Apps
Chances are that if you know any children, you know some that are fascinated with trains. Here's an interactive app that will put them behind the control panels.
At first glance, Merete Pryds Helle’s Wuwu &Co. appears to be one of those apps in which a soothing narrator reads a story. But when readers are told to “pick up the book,” a new level of interactivity is revealed.
Share the free Joan Ganz Cooney Center's Spanish-language guide to using apps with children, Apps en familia, and our bilingual (and multilingual) app recommendations for children with the parents who use your library. If you don't have Spanish-language apps on your library devices, it's time to start a collection.
From a controversial state bill to new ways to approach reading with teens and Minecraft, our top posts of the year were an eclectic mix.
Children love photo-essays and stories about animals and educators looking to introduce global issues into the curriculum often find endangered animals a good place to start. The World Wildlife Fund provides a digital offering on the topic, with an update to their WWF Together app, available free on iOS, Android, and Kindle Fire.
3-D perspectives, detailed illustrations, and narrated text features are just some of the features Zybright offers in its stunning tour of of the human body, available on a variety of devices.
The WonderBox app provides content, creation opportunities, and a mini social network—with features and safeguards that will please parents.
Apps that foster creative tinkering while enabling tweens and teens to grasp a new skill, from 3-D modeling to game design.
A cheery professor guides students through "iBiome-Wetland," an app designed to teach students about biodiversity through a series of gamelike activities featuring a fresh water marsh, a salt water marsh, and a mangrove swamp.
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