Guest post by Ms. Neumeyer, our online student teacher from Canada.(Dean Shareski's class) Today Ms. Neumeyer continues her series of iPad app reviews.
Check out her other reviews!
I don’t know if you have ever heard of Bill Nye- but he was a big part of my learning about and coming to love science. He is an excellent science teacher who really knows how to bring science topics to life for kids through humor and interesting experiments. Here is a picture of this humorous and intelligent guy:
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| Bill Nye The Science Guy |
Disney recently released an app called Bill Nye the Science Guy. When you first open the app a voice over by Bill Nye exclaims, “You’ve arrived at my desk!” and a desk full of objects is shown. Users can choose from objects on the desk, such as a rocket, a robot or a sundial, and the app will bring users into a different lesson. There is a huge variety of options to learn from such as: games designed to teach users about the solar system as you take pictures from a rocket, learning about planet Earth’s geological history while digging up a backyard, and cool optical illusions woven into a storyline about alien invasion.
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addition to games, there is also a book of do-it-yourself experiments and the six
science experiments require nothing more than everyday household items. Be
sure to check out the bobble head. It has interesting science facts to share.
My favourite
part about this app is the original videos from the Bill Nye the Science Guy show! A quick
tip is that despite the buy button on the right hand side, if a user
just taps the video it starts playing.
This app also displays Bill Nye’s typical humour as you can see when you open Bill Nye’s desk drawer and learn when he started wearing bow ties and even how to tie yourself!
Here is a short video of some screenshots I took while trying out this app:
Had you heard of Bill Nye The Science Guy before?
What part of this app seemed the most interesting to you?
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