly inspired by the richness and diversity of North Africa. Your African adventure awaits… Updates are regular – trains have been added to choo choo around the map for example – but the fundamental learning journey is flawed as it is. This feels like a great concept that is designed back to front in a way that is skipping the structure that is required to learn, confirm and embed. It’s on that basis I give the score I do. So little was learnt, there is no structure to learning and its progression nor the ability to feel like you are really engaged in the experience. If anywhere voice work for letters and words were needed – this was it. Here, most children didn’t engage with a menu of words and little pictorial support. This oddly didn’t transfer over to the food words. Playing over several days, very few animal spellings were learnt by any of the children, and any that were learnt came from parent/child combo teaching where the parent did most of the heavy lifting. The food in the cafe is somewhat underwhelming and really lacks structure, voice over and positive encouragement. Instead, they just made them poo and switched off. The children not so far along their spelling and English journey really struggled with getting things right and needed easy animals upfront first. Indeed, there’s a clear lack of structure in total. Most of the time, the first animals you come across are some of the longest names in the game. Yes, you can exit the app and get a new zoo but you might not get the same animals and certainly not in a structured way that feels like you are progressing with a language. There’s no letter spelling or positive reinforcement and unlike many other language learning apps, no way to redo things over and over to get something into your brain. This means when you get it wrong, you have to walk away from the enclosure and come back – its clunky. Spelling mistakes don’t allow a delete button to work. It’s a nice idea and it looks inviting, however the kids I tried it out on got frustrated. Again, type the name and get the thing is the name of the game. Alongside this there is a gift shop with items to buy and a cafe with food. Most zoos seem to have about 20 – 25 animals. Get it right and the enclosure colours in and you can feed the animal by typing feed. At this point the animals name appears and it can be typed in. You can move around the zoo with the arrow buttons on the keyboard and walk up to enclosures. I took Alpha Zoo to a small selection of kids between the ages of 3 and 6 – usually playing it with parents. Each time you open the game, a new zoo is presented but the animal selection is quite small. It’s just a shame that the actual educational element doesn’t seem to click. It is a gentle and short experience and every time you open it a new zoo is there for you to walk around. Alpha Zoo is a parent and child app that is designed to help young children learn how to spell some animal names, food types and some toys too.
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