iPad Apps for School

The Best iOS Apps for Students and Teachers

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Mysteries of the Unseen World Shows Students the World In a New Way

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mysteriesMysteries of the Unseen World is a free iPad app based on the National Geographic film of the same name. In the free iPad app students see common, everyday objects under an electron microscope. The app contains three types of games based on the electron microscope images.

The “solve”  games show students an image and a clue as to which object they are seeing. There is a multiple choice “solve” and a cypher “solve.” The multiple choice game is good for beginners. The cypher game is for advanced players. In the cypher game students have to spell the name of what they think they are seeing.

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In the puzzle game students are given the name of an object and then have to assemble the electron microscope picture.

Mysteries of the Unseen World has games and images arranged in four categories. The categories are science, human, nature, and modern.

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The Human Body – An Anatomy App for Kids

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Screen Shot 2013-09-23 at 8.29.56 AM The Human Body by Tinybop is an iPad app designed to help elementary and middle school students learn human anatomy. The app features interactive diagrams of the major systems of the human body. A few of the things that students can see on the app are how lungs breathe, the heart beats, and the ears hear. One of the features that I liked is that through the app students will also see how the feeling of a touch of the hand is received in the brain. Students can turn layers and labels on and off throughout the app.

Tinybop offers a free PDF handbook to go along with The Human Body app. The handbook provides more information about the things featured in the app as well as activity and discussion prompts for teachers.

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The Human Body App provides an option for parents to create accounts to monitor how their children use the app. Parents can authorize an in-app purchase to add kidneys, bladders and genitals to the app (by default that information is not enabled).

3D Brain – A Model of the Human Brain

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Screen Shot 2013-06-30 at 2.07.11 PM 3D Brain is a free iPad app that features a model of the human brain. he app provides a three dimensional model of the human brain that students can rotate. To look at a specific part of the brain select it from the drop-down menu and it will be highlighted on the model for you to view. Click the “info” tab to read one page summaries about each part of the brain. On the app you can also find some case studies about disorders and brain damage.

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Project Noah – Share Stories of Nature In Your Neighborhood

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Screen Shot 2013-05-07 at 9.12.25 AMProject Noah is a globally collaborative project to which anyone can contribute. On Project Noah you can share pictures and stories of the plants and the animals that you observe in your neighborhood. Project Noah has a section titled Missions in which you can find projects that you can contribute to. The Missions ask people to make contributions of images and observations about a specific animal, plant, or region. Check out the squirrel mission to get started. Project Noah offers iOS and Android apps that you can use to record and share your observations on the go.

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Project Noah has an Education section in which teachers can register their classrooms. Once registered teachers can assign Missions to their students and track their students’ observations.

Share Observations of Nature With iNaturalist

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Screen Shot 2013-05-06 at 6.35.54 PMiNaturalist is a community website for sharing pictures and observations of plants and animals. To enable easy sharing of observations, iNaturalist offers a free iOS app. Using the app you can take a picture, geo-locate it, write your observations, and upload to the iNaturalist community. If your observation is incomplete, for example if you’re not sure of a scientific name, you can ask the community to add comments to improve the recording of your observation.


If you don’t want to join the iNaturalist community, you can simply explore members’ observations through the iNaturalist Google Map.