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Learn Verbs the Fun Way
Name: Noodle Words Fee or Free: 1.99 at time of review rating: 4 stars Noodle Words presents early learners with 18 verbs in action. Two adorable bugs introduce one word at a time by saying it out loud, then the word performs the action the word names. The graphics are top rate, well executed, and brightly colored. Highly motivational, the bugs and the actions are certain to elicit children’s giggles. The more each word is tapped the more action the user generates. Tapping the word dance makes all the letters dance to a snappy instrumental. Consistently tapping the word grow makes a vine grow all over the page. What would make this 5 stars? More words. I know these apps are expensive to make but I would rather have more words at a … Read entire article »
Filed under: Early Elementary, Elementary Education
GREAT Graphic Organizer App for grades 3-12
Name:Tools4Students Fee or Free:.99 at time of review iPad only APP – Here is a direct link to the app http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tools-4-students/id472911218?ls=1&mt=8 Rating: 5 stars Tools4students matches the expectations of its reviews in the app store. This is an awesome app for classroom use for iPads only. It features 25 graphic organizers perfect for literature class or for use as a pre-write activity. Using a dongle the organizers can be modeled through a projector onto a whiteboard. Whether your charting the characters in Where the Wild Things Are or The Red Badge of Courage, the organizers in this app give students plenty of space to respond. Have students open the app on their iPod Touch or iPad and complete one of the organizers while they read. Buddies can share an iPad and … Read entire article »
Filed under: Elementary Education, High School Education, Middle School Education
Great Preschool App
Name: Alien Buddies by artgigapps Fee or Free: 1.99 Rating: 4.5 /5 stars Why I Like it: This app has great graphics that compel young learners to explore. On the opening screen children are faced with three choices. These are pre-readers so they do not know that the choices are match, dot-to-dot, and stickers but after they explore on their own they will quickly have the functions memorized. Once past this screen going left to right, young readers are given a choice of matching different colors, shapes, letters, and numbers. This where it really gets cool. In the top level learners are asked to find the alien among a line of six that matches a spaceship that flies up from below. Going back to the home screen for matching, learners can do matching … Read entire article »
Filed under: Early Elementary
Operation Math
Name of App: Operation Math by Spinlight Studio Free or Fee: $3.99 when reviewed Rating: 5/5 stars Operation Math makes you feel like a mathematical James Bond completing missions using your math skills. As Agent Prime, the user goes on missions to defeat the evil Dr. Odd by solving a set of math problems to gain access through security doors. Each door presents Agent Prime with a math problem and if it is answered correctly you move to … Read entire article »
Filed under: Early Elementary, Featured
Puzzling Plates
Name of App: Puzzling Plates (Tasa Graphic Arts) Free or Fee: $1.99 when reviewed Rating: 4/5 stars Puzzling Plates provides an interactive way to learn about the tectonic plates that make up the Earth’s crust. There are three levels within the app and each level has a bonus exercise. Level 1 provides the 15 plates as puzzle pieces and the user has to put the plates together using the grid. The level 1 bonus is to match the … Read entire article »
Filed under: High School Education, Middle School Education
Faces iMake
Name of App: Faces iMake (iMagine Machine LLC) Free or Fee: $2.99 when reviewed Rating: 5/5 stars Faces iMake is a spectacular app! It is fun, entertaining and educational. As I explored the app I was amazed by the abundance of learning opportunities! Faces iMake begins with a blank canvas and provides tons of items to add to the canvas to make faces, cartoons, animals… really any kind of masterpiece you have the desire to create! The items … Read entire article »
Filed under: Early Elementary, Elementary Education, Featured, Middle School Education
Simplex Spelling Phonics 1
Name of App: Simplex Spelling Phonics 1 by Pyxwise Software Free or Fee: $0.99 when reviewed Rating: 5/5 stars From the makers of Simplex Spelling HD, Pyxwise Software presents Simplex Spelling Phonics! Using the same structure as Spelling HD, Phonics 1 presents students with 42 spelling lists that are organized by letter sounds and letter combinations. Similar to Spelling HD, Phonics 1 uses spelling to build literacy since students are required to spell the word using a keyboard … Read entire article »
Filed under: Early Elementary, Elementary Education, Pre-K/Kindergarten Education
It’s Not What You’ve Got! (Oceanhouse Media)
Name of App: It’s Not What You’ve Got! Free or Fee: $3.99 when reviewed Rating: 4.8/5 stars Thanks to Oceanhouse the messages of Dr. Wayne Dyer, Louise Hay and Deepak Chopra are no longer just for adults. It’s Not What You’ve Got! is an e-book for children written by Dr. Wayne Dyer with Kristina Tracy with a wonderful message about money and abundance. Within the story children learn lessons about having money and the things it can and … Read entire article »
Filed under: Elementary Education
I Was So Mad and Elmer and Rose (Oceanhouse Media)
Name of App: I Was So Mad and Elmer & Rose Free or Fee: $1.99 each when reviewed Rating: 4.5/ 5 stars Oceanhouse Media has teamed up with some excellent writers to create e-books that send children a positive message. I Was So Mad is from the Little Critters series written by Mercer Mayer and is geared toward younger children. In the story Little Critter wants to do lots of things that mom doesn’t want him to do, … Read entire article »
Filed under: Early Elementary, Pre-K/Kindergarten Education
There’s No Place Like Space created by Oceanhouse Media
Name of App: There’s No Place Like Space Free or Fee: $3.99 when reviewed Rating: 4.5/5 stars There’s No Place Like Space teaches students about space in the traditional Cat in the Hat fashion… with rhyming words and lots of passion! The Cat in the Hat along with Thing One and Thing Two take Dick and Sally into outer space to learn about our solar system. Students will learn about each planet in order from distance to the … Read entire article »
Filed under: Elementary Education