Discriminating Animals

Here, the student is asked to find and click on the correct picture shown on the screen.

The default selections for this program are: Level 3, Animal Distracter, Command Text, Congratulatory Animation, and Select All.

Here an animal is shown at the top of the screen. The student is asked to click on the matching animal shown among others at the bottom of the screen.

Level 1
When this option is selected, one animal appears at the top of the screen. One animal picture is shown at the bottom of the screen to be matched with the one at the top, without any distracter.

Level 2
When this option is selected, one animal appears at the top of the screen. Two pictures are shown at the bottom of the screen to be matched with the one at the top of the screen. There is one correct choice and one distracter. You can choose an Animal or Non-animal distracter. “Mixed” gets disabled.

Level 3
This level is selected by default. One animal appears at the top of the screen. When this option is selected, three pictures are shown at the bottom of the screen to be matched with the one at the top of the screen. There is one correct choice and two distracters. You can choose an Animal, Non-animal, or Mixed distracter.

Distracter

Animal
This option is selected by default. When this option is selected, the distracters are animals. This option is disabled for Level 1 and available for Level 2 and Level 3.

Non-animal
When this option is selected, the distracters are some items other than animals. This option is disabled for Level 1 and available for Level 2 and Level 3.

Mixed
This option is available only for Level 3. When this is selected, one distracter is an animal and the other distracter is non-animal.

Command Text
This is checked by default. When checked, a short command text is visible at the bottom of the screen. If unchecked, the command text will not be visible.

Prompt

Prompt with Blink
This option is selected by default. If the correct animal picture is not chosen after ten seconds, it blinks.

Prompt with Label
The names of the animals appear below the pictures.

Prompt with Animation
If the correct animal picture is not chosen after ten seconds, an animation appears (the correct animal moves).

Congratulatory Animation
When this is checked, clicking the correct animal invites a congratulatory animation. This animation runs for ten seconds. Click anywhere on the screen or press space bar to stop the congratulatory animation.

Uncheck the box if the student doesn't need congratulatory animation.

Selection
Click on the check box to select or deselect the animal.

Select All
Check this box to select all animals. Uncheck to deselect.

Ok
Click this button to open the program after choosing settings.

Done
Click this button to close the program and return to the main menu.