IPad Review

The two app’s that I have chosen are “Oregon Trail”, and “Awesome Arithmetic”. 

 The Oregon Trail game would be good to use for a  fifth grade Social Studies class, studying about the pioneers heading westward. The game builds off of the old computer game called “Oregon Trail.”  The game involves building bridges, forts, and camps to help survive on the Oregon Trail.  The game would be fun for kids, and help reinforce learning in the classroom because they could also play the game on an ipad on iphone at home. 

The game “Awesome Arithmetic” helps kids practice math skills including addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.  The user can select the skills to be tested on, and the amount of digits used.  This would be a good game to help kids remember multiplication skills.  This would also be a good game to practice speed math where kids try to reach the answer as quickly as possible.  The difficulty of this game can be adjusted, so it would be appropriate for all grades.

I think that both of these app’s could be used in the classroom to enrich learning, and kids would enjoy using the ipads in the classroom to play these educational games.