The Elements: A Visual Exploration
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The Elements: A Visual Exploration
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A Lot or a Little?
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What Parents Need to Know
Parents need to know that The Elements is a pricey but engaging interactive book designed to help kids learn more about the period table of elements. If kids want to learn beyond the one-page text summaries for each element, they can connect to the WolframAlpha technical database for further info and links, but only if the iPad is connected to the Internet.
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Is It Any Good?
THE ELEMENTS is an electronic version of the popular hardcover book that lets kids explore the periodic table of elements by interacting with 500 high-resolution animated images that can be rotated and viewed in true 3-D (with glasses). Informative text summaries dole out factoids -- like that arsenic is used as both a paint pigment and rat poison, and that boron is the key ingredient in silly putty -- but not all information is accessible unless you're connected to the Internet. The app is also large and pricey, so parents might want to make sure there's more than just a passing interest in the subject matter before committing to the download.
App Details
- Device: iPad
- Release date: June 1, 2010
- Category: Books
- Publisher: Element Collection, Inc.
- Version: 1.0.2.1
- Minimum software requirements: OS 3.2 or later
- Last updated: August 23, 2016
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