ScienceTech+Apps

= **Carpentry Pocket Reference**= **Purpose of the app**: Contains information and drawings on how to do basic construction tasks. This includes everything from how to read drawings, plan construction, and manage materials to lay concrete, framing and door and window installation. **Review**: While this app has tons of information it is highly technical. It contains lots of reading with complex drawings that are not easily understood without background knowledge. It does contain an easy to use table of contents that takes you directly to the information you want to access. This could be used in small amounts as a disciplinary literacy piece.
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=Elements 2= **Purpose of the app**: Review the element symbols **Review**: Great for chemistry review of the element symbols. Contains a reference for looking up element symbol and atomic number. Also contains multiple choice practice quizzes and quizzes on identifying the element symbols.
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= First Aid =

**Purpose of the app**: Learn and prepare for first aid emergencies **Review**: Good resource for learning about different health emergencies. It has a section that allows the students to learn about the emergency, prepare for it, and know how to react if there is an emergency.
 * No accounts needed **

= Frog Dissection= = = =Powers of minus ten=
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 * Purpose:** To learn the basic anatomy of a frog
 * Review:** Step-by-step fully guided process of frog dissection. Each organ is labeled. You can tap on the organ to get an overview of the organs function, as well as a rotating view of the organ by itself. The entire process is narrated out loud, however you can simply turn off the volume on the ipad if you don’t want to hear it. Additional resources within the app include an animation of the life cycle of a frog, information about the classification, appearance, eating and living, special senses, digestive system, organs, ecosystem of frogs, a comparison between frogs and toads, a comparison between features of frogs and humans, an overview of a wet lab dissection, a quiz on frog anatomy and physiology, CGI videos of frogs, information about different species of frogs, as well as interactive activities on the digestive system and respiratory system. You will know everything you never knew that you never knew about frogs.
 * No accounts needed **
 * Purpose:** apply scientific notation to real visuals
 * Review:** Mainly a biology app, where you can few objects down to the cellular level.

=Rat Dissection=
 * No accounts needed **
 * Purpose:** To learn the basic anatomy of a rat
 * Review:** Step-by-step fully guided process of a rat dissection. Each organ is labeled. You can tap on the organ to get an overview of the organs function, as well as a rotating view of the organ by itself. The entire process is narrated out loud, however you can simply turn off the volume on the ipad if you don’t want to hear it.

= USMLE Step 1 First Aid Q & A= This apps provides practice tests for the U.S. Medical Licensing Exam that physicians take. The app is very easy to use. Users can choose question categories and number of questions, and can analyze the results in a number of different ways. This might be used in a bio med or health class, or for a small group of students who plan on becoming doctors. = = = The Weather Channel for iPad= This app provides weather forecasts for anywhere on earth. Weather-related news articles and videos are available, which might be useful for a current events assignment. Pollen and flu statistics might be useful in a science classroom. = = = WebMD for iPad = This app has several different sections: “Symptom Checker” might be used by a biomed or health class to diagnose case studies “Conditions” and “Drugs and Treatments” contains encyclopedic information on hundreds of medical conditions and reads much like the information found on the WebMD website. “First Aid Information” could be useful for a first-aid review in a health class.

Extremely easy to use.