APPLES to APPLES® is the wild, award-winning card and party game that provides instant fun for four to ten players! It's as easy as ""comparing apples to apples""... just open the box, deal the cards, and you're ready to play! Select the card from your hand that you think is best described by a card played by the judge. If the judge picks your card, you win that round. And everyone gets a chance to be the judge!
Contents:
- 756 Red Apple Cards
- 252 Green Apple Cards
- Two Deluxe Card Trays
- 4-10 Players
20-30 minutes per game.
Apples to Apples is a great game for Home Education:It promotes vocabulary development, general knowledge acquisition, and positive interpersonal relationships. It's flexible with respect to number of players and time it takes to learn, and to play. Students learn while they play and they really do enjoy Apples to Apples-it's fun!
Young Learners: Because the red card titles are nouns and the green cards are adjectives and adverbs, the cards can be used for language arts. The words make great sentence starters. For example, select one green card and two red and make a sentence using the words. The red cards can be sorted by categories or by characteristics. The green apple cards also provide synonyms for each word making them particularly good for vocabulary development. They're great for demonstrating the multiple meanings of words, and the subtle difference in meanings.
Older Learners: Apples to Apples is based on comparing and on decision-making. Older students can use their verbal skills to explain the basis of their decision-making. They can also develop their own Apples cards, using the MyCard program and custom cards. These cards can be based on curriculum content. For example, they could select, from a history unit, persons, places, and things, that would make good red Apple cards. Then they write the ""flavor text"" for the card. The flavor text would provide a short, concise description. The cards could be added to the game and used as a study aid.
Educational Aspects of Apples to Apples
Promotes Interaction
- Recommended for groups of 4-10 players
- All players are involved in every round
- Rounds takes less than two minutes (even players with short attention spans stay involved)
Improves Vocabulary
- Each card contains a different word or phrase
- Adjectives and adverbs are presented with 3 synonyms
- Multiple meanings are often used in play, for example: two good responses for ""cool"" would be ""skateboarding"" and ""snow""
Reinforces And Expands General Knowledge Base
- Includes famous people, places and events from history, literature, politics, sports and entertainment
- Information is provided on the cards for topics that might be challenging
Develops Positive Relationships
- Rotating role of judge allows all players to express themselves
- Through their responses, players get to know each other better
Promotes Self Esteem
- Card choices reflect the personality of the player (it could be serious, humorous or personal)
- As judge, each player expresses his or her own choices and reasoning
- Judges respond to the cards played without knowing who played them
Encourages Higher Level Thinking
- The judges often select clever and witty responses
- An effective strategy is to select words based on knowledge of the perspective of the judge, or a good guess as to how the judge might respond