Must Have Free Apps for Science Classrooms

Presented at the Michigan Handheld Conference Dec. 2004

Meg Ormiston  meg@techteachers.com                          

 Instructional Technology and Literacy Consultant

These are the absolutely essential apps that encourage and support an active learning environment in the social studies classroom! Find out what software best supports your content and encourages collaboration, note taking, and other knowledge management tasks. Not only will you get the apps, you’ll get ideas for using them with students. These have been tested by over one hundred teachers and thousands of students. And yes…they’re free!

Free Apps for the Science Classroom

Core Apps

AnimateMe! http://www.rodrigosoftware.tk/

BookShare       http://www.freewarepalm.com/docs/bookshare.shtml

What If Builder http://www.kidsolve.com/products/palm/wib/

Tree Example   http://forestry.msu.edu/uptreeid/KeyB/B1.htm

Lesson plan for app      http://www.oetc.org/lessonplan.html

Content Apps

Moon Phases http://www.freewarepalm.com/astronomy/moonphase.shtml

Chem Table      http://www.freewarepalm.com/educational/chemtable.shtml

Earth and Sun   http://www.40-below.com/palm/#e&sColor

Space Weight   http://www.rodrigosoftware.tk

Not Free, but Worth It!

Documents to Go         http://www.dataviz.com/

ABC Book Example     http://www.techteachers.com/abcweb/abc/index.htm

Inspiration                    http://www.inspiration.com/

Cell template    http://www.pwcs.edu/i-tech/Templates.htm

Forms of Water template http://www.csusm.edu/ilast/files/inspiration/inspiration_templates.htm

My collection of templates http://www.techteachers.com/templates.htm

Google search  http://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8