Coral Reef
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Turn your iPad into a hands on hands on underwater museum, with this solid collection of seven simulations. While this isn't our favorite Tinybop Explorer App (Human Body and Mammals offer more content) this app succeeds in bringing the Indo-Pacific coral reef to your fingertips, mixing scientifically accurate information with hands on activities. There are seven options from the first menu: Cleaner Fish (help small fish clean larger animals); Seagrass (plant seeds and see how other plants and animals show up); Parrotfish (see how coral is cleaned, and how sand is made); Blacktip Reef Shark (play with the conditions a shark needs to live); Box Jellyfish (see how jellyfish contribute to the ecosystem); Peacock Mantis Shrip (put a tiny crab in front of this amazing creature and see what happens); and Linckia Sea Star (help dead things decompose). As with other Tinybop apps, there's a well designed PDF teacher's guide, and you can toggle on labels to learn more about items shown on the screen. This is the tenth in the Explorer series of Tinybop apps, and it's well worth the download. This app was illustrated by Wenjia Tang, who also illustrated Mammals.
$2.99, iPad
Teaches: science, oceanography, reef life, fish, biology, ecosystems
CTR Rating: 96%