Apps are the latest way to connect users to information via tablet computers and smartphones. These programs offer users the opportunity to hold science in their hands and put quality resources in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics literally at their fingertips.
Science NetLinks is in the early stages of gathering and reviewing STEM-related apps for both the iPad and the Android. Please check back often as we expect to add new app-related tools on a regular basis.
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3-12 | Interactive
GoSkyWatch Planetarium allows you to identify and locate stars, planets, constellations, and more by touching the screen or by pointing to the sky.
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3-12 | Interactive
This app lets you record observations from nature and share them with the iNaturalist online community.
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3-8 | Interactive
Bobo Explores Light is an iPad book that introduces school-age children to fundamental science concepts.
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6-12 | Interactive
Virtual Frog Dissection allows students to simulate the experience of a classic animal dissection via an app.
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K-5 | Interactive
Go on an exploration of what we're made of and how we work with this Human Body app, from Tinybop.
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3-8 | Interactive
Think you know what poison ivy and a firefly have in common? How about some of the ways a dolphin and a goldfish are different? Download Classify It!, an app from Science NetLinks, to test your knowledge of how various organisms can be sorted and grouped.
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6-12 | Interactive
This app from TestTubeGames lets you experience particle physics in a way you've never done before.
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K-12 | Interactive
From the people behind the Journey North website comes this free citizen science app to help you track migrations and seasons.
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6-12 | Interactive
This app stands in for both microscope and telescope and lets students see details at both the far reaches of the universe and far inside the proton of a human cell.
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3-12 | Audio
With this interactive collection from the Exploratorium, you can explore sound through auditory illusions, acoustic phenomena, and other things that go bump, beep, boom, and vroom.
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K-6 | Interactive
Matific is a hands-on and interactive app that uses bite-sized apps for tablets and personal computers to teach math skills.
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9-12 | Interactive
This app lets you experiment with chemistry almost anywhere you go.
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3-8 | Interactive
Discover how our planet works through play.
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K-12 | Interactive
Bedtime Math provides a daily math problem for different age groups, generally pre-K, K–2, and 2 and up.
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3-12 | Interactive
Gravity Launch is an app where you try to get a rocket to its destination to learn about gravity.
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3-12 | Interactive
The Planets App, by Q Continuum, provides several different ways for you to get information about objects in the sky.
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K-12 | Video
This app offers more than 80 videos featuring science experiments, book reviews, and tool recommendations.
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6-12 | Interactive
iCell gives you an interactive, 3D view inside a cell.
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9-12 | Interactive
This app allows you to rotate and zoom around 29 interactive structures in the brain
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K-12 | Interactive
Project Noah is a global study that encourages nature lovers to document the wildlife they encounter.
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6-12 | Interactive
The EyeDecide app teaches you about eye anatomy and conditions.
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9-12 | Interactive
This app is an electronic version of the Periodic Table of the Elements. It was developed by EMD (now Merck) Chemicals.
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6-12 | Interactive
Science360 is a wonderful app from the Science360 Knowledge Network.
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6-12 | Interactive
This app is a vast compilation of scientific and mathematical information from Vision Learning.
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6-12 | Interactive
The NASA Visualization Explorer provides visualizations, animations, and images of our sun and the universe.
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3-12 | Interactive
Leafsnap is a terrific app for anyone with an iPhone or iPad in the great outdoors.
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9-12 | Interactive
Molecules is a free application for the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad that allows you to view three-dimensional renderings of molecules and manipulate them using your fingers.
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6-12 | Interactive
Project BudBurst is part of a citizen science program designed to encourage local participation in a national research effort.
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K-12 | Interactive
Active Explorer is an innovative app that combines the mobility of a smartphone with the abilities of a computer
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9-12 | Interactive
Gene Screen is an app that helps you learn how recessive genetic traits and diseases are inherited and how certain diseases are more prevalent in different populations.
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9-12 | Interactive
This app will help you learn how the membrane works and its parts, including phospholipids, cholesterol, proteins, and carbohydrates.
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3-8 | Interactive
5 Dice: Order of Operations Game is a math app intended for upper elementary and middle-school students that helps students practice and understand their order of operations.
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K-12 | Interactive
With this app you can learn how to code and even make your own games.
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K-5 | Interactive
This engaging science app from Filimundus challenges kids to solve problems using the objects provided.
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5-8 | Interactive
With NASA's Rocket Science 101 app, you get to be a NASA rocket scientist and design and launch a rocket into space.
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K-12 | Interactive
GLOBE Observer app invites you to make environmental observations that complement NASA satellite observations to help scientists studying Earth and the global environment.
AAAS Resources
Science Population App
The Science Population app for the iPad presents a detailed look at global population growth and its impact on critical areas like lifespan, education, health, and economics. Featuring news articles and peer-reviewed research from Science, plus videos, podcasts, and interactive graphs, the Science Population app is your guide to the complex challenges facing a world whose population is at 7 billion people and counting.
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