Tick Bait's Universe - Education

Tick Bait's Universe
  • Released:Feb 07, 2012
  • Current Version:1.04
  • 11.2 MB
  • Seller:Marc Gamble
Rated 4+

Description

95 "Tick Bait is so inviting and so engaging that it just calls out for students to come and explore."
-- Lori Bracey 7th & 8th Grade Science Teacher, Southampton Intermediate School, New York

"This well-designed odyssey truly does put the universe at viewers’ fingertips."
-- Kirkus Reviews


For ages 7 to 70! - With this app, kids (and kids at heart) can easily zoom in and out to explore the universe. They can zoom up to see Earth’s atmosphere, our solar system, galaxies and beyond. They can also zoom down into the microscopic world to explore bacteria, viruses, DNA, atoms, protons and beyond.

The beautiful and kid friendly illustrations make these scientific concepts more accessible and less intimidating.

Educationally, Tick Bait’s Universe helps kids grasp complex scientific concepts. A proton is unimaginably small. A galaxy is unimaginably large. Children have a hard time relating to objects and scientific concepts that are so different from their everyday world. Tick Bait’s Universe helps kids understand the scale of objects in the universe and their own place in it. It also provides an environment to introduce many scientific concepts and facts that otherwise would remain abstract and hard for them to understand.

The result is an app that encourages a child’s natural curiosity about science without overwhelming him or her.



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Professional Reviews (2)

From PadGadget
100
Tick Bait’s Universe for iPad can be enjoyed in the home or in a classroom as it offers users an impressive amount of information presented in a way so children will want to read about it. There are not enough high quality apps aimed at the late elementary and middle school audience, and Tick Bait helps fill this void. Hopefully developers will create more apps like this one. Exploring with Tick Bait may mark many student’s first exposure to some complex scientific concepts, and the will prepare them (and encourage them) to study science at a higher level. Date: May 06, 2012
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From Mobile iEducator
90
Tick Bait’s universe fills a neglected niche. That is, there are not that many apps for late elementary or middle school kids and even less that teach science. The children’s book illustrator Liza Woodruff did all the beautiful illustrations (See Screen shots below). These illustrations make science accessible and less intimidating to kids. A cool detail of this app is that the portrait mode is purely visual and the landscape mode provides important details. A perfect compliment to the teaching of main idea and details. Date: June 10, 2012
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