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Recommended iPad apps for Secondary Science 1. Curiosity Machine: FREE A collection of exciting experiments and projects designed to encourage curiosity, creativity, and persistence. View videos of actual engineers and scientists talking to children about the inventions and projects they work on. 2. Fun Science Lab: $2.99 The Lab is a toy factory filled with interactive experiments and games. It is designed to give kids a fun and entertaining way to learn some basic principles of science by encouraging them to interact with the different elements in each experiment. The themes are: Heat, liquids, electricity, magnets, gravity, etc. 3. Kahn Academy: FREE This app features the best way to view the over 3500 educational videos on a number of topics including biology, chemistry, and physics. 4. Science Glossary: FREE A glossary of scientific terms and short biographies for science education. All definitions link to related terms and to free detailed science learning modules. 5. Science Learning Hub: FREE Developed by New Zealand’s leading science educators, the learning hub features real life, authentic examples of science in action. The app contains over 25 contexts and 11 science stories.

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Recommended iPad apps forSecondary Science

1. Curiosity Machine: FREE A collection of exciting experiments and projects designed to encourage curiosity, creativity, and persistence. View videos of actual engineers and scientists talking to children about the inventions and projects they work on.

2. Fun Science Lab: $2.99The Lab is a toy factory filled with interactive experiments and games. It is designed to give kids a fun and entertaining way to learn some basic principles of science by encouraging them to interact with the different elements in each experiment. The themes are: Heat, liquids, electricity, magnets, gravity, etc.

3. Kahn Academy: FREEThis app features the best way to view the over 3500 educational videos on a number of topics including biology, chemistry, and physics.

4. Science Glossary: FREEA glossary of scientific terms and short biographies for science education. All definitions link to related terms and to free detailed science learning modules.

5. Science Learning Hub: FREEDeveloped by New Zealand’s leading science educators, the learning hub features real life, authentic examples of science in action. The app contains over 25 contexts and 11 science stories.

6. Science360 for iPad: FREEThis app provides easy access to engaging science and engineering images and videos from around the world and a news feed with breaking news in the science field.

7. VideoScience: FREEA growing library of over 80 hands-on science lessons. These short videos demonstrate inexpensive and easy to recreate experiments.

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8. WilderQuest – Nature Discovery: FREEWilderQuest allows you to take a peek inside a virtual ecosystem and immerse yourself in the sights and sounds of our natural landscape with 16 native animals to discover and unlock.

EARTH SCIENCE APPS

9. Language Central for Science Earth Science Edition: FREEMake studying vocabulary terms fun and engaging with the Word Fly game experience. The app features flash cards, trivia challenges, and a game to practice and refresh science vocabulary.

10. iQuakeLite: FREEThis app displays graphic heatmaps of the latest earthquakes with colored dots to show location, time, and intensity.

11. The Rock Cycle: FREE An interactive story about the life of a rock, the rock tells his life story with interactive images, diagrams, and mini-games.

12. The Water Cycle: FREE An interactive app showing the four stages of a water cycle in a simplified visual manner.

PHYSICS/PHYSICAL SCIENCE APPS

13. Exploriments: Weight, Mass, and Force of Gravity: FREEA highly interactive app that lets you explore the effect of gravity on weight and mass on different planets. You can also explore the effect of altitude on weight and mass below the Earth’s surface.

14. Intellective: Physics: FREEPhysics lessons at the touch of the screen complete with audio/whiteboard lectures, short quizzes, and lab simulations.

15. Language Central for Science Physical Science Edition: FREE

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Make studying vocabulary terms fun and engaging with the Word Fly game experience. The app features flash cards, trivia challenges, and a game to practice and refresh science vocabulary.

16. Neutrons4Science: FREE Enter the world of neutrons! This app lets you experience neutron science through three interactive 3D animations.

17. PhysicalSci:FREE This interactive glossary app is a great review and study tool for learning physical science glossary and content. It is also an excellent reference tool of terms presented through simulations, video, science content, and flash cards.

18. Physics2 HD:FREEThis app in all of the reference tables and the 10 units covered in high school. Each unit includes the common formulas, a brief description of each formula, and examples all in one view.

19. TinkerBox HD: FREEA fun app that is also full of interesting science facts and teaches basic engineering concepts. Students can take the tools in their hands to explore with the Invent mode or stretch their brain through the physics-based puzzle mode where their only hope of success is through creative problem solving.

20. World of Physics – Fluids: FREEStudents can learn about the physics of fluid motion through this adorably animated physics simulator.

21. Xperica HD: FREEThis app brings the experience of touch to various science experiments to foster a better understanding of the concepts.

CHEMISTRY APPS

22. Elements Quiz: $1.99

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Test student’s knowledge about the elements and the periodic table in a fun and engaging game.

23. Building Atoms, Ions, and Isotopes HD Lite: FREEStudents can explore the composition of the elements, build atoms, ions, and isotopes by selecting appropriate numbers of protons, neutrons, and electrons. This app includes atomic theory information and an interactive periodic table.

24. Chem Lab: $0.99The Chem Lab offers high school students a chance to build simple chemical compounds in an approachable game-like environment. Drag elements into a flash to complete the chemical formula. Get it right, and you rock. Get it wrong, and BOOM the experiment explodes.

25. Chemical Elements Free – iPad: FREEThis app gives a vast amount of information about each element.

26. Chemical Reaction Lite: $0.99Dr. Smith has been tinkering with strange chemicals and has unwittingly created some very unstable concoctions. There are only moments left before the whole lab goes up in smoke. Students do their best to solve the puzzles and stop the chemicals from getting out of control.

27. Chemistry Flashcards Lite: FREEThe lite version of flashcards has a few. The full version has over 300 flashcards and $1.99. The flashcards are split into 18 categories and problems range from easy to difficult and have all the work and equations shown.

28. Chemistry Formula Practice Lite: FREEThis practice app stimulates students’ mastery of the fundamental skill of naming compounds and writing formulas. Students may choose their pace as they work from formula to name or name to formula.

29. Gas Laws HD Lite: FREEBeginning Chemistry students can use this app to study the various relationships that exist between pressure, volume, temperature, and the number of particles of a gas.

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30. K12 Periodic Table of the Elements: FREEThis app lets students explore the elements and their key attributes in a simple, easy-to-use way.

31. Molecule Rush: FREEThis app aims to make chemistry relatable by educating users on how to build and arrange atoms to create molecules. After successful completion, users can proceed to progressively more difficult levels.

32. Molecules: FREEAn app for viewing 3D renderings of molecules and manipulating them using your fingers. The structures can be viewed in both ball-and-stick and spacefilling visualization modes.

33. NOVA elements: FREEThis app explores an interactive periodic table, offers a two-hour NOVA program, and also has a game hosted by David Pogue.

34. Oresome Elements: FREEAn interactive game that makes learning about the periodic table, elements, and some of their properties and uses fun.

35. Painless Chemistry Challenge: FREEThis app just took Chemistry to the next level – fun! It offers the ultimate Chemistry and arcade game challenge.

36. The Periodic Table Project: FREEA student-designed project where educators and enthusiasts worldwide adopted an element and artistically interpreted that element to eventually be brought together in a mosaic of science and art. Each element captures and unique and creative spark and then collectively they ignite a passion for chemistry.

BIOLOGY APPS

37. 3D Cell Simulation and Stain Tool: FREE

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Students can create their own cell image, explore a 3D cell, get help from the support team, and email the image creation to share with others.

38. Bio Hatcher: FREEThe objective is to engage the user of this app to create an environment for microbes to thrive. The user starts by choosing from four environments. Then they create microbes that will be able to cope in these different environments.

39. Learn Biology, Kingdom of Organisms & Microbiology: $1.99Covering many topics of Biology, this simple, and easy, on-the-go learning app helps users understand Biology by identifying, coloring, labeling, exploring, and animating movement. It offers tutorials in over 25 topics.

40. Cell Defender: FREEIn this game, you are a kid whose father is a world famous nanotechnologist. Your dad has accidently infected the family dog with nanobots. Your mission is to command a nanobot to fight off the dangerous nanobots to restore the dog’s cells back to health.

41. Germ Blaster: FREEGerm Blaster is an educational arcade style shooter game where students earn points to progress through levels by shooting six different pathogens with a specific weapon. If they are not sure which weapon to use, they can search through the menus to learn which one kill the specific pathogens.

42. HudsonAplha iCell: FREEThis app gives anyone interested in Biology a 3D view inside a cell. Included are examples of three times of cells: animal, plant, and bacteria.

43. Language Central for Science Life Science Edition: FREEMake studying vocabulary terms fun and engaging with the Word Fly game experience. The app features flash cards, trivia challenges, and a game to practice and refresh science vocabulary.

44. Virtual Cell Animations: FREE

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This app includes an animation, still images, narrative, and content quiz with visualization tools that aid in the learning of science concepts.

ANATOMY APPS

45. 3D Brain: FREEUse the touch screen to rotate and zoom around 29 interactive structures. You can discover how each brain region functions, what happens when it is injured, and how it is involved in mental illness.

46. 3D4Medical’s Images – iPad edition: FREEThis app contains over 200 medical images that can be displayed for presentation. It has been designed specifically for the iPad to showcase the high quality images.

47. BodyParts – Human Body Part Names and Flash Cards: $2.99 This app covers all organ systems and body parts. It features labeled parts in various organ systems and flash cards of various body parts/systems and offers a learning mode, multiple choice mode, and test mode.

48. Cardiovascular System: $4.99A learning and teaching app that allows users to explore the human cardiovascular visually and interactively. It features over 200 structures and present relationships between them.

49. Circulatory, Digestive, and Reproductive Systems: $1.99 Complete ready-made lesson plans with pre-assessment, reading passages, and assessment activities. Contains 8 chapters, printables, crossword, and memory match game.

50. Explore the Heart in 3d: FREEA learning activity about the structure and functions of the human heart along with various factors affecting the normal functioning of the heart. This app has supporting text information and audio.

51. Living Lung – Lung Viewer: FREE

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A real time 3D education tool featuring incredibly detailed anatomical respiratory models using actual human CT imaging data.

52. 3D Nervous System: $0.99In this app users study the anatomy of the nervous system, each and every one of its parts, functions, activities, types, textures, and 3D views.

53. Virtual Heart: FREEThis app lets you explore multiple real-time views of the human heart that let you adjust the heart rate anywhere from 30 to 180 beats per minute. It is realistically animated and constantly beating.

SPACE APPS

54. Exoplanet: FREEA visual and interactive catalog of all known planets orbiting other stars. An amazing model of the Milky Way lets you explore our universe all the way from the solar system to the cosmic microwave background.

55. Mars Globe: FREEThis virtual globe combines a high-resolution satellite map with laser altimeter data and advanced topographic lighting to present the planet Mars as it appears from above.

56. Moon. – FREEThe app that lets you learn anything you ever wanted to know about the moon. You can even schedule notifications of full moons to be ready to handle your students when it arrives. LOL

57. NASA app HD: FREE Thousands of images from Nasa with on demand videos, live streaming, current mission information, launch information and countdowns, visible passes from the ISS, and an Earth satellite orbiting tracker.

58. Star Walk for ipad – interactive astronomy guide: $4.99

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A stellar augmented reality app that labels all the stars, constellations, and satellites you point your iPad at. You can track the ISS, find out what constellation you see from your school window and get tons of exciting and educative information.

59. Solar Walk – 3D Solar System Model: FREE The app features a time-sensitive accurate information-packed interactive model of the Solar system and Milky Way galaxy. The model lets you navigate through space and time, see all the planets close-up, learn their trajectories, inner structures, history, points of interest, and more.

60. SkyView FREE – Explore the Universe: FREEA powerful, easy-to-use app where you simply point the camera to the sky, tap on what you see, and discover neat things about these sky objects. It will answer the questions of “Where will the sun rise and set today?”, “Is there a full moon tonight?”, and “What is the name of that bright star?”.

61. A Solar System Journey: FREE This app offers comments and facts about each planet as well as close-up images for each planet. There is also an animated orbit for the planets.