APPS FOR GIP STUDENTS

You are not required - at this point - to have these apps for class, but they might be fun to explore…

Tinkerbox (available for iPad,  iPhone & iPod Touch) If you can imagine it, you can build it with TinkerBox. TinkerBox is a free, fun, educational engineering and physics puzzle game. It is full of interesting science facts and teaches basic engineering concepts. In Puzzle mode, players are given a task to complete.  In Invent mode, students use trial and error arrange and re-arrange elements until they  design a successful solution. Students are encouraged to explore their creativity and  imagination to build outrageous machines (think Rube Goldberg),  and share them with friends. Students can also email their inventions to the  developer to possibly be included on the game's website. This is a very engaging app that stimulates creative problem solving.

SimplePhysics (available for iPhone, iPad, and Android devices) SimplePhysics lets you design complex structures for everything from tree houses to  Ferris wheels. Verify the structural integrity of your design with a stress test.  Great engineering is not enough, however -  keep your project under budget to win the game!

NASA (available for iPhone, iPad, & Android devices) Kids dream of exploring space and the NASA app helps make that a reality!  Users can travel through the universe and gain an in-depth understanding of the  NASA role in space exploration. Users can browse through current news and feature stories,  view over 157,000 images, watch on-demand NASA video, read-up on current NASA mission information, explore NASA TV, listen to Third Rock Radio, and follow NASA's Twitter feed.   Be sure to check out NASA TV and videos as well as Tweets from astronauts.