The Kindergarten simulation is centered around operating your own day-care center. It allows the user to make all of the daily decisions regarding the babies in their care and business activities. This simulation is interactive and allows the user to make choices and adapt to the needs of the babies, employees, building maintenance, etc. It also mimics real-world processes. I think this would be a great educational game in a middle school or high school family and consumer science class, since the focus is a day care center. Many schools have the "babies" that the students have to take care of over a weekend, then the teacher can extract the data from the "babies". This game could be on going and give a better assessment for the long term. I also think it would be appropriate to use in an entrepreneurship class as well, since the general purpose of the game is to run your own business and earn a profit. Two other games from this site that would be appropriate in an entrepreneurship class would be Coffee Tycoon and Snowy Lunch Rush. Both simulations are centered around operating your own business.

The Konnectors game builds a road linking the starting point to the end point. It sounds easy, but the user has obsticles like buildings, animals, and trees. The other key element of the game is that when you begin a new section of the road, it has options such as straight, turn right, turn left etc. When the user makes a change to the road, points are deducted. Planning out your course before you actually start building the road is key. This game I have struggled making an educational connection. It requires activity and provides an environment that contains rules, but I'm not sure what type of class or lesson you could fit this into. A stretch of imagination would take me to justifying its use to help with decision making or planning processes (especially in the engineering field).

While previewing games from the Youda site, I thought one of the major benefits for young children would be hand-eye coordination. Playing these simulations would also help elementary aged children to sit still and focus on one task. Simulation/games that are puzzles would give many students the opportunity to practice spelling or match colors, shapes, even do basic math.