iPad Apps for School

The Best iOS Apps for Students and Teachers

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Test Your Geography Knowledge on the GeoBee Challenge App

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Screen Shot 2014-03-03 at 8.25.10 AM The GeoBee Challenge iPad app from National Geographic is an excellent app that students can use to test and develop their knowledge of world geography. The contains more than 1300 questions about physical and political geography. Each round of the game presents the questions in a different manner. In some rounds students see a picture of a landmark and have to tap the country containing that landmark. In other rounds students read a question and tap the answer on the map. And there are rounds that simply present the name of a location that students have to locate on the map.

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The GeoBee Challenge app is designed for elementary school and middle school students. Registration is not required in order to use the app and multiple students can use the same installation of the app. GeoBee Challenge is currently (March 3, 2014) available for free, but its regular price is $1.99.

MyHistro – Create Location-Based Timelines On Your iOS Device

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Screen Shot 2013-03-05 at 10.30.20 AM MyHistro is a service that allows you to create location-based stories. The best way to describe it is as a timeline builder and map creation tool rolled into one nice package. On myHistro you can build a personal timeline or build a timeline about a theme or event in history. On the free MyHistro iOS app (not optimized for iPad screens, but it works) you can create stories that include pictures, text, locations, and dates.

If you’re creating a personal story you can take pictures with the MyHistro app, use your current location to automatically add locations to your story, and edit the timestamp for each event. If you’re creating stories about historical events, disable location-based services and you can set each event and timestamp individually.

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myHistro does have a collaborative aspect as you can invite people to work with you on events or entire stories. To work with you your collaborators will need to register on myHistro. For students over age 13 myHistro has great potential for create digital historical stories.