Touchable Earth draws children directly into contact with people and places around the world by letting them explore the lives of real children from six different countries around the world. This highly engaging approach to geography and the study of international cultures makes extensive use of high-resolution photographs and video recordings to bring the world to life in vivid color, motion, and sound.
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Feb 04, 13
Posted by Jennifer in 4-Apples, Featured, Geography, Grade One (6-7), Grade Three (8-9), Grade Two (7-8), Grades Four to Six (9-12), iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Paid Apps, World Geography
iLearn: Canada is a well-designed app for learning and practicing the names of Canada’s provinces and territories. This app serves equally well as a good supplement to core geography studies, a review tool, or even as an app for primary instruction and exposure.
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Jan 21, 13
Posted by Jennifer in 5-Apples, Cultures, Featured, Geography, Grade One (6-7), Grade Three (8-9), Grade Two (7-8), iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Kindergarten (5-6), Paid Apps, Storybooks, World Geography
Henrietta is Hungry takes your child on a whirlwind trip around the world as seen through the experiences of a little girl in search of the perfect meal. International cuisine, exotic locales, lively narration and charming illustrations seal the deal on this high-interest storybook app. Budding foodies and armchair travelers will love it!
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Jan 18, 13
Posted by Jennifer in 5-Apples, Android, Featured, Geography, Grade One (6-7), Grade Three (8-9), Grade Two (7-8), Grades Four to Six (9-12), iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Kindergarten (5-6), Lite/Freemium Available, Paid Apps, Preschool (2-4), Storybooks, World Geography
Children will love this story and in the process, they will learn about the places, people and animals of the islands of French Polynesia. This book also has intuitive settings, including nice narration that can be set up for French or English. My little one is already asking about the next adventure in this series, and I predict yours will too. Recommended!
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Sep 21, 12
Posted by Jennifer in 4-Apples, Featured, Free Apps, Geography, Grade Three (8-9), Grade Two (7-8), Grades Four to Six (9-12), iPad, Lite/Freemium Available, Paid Apps, World Geography
Map My Globe Full is an opportunity to engage in competitive, social gaming around geography puzzles and quiz questions with your family. With seven detailed geography puzzles, five quiz levels, and fun, travel based rewards, this app will more likely succeed in engaging children who need motivation to work with geography than more open-ended apps will.
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Mar 20, 12
Posted by Jennifer in 5-Apples, Featured, Geography, Grade One (6-7), Grade Three (8-9), Grade Two (7-8), iPad, Paid Apps, Sorting/Categorizing, World Geography
SimpleSort: Continents combines a mini geography reference library filled with a book for each continent covering major general geography topics with a fun sorting game that asks your child to categorize these same items by continent using the SimpleSort bucket approach followed by an interactive map display.
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Mar 01, 12
Posted by Jennifer in 4-Apples, Art History, Featured, Geography, High School (14-18), History, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Junior High (12-15), Lite/Freemium Available, Paid Apps, Spelling, US Geography, US Presidents, World Geography
Knowledge Nova is a straight forward (and sort of funny) way to tackle the memorization of US history, geography, world geography, art history facts, and even has a dash of spelling thrown in with word unscrambling. With four levels included for free relating to the US. Presidents, states, and capitals it’s definitely worth a free download to check this out as an independent activity or as a family game team effort.
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For homeschoolers, by a homeschooler. I'm Jennifer Bogart, a homeschooling mom of four, 8 months - 8 years. I'm an app-loving, aspiring geek dedicated to helping you hunt down the best homeschooling apps for your children. There are a lot of apps out there, let me help you narrow them down. 
