This Game is Good for Kids Who Need Help With:

Planning

Developing a systematic approach for setting and achieving goals.

This game requires the player to use good Planning skills to build up a strong defense and keep a storming band of invaders from defeating his forces. The player chooses where to place each tower before battle, and therefore has to anticipate the places where they will be most effective. This strategy requires him to estimate when the enemy will be most susceptible to attacks, and deduce which attacks should be used at those points. Furthermore, the player can upgrade his towers and buy new types of towers to augment his attack powers and abilities. Doing so requires saving up currency, and unplanned spending that hasn't been carefully thought out can prove disastrous.

Organization

Arranging and coordinating materials in order to complete a task.  

Defense Grid: The Awakening requires good Organization skills in order to intelligently and efficiently place the different towers in the game. Considering there are ten different tower types to choose from, function and placement of the towers are critical factors for success. Some towers are better at defending waves of enemies but are ineffective against specific individual aliens, for example, and so the player must arrange towers by type, taking their positions and usage into careful consideration. Randomly dropping whatever type of tower anywhere is wasteful of resources, and a messy or unorganized defensive layout will quickly lead to failure. Enemies become stronger and levels get more complex as the game goes on, which will further test the strength of the player's defense. By putting his knowledge of each tower's unique capabilities to use, the player can arrange a well-balanced defense that safeguards the power cores.