Solids Elementary HD
Category: Education
Works with iPad 1 and iPad 2 iPhone 4 and 4s, and Mac
Price $4.99 (currently on sale for $2.99 for the next 2 weeks)
Updated March 13, 2012
Here is an app I have used in the classroom during the Shape and Space unit in whole group lessons and as a centre to give students time to fully explore the solids. Great visuals enable students to color the faces and highlight edges and vertices, make the solid transparent and the animated nets really promote visualization of the solids.
Solids Elementary HD is complete elaborations of all main geometric solid – prisms, solids of revolution and pyramids that allows students to unfold and exam solids nets in 3D. This app enables students to manipulate the solids to explore faces, edges and vertices. Great graphics and the use of 3D environment, helps develop spatial imagination as well as it helps become familiar with fundamentals of Geometric solids.
Features of Solids Elementary HD
*promotes exploration of solids by rotating, folding, unfolding,
*appealing graphics with intuitive interface for easy usability by children
*3D environment gives the solids the look of real world solids
*students can easily manipulate and control the solids
*can be used with a mouse
*connect iPad to smartboard or apple TV and show students on a big screen
*includes easy to follow directions with picture cues
Download the app from the itunes store and begin using it immediately. Here is a demo of the app