Activity Description
Carefully observe the starfish on the beach! A wave will bring new ones. Remember the originals and try to identify only the starfish that are new, those that weren’t there before. A game of observation and memory with a summer scent.
Targeted cognitive skills
- Sustained Attention: The ability to sustain attention over time, as to say, to maintain the attentional focus on a task for an extended length of time.
- Working memory: The ability to hold information in consciousness for adaptive use. This can include information from all sensory modalities, verbal and nonverbal ones. Working memory is conceptualized to include two separable components: maintenance of information and manipulation of information. Maintenance of information includes memory for verbal information, spatial information and other information (including emotional) across multiple sensory channels. Manipulation of information is the process of operating on information stored in working memory storage.
