Jungle Time - learn how to tell time (for iPad)

 Jungle Time - learn how to tell time (for iPad) is an app that uses cute jungle animals to teach kids to tell time. The app has five levels and allows you to set up the iPad for multiple users if you only have one iPad. Students can work on any of four activities: telling time, setting time, understanding elapsed time, and setting elapsed time. Change the clock style within the settings and choose from a standard, learning, or classic clock. Play settings allow teachers to set the app for: continuous play, skipping allowed, answered required, or correct answers required.  

Kids who benefit from audio instructions can hear directions like "What time is it"? If they need to hear the question again, they can simply press the red question mark. An analog clock is always presented to identify the time and a scroll bar with the digital time is used to answer the question. If the answer is incorrect, the chosen jungle animal will make a sad face. If correct, the animal will "roar" for positive reinforcement. The settings tab allows teachers to see student history, which includes the date, the activity, the answer, the number of attempts, and the time spent. A separate section teaches all about telling time, including how to read the clock and about Daylight Saving Time, 24-hour time, and time zones. ​What's more, there are more than ten languages available for kids who are ESL learners. 

Within the app are many helpful examples and the ability to customize to different learners. For instance, there are several hands-on examples of how the hour hand, the second hand, and time differences work. The settings screen has a large number of options for tailoring the game toward the proper skill level, including telling time to the hour, the half hour, five minutes, and one minute, for example. 

Kids who are just learning time concepts or are struggling with them can benefit from Jungle Time. For kids with visual or spatial reasoning challenges, the app includes a learning clock style, which includes minute numbers that have color-coded hands. The learning clock gives kids who may have visual discrimination issues an opportunity to differentiate the minute and hour hand. The app also teaches students about the more abstract concept of elapsed time, which requires students to determine the difference in time between two clocks. Teachers and parents can track ther kids' history and see the date of activity and percentages correct and incorrect.