Brainbean offers eight unique games based on scientific and creative exercises. Four are free for students to play, and four additional ones can be unlocked for just $0.99 each or $2.99 for all four. Each game is just 60 seconds long, so you can pick up Brainbean for a quick brainteaser, or play for an hour or more in the classroom.
We’ll tell you if it’s worth your time, if what we find is any good. Wonders of Life brilliantly capture the basics of biology, everywhere from North America to Africa to Australia and beyond. Physicist Brian Cox expertly illustrates the diversity and complexity of life with vivid images, text, and videos, sparking a sense of imagination and urge for exploration.
Play a game of classic State Bingo and look for clues on a beautifully illustrated US map. Play the brand new Road Trip US game. Travel to random destinations or choose to drive along the historic Lewis and Clark trail. Win the game to send states to statehood. Enjoy fun animations as Pep the car cheers you along.
Leafsnap is the first in a series of electronic field guides being developed by researchers from Columbia University, the University of Maryland, and the Smithsonian Institution. This free mobile app uses visual recognition software to help identify tree species from photographs of their leaves. Leafsnap contains high-resolution images of leaves, flowers, and more.
Now and then, I come across an app and think this is the experience tablets were made for. A tool in that hand of someone with a limitless imagination and Adobe Voice—Show Your Story is an app worthy of such a tool. You can combine icons, pictures, text, and your voice to create compelling videos. And, you’ll always have images to use.
Studying endless lists isn’t always the best way to learn and use them effectively. Phrasal verbs are, more than anything, action. And action must be visual. The more visually stimulating learning is, the better we will understand and assimilate the phrasal verbs. Which is the very idea surround what the Phrasal Verbs Machine was built to do
Regardless of whether your kids love or hate Spanish, apps like Compact English-Spanish Dictionary make much easier to complete the course with flying colors. It features pronunciation in multiple regional voices, the ability to translate between both languages and take advantage of definitions and synonyms for better understanding.
Apps like Science360 gives the type of immersive experience the iPad was made for. It feel like you’re taking a deep long dive into a multimedia world of endless knowledge which the National Science Foundation (NSF) provides through this app. It’s a plethora of engaging science and engineering images and videos from around the globe.
It has been well reported in that last few weeks that Microsoft would release its suite of apps for the iPad. Now they are all available to the masses. Some critiques are hailing them as the final key the iPad needed to be considered a true content creation device, which according the some drives the final death nail in Microsoft’s own tablet, the Surface.
Brainscape is based on the simple premise: When you study, each concept should be repeated with in the amount of time that is just long enough for your maximum memory encoding. Repeating an easy concept to soon risks wasting your time, while repeating a difficult concept to late risks your having to learn it all over again.
