A great way to learn

Vibha Sharma

App name: Kid Weather
Os: iOS, Android
features: This app rose to fame as it has been designed by a six-year-old and his meteorologist father in order to teach children some fundamental weather elements. Features include ability to change weather conditions, calculate Fahrenheit and Celsius and learn weather-related trivia. Topics like clouds, lightning, seasons and weather symbols are covered.

pros/cons:  It is a paid app. It can be best used for educational purposes as well as for fun. Internet connection is required for the app. 
rating: 4.5/5
price: Rs 124

App name: Alchemy – Genetics
Os: Android

features: A great app to introduce genetics, genes and inherited traits to children. The magic of how different animal traits combine to create new breeds and species is unravelled. Kids get to begin with four animals and create 500 new and unusual species.

pros/cons: A fun game, which acquaints children to the field of genetics. Children get to work with both sets of genes — dominant and recessive.
rating: 4/5
price: Free

App name: Sea Life
Os: iPhone

features: The app takes the kids on a virtual underwater adventure ride where they are introduced to various marine animals. Sounds of sea animals are a great way to learn and understand what natural habitat gets created within the water. 

pros/cons: The water world is introduced to the children through this app expanding their knowledge and kindling the curiosity. Beautiful images and sounds make the app very appealing for very young users. It is a paid app. 
rating: 4.5/5
price: Rs 62 (approx)

App name: Happy Little Farmer
Os: iPhone

features: A great way to learn virtually the life cycle of plants. It offers three scenarios that teach how plants are grown in a veggie patch, a fruit pot and a wheat field. It teaches the child to understand the whole process of growing healthy plants. Added features are a treasure hunt and some nursery rhymes.

pros/cons:It highlights the point that different types of fruits and vegetables require different style of handling and the users get the satisfaction of watching the plants grow. It offers great user interface to extend real life feel in growing plants.
rating: 4.5/5
price: Rs 149

App name: SkySafari4
Os: iOS, Android

features: Children always get excited by the mysteries of outer space. Here is an app which is just perfect for these young astronauts. There is a database of thousands of stars, clusters, nebulae, galaxies astronomical phenomenon. It used GPS location to look at the night sky from anywhere on the earth up to a million years into the past or future. 

pros/cons: It is a paid app and has various versions for both Android as well as iOS.
rating: 5/5
price: Rs 185.95