Rover

Price: Free
Category: Science
Grade(s): k-12
Devices: iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch
Standards:
Science:
Grades k-8: Physical Sciences, Life Sciences, Earth Sciences, Investigation and Experimentation
Grades 9-12: Physics, Chemistry, Biology/Life Sciences, Earth Sciences, Investigation and Experimentation
English Language Arts:
Grades k-12: Reading, Writing, Written and Oral English Language Conventions, Listening and Speaking
Math:
Grades k-7: Number Sense, Algebra and Functions, and Mathematical Reasoning

App Description: This app is an educational browser that allows users to access various educational videos that would usually blocked due to iPads not supporting Flash or Java.  The app promises that content is filtered in order to avoid student access to any inappropriate content. The app is easy to use for teachers and students.  The information provided on the app can be useful for students in grades k-12.  The app's resources are divided up into three categories; Elementary School, Middle School, and High School.

Home Screen:

Uses in the Classroom:
Teachers can use this app to provide students with a variety of science, math, and English language arts resources.  This app provides in-class access to educational videos, textual educational information, as well as interactive websites that students can use to improve their understanding of many science, math, reading and writing topics.  If students had individual access to the devices listed above, teachers would be able to integrate the use of some of these sources into their lessons.  The interactive websites could be especially useful for math practice.  There are many activities on the reading and writing sites that could be useful within teachers lessons with the class.  The educational videos that can be found on the Discovery Channel website can be a very useful tool for teachers' whole class lessons.  This app has ensured that teachers will be able to use their resources within their classroom.  

Possible Assessments:
The resources on this link are useful sources of information which teachers can integrate into their lessons to support students learning.  However, these resources are not an effective forms of assessment.

Possible Issues/ Difficulties when using these apps with students:
This app provides many links to different websites therefore teachers may deal with the challenge of keeping students on task with the activity they are assigned to focus on due to student curiosity.