Gene Screen
Gene Screen is a fun way to learn how recessive genetic traits and
diseases are inherited and how certain diseases are more
prevalent in different populations. Gene Screen also provides
information on some recessive genetic diseases and genetic
screening programs.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gene-screen/id447754230?mt=8
Geologic Time Scale :
“Need a quick reference to the geologic time scale of Earth's
history? Find out, for example, when dinosaurs ruled the world or
when reptiles first appeared. This is a complete reference for
students, educators, professional
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/geotimescale/id327090162?mt=8
Mitosis
Mitosis walks you through the process of cell division, and
explains everything that happens along the way.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mitosis/id348184626?mt=8
EarthViewer
What did Earth’s continents and oceans look like 250 million years
ago, or 1 billion years ago for that matter? Can we say anything
about Earth’s climate as far back as our planet’s origin?
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/earthviewer/id590208430?mt=8
iCell
iCell allows users a 3D view inside of a typical plant, animal and
bacterial cell. Easily navigable and simple to use, iCell gives users
an intuitive tool to compare animal, plant and bacterial cell
structure.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hudsonalpha-icell/id364882015?mt=8
EMD PTE
The multi-lingual Merck periodic table of the elements app provides
detailed information, state-of-the-art functions and an appealing
presentation. It offers high-school and university students as well as
teachers or professors the opportunity to learn more about the chemical
elements - from classification to element features to their history of
discovery.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/emd-pte/id377393859?mt=8
TCT Lite
The Chemical Touch: Lite Edition is a free and easy to use periodic table.
Consisting of a simplified version of the periodic table display from the
full application, it puts the masses, densities, melting & boiling points,
radii, and electronegativities of the elements right at your fingertips.
Touch the internet button to open the wikipedia page for the selected
element.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/chemical-touch-liteedition/id300111574?mt=8
The Human Genome at Ten
The draft human genome sequence, announced in 2000 promised great
insights into human biology, medicine and evolution. To celebrate the
10th anniversary, Nature has repackaged the Human Genome at Ten
news special into a free iPad App.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nature-human-genomespecial/id380143649?mt=8
Science 360 for iPad
The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Science360 for iPad provides
easy access to engaging science and engineering images and video from
around the globe and a news feed featuring breaking news from NSFfunded institutions. Content is either produced by NSF or gathered from
scientists, colleges and universities, and NSF science and engineering
centers.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/science360-foripad/id439928181?mt=8
Weight and Mass
This highly interactive Exploriment App 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 and even of depth below the
Earth’s surface. Use variety of instruments and free fall of a body to
understand the effect of gravity in different scenarios. This app provides
ample opportunities to try out various scenarios and compare the results
across planets and varying altitudes, including scenarios of micro-gravity
and near-weightlessness.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/exploriments-weight-massforce/id483875230?mt=8
iSeismometer
Start iSeismometer, leave it on your desk, then try tap somewhere. You
will realize how sensitive iPhone is!
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/iseismometer/id304190739
Mini-Monsters
Features 300 mini-monsters from beetles, bugs and spiders, to lizards,
snakes and underwater creatures.
The strangest and scariest monsters aren’t always the biggest. Mini
Monsters profiles nature’s tiniest terrors, drawn from regions and
habitats as diverse as the rainforests of South America, the deep oceans
and urban homes and gardens. From venomous spiders and scorpions to
bloodthirsty leeches and hungry piranhas, the natural world’s smallest
creatures are also among the most bizarre and wonderful.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mini-monsters/id444932189
Insectarium HD
Insectarium HD is your introduction to the most common species of
insects the world with in-depth information on 500 species with highquality photos.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/insectarium-hd/id521069091?mt=8
Creatures of Light
This companion app for the popular new exhibition Creatures of Light:
Nature's Bioluminescence offers a close look at some of the
extraordinary organisms that produce light. Enjoy interactive animations,
photo galleries, and videos that reveal the beauty of this amazing natural
phenomenon, how it works, and how scientists study it. Each chapter of
the app, which is adapted from the iPad content featured throughout
the exhibition gallery, is set to a symphonic soundtrack composed
exclusively for Creatures of Light.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/creatures-of-light/id528261564
Project Noah
Project Noah is the best way to share your wildlife encounters and
help document our planet's biodiversity.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/project-noah/id417339475
Leafsnap HD
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.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/leafsnap-foripad/id433522683?mt=8
Solar Walk
This 3D Solar System model lets you navigate through space and
time, see all the planets in close-up, learn their trajectories, inner
structures, history of their exploration, points of interest and more.
It even has detailed 3D models of the most interesting man-made
satellites. Use 3D mode to get a more realistic experience and
zoom out to view and spin the entire Galaxy!
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/solar-walk-3d-solarsystem/id347546771?mt=8
SkySafari
SkySafari 3 accurately shows you the sky from any place on Earth,
at any time up to one hundred years in the past or future. It
includes encyclopedic descriptions of the constellations, stars, and
planets written by professional astronomers. And it contains
hundreds of images from NASA space missions, the Hubble Space
Telescope, and the world's foremost astro-photographers.
SkyView
SkyView™ Free brings stargazing to everyone, and it's totally free!
Simply point your iPhone, iPad, or iPod at the sky to identify stars,
constellations, satellites, and more!
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/skyview-free-exploreuniverse/id413936865?mt=8
NASA
Come explore with NASA and discover the latest images, videos,
mission information, news, feature stories, tweets, NASA TV and
featured content with the NASA App for iOS.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nasa-app/id334325516
NASA EarthNow
NASA's Earth Now is an application that visualizes recent global
climate data from Earth Science satellites, including surface air
temperature, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, ozone, and water
vapor as well as gravity and sea level variations. Data sets are
visually described using "false color" maps. Color-coded legends
are provided to indicate relative strength or weakness of an
environmental condition.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/earth-now/id494633346?mt=8
Moon
Moon is a perfect resource to help you learn about the moon.
Moon constantly updates a panel of information that tells you
everything you want to know about the moon.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/moon./id409619991?mt=8
The Weather Channel
The Weather Channel for iPad combines interactive and beautiful
imagery with our WEATHER(TM) expertise. With over 200
meteorologists and our ultra-local TruPoint(sm) forecasting
technology, The Weather Channel helps you plan the best day
possible for any season.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/the-weather-channel-foripad/id364252504?mt=8
iQuakeLite
iQuakeLite lets you monitor earthquakes around the world.
iQuakeLite displays the latest quakes using heat map graphics
showing you instantly where, how big and when an event
happened. You can Zoom, pan and add a Tectonic plates overlay,
snap pictures of the map with the annotations.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/iquakelite/id364895287
Ocean Science
The Earth has one big water system with many features. The
Ocean app of Ringier Studios is a fantastic journey deep into the
sea. Learn and enjoy the seven essential principles of Ocean
Science with movies, 360° pictures, outstanding animations and
motion graphics.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ocean-science/id612611622?mt=8
Earth Science Regents Buddy
Earth Science Regents Buddy is the ultimate tool for learning Earth
Science. This app was designed by a teacher who has used all
possible multimedia resources in the classroom for teaching
regents curriculum. Earth Science Regents Buddy is not only an
app for learning Earth Science, but also an app for teachers.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/earth-science-regentsbuddy/id504921152?mt=8
ThinkLink
Use ThingLink to instantly add video and text to images. Create
unforgettable greetings, interactive travel photos, and capture best
moments. Share images to your friends on Twitter or Facebook —
and communicate in new ways.
ThingLink introduces a new, richer way to share the world through
photos. Touch the Future of Images. Download the app now and
start tagging.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/thinglink/id647304300
Earth Science Through Photography
Sample of ThinkLink
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/earth-science-throughphotography/id438169820?mt=8
CENTER FOR TEACHING QUALITY
Common Core: Teaching Nonfiction Reading Skills in Science (Activity)
http://www.teachingquality.org/content/teaching-nonfiction-readingskills-science-classroom-activity
UCLA Mobilizing CS
Mobilize MWF is a data collection tool. It provides mobile-based
data capture through inquiry-based surveys and temporally
triggered reminders. All captured data are automatically
timestamped, geocoded and uploaded to a centralized Mobilize
server for analysis and visualization.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/uclamobilizingcs/id601202066?mt=8
Life Noted
Life Noted makes organizing, keeping track of, remembering and
recording daily events simple again. From one screen, people can
capture a moment in their life, jot down ideas, notes and
observations, take videos and photos, and store memories of
events and meetings.
By merging calendaring, note taking, photography and video apps,
Life Noted is an incredibly versatile and intuitive tool.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/life-noted/id688549151
VideoScience
A growing library of over 80 hands-on Science lessons that are
great for home and the classroom. These short videos
demonstrate inexpensive and easy to recreate experiments that
are designed to inspire and excite kids of all ages.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/videoscience/id333284085?mt=8
Solve the Outbreak
An app that is more than an APP! Your mission, if you choose to
accept, is to get clues and analyze data to solve the outbreak and
save lives! In this fun app, you get to be the Disease Detective.
http://www.cdc.gov/mobile/applications/sto/