BABO resources

Bilingual And Bicultural Outlook

The BABO project’s main focus is teaching a second language in an innovative way offering educators and families new educational methodologies and digital resources for the early years based on the theory of multiple intelligences.

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Multiple intelligence theory is gaining widespread recognition as a useful approach to ensuring that the diverse needs of all children are addressed. Gardner’s multiple intelligence theory emphasises children’s learning in eight different areas: visual-spatial, interpersonal, intrapersonal, musical, linguistic, naturalistic, logical-mathematical, and bodily-kinesthetic (Gardner, 1988). Adopting a more ecological approach, the games and materials crucially need to have a choice of different activities to foster all intelligences, not just linguistic intelligences. The designers should consider building in elements of free play to the materials, crucially involving choice. Free play has been defined as a universal phenomenon that is highly observed during childhood years. (Rubin, Fein, and Vandenberg, 1983). It is internally motivated and is marked by children’s free choice of their own rules, place, and means of play and by a high level of active engagement.

Read more about multiple intelligences on page 13 of the BABO game system guide.

Educational cartoons

Educational cartoons designed to support young children in learning English as a second language. These cartoons can be used as teaching resources in schools, kindergartens, crèches, or at home.
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Board games

10+ 1 board games, one for each chapter of the cartoon series, designed to reinforce learning and engagement; complete with a deck of cards and coloured dice, adding a playful and interactive element to language learning.
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Digital games

Short interactive games to reinforce what children have learned through the board games. Designed to be played towards the end of the learning process, they can be used even by schools with limited internet access, in blended learning. Children can play these games at home with their families and then share their experiences back at school.
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Board games

Bip-Bip Babo

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  • Topic

    Computational thinking;
    Unplugged programming

  • Skills

    Memory;
    Computational thinking;
    Orientation;
    Attention

  • Vocabulary

    Places (home, school, park, farm, beach, train, right, left, go forward)

Cobrick

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  • Topic

    Geometric shapes

  • Skills

    Fine motor skills;
    Logic;
    Agility;
    Autonomy;
    Perception;
    Geometry

  • Vocabulary

    Shapes circle, star, rhombus, triangle, square); colours (red, yellow, green, blue, orange)

Boo!

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  • Topic

    Halloween costumes

  • Skills

    Creativity;
    Communication
    Group cohesion
    Imagination
    Curiosity;
    Agility

  • Vocabulary

    Shapes (square); Halloween costumes (witch, bat, pumpkin, monster, fish); clothing

Mission Piggy

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  • Topic

    Farm animals

  • Skills

    Counting and numerical values;
    Attention;
    Orientation;
    Perception

  • Vocabulary

    Numbers (1,2,3,4), farm animals (sheep, hen, pig, cow, dog, duck etc)

Trip Babo

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  • Topic

    Christmas

  • Skills

    Memory;
    Autonomy;
    Agility;
    Motivation;
    Attention

  • Vocabulary

    Seasons, objects, clothes, Christmas

Dragon Dash

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  • Topic

    Train; January

  • Skills

    Attention;
    Fine motor skills;
    Communication;
    Counting;
    Agility

  • Vocabulary

    Addition-Subtraction, numbers up to 6, colours (red, blue, yellow, green, orange, purple)

Fruitfall

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  • Topic

    Fruit and colours

  • Skills

    Mathematical thinking;
    Hand-eye coordination;
    Fine motor skills;
    Agility;
    Attention

  • Vocabulary

    Colours (yellow, green, red, orange, purple) and fruit (banana, lemon, apple, strawberry, pear, pineapple, orange, grapes)

Flippos

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  • Topic

    Babo's friends

  • Skills

    Hand-eye coordination;
    Memory;
    Agility;
    Perception;
    Attention

  • Vocabulary

    Babo's friends and colours

Eggsplorers

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  • Topic

    Easter

  • Skills

    Attention;
    Cooperation;
    Spatial orientation;
    Communication;
    Counting;
    Memory

  • Vocabulary

    Easter eggs, colours (red, yellow, blue, green, pink white), numbers

Dentastic

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  • Topic

    Oral hygiene, healthy food

  • Skills

    Counting and numeracy;
    Fine motor skills;
    Attention;
    Active listening;
    Imagination

  • Vocabulary

    Brushing teeth, sweets, fruits, healthy food

Doubloons

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  • Topic

    Treasure hunt, Pirate ship

  • Skills

    Memory;
    Spatial orientation;
    Active listening;
    Counting and numeracy;
    Attention

  • Vocabulary

    Ship, treasure map, island, wind, whirpool, coins, pirate

Authorship of the games: María Rosa Fernández Sánchez, Jesús Valverde Berrocoso, Alberto González Fernández, Jesús Acevedo Borrega, Isabel Porras Masero, Mario Cerezo Pizarro and Alain Presentación Muñoz. Nodo Educativo (SEJ035) – Research Group of the Universidad de Extremadura (Spain)

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