科学技术缔造创造者，思想家，问题解决者，执行者，创新者和发明者，如果能早些让孩子们接触简单的STEM思维，就可以为他们的高等教育奠定基础。
这些非常有趣的 STEM Apps 可以帮助孩子们开发对科学，工程和数学的概念性理解，解决难题，设计解决新问题，创造新的发明。所有年龄段的孩子都需要参与这种批判性思维，为大学和将来的职业做准备。
Science
NASA Visualization Explorer by NASA
(Grades 2 - 12; iOS / Android)
NASA SCIENCE: REVEALED! This is the NASA Visualization Explorer, the coolest way to get stories about advanced space-based research delivered right to your iOS device. A direct connection to NASA’s extraordinary fleet of research spacecraft, this app presents cutting edge research stories in an engaging and exciting format. See the Earth as you’ve never seen it before; travel to places otherwise unavailable to even the most intrepid explorers! Download it now, tap into the power of NASA’s cutting-edge research today and check for new stories every week!
Lab4Physics - A Lab in Your Pocket by Lab4U Inc.
(Grades 4 - 12; iOS / Android)
Lab4Physics is an educational solution designed to support teachers around the world improve science education, by making it easy and inexpensive to bring lab experiences into the classroom. The Lab4Physics app leverages built-in sensors found in smartphones and tablets to transform mobile devices into a powerful science lab with multiple instruments that can be used flexibly by teachers and students. In this lab, students can find tools (like an accelerometer, a sonometer or a speedometer) that can help them measure gravity or acceleration in real time. These tools can used in unlimited ways, allowing students to investigate, measure and analyze inside and outside the classroom.
Pocket Lab by UAB "Applava"
(Grades 4 - 12; iOS / Android)
Have you ever wondered, what is happening around us in micro world? Have you ever tried to look through the microscope to explore bacteria world? If not – Pocket Lab is for you! As soon as you start playing Pocket Lab you get addicted in a positive way. Connect bacteria of the same color and simply splash them. The longer combination of joint bacteria you make, the more points you get. Compare your score with other players in all over the world. Score points, complete levels, play endless mode for more action.
Technology (Coding)
Blockly for Dash & Dot robots by WONDER WORKSHOP, INC.
(Grades K - 5; iOS / Android)
Blockly is a visual drag-and-drop programming tool developed by Google that allows children to snap together commands like puzzle pieces. Take on coding challenges and invent your own creations by using Blockly to control Dash & Dot!
Learn concepts like sequencing, events, loops, algorithms, operations, and variables through self-directed play and guided challenges. Basic puzzles teach the concepts of coding through playful project ideas, allowing kids to learn and explore all on their own. Bonus puzzles are added each week for endless entertainment and learning.
Sphero Edu by Sphero, Inc.
(Grades 3 - 8; iOS / Android)
Sphero Edu is your hub to create, contribute, and learn with Sphero robots - it replaces and builds on SPRK Lightning Lab. Go beyond code by incorporating unique STEAM activities to complete with your bot. Designed for learner progression, Sphero Edu beginners can give robots commands by drawing a path in the app for their robot to follow. Intermediate coders can use code blocks to learn more advanced logic, while pros can use text programming and write their own JavaScript. Sphero Edu is built for makers, learners, educators, and parents. Join the growing community and share your creations to inspire and be inspired. The interactive platform allows you to keep track of your class or group from one easy place. Anyone can save their progress, jump from device to device, and continue the discovery from anywhere. Preparing for the future has never been so fun.
Hopscotch: Make Games by Hopscotch Technologies
(Grades 4 - 8; iOS / Android)
Hopscotch is a free, award-winning programming app for kids aged 9-13. Downloaded over 10 million times! Learn to code by creating your own games. You can use our video tutorials, or create your own projects from scratch. Play, download and remix millions of games made by other Hopscotchers. Free to create, play and learn from starter tutorials. Upgrade for additional tutorials.
Winner of the following awards:
Parents Magazine: Best Apps for Families
FastCompany: Innovation By Design Finalist
Parent’s Choice Gold Medal: Software
Children’s Technology Review: Best Educational Technology
Engineering
littleBits Invent by littleBits Electronics Inc.
(Grades 2 - 8; iOS / Android)
The littleBits Invent app is your personal guide to unleashing creativity. Discover thousands of inventions, take challenges, control your inventions wirelessly, connect with the global littleBits community, access step-by-step tutorials, and easily upload and share your own creations. Learn how to make a blinking, buzzing, bumbling robot, a synth-keytar you can shred on, or the perfect way to automate your curtains to open with the sunrise. Then add a Bluetooth Low Energy Bit and control them from your phone or tablet! littleBits is a platform of easy-to-use electronic buildings blocks for you to create inventions large and small. These innovative building blocks snap together with tiny magnets, allowing anyone to build, invent, and prototype with electronics independent of age, gender and technical background – no soldering, wiring, or programming required.
Math
Monster Math. Kids Fun Games by Makkajai Edu Tech Private Limited
(Grades K - 5; iOS / Android)
Go on a wonderful math-filled adventure and learn common core math standards with Maxx, the mighty monster in Monster Math! Have your child be the best in their grade and practice addition, subtraction, multiplication or division with this fun free math game. Help Maxx save his friend Dextra, explore new worlds, battle enemies and find allies! Have your child walk through basic arithmetic for 1st, 2nd and 3rd grade math. It is designed to give maximum number, times table, and basic long division practice. Unlike flash cards or simple quiz based apps, Monster Math’s mechanics are designed to test multiple skills at once and guide kids towards answers. Monster Math provides a brand new story and a different kind of adaptive game play to keep the math levels at the right place for kids. Let your kids progress through learning their basic math skills while having loads of fun! Kids love Monster Math!
King of Math 2 by Oddrobo Software AB
(Grades 6 - 8; iOS / Android)
Here comes the sequel to the popular math game King of Math! You start on the countryside and set off on a journey packed with challenging math questions, puzzles and problems. Unlock new worlds and character levels along the road and get all the way to the throne to become king or queen! King of Math 2 is a game for the whole family and is suitable from about age 10 and up. Improve or refresh your math skills, practice mental arithmetic and solve problems in an engaging way. Play against the clock, improve your scores and compare the results with your friends and players from around the world. If you’d like a more relaxing gaming experience, you can turn off the time limit and play at your own pace. There are also examples, help and solutions for all the problems in the game.
Free Graphing Calculator by William Jockusch
(Grades 9 - 12; iOS / Android)
Features:
1) Scientific Calculator. Simple to grasp and easy to use, but powerful features are available when you need them.
Available functions include the following:
the usual arithmetic functions and exponentiation.
square root, cube root, nth root, natural log, log base 10, log of arbitrary base, absolute value, factorial, permutations (nPr), combinations (nCr), modulus, random integer, bell curve, cumulative normal distribution, decimal to fraction.
2) Graphing. Capabilities:
Graph up to four equations at once.
Graphs are labeled.
You can drag the graph or pinch to zoom in or out.
Calculator can find roots and intersections.
Graph in polar coordinates.
Graph parametric equations
Can graph implicit functions, such as x^2+y^2-4=0. Most calculator apps can't do this!
3) A unit converter. With a tap, you can enter the result of your conversion into the calculator. Currently converts different units of the following: acceleration, angle, area, density, distance, energy, force, mass, power, pressure, speed, temperature, time, and volume. Great for doing physics homework!
4) Constants for scientific calculations -- speed of light, strength of gravity at Earth's surface, etc. etc. etc. Tapping on a constant will insert it into your calculation -- i.e, you don't have to key in the value. Again, great for doing physics homework!
5) It can make a table of the values of any function you care to enter. You can choose the starting x value of the table, as well as how much x increases for each successive row.
6) Help screens linked directly to many of the available functions and constants. Tap the disclosure arrow to see the definition.
7) Forgot the quadratic formula? Or the double-angle formulas for sine and cosine? The math/science reference hits the high points of various subjects. Currently includes algebra, differential and integral calculus, geometry, trigonometry, vectors, vector calculus, and classical mechanics.
8) Keep track of significant figures [AKA sig figs]
9) Statistics -- enter data and make a histogram, box and whisker plot, or scatter plot with optional regression line.
