Disciplines in Educations

The following are apps that could be used in the classroom to aid in teaching math, language arts, or science:

1. Where Do Balloons Go, by Jamie Lee Curtis - This book app has tons of animation.  There are extra interactive buttons to create your own journey along with the balloons.  As the balloons travel the different pages, many of them allow you to animate the characters by dragging a fan across the page, move the page to see more of the scene or even try an activity.  Some of the activities included making your own balloon animals or even creating your own play on stage.  This book would allow the child to explore the story and take their imagination to a new level.  They can read it themselves or hear it read to them while they take in all the interactive components.
2. Math Drills Lite - An app for quizzing on the four main math computations, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.  By choosing one of these drills, a selection of equations are displayed on the screen one at a time to be answered as quickly as possible.  If a student is having trouble with a particular problem, a counting scale displays across the bottom with a "count-by" numbering system.  This helps the student to think in increments of that number to answer the question.  Afterwards, you are given an opportunity to go back and correct any questions that were answered incorrectly.  This app allows you to build speed and sight skills for the most basic math problems.
3. Planets - As students are learning about the solar system, this app allows them to see it in both 2D and 3D perspectives.  In the 2D screen, there is a flat view of the sky.  In the daytime, this screen displays a compass with the suns location.  If you click on the sun it will give you the sunrise and sunset times.  At night, this screen will display the night sky view with a flat view of the stars and the constellations.  Any planets that can be seen from this side of the horizon can be tapped on for more information about when they will rise and set.  The 3D screen will show the sky from a 3D perspective.  It can be moved by dragging the screen to see a different point of view.  It also shows the ecliptic line where all the planets line up.  There are different views that can be displayed besides the visible, such as gamma ray, x-ray, infrared, microwave and radio.  There is also a tab called visibility that gives the time-frame for visibility of each of the planets, the sun and moon.  By tapping on any of these icons more information can be found about the planet's size, orbit, moons and rotation.  The next tab is the globe.  It shows a 3D view of the earth as it spins.  You can manipulate it to a certain point by dragging or pinching.  When you are not touching the screen it will go back to spin mode.  Based on the time of day, it will show the side of the globe that is in the day time from a light view and the opposite side in night view.  There is also a button at the top to switch from earth to any of the other planets as well.  This is an incredible app for showing the world as only the technology of our day could provide.