OMG! School as you once knew it has thrown you a curve. School Boards everywhere have decided to be conscious of the environment and make books part of history. Instead, of building up landfills with outdated books each year along with tons of paper from homework and exams, they have decided to utilize today’s technology and provide educational materials in digital format. That’s right, those 20-30 pound backpacks that end up straining your back are no longer needed. Instead, you will be assigned a netbook and iPhone for your daily school activities. Could this be the best move yet?
Your regularly scheduled classes and books has been replaced by this great list of iPhone apps.
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Read below for the full review
English
Throughout the first semester, your coursework in English will come from three different sources to be used by your iPhone:
Scrabble by Electronic Arts for $4.99
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Play Scrabble by yourself or with a classmate. Shake your iPhone or iPod touch to shuffle the tiles and you are ready to go. A new feature also allows you to connect with your friends on Facebook. Things in this app move in real time so your stats and chats appear instantly.
Textropolix by NimbleBit for $0.99
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We will stumble across new words as we play through 30 different cities. A built-in dictionary is included for words used in these exercises. Watch each city grow as you discover its words and add to your total Textropolis population! Shake your phone or iPod to get a helpful hint when you are stuck, and you can even send postcards from your best cities to a friend via email to show off your vocabulary.
Free Hangman by MobilityWare Free
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The colorful art and graphics with Free Hangman give you challenging, but solvable words in an old traditional game. Letters are picked one at a time and a wrong guess results in part of the stickman figure being drawn. Free Hangman is compatible with your iPhone or iPod touch.
US Government
Civilization Revolution Lite by 2K Games, Free
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Lead your people to greatness. Inspire your nation with promise to build into the most powerful empire known to mankind. There is a way to win from 16 different historical civilizations whether the path chosen is via cultural, economic, military or even scientific. A new interface has been included and multiple difficulty levels added so even the inexperienced can succeed without crashing the nation.
***Break Time***
Fast Food Calorie Counter by Concrete Software, Inc. $2.99
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You have just enough time to grab a decaf latte and check out the lunch menu calories at the nearby fast food joint. Search over 7,800 menu items for their nutritional values from 66 of the top fast food restaurants. Create unique and custom food and keep track of what you eat for the entire school year. Feedback is welcome and updates are free.
Music
Rockstars Live by Storm 8, Free
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Rockstars Live is an online multiplayer game with over 1.3 million players! Compete against others in live in battle of the bands. Collaborate with your friends and buy your way into stardom by purchasing promotions that will attract fans and merchandise sales. Show off your talent while enjoying the cool rock sounds and great graphics.
Physical Education
Pocket Mini Golf 2 by Chillingo Ltd. for $2.99
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This multi-language app provides a fun and addictive app for up to six people. Select one of three skill levels and an amazing location to golf which includes jungles, deserts, beaches, castles and mountains. Between the graphics, options and ease of play, your PE class is guaranteed to be most entertaining. Pocket Mini Golf 2 is compatible with your OS 3.0 or later.
Baseball Slugger: Home Run Race 3D by Com2uS Corp. for $0.99
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Baseball Slugger is the first online baseball match-up game for the iPhone and iPod touch. Customize your avatar with a wide variety of bodies, accessories, and baseball equipment. With a new Twitter feature, your national rankings can be shared and tweeted to your friends and followers.
Lunch
Spider: The Secret of Bryce Manor by Tiger Style for $2.99
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Spider displays beautiful art and graphics as you spin webs, trap bugs, and unlock the secrets of Bryce Manor. There are multiple gameplay modes and achievements that keep the game interesting throughout the 28 levels. Even if you have arachnophobia you will find yourself loving Spider, the iPhone and iPod touch app with different puzzle combinations and strategic elements.
Biology
Amateur Surgeon by Adult-Swim for $2.99
App Store Link
http://www.adultswim.com
Amateur Surgeon is designed for the student 17 years or older, due to frequent mature & suggestive themes, profanity, crude humor, and infrequent horror, sexual content, nudity, alcohol, tobacco, etc. This app puts your wild and crazy surgery fantasies in the palms of your unqualified hands. It has 27 levels with three hidden surgeries, each being a complicated multistep procedure. One of the hottest apps available for the iPhone or iPod touch.
Physics
Moto X Mayhem by Occamy Games for $0.99
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Lean forward and back on your motorbike as you climb hills and fly through the air using accelerometer technology. Witness realistic physics as your shocks recoil when you land jumps or your rider bounces around the terrain when you crash. Compete to be the fastest motocross rider with Moto X Mayhem’s online scoreboard. Featuring fun rad doll physics, working bike shocks, accelerometer learning controls your rider’s position and more. You will experience challenging terrains and great graphics with this app available for your iPhone and iPod touch.
Economics
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire Lite by Capcom Interactive, Free
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Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, challenges players to correctly answer 15 questions of increasing difficulty with the help of four lifelines – Ask the Audience, Phone a Friend and the newly added Double Dip and Ask the Expert. Ten experts provide answers to the mobile game’s nearly 1,000 questions. Just like on TV, players must answer before the game clock runs out, and any time remaining on the clock is banked for the million-dollar question.
Extra Curricular/ After School Programs
Driver’s Ed.
iPark It! by MTV Networks for $0.99
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Parking has never been made easier than with iPark it!
Featuring 40 levels of fun-filled experiences behind the wheel, on-screen driving controls and multi-screen parking challenges. “Any jerk can smash a car. But it takes skills to park it proper, serious. Do you have it? Take the #1 parking game on AddictingGames.com with you when you’re driving… or just walking.”
Real Racing by Firemint for $9.99
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Now is the time you can challenge your friends in a multiplayer and race the way you want to. Join an online league to play with others as you battle your way tot he top. There are five different game modes which give you the opportunity to work you way up to becoming the world champion. The Quick Race is perfect for those in a hurry or running low on time.
On a more serious side, until the time comes when educational institutions allow students of all ages to utilize our current technology which is fully capable of holding digital versions of books, homework assignments, and about everything else you need for school on a small electronic device such as a laptop or iPhone, you can still lighten the load in that dreaded backpack by using some useful apps available for the iPhone and iPod touch that are great for your back-to-school experience. Please see our other post on some really desirable iPhone apps that would be quite helpful during the school year.
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I also like the app “Stick It”, which is a note taking/reminder app that allows you to create fun looking reminders to put on your lockscreen so you don’t have to open your phone to see them.
Here’s the site: http://www.tapfactoryapps.com/Stick%20It