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Sandston Social Studies Apps

Google Earth

Fly around the planet with a swipe of your finger with Google Earth for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Explore distant lands or reacquaint yourself with your childhood home. Search for cities, places, and businesses. Browse layers including roads, borders, places, photos and more. Visit the Earth Gallery to find exciting maps such as real-time earthquakes, planes in flight, hiking trails, city tours, and more. Integrated Google Maps Street View allows you to explore the world at street level.

Use the new “tour guide” to easily discover exciting new places to explore. With a quick swipe on the tab at the bottom of the screen, you can bring up a selection of virtual tours from around the globe.

With new 3D imagery, you can now fly through complete 3D recreations of select cities, including San Francisco, Boston, Rome, and others. With every building modeled in 3D, you truly get a sense of flying above the city. 3D imagery is available on iPhone 4S and iPad 2 or later.

Google Maps

The Google Maps app for iPhone and iPad makes navigating your world faster and easier. Find the best spots in town and the information you need to get there.

• Comprehensive, accurate maps in 220 countries and territories
• Voice-guided GPS navigation for driving, biking, and walking
• Transit directions and maps for over 15,000 cities and towns
• Live traffic conditions, incident reports, and automatic rerouting to find the best route
• Detailed information on more than 100 million places
• Street View and indoor imagery for restaurants, museums, and more

  • Some features not available in all countries
  • Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.
Early Jamestown

Victory Productions presents an interactive textbook exploration of the early days of the Jamestown settlement and the state of Virginia. Enjoy the rich interactive graphics and the engrossing story of a key moment in the history of the United States.
Embedded videos chronicle the beginnings of the Jamestown Settlement, the first permanent English colony in North America.
Clicking on key words provides definitions and pronunciation for academic vocabulary used in the text.
Interactive timelines.
Zoomable maps.
Embedded assessments allowing students to check their understanding.
This interactive version of Our Virginia was developed by Victory Productions and is part of the Virginia Department of Education’s Beyond Textbooks initiative to explore and test technical, social, and policy implications of textbook alternatives. Videos were provided by the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, Williamsburg, Virginia.

History is fun and comes alive in Our Viriginia: Past & Present.

Constitution by KIDS DISCOVER

••• Featured in Apple's American History Collection •••

Kids will learn all about the battle to write, ratify, and enforce the Constitution, as they delve into this critical issue in American History. Take an in-depth look at the ratification struggle, learn about the Bill of Rights, and discover how amendments are proposed and incorporated into legislation.

Reading Level: Upper Elementary and Middle School

In this app, you'll learn about:

• What Is the Constitution?
• The Constitutional Convention
• Articles, Sections, and Clauses
• Who Supported the Constitution
• The Bill of Rights
• Other Changes to the Constitution
• The Supreme Court

Features include:

• Interactive 3-D models

• High-definition video and audio

• Hi-res photographs, cartoons, and animations

• Easy-to-read, accessible writing

• Quizzes, puzzles, and other fun games

• Plus…optimized for the iPad Retina display

KIDS DISCOVER has been creating award-winning content for kids for over 20 years. KIDS DISCOVER apps are always AD-FREE.

Other great apps from KIDS DISCOVER include:
• American Revolution
• Ancient Egypt
• Ancient Greece
• Antarctica
• Cells
• Civil War
• Constitution
• Ecology
• Electricity
• Energy
• Extreme Weather
• Galaxies (FREE)
• Geography
• Geology
• Matter
• Plants
• Roman Empire
• Space
• Washington D.C.
• Simple Machines
• Sun
• and More!

To learn more about us and our mission to inspire kids, feed their natural curiosity, and instill a love of reading and learning, please visit us at www.kidsdiscover.com.

Ancient Greece by KIDS DISCOVER

*** Selected New & Noteworthy by Apple (May 2013) ***

Take a virtual tour of the Parthenon, learn all about the Greek Gods, and discover fascinating facts about life in Ancient Greece with this interactive reading experience for kids!

• In this app you'll learn about:
• Greek Gods
• Athens
• The Olympics
• Life in Ancient Greece
• Lasting Achievements
• Greek Drama, Literature, and Architecture

Features include:
• Interactive 3-D models
• High-definition video and audio
• Hi-res photographs, cartoons, and animations
• Easy-to-read, accessible writing
• Quizzes, puzzles, and other fun games
• Plus…optimized for the iPad Retina display

KIDS DISCOVER has been creating award-winning content for kids for over 20 years. KIDS DISCOVER apps are always AD-FREE.

Other great apps from KIDS DISCOVER include:

• Ancient Egypt
• Antarctica
• Cells
• Civil War
• Constitution
• Galaxies (FREE!)
• Geography
• Ecology
• Extreme Weather
• Matter
• Simple Machines
• Space
• Sun
• Washington D.C.
• and More!

To learn more about us and our mission to inspire kids, feed their natural curiosity, and instill a love of reading and learning, please visit us at www.kidsdiscover.com.

Smithsonian Channel for iPad

Nominated for a Webby, SXSW Interactive Award, and selected as iPad App of the Week! This app introduces a brand new way to watch, find, and explore the vast video collection of the Smithsonian Channel. Personalize your own version of the channel by selecting your favorite topics, exploring a universe of related content, and then sitting back and enjoying hours of video. Here, curiosity is rewarded and discovery is at your fingertips. And with constant additions to the library of content, you're guaranteed to find something new every time you open this app.

US ONLY

FEATURES:
-Create your own "channel" with videos about your favorite topics
-Thousands of videos
-Rotating selection of 20 to 25 full episodes
-Smart auto-play mode to continuously play related videos
-Facebook, Twitter, and email sharing capabilities
-AirPlay integration
-Channel Finder to check on-air availability
-Notifications for new and featured content
-On-air schedule

NOTE: Only a select sampling of full episodes is available in this app at a time.

Connect using WiFi for optimal viewing experience.

StrataLogica

AWARD-WINNING AND USED WORLDWIDE WITH RAVE REVIEWS FROM EDUCATORS, STUDENTS AND PARENTS! NOW WITH A NEW DESIGN PLUS ONE-OF-A-KIND CONTENT CREATION AND COLLABORATIVE FEATURES

Best Educational Mobile App – Mobile WebAwards 2013
Educational Resource Award Finalist – SXSW Interactive 2014
People’s Choice Finalist – SXSW Interactive 2014

Introducing StrataLogica® for the iPad, where the learning is in the layers. Known to countless teachers and students for providing a revolutionary educational experience, StrataLogica comes to life in an exciting new way in version 2.0 of our app. Learning about our world with a tap or pinch of your fingers has never been more engaging and fun!

The new version brings powerful features for creating content, collaborating and sharing from the desktop experience to the iPad.
• Use our new tools—marker, symbols, text labels and pushpins—to add your own content onto geography, history and earth science layers.
• Logged-in users can save and share custom views or presentations with school or district students or colleagues.
• Logged-in users can share content with anyone in the world via Twitter, Facebook or e-mail.
• Logged-in teachers can initiate dynamic collaborative projects with students.
• Licensed users can now access e-book atlases and related student activities.
• Free users can create and save a custom view.

More than just a geography reference tool, StrataLogica delivers a one-of-a-kind educational experience. Use it for geography, history, earth science and more. Even if you don’t have a school account for StrataLogica, you can experience a sampling of our interactive layers and try our content creation tools for free.

Don’t forget to share what you create to the StrataLogica Community! You just might share with someone halfway around the world.

Bring interactive learning about our world to your iPad—try StrataLogica today.

Benjamin Franklin Quotes Bobblehead

Benjamin Franklin helped found a new nation and defined the American character. Let his words of wisdom help you in your life.

Tap the bobble-head for a random quote. Then tap it again to start over.

Franklin coined dozens of popular sayings, including "Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise" and "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."

Includes a short biography of Ben Franklin's life and achievements. He was a writer, inventor, diplomat, businessman, musician, scientist, humorist, civic leader, international celebrity… and genius.

Features:
• Includes hundreds of quotations
• Share by SMS, email and copy to clipboard
• Short biography included as well

Colonie

JOURNEY INTO THE COLONY

Experience the adventure of the first French colony in North America. An interactive journey packed with games, stories and history designed especially for the exhibition, The Rediscovered Colony. For children 8 to 14 years old. Length: about 25 minutes.

Plus…

· An interactive adventure combining games and history.

· Designed especially for the exhibition, The Rediscovered Colony, presented at Musée de l’Amérique francophone in Québec City, from May 1, 2013 to September 27, 2015.

· On the theme of the Roberval-Cartier team’s trials and tribulations in Cap Rouge from 1541 to 1543 during the European expansion.

· Discover the history of this episode through the eyes of 5 different characters (Jean-François de La Rocque, sieur de Roberval, Jacques Cartier, Mondyne the peasant, Pierre the prisoner and Jehan the soldier).

Pickids States

PicKids states is a fun and entertaining way for your child to learn about the world of states using both pictures and words. The concept is simple; the name of a state is presented along with four pictures. Your child simply taps the states until he or she picks the correct one! There are no losers in this game and once the correct state is picked another word is displayed with four new pictures from which to select. The correct answer will deliver reinforcing images and sounds that keep children entertained and feeling accomplished! Parents can rest easy knowing their child is learning to identify states in both visual and written forms... while they play!

Pickids Presidents

PicKids Presidents is a fun and entertaining way for your child to learn about the world of presidents using both pictures and words. The concept is simple; the name of a presidents is presented along with four pictures. Your child simply taps the presidents until he or she picks the correct one! There are no losers in this game and once the correct fruit is picked another word is displayed with four new pictures from which to select. The correct answer will deliver reinforcing images and sounds that keep children entertained and feeling accomplished! Parents can rest easy knowing their child is learning to identify presidents in both visual and written forms... while they play!