12 Of The Best iPad Apps For Learning You've Never Heard Of

How does the universe work? Stephen Hawking’s Snapshots of the Universe explains the principles that control our universe through simple and fun experiments.

As a follow-up to Endless Alphabet, set the stage for early reading success with Endless Reader! This app introduces "sight words", the most commonly used words in school, library, and children's books. Kids need to recognize these words by sight in order to achieve reading fluency. Recognizing sight words is advantageous for beginning readers because many of these words have unusual spelling, cannot be sounded out using phonics knowledge, and often cannot be represented using pictures.

Sound Rebound is an offbeat experience of color and sound that invites you to create ricochets, bounces, or bumps to investigate seeing and hearing.

How is Monet like a honeybee? What color is a whisper? Why is it so hard to find your car in a lamp-lit parking lot? Color Uncovered features a wide spectrum of cool color-related topics to explore. Learn why friends shouldn’t let men buy bananas. Try your own color experiments on the iPad using simple items you have at home: a CD case, a drop of water, and a piece of paper. Discover how the iPad and other devices create color.

Lightbot is a programming puzzle game- a game whose game mechanics require using programming logic to solve levels.

Watch kids grow a firm grasp of the English language through working their grammar muscles in a fun and healthy way by constructing and deconstructing sentences.

This app displays the Geologic Time Scale that represents the timeline for Earth's history. The Geologic Time Scale shows the names of the eons, eras, periods, epochs, and ages along with their corresponding dates.

2015 PC Magazine Editor's Choice! Luminos is the award-winning, all-in-one astronomy app that goes beyond simple stargazing.

The dreamy, dark and superb imagination of Lovecraft transgressed the limits of literary terror in the 20th Century. This collection gathers 3 interactive masterpieces: Dagon, The Hound and The Window. Dive into a world where the human minions are under constant threat of creatures from other dimensions. Feel the sinewy tentacles of Lovecraft’s horrifying monsters envelop you as you read.

Create Video Screencasts from your Photos and Slides. Vittle lets you easily narrate and annotate your photos and PDF slide decks to create highly engaging videos.

EleMints is a revolutionary periodic table for the science geek in all of us. Boasting phenomenal retina graphics and features such as element properties, a molar mass calculator, a plot graph and much more, EleMints will inspire you to bring out your inner mad scientist.

150 years after the start of the American Civil War, HISTORY presents The Civil War Today, an award-winning app created exclusively for the iPad. For less than one penny per day you can experience the war as it unfolded, one day at a time, with daily updates that let you live the events in “real-time” over the course of four years.