A Life Cycle App App Reviews

Great app, fun and educational at the same time. My kids loved it!

What We Liked: This app contains quite a wide range of life cycle (and cycles in science in general) topics. The information is solid, and is often very detailed. With 10 cycles presented in detail along with illustrations, this app is a solid value at $0.99, particularly for children who need additional audio-visual reinforcement of the science topics they are studying. The illustrations for each cycle clearly show the progression through the cycle from stage to stage and are generally detailed enough to get the main ideas across. There are easy to access options to turn audio on and off and to turn the display the detailed text for each stage of the cycle on and off as well. I like this flexibility because it allows you to completely ‘silence’ the app and do the teaching yourself, to just look at the app with the audio on, to turn the audio and text on and have your child read along (good for learning to read those tricky scientific terms), or to turn the audio off and have your child read the text themselves. What We Didn’t Like: A Life Cycle app is pretty basic, and as such, doesn’t really take full advantage of the interactive format. The life cycles need to be gone through in order, the app doesn’t allow you to tap on different points in the life cycle to learn about them, so you can get stuck cycling around and around until you get to the section you want to focus in on. None of the points in the cycles pop up or zoom in on that part of the cycle illustration when they are tapped – I think there is a lot of potential to really hone in on the illustration of that part of the cycle, and even to provide additional visuals. The Phases of the Moon page in particular is hard to understand without further visual details (like showing the position of the sun, moon, and earth in relationship to each other in each moon phase, instead of just showing the moon’s shape as seen from earth.) These two main points make the app more like an old-school visual projector presentation than like most interactive apps, the information is taught, but you’re sort of stuck in lock-step with the presentation. Overall: A Life Cycle App is a good, solid, information-based app that covers science cycle topics typically taught from elementary all the way to high school. It may not be flashy, but its easy to pull out for direct teaching and visual reinforcement of life cycle concepts. I received a promo code to download this app.

A lovely gift from a parent to the budding child . Answers a lot of science questions and teaches the topics in a lucid, easy to understand way. Topics covered are diverse and span a wide array.

Great app! Very educational! My third grader really enjoyed it! Strongly recommended it! Fun for kids and a great teaching tool!

Very thorough explanations of many different cycles. Especially helpful for struggling readers.

Really great app.

Excellent app! This is great for the visual learners.

Educating kids these days becomes significantly simpler when you can do so from an iPad. This app provides a great deal of accurate information in a way thats simple to follow for all ages. Great work

Easy to follow the cycle with attractive pictures and some interactivity. Would it be helpful to be allowed to pick and choose which cycle to open? This would allow for a review of specific trouble spots. Another suggestion, video of cycles as a choice.

Useful for three part cards.

Good for kids to learn in a visually rich and interactive way.

I have a 6 year old( grade 1) and a 9 year old (4th grade) both have used this app. It is basic information but it is not in a way that my kids can use it without help.

Excellent app. Great overview of each cycle with easy to understand and follow graphics and narrations!! Very helpful for young learners as a comprehensive tool and reference!!

Parents of children can not always explain one by one come from, where long, how to form, this application is very good, with the intuitive form to tell the children, popular and easy to understand, but hope to continually update the content at the same time language or several languages commonly used to increase one version, each additional language, not only parents and children can more easily understand your content, but also allows you to open up a vast new market!

Very informative and since it speaks all the stages by stages,its simply grt.

This is an ok app. The only problem is that the moon cycle is reversed. The phases; like the orbit of the moon, travels in a counterclockwise motion. All reference materials and tests for my students display it as such, this would only add to their confusion.

A must for all young learners.

Nice interactive tool that I can use in the classroom!

I love this app!

This a good app for adjunct teaching of the life cycles. Real pictures vice artwork would be nice and the ability to go back a step. Sometimes the narration box isnt big enough. But I digress, this is a great tool! Please include fish in the next update.