List/Grid Tag Archives: science

snowflake

Tale of a Snowflake, The

Review Excerpt: This eBook introduces children to the concept of the water cycle. In the story, a little girl captures a talking snowflake, who explains how she started as a drop of ...
quigley

Quigley the Caterpillar

Review Excerpt: In the story, Quigley the caterpillar meets a beautiful butterfly named Bertina. Now Quigley sees himself as plain and wants to fly gracefully like Bertina and will ...
sid

Sid the Science Kid – Sid’s Slide to the Side

Review Excerpt: Sid has a problem — his new sneakers have too much friction. This problem is described in two narrated stories, presented in a way that you help Sid the Science ...
ibmthink

IBM Think

Review Excerpt: This app turns your iPad into a hands-on museum designed to let you explore some big ideas — stuff like how different kinds of maps have developed, the role of ...
troop

A Troop is a Group of Monkeys

Review Excerpt: This app is designed to introduce a very specialized set of vocabulary words: plural nouns for animal groups (such as “a pride of lions” and “a parliament ...
dynastid

Dynastid Beetle

Review Excerpt: Dynastid Beetle is divided into seven sections: Body, Habitat, How They Move, Raise a Dynastid Beetle, Battle, Quiz and Video. In case you’re wondering Dynastid ...
bats

Bats! Furry Fliers of the Night

Every child wonders about bats. Here’s an excellent app for helping them to satisfy their curiosity. Created by Ellen Jacob, Bats! Furry Flyers of the Night is an interactive ...
insects

Meet the Insects: Village Edition

Review Excerpt: This second edition interactive encyclopedia contains 30 insects commonly found around urban and suburban settings. The first app covered 30  forest insects that are ...
littlebits

LittleBits

Review Excerpt: LittleBits is a system of modular electronics that snap together with magnets. Each block, or module, has a unique function. There are several types of switches, LED ...
coloruncovered

Color Uncovered

Review Excerpt: Turn your iPad into a hands-on exhibit right out of San Francisco’s Exploratorium with this collection of 16 light/color experiments. There are sixteen topics ...
redfox

Red Fox at Hickory Lane

Review Excerpt: Another in the Smithsonian series of science-related apps, this app tells the story of Mother and Father Fox as they teach their four cubs to hunt, escape danger and ...
roundspenguin

Rounds: Parker Penguin

Review Excerpt: The second in the a series of non-fiction apps that deal with life-cycles, Rounds: Parker Penguin lets children participate in a G-rated version of each stage of penguin ...
yosemite

Be There: Yosemite

Review Excerpt: Supplement your trip to Yosemite next summer, with a preview of what you might see, with your choice of ten 360 degree panoramas located in Yosemite Valley. The app ...
ranger

Ranger Rick Jr. Appventures: Lions

Review Excerpt: This collaboration of Moonbot Studios (see: Morris Lessmore) and the editors of Ranger Rick Jr. Magazine mixes real information about Lions (how they eat, sound and ...
otter

Otter on his Own

Review Excerpt: This app follows a familiar Oceanhouse Media script. Start with an original book, and let children touch the illustrations or words to hear them read out loud, and labeled. ...
zoomy

Zoomy Handheld Digital Microscope

Review Excerpt: This handheld digital microscope displays images of up to 43x magnification. Features include: designed to fit easily in a child’s hand; one-touch photo and video ...
tizzy

Tizzy Seasons

Review Excerpt: Designed to let children freely explore four seasons (Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter). In Spring, children can feed the birds in their very own birdhouse, plant ...
natgeotv

Kinect Nat Geo TV

Review Excerpt: We’ve all grown used to the notion of watching TV. Now it can watch you back, providing you have one of two Kinect titles — Kinect Sesame Street TV, or Kinect ...
rounds

Rounds: Franklin Frog

Review Excerpt: This innovative app stretches the definition of ebook, with a dash of Nosy Crow irreverence.  Rounds: Franklin Frog is the first title in a series of non-fiction apps ...
rocket

NASA Rocket Science 101

Review Excerpt: Can you match the rocket, and all it’s components, with the NASA space mission? If so, you can get your satellite (or Mars rover) into orbit. If not, your rocket ...
ice

Ice is Nice

Review Excerpt: Here’s another solid addition to the Oceanhouse Media’s “The Cat in the Hat’s Learning Library.” Ice is Nice is designed to introduce basic ...
gems

Gems and Jewels

Review Excerpt: Similar in design to “The Elements” (one of the first iPad apps, also by Touch Press), Gems and Jewels lets you explore the large collection of glittering ...
explore

Explorer Game Cartridge: Phineas and Ferb

Review Excerpt: This arcade-style game cartridge is designed for new LeapPad and Leapster Explorers (both this year and last year). It will not work on the original Leapster. In the ...
butterfly

Butterflies HD

Review Excerpt: Designed to let children explore the life cycle of butterflies, this app is a loose collection of slides, movies and facts related to each stage of butterfly development: ...
monster

Monster Physics

Review excerpt: This invention construction kit contains 50 puzzles sorted into five challenge categories. In addition, an open-ended “build” mode lets you freely experiment ...
trucks

Trucks by Duck Duck Moose

Review excerpt: Playful yet powerful, here’s another easy, solid app from Duck Duck Moose.  The five activities give you plenty to do. You can wash a car after a trip through ...
laforet

La Forêt Mes Premières Découvertes

Review excerpt: La Forêt by Gallimard Jeunesse features clear, hand drawn, labeled illustrations, professional French narration, and a well designed table of contents. Features include ...
barefoot

Barefoot World Atlas

Review excerpt: Featuring a 3D spinning globe interface, this children’s atlas makes it possible to zoom in and pull out of a globe view, and to explore surface-level facts and ...
tick

Tick Bait’s Universe

Review excerpt: This is a power of 10 app, that lets you explore the really big and the extremely small.  You start with a view of a back yard, with a dirty dog named Tick Bait. You ...
say

Oh Say Can You Say Di-No-Saur?

Review excerpt: This is the second in the The Cat in the Hat’s Learning Library series. Cat in the Hat is the host (and the narrator) who takes us on a fictional expedition to ...
dinosaur

Inside the World of Dinosaurs

Review excerpt: This dinosaur encyclopedia contains a library of 60 animated, roaring dinosaurs, as well as  biographical facts on a set of famous dinosaur hunters. You can either ...
bugs

Bugs and Buttons

Review excerpt: Once you get past the idea of touching the swarms of realistic roaches, ants, or bees, children quickly fall for this collection of 18 counting and classification activities. ...
xray

X is for X-Ray

Review excerpt: What does the inside of a seashell look like? What about an insect, a motorcycle or an iPad? Here’s an app that lets you find out.  The app contrasts two images ...
plants

Plants HD

Review excerpt: Plants HD lets you drag and drop the seven stages of a plant into the correct order: seeds-dispersal-germination-plants and trees-flowers-pollination-fruits. Features ...
paintwithtime

Painting With Time

Review excerpt: Helping a child understand long term temporal relationships — things like how a plant grows or how a glacier retreats — has always been a challenge for a ...
space

There’s No Place Like Space

Review excerpt: Stretching the term “non-fiction,” The Cat in the Hat’s Learning Library is an ebook adaptation of the  Dr. Seuss series, done in classic Oceanhouse Media ...
science

Jim Henson’s Sid’s Science Fair

Review excerpt: Put a science center in your iPad, with this collection of three activities, featuring Sid the Science Kid characters. Following a noisy introduction — just like ...
HumanEye

Bobo Explores Light

Review excerpt: Bobo Explores Light is an example of how an app can let children aged 7-up play with — and better understand –  an abstract concept; in this case light. ...
SONY DSC

SpyClops Bionic Eye

Review excerpt: First released in 2007 under the name “EyeClops TV Microscope” by Jakks Pacific, this year’s edition has been simplified once again. To use, you put ...
Picture 9

It’s Tyrannosaurus Rex!

Review excerpt: Based on the Palm/Smithsonian book, written by Dawn Bentley and illustrated by wildlife and natural history artist Karen Carr, It’s Tyrannosaurus Rex! is a prehistoric ...
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