Montessori Nature

This app offers a very realistic environment in which kids have to plant, nurture, harvest, and sell their crop.

Nowadays, it is easy for children to become disconnected from nature in our bustling city landscapes. What if technology could help cultivate an engagement with nature that inspires curiosity, a love for its marvels, and in effect re-introduce our kids to the natural world? That is what Montessori Nature is all about!

Get your child excited about nature and maybe even give them a green thumb with Montessori Nature! Our realistic digital ecosystem will ignite children’s curiosity as they manage natural resources to grow fruit, veggies, and flowers. Not only will children acquire the critical thinking and organizational skills to make their seeds sprout and bloom, but they will also develop a consciousness of how food is produced, and why it’s important to manage natural resources.

Explore. Nurture. Grow.

FEATURES
100% customizable for endless hours of play 
100% educational: learn about plants’ life cycles and needs
100% safe for parents: sell the fruits of your labor to earn nature coins*
100% comprehensive:
-Watch the bees pollinate the flowers to make honey 
-Observe the difference in seasons
-Protect your plants from pesky pests like rodents and ravens
-Manage natural resources to nurture a lush garden 
100% motivating: expand and modernize your yard with watering robots, weather frogs, lamps, and more from the catalog
100% collaborative: work on your garden with up to 40 peers in real time** 
*Nature coins = digital currency earned and redeemed in the app 
**Specially designed for use in schools

According to Maria Montessori, a connection with nature is vital to a child’s development and spiritual well being. There is nothing more exciting than getting to taste a fresh tomato grown from seed to plant, digging in soil to discover creepy crawlers, or observing bumblebees as they pollinate a patch of marigolds. Montessori Nature prepares children for these experiences by offering a realistic simulation that can be transferred to real life! 

Grow Recycling

Have you ever tasted trash?

Thought so, but for some, your old shoe box or your empty tin can, is yummie-yum! Meet our groovy recycling bins and feed them everyday garbage. But who likes what? Try out and see for yourself - their reactions will surely help you figure out each character’s favorites.

But where does all the trash go? Find out and make new products out of the garbage you’ve sorted by playing with the funky recycling machines. Pull the levers, click the buttons, spin the cog wheels and play along with the music. Whatever you produce - a bottle of lemonade, a jar of jam or a can of pinapple rings - it will come in handy. Banja the rabbit throws a picnic for her friends, and you’re invited!

Leftovers and garbage from the picnic is yummie for the hungry recycling bins. Let’s visit them again and do it all over!

GROW RECYCLING is a circular kids app – a play cycle – about recycling. It is foremost a fun game, but also a pedagogic way for kids and their parents to learn about taking care of our planets resources. 



FEATURES: 

• 9 different recycling bin characters

• 6 different machines (all with unique music) 
• More than 100 different pieces of garbage
• Language-free
• Kid-friendly interface 
• Hand-made environment

• No in-app purchases

• No third-party advertising 

Toca Nature

*App Store Best of 2014*

Nature is magic. Toca Nature delivers that magic to your fingertips.

Shape nature and watch it develop. Plant trees and grow a forest. Raise a mountain and enjoy the view. Collect berries, mushrooms or nuts, and feed the different animals. Learn who eats what and discover how much it takes to winkle a bear out. Walk through different landscapes and become friends with a fox. Capture the moment of woodpeckers zigzagging between trees, and watch the day turn into night.

Find new friends and challenges. Be mesmerized.

Discover the unexpected. End up somewhere far from where you started.

Let us show you the magic of nature!

DNA Play

Create your own funny monsters and transform them in real-time by building and tweaking their DNA! Over 200 billion unique life forms at your fingertips! Feed your monsters, dance with them, watch them skate, get to know their quirks. 

This fun monster maker game introduces kids to the basic science of DNA in an easy pure-play style. Learn how to build creatures by completing a series of simple DNA puzzles. Get creative and experiment with quirky mutations of different body parts by altering genes. Have fun playing with your monsters and change their form in real-time while they dance, skate, eat or sleep! 

CREATE & MUTATE

Start with a basic unformed figure and complete the gene puzzles to give it a fully grown torso, face and limbs. Then tweak the genes or simply tap on the monster's body parts to trigger mutations. Observe how the tiniest change in the DNA code can lead to unimaginable new characteristics. 

Watch your monster turn from yellow to red, grow pink hair and 6 eyes, have its ears transform into fish fins and its belly pop out and crave for food. Best of all, these are emotional creatures with vivid personalities, so prepare to be surprised!

PLAY & EXPLORE

Once you complete all 6 body parts it's time to play with your monsters and have fun! Feed them, tweak them, push them, squeeze them, make them jump or slide! Go for a skateboard ride with them! Get to know their quirks. Do they enjoy being chased by an elephant, being hypnotized or listen to music? Are they afraid of the dark? Discover what makes them sneeze, laugh or cry, how their voice changes after mutating their faces! 

Try, experiment and evolve! Why stick with 2 short legs when 4 tall ones are so much better for flamenco dancing? Keep transforming and observe which forms look better in various activities! Take photos and share your genetic blueprints so friends can clone your beasts. Build your personal library of ready-to-play, cute little monsters. Science has never been so fun!

MAIN FEATURES

• A playful introduction to DNA, biology and genetics
• Build over 200 billion unique monsters!
• Complete the DNA puzzles, swap their pieces to mutate
• Tap on body parts to trigger random mutations
• Plenty of unexpected and hilarious interactions
• Transform monsters in real-time while they dance, sleep, eat, skate & more!
• Save your monsters in a ready-to-play library 
• Save snapshots of your creations stamped with their DNA code
• Parents' section includes basic info on DNA, illustrated tutorial, interaction hints & play ideas
• Ideal for kids 4-9 years old
• Perfect for STEM education (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math)
• Language neutral game-play
• No time limits, free-play style
• Exceptional graphics, superb music & original sound design
• Safe for kids: COPPA compliant, no 3rd party ads, no in-app purchases

Piiig Labs: Science Experiments for Kids

Science experiments can be fun without the mess!

Piiig Labs is a digital playground for your child to explore science concepts in an old fashioned way, by putting together mini projects and learning through interaction and sometimes trial and error. By being “hands on” in the building process, kids get an inside look at how things work!

KEY FEATURES
• 12 interactive kits with assembly parts
• Build a light bulb circuit and turn it on/off
• Put together a radio and tune to 5 different stations!
• Mix baking soda and vinegar for a volcanic eruption!
• Match animal sounds to the right farm animal
• Themes: electricity, circuits, chemical reaction, color mixing, radio frequency, vortex, sound, and more!
• Child-friendly design
• NO third party advertising
• NO in-app purchases
• 8 language settings including English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese and Korean

Piiig Labs is suitable for kids from 5-9 years old.

The Everything Machine by Tinybop

Use your device’s camera, microphone, speakers, gyroscope, and/or screen. Add logic gates and routers to build more complex machines. You can also connect devices to play with friends. Pull a prank or talk in secret codes. Find video tutorials on YouTube (search for Tinybop + Everything Machine).

Save your inventions on your device. Or, if you make something really great, tap the share button and email it to a friend or us. We love hearing from you at hi@tinybop.com.

The Everything Machine is the second app in Tinybop’s Digital Toys, a series of open-ended building apps that let kids ages 6+ create, test, play with, and collect whatever they can imagine. The first is The Robot Factory, the iPad App of the Year and a Parents’ Choice Gold Award winner.

Features:
* Make any machine you can imagine!
* Connect and use your device’s built in tools and sensors: the camera, microphone, speaker, screen, gyroscope, light, and more.
* Drag and snap dozens of parts together easily.
* Use logic gates and routers for more sophisticated machines.
* Kids can play together (or with grownups!): use transmitters and receivers to connect to other iPads, iPhones, iPod touches, or Apple Watches.
* Example machines help you get you started quickly.
* Download the free Everything Machine Manual for more details on parts and their functions, in the app or on our website.
* Save every machine you create. Use it every day, anyway you like!
* Introduces kids to programming and circuitry.
* Parts have labels in 40+ languages.
* Original artwork and sound design.
* Intuitive, safe, and kid-friendly design.
* Multi-user system: each child can create and save their own machines.
* Entertaining for kids and adults alike.

Star Walk HD - Guide to the Night Sky

Star Walk is the most beautiful stargazing app you’ve ever seen on a mobile device. It will become your go-to interactive astro guide to the night sky, following your every movement in real-time and allowing you to explore over 200, 000 celestial bodies with extensive information about stars and constellations that you find. 

Get started quickly

• Launch the app and point your iPhone at the night sky, you'll see the stars, planets, satellites, and constellations in their proper place from your location. As you move your device, the star map updates in real time. The Moon is the easiest first target. 

• Tap Augmented Reality icon in the upper right corner to add the image from your camera to your sky view. 

• Use Night Mode to go easy on your eyes and preserve night vision when exploring the Universe. 


Go deeper and beyond

• Every object you tap has an (i) next to its name, tap it to access information.

• A scale on right is the Time Machine, slide it to explore the map of the night sky of tomorrow or years ago. 

• A calendar of celestial events will make sure you never miss anything interesting. 

• TelRad will help you find the exact position of an object when stargazing with a telescope.


Share your experience 

• Project to a big screen with no picture quality loss. Star Walk is your personal planetarium. 

• Explore stunning space pictures in Picture of the Day. 

• There is an entire stargazing twitter community within Star Walk - don't miss out! 

"With the Star Walk app, if you hold your iPod up towards the sky, you can see all the stars and constellations. It even tells you the names of all the planets. Then, if you point it towards the ground, it shows you what all the stars are in the other hemisphere. It’s brilliant, and if you’re ever somewhere with a clear sky and no light pollution, it’s a revelation. It’s beautifully designed and makes clever use of the available technology. I’m fascinated by astronomy, but even if you’re not, give this a go."

Tags: Science, Astronomy

The Elements by Theodore Gray

Of all the periodic table apps, there is only one which Stephen Fry described as “Alone worth the price of an iPad!”. The Elements is not just a reference app, it is a rich and engaging love story of the periodic table, told in words and pictures, and allowing you to experience the beauty and fascination of the building blocks of our universe in a way you've never seen before.

The Elements is based on the internationally best-selling hard cover edition of The Elements, by Theodore Gray, Popular Science Magazine’s Gray Matter columnist. But it goes way beyond what is possible on paper.

You start off at a living periodic table where every element is shown with a smoothly rotating sample. To read about tin, tap the tin soldier. To read about gold, tap the gold nugget. Immediately you see the sample filling nearly the entire screen, photographed to razor sharpness and rotating around a complete circle in front of your eyes. Beside that is a column of facts and figures, each of which can be tapped to bring up rich detail and current information through the embedded Wolfram|Alpha computational knowledge engine.

Go to each element's second page and you find a fascinating story about the element, surrounded by carefully photographed objects representing it. Every one of these objects, well over 500 in total, is a freely rotatable, live object that you can examine from all sides and pinch zoom to see in unprecedented detail.

Touch the element name at the top of the page and you can see that element’s name in over a dozen different languages. Choose one and you’ll find that the entire book, stories, captions and all, switches to that language: The Elements includes both the full English original text and over a dozen full translations.

Pinch-zoom or tap any object to bring it up full screen, where you can split into a pair of stereo 3D images. Using inexpensive 3D glasses you can see all 500 objects pop off the screen in 3D, and you can spin the objects, in 3D, with the touch of a finger. You can’t get much more virtually real than that.

Tags: Science

Cell and Cell Structure

Get to know all about cells, their structure, and functions with this great educational app

Welcome to a fascinating journey learning about cells, cell parts and structure, and their specific functions. Emantras has launched this new educational app, Cell and Cell Structure, that’s written for middle school students, and also provides a great review for high school students. Learn about life’s smallest unit – the cell. Students and teachers will appreciate the detailed 2D and 3D imagery, stunning graphics and in-depth content. Specifically designed for middle-school students, and offering a detailed review for high school students, this biology app is the perfect compliment to the life-science curriculum.

Cell and Cell Structure comes with three main menu options:

¨ All About Cells
¨ Interactive Activities
¨ Videos

All About Cells offers you an in-depth understanding about cells, cell structure, the cell life cycle, individual organelles and their functions, and much more. Each topic engages users with a question format offering short, detailed answers. Eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells come alive through vivid imagery and engaging activities.




Through Interactive Activities, students can test their understanding by taking multiple quizzes, complete word search activities, and review detailed flash cards. Flash cards are a perfect way to review and retain material. Each picture contains concise information about cell types, cell life cycle, individual parts and cell structure. Word search challenges students to refresh their memory about different cell parts, and even help improve spelling.

Tags: Science, Anatomy

Skeleton System Pro III

Skeletal System Pro III is used by most universities and is now the standard learning/reference tool for students and medical professionals.



SKELETAL SYSTEM PRO III’ TOP FEATURES ARE:

- Over 600 bone landmarks labeled
- 360 horizontal degree rotation of any body part - with a swipe of your finger.
- Rotate vertically for inferior and superior for unique views where applicable.
- 94 animations of every movement of each articulation (flexion, extension, etc.)
- 596 audio pronunciations, for every label.
- Draw on any screen image and then share it through email, Facebook or Twitter.
- 2 types of Quiz, Drag and Drop and Multi-choice.

NEW FUNCTIONALITY:

- Interface: Completely rebuilt to allow for simple navigation.
- Mix layers: Make one layer semitransparent to compare against another layer.
- Public Notes: Post or browse through shared public notes.
- Graphical Hints: On screen hints that can be turned on or off, for a complete understanding of all the app's features.

OVERVIEW:
The Skeletal System Pro III - includes the most in depth 3D skeleton ever developed, the ability to rotate, cut and get superior/inferior views all with the simple stroke of the finger. 



This app’s primary use is as a learning tool but can also be used as a fast and innovative reference tool by utilizing the index function that allows the user to select an item and the app will automatically zoom in and identify it. 

Additionally, this app is ideal for physicians, educators or professionals, allowing them to visually show detailed areas of the skeletal system to their patients or students, helping to educate or explain conditions, ailments and injuries.


Tags: Science, Anatomy

Solar Walk - Solar System Planets, Orbits, and Moons

Remember building a solar system in high school? Cups and papier-mache balls are in the past, because Solar Walk is an interactive orrery that shows all planets and satellites of the solar system in their correct positions in real time.

This 3D solar system model lets you navigate between planets, see their positions on a specific date, explore how they move and why. You will see the entire Milky Way galaxy from a far and zoom in to study all the planets and satellites in close-up, learn their trajectories, inner structures, history of their exploration, and geography.

Every planet has extensive information: size, mass, orbital velocity, exploratory missions, thickness of structural layers, and composition of atmosphere.

MAIN FEATURES:
Planets: Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto
Moons: Phobos, Deimos, Callisto, Ganymede, Europa, Io, Hyperion, Iapetus, Titan, Rhea, Dione, Tethys, Enceladus, Mimas, Oberon, Titania, Umbriel, Ariel, Miranda, Triton, Larissa, Proteus, Nereid, Charon
Dwarf planets and asteroids: Ceres, Makemake, Haumea, Sedna, Eris, Eros
Comets: Hale-Bopp, Borrelly, Halley’s Comet, Ikeya-Zhang
Missions and satellites*: Curiosity, Luna 17, Apollo 11, Apollo 17, Hubble Launch, SEASAT, ERBS, ISS, Aqua, Envisat, Suzaku, Daichi, CORONAS-Photon 
Educational movies*: size comparison, Earth’s cycles, solar eclipse, moon phases, tidal phenomena, major circles of latitude, zodiacal constellations, Cassini-Huygens mission

Tags: Science, Astronomy

The Human Body by Tinybop

Explore a working model of the body. Every part is interactive: the heart beats, guts gurgle, lungs breathe, the skin feels, and eyes see. Designed for kids to discover what we’re made of and how we work. 

Features:
* Explore seven interactive systems to learn basic human anatomy, including the skeletal, muscular, nervous, circulatory, respiratory, digestive, and immune systems.
* Discover detailed, interactive models of the heart, brain, eye, stomach, mouth, and much more.
* Get the urogenital system as an in-app purchase. 
* Smart device features include: camera demonstrates vision, microphone shows how hearing works, photo and music libraries demonstrate brain function, device orientation shows the effect of gravity on the body.
* Intuitive, safe, and kid-friendly design.
* Multi-user system: each child can choose and name their own avatar.
* Original artwork and sound design.
* Fun for all ages, from toddlers to adults.
* No rules or levels—curiosity is rewarded.

FREE handbook
Our expert-reviewed handbook is full of facts, interaction hints, and discussion questions to support learning in this app, in the classroom or at home. Download in your app or at: http://tinybop.com/handbooks. 

Tags: Science, Anatomy

The Magic School Bus: Oceans

Seatbelts everyone! Go on a wild ride certified with Ms. Frizzle and class to explore ocean life on the iPad!
Based on the book The Magic School Bus: On the Ocean Floor written by Joanna Cole and illustrated by Bruce Degen, this interactive storybook app is teeming with science facts, videos, photos and games. In comic book style format, readers engage in an active reading experience as they discover plant and animal life, coral reefs, the ocean floor and more. Touch an animal in the ocean to watch a video or learn a fun fact. Every page of this fantastical Magic School Bus adventure features an interaction to extend the reading experience. When the reading adventure is complete, children can play a fast-paced game to earn points for more science facts and to travel to other areas of the ocean!

Features:

• Embodies the “open exploration” essence of The Magic School Bus – which encourages kids to “take chances, make mistakes…and get messy!” 
• Takes more advanced facts from the book and brings them to life so kids can manipulate variables and see cause and effect in action.
• “Touch & Tilt” animated interactions make it easy for children to engage with the story:
• 7 interactive science explorations that bring key science concepts to life.
• Access 26 real photos and 11 videos of underwater animals and plant life.
• Over 20 individual voices plus original music and sound effects bring the story to life – meaning you don’t have to know how to read to enjoy The Magic School Bus! 
• A highly re-playable game that includes over 20 animals in which children can play to earn points for more science facts and to travel to other areas of the ocean.
• Includes hundreds of facts about underwater life.
• Individual words highlight as they are read aloud to aid reading skills; settings options allow independent readers to turn off music and narration, access mini-games and go to a specific page in the story.

Tags: Science, eBook