This is a truly fun app to help students remember the faces and facts about the US Presidents. On each turn, students must select the correct president from the multiple choice faces. Answering correctly earns the student a chance to propel the president into the air and “knock out” the floating aliens. Aliens are configured differently in each round, and students must use visual reasoning and motor skills to optimize the number of aliens they hit. While this may be a challenge for students with weaker visual motor skills, students can keep answering questions correctly and getting new presidents to shoot until all the aliens are cleared. If students answer at least half the questions in the round correctly, they earn a president for their collection. Winning a number of presidents unlocks additional games. There are a broad variety of questions to challenge all ages, the background pictures are vivid images of the memorials, Mt. Rushmore, and other famous landmarks. The sound effects make this game inviting and knocking out the aliens is an ongoing challenge. Overall, this app provides a great balance of fun and learning. *Note: This app was originally reviewed for iPhone/iPad. Some differences might apply.

• Provides sufficient and varied types of practice problems to maximize understanding and generalization of the targeted skill/concept
• Manufacturer claims alignment with Common Core/Known Standards
• Presents educational concepts accurately
• Explains answers so students can learn from mistakes
• Better for teaching the skill to new or struggling learners
• Better for practicing or refreshing the skill
• Skills are practiced through authentic, meaningful problems (not just rote practice)

• Appropriate for a broad age range to use and enjoy
• Subject matter and problems are relevant, interesting and authentic to students
• Visually appealing to children in the target age range
• Provides virtual rewards or incentives after meeting specified goals or objectives
• Provides a "break activity" between academic problem sets
• Offers ongoing, progressive challenge
• Overall - Enjoyable. Given the option, students would choose this option

• Has a free or trial version
• Provides teaching guidance for adults to support the child and set appropriate goals
• Provides an age-appropriate tutorial/first time users can work independently
• Student should be able to use independently after first use
• Has a multi-player option to foster in-person collaboration or cooperation
• Multiple users can save a profile
• Student graduates to the next level or topic only after meeting a benchmark
• Can play without sound and not distract others
• Students can save work between sessions
• Can effectively understand and monitor student's progress (email report or in product)
• Provides options to play in languages other than English/Good for ELL
• Presents information in multiple formats (voice over, pictures and text, etc.)
• Overall - Easy to use

• Visual Memory