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Science App reveiw

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Define:

Find an app that will be useful for our learning in science 9, and represent something that we will be introduced to this year.

Discover:

Will this app cost money?

Do I already have an useful app?

Will this app help with my learning in Science 9?

How will I find a good app to use?

Dream:

My dream for my app is to give people an easier way to understand chemistry, and the Electrons protons and neutrons inside the atoms. I also hope that this app could give people a better understanding of the elements.

Design:

First I plan on finding an app that if fit for my description. Once I find the right app, I will review the app, and make sure it is fit for science 9. If the app represents my cause well, then I will make sure it can be understood easily, is fun to play, and you can actually learn from it. Once I find a great app, I will review it, and post my findings.

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Deliver:

For this project, I have chosen to evaluate an app called Nuclear. The aim of this game, is to unlock all of the elements of the periodic table, and make each element stable. This app will solve people’s misunderstanding within the elements in the periodic table and help people progress their learning of the previous knowledge. It is attempted to solve any questions and unknown knowledge on the working of atoms and how they may react when they are unstable. How this app may help the users build skill and knowledge, is through the trial and error of the construction of the atoms. Once you start, you start with the Hydrogen atom, with one proton neutron and electron. As you progress in this game, you have to add any amount of Electrons to how many protons and neutrons that you have, and add a new element on the periodic table. The goal of this game is to unlock all of the atoms on the Periodic table. The only way to make each electron stable is to have an even number of protons and electrons inside each atom. This helps us learn how to keep the atom neutral when in the periodic table. My dream for this app would mean, eventually young minds could be able to create new technology to make more compounds that could be useful in our future, and to give everyone a better understanding of the elements. This app is also very self explanatory. When you first start and open this app, you go through a tutorial, and it tells you what you do to create a Hydrogen atom, it tells you to first take a neutron, and drop it into the nucleus, then a proton, and finally an electron. Once you create this, it tells you to try to create your next element. After the tutorial the game is pretty easy to understand, all you need to do is try to add electrons protons and neutrons to make the next element stable. When you first finish the tutorial however, it is a bit confusing on how to get to the next element, because it doesn’t explain what you did wrong and how many protons and neutrons you have in the nucleus. This app Introduces a new and fun way to explore the building blocks of all life, the periodic table, and helps us find the understanding of how all atoms are neutral.

App description:

This app is called Nuclear and Is available for free in the app store. As stated above, this app introduces us to the elements in the periodic table. You start with the Helium atom, and once more Protons and neutrons are in, you add electrons until you unlock a new element.

Debrief:

In order to find a good scientific app, it took a very long time to find a good one that actually represented things that we may learn in grade 9 science. I went through a lot of apps that I thought would make the cut, but only this one represented skills that we need in grade 9 science. Once I found and explored this app, I discovered what this app could be used for, and how it is useful. I like the way it showed the Atoms in two models; Bohr diagram, and an “atom” diagram.