This app is great from an educational perspective. Just through playing the game students will learn names of animals and how they interact with one another. Students that want to research or learn more have plenty of opportunities to do so. The app is beautifully designed and makes good use of the iPad's tilt feature to control the game, which is fun. However, the game is VERY challenging, and some students will be turned off right away by how hard it is. I think the goals for each level need to be lessened, or perhaps give some other advantage such as a small health bump from each saved beetle for example.

From a parent, non teacher perspective the free version is horrible and not worth downloading. There is only one game and my child didn't like it and was bored. It did not make me want to upgrade because I could not see enough of what we were missing out on.

I purchased this game for my 4th grade boy. He's had so much fun playing all of the different levels. The graphics are amazing. The educational value of Isopod is top notch. Both my son and I have learned so much.I've never had any issues with it crashing. I restart my iPad on a regular basis, and find it usually prevents crashing issues I've encountered with other applications (not this one).

I bought the full version. The graphics are beautiful. I really have fun playing the game. I live in the Santa Cruz areaand this game makes me want to go check out the critters in the first part of the game. I showed this to my neighbor's kids and I had make them stop playing (they were using my iPad) when I had to go. I think this is a great game and well done. It is worth every penny.