Welcome to the SwitchIt! Extra Series from Inclusive Technology!
These programs all offer engaging and motivating activities for your learners and are ideal for early language work. There are lots of exciting themes to try out and friendly characters to meet along the way.
See flash cards appear, build a picture or watch an animated story unfold. The activities are fully configurable to suit each learner's needs and accessible using a mouse, keyboard, switch, touch monitor or IntelliKeys.
Each program comes complete with extra resources, activities and worksheets to extend the learning opportunities provided.
You can try out one of the extra on-screen activities at: SwitchIt! Weather Resources.
The Series
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SwitchIt! program contains twelve animated stories demonstrating different sports, plus flash cards and animations for cause and effect work. Watch the footballers use teamwork to score a goal. Find out why going jogging is good for you. Sprinting, rounders and other sports played in school and college are also featured. Sports played by people with disabilities are included, such as wheelchair basketball, Boccia and New Age Kurling.
SwitchIt! Sports Extra may be used as part of the PSHE curriculum to promote healthy living skills.
SwitchIt! Transport Extra is a switch accessible program all about everyday vehicles. Join in the countdown and see the rocket launch, see the forklift unload the truck or go on holiday on the aeroplane. Raise the sail in the dinghy. Will the wind blow, or will you get beaten by the speedboat? Experience an exciting helicopter rescue at sea, complete with sharks. Also includes a ferry, car, cherry picker, school bus, taxi and train. See the builders and their digger – watch out for the water pipe!
Encounter lots of fascinating creatures in this motivating addition to the SwitchIt! series. Look at the dinosaurs’ behaviour, their habitat and how they hunt or forage. This accessible program has exciting encounters with a pterodactyl, a tyrannosaurus rex and a mammoth. It also has a brontosaurus, triceratops, velociraptor, stegosaurus, mollusca and more.
SwitchIt! Wildlife Extra features lots of animals and birds, from a tiger in the jungle to penguins in Antarctica. See how they move and hear the sounds they make. Also covers environmental issues, food chains, etc. Comes with lots of extra worksheets,
activities and teaching resources.
SwitchIt! Bob the Builder™ is a switch accessible program with lots of fun activities around your favourite characters!
It includes Bob and Wendy, Scruffty and Spud, Farmer Pickles and Bird, Dizzy and Scrambler, Travis, Scoop, Benny, Lofty, Muck, Roley and Pilchard.
Explore the weather theme! The program covers the sun, wind and rain and their effects: keeping warm, keeping cool and meteorological phenomena like rainbows and thunderstorms.
Find out about farm animals, their young and where they live. Also look at the jobs that are carried out on the farm.
This SwitchIt! is all about the people that help us in our daily lives. See the postman, lollipop lady, supermarket assistant and others at work.
Switch accessible activities on the theme of personal hygiene. The areas covered include showering, cleaning teeth, hair care, clean clothes, food hygiene and being well dressed.
Enjoy lots of seasonal activities with this fun-packed program! With SwitchIt! Christmas Extra you can build an on-screen snowman, pull a cracker, decorate the tree and much more.