iPhone App Review

Stack the States Lite (Free) – This is a great game for students learning about the United States and wanting to find out fun facts about each state. The goal is to build a stack of states as high as possible and each time you get a high score you will unlock a new state and you want to try to fill up the map. Not only does the game help teach interesting information but it also helps children learn the location of each individual state. The graphics and details in the app are also very well done.

-This would be a fantastic app to use in a future classroom! It has the capability to have more than one player’s records saved so that they could save their progress and compete against each other. I would use it in my future classroom during a history class and I think that it could be extremely helpful during preparation for a test that would be given about our country. Not only is it educational but it’s fun too and that is extremely important. 

1st Grade Math Splash (Free) -This app is great for teaching place value and numbers and comparison. Those are the free sections but there are also sections you can buy to help with other skills. The app is interesting because it integrates a kid friendly underwater theme with easy to understand math skills. It also gives a score at the end of the section to let the player know how well they did. One helpful component is that the child’s parent can sign up to receive weekly updates on their child’s progress so they can keep track of how their reviews are going.

-I would use this app in my classroom for review purposes more than anything. I think that it is a great learning tool; I just wish that there were more sections that were already unlocked. The different skills that the app features would be very helpful during reviews in the classroom and I think that students would enjoy working on it together or by themselves. Not only could it help students reinforce what they've learned but it also could be a helpful visual tool for those who may be struggling with the content. I also would have the parents sign up for the progress report so not only could I see what they were doing when they reviewed in class, but also so the parents could be involved and see what their child’s strengths and weaknesses are.