Showing posts with label apps. Show all posts
Showing posts with label apps. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 10, 2015
Apps for Little Firefighters
I was interested to see on Christmas Day the different types of apps the young kids at our family gathering had downloaded on their family iPads. My 3 year old nephew, who is absolutely mad about Fire Engines, obviously wanted apps where he could be a Firefighter. Not a category of apps I was instantly familiar with but his mother had found a couple that she said she would recommend. She only bought him two but still had the list she had researched. Here is the list.
Fireman Sam - Junior Cadet: $2.99 AU
Young fans can learn with Fireman Sam and the rest of the Pontypandy Fire Crew as they take on the role of a fire cadet in training. They can earn an ‘Honorary Junior Fire Fighter’ certificate before putting their skills to the test and helping out Fireman Sam in some action-packed emergencies.
https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/fireman-sam-junior-cadet/id484081903?mt=8
Lego City Fire Hose Frenzy: FREE
There’s a fire in LEGO City! Help the fireman put out the fires across LEGO City by climbing the fire truck ladder and using the fire hose. Some fires will be harder to reach than others! Fires over a larger area will need you to control the helicopter! The biggest fires will need you to take charge of the Fire Truck!
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Young fans can learn with Fireman Sam and the rest of the Pontypandy Fire Crew as they take on the role of a fire cadet in training. They can earn an ‘Honorary Junior Fire Fighter’ certificate before putting their skills to the test and helping out Fireman Sam in some action-packed emergencies.
https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/fireman-sam-junior-cadet/id484081903?mt=8
Lego City Fire Hose Frenzy: FREEThere’s a fire in LEGO City! Help the fireman put out the fires across LEGO City by climbing the fire truck ladder and using the fire hose. Some fires will be harder to reach than others! Fires over a larger area will need you to control the helicopter! The biggest fires will need you to take charge of the Fire Truck!
https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/lego-city-fire-hose-frenzy/id585182353?mt=8
Firehouse Adventure: $2.99 AU
The Firehouse alarm is ringing! Put on your firefighter suit, grab your gear, and hop on the fire truck. There’s a emergency and the Little Explorers need your help. Firehouse Adventure features eight dynamic mini games that will teach your child about the roles and responsibilities of firefighters. Earn rewards along the way that teach about firefighter equipment and fire safety.
The Firehouse alarm is ringing! Put on your firefighter suit, grab your gear, and hop on the fire truck. There’s a emergency and the Little Explorers need your help. Firehouse Adventure features eight dynamic mini games that will teach your child about the roles and responsibilities of firefighters. Earn rewards along the way that teach about firefighter equipment and fire safety.
https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/firehouse-adventure/id439742991?mt=8
Kids Fireman: $1.99 AU
If your children love firefighters, this app is a must have! Go through the life of a firefighter from the moment the fire alarm sounds at the fire station to putting out the fire and rescuing a cat. Slide up, slide down, move, touch and poke various objects with real sound effects and colorful scenes. Children will feel like a firefighter. This app is full of activities that your children will love.
https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/kids-fireman-hd/id434619439?mt=8
2BME Firefighter: $1.99 AU
This app invites your child to embark on a unique tour of the fire station. A perfect app for curious little minds that want to know all about what firefighters do. Children are invited to interact with all types of firefighting equipment, allowing their imaginations to flourish while engaging and educating them along the way.
https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/2bme-firefighter/id475847691?mt=8
Fireman Sam - Fire and Rescue: $2.99 AU
FIREMAN SAM is back with FIRE & RESCUE. Join him and the rest of the Pontypandy crew in this collection of emergencies and rescues. SEVEN ways to play including interactive single and multi-player games, video player, and a special reward sticker book. Featuring all the familiar characters, music and sound effects from the TV show.
If your children love firefighters, this app is a must have! Go through the life of a firefighter from the moment the fire alarm sounds at the fire station to putting out the fire and rescuing a cat. Slide up, slide down, move, touch and poke various objects with real sound effects and colorful scenes. Children will feel like a firefighter. This app is full of activities that your children will love.
https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/kids-fireman-hd/id434619439?mt=8
This app invites your child to embark on a unique tour of the fire station. A perfect app for curious little minds that want to know all about what firefighters do. Children are invited to interact with all types of firefighting equipment, allowing their imaginations to flourish while engaging and educating them along the way.
https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/2bme-firefighter/id475847691?mt=8
FIREMAN SAM is back with FIRE & RESCUE. Join him and the rest of the Pontypandy crew in this collection of emergencies and rescues. SEVEN ways to play including interactive single and multi-player games, video player, and a special reward sticker book. Featuring all the familiar characters, music and sound effects from the TV show.
https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/fireman-sam-fire-rescue/id606910110?mt=8
Community Helpers: FREE
Community Helpers teaches preschool children about people who make our lives easier and remind us of how inter-connected our lives are.Your child will learn about some common and others not so common Community Helpers. From the work they do, place they work in, tools they use, transport they use even the uniform they wear.
https://itunes.apple.com/app/community-helper/id514920049?mt=8
Big Kid Life Firefighter: $1.99 AU
Rampaging Fire Monsters are on the loose in Big City –chasing kitties, scaring puppies and setting things on fire! Don’t worry, you are a firefighter – you can do something about it! Use your special backpack hose to drench Fire Monsters, use ladders to climb past obstacles, and save kitties and puppies – all while practicing your skills with numbers, shapes and symbols.
https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/big-kid-life-firefighter/id478103235?mt=8
Fire Trucks 911: $2.99 AU
There are 5 different firetrucks and thanks to the app your kid will learn a lot about fire engines, their components and the purposes they have. Doing different tasks earns your little one rescue stars. The app will bring your little firefighter into the thick of the action and make them a real rescue hero!
Community Helpers teaches preschool children about people who make our lives easier and remind us of how inter-connected our lives are.Your child will learn about some common and others not so common Community Helpers. From the work they do, place they work in, tools they use, transport they use even the uniform they wear.
https://itunes.apple.com/app/community-helper/id514920049?mt=8
Rampaging Fire Monsters are on the loose in Big City –chasing kitties, scaring puppies and setting things on fire! Don’t worry, you are a firefighter – you can do something about it! Use your special backpack hose to drench Fire Monsters, use ladders to climb past obstacles, and save kitties and puppies – all while practicing your skills with numbers, shapes and symbols.
https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/big-kid-life-firefighter/id478103235?mt=8
There are 5 different firetrucks and thanks to the app your kid will learn a lot about fire engines, their components and the purposes they have. Doing different tasks earns your little one rescue stars. The app will bring your little firefighter into the thick of the action and make them a real rescue hero!
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/firetrucks-911-rescue/id675454649?mt=8
Tiny Fireman:
Fire department stories and adventures involving fighting fires as well as saving, rescuing and helping people and animals. This and many more adventures with the firefighters and policemen: the speeding car, the cheeky crow, the smart firefighter, the lazy policeman and the dancing traffic officer.
Fire department stories and adventures involving fighting fires as well as saving, rescuing and helping people and animals. This and many more adventures with the firefighters and policemen: the speeding car, the cheeky crow, the smart firefighter, the lazy policeman and the dancing traffic officer.
https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/tiny-firefighters/id632012899?mt=8
Killer Apps Eighth Graders Addictive Games Selling Well
A great good news story from http://www.fluency21.com/
Orange Middle School eighth-grader Brian Gorham displays one of
his games, Doodle Shapes, on an iPad. Gorham taught himself how to
write code to create the downloadable game and three others.
(SNP photo by Brett Nuckles)
Youd better, if you want to climb higher in Cloud Jump, a touch-screen video game you can play on your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch.
The game challenges players answer scientific trivia questions to climb higher and higher into the sky on bouncy clouds. A wrong answer will send you back to the start.
The educational game didnt come from a computer software company -- it was designed single-handedly by Orange Middle School eighth-grader Brian Gorham.
Gorham developed the game for a science class project on weather and precipitation.
While his classmates toiled away on informational posters and PowerPoint presentations, Gorham got out his Mac computer and started coding.
"I thought it would be a fun way to learn about the topic, and it was a lot more fun to make," he said.
Gorham, 13, loves games -- but his on-the-go lifestyle, filled with long bus rides for travel baseball games, made it hard to find the time for them.
He played games on his calculator, but the graphics were simple and the controls clunky. Thats when he decided to take the plunge and learn to make games for his touch-screen iPhone.
The young tech buff wasnt dismayed when he saw that programming classes didnt fit into his budget.
"I thought, Why not just teach myself? " he said.
Gorham programs the games using special software on his laptop computer and collaborates with other game-makers online to perfect the graphics and sound for his games.
Since Cloud Jump, he has gone on to develop and release two new games, which can be purchased and downloaded for 99 cents each in the App Store on any iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch.
In Miner Escape, players take the role of an unlucky miner who must dodge falling icicles in a frozen cave. In Doodle Shapes, players roll from one ascending platform to the next to avoid getting crushed at the top of the screen.
Miner Escape is fun and pretty challenging," said Gorhams classmate, T.J. McCabe, 14. "I could play it all day if I didnt have to stop and go to school."
Christopher Deis, who teaches technology at Orange Middle School, said he is most impressed by his students initiative and inventiveness.
"This is the epitome of self-education," Deis said. "The challenges and concepts that are involved in coding like this are very high-level. Its not something you typically see from a 13-year-old."
Gorhams games already have racked up about 5,000 free downloads, and about 100 more since they went on sale.
He currently is learning more complicated programming languages, and even has plans to port his games to Android smartphones this spring.
For now, he is hard at work on Ice Sled, a high-speed action game featuring a sledding polar bear -- and he said his days as a developer are just getting started.
"Programming can be frustrating, but I think its fun," he said. "Right now I just want to keep learning, improving my skills and making new games."
http://www.fluency21.com/
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