Journey to the Arctic and Antarctic to learn about the plants and animals there as well as the effects of climate change with iBiome—Changing Ice. Learn how to be kind, responsible and safe in school situations with SOBE Stories. Plus, ideas for incorporating art and technology into science learning with the eBook Everyone Can Create in Science.
Garry Froehlich
iBiome – Changing Ice
by Springbay Studio Ltd.
iBiome—Changing Ice deals with climate change and the environment in the Arctic and Antarctic. Professor Bio guides kids to learn about the ecosystems in the colder regions of our planets, and what happens when the ice melts. There are mini-games involving putting together food webs of plants and animals, and attempting to prevent greenhouse gases from trapping heat in our atmosphere. Players are rewarded for listening to the descriptions with stars and can see plants and animals added to their screens as they build their ecosystems. There were some text-formatting errors on the device I tested it on, but overall it is an informative app for the child interested in ecosystems and climate science.
SOBE Stories
by Jeremy Swanston
So.Be Stories (social-behavioral) presents social situations for young kids starting school and a series of choices about how to deal with the situation that may lead to a positive or negative outcome. For example, another child is feeling left out on the playground, do you invite them to play or leave them alone and how do you talk to them? These situations are woven into loose stories, so after the children choose to play together, what happens if another child jumps onto the swing they were planning to use? There are five such stories, plus four more situations that teach being kind, helpful, responsible and safe. This is not a new app, but it holds up well.
(Thanks to OMazing Kids https://omazingkidsllc.com/ for pointing this out.)
Everyone Can Create in Science
This is not a science book, but rather a set of ideas for using the creative capabilities of mobile devices to have kids draw, photograph, create video, and even music and podcasts for science projects.
https://books.apple.com/us/book/everyone-can-create-in-science/id1526467995
