App Detail » Britannica Kids: Dinosaurs

Published by: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc

+ Universal App - Designed for iPhone and iPad

Price: $1.99
Current Version: 3.0.1
Released: August 27, 2010

What's New

This app has been updated by Apple to use the latest Apple signing certificate.

- Fixed issue running on iPod Touch

App Description

The reviews are in and here what’s being said about the latest Britannica Kids apps.

“ …outstanding quality that Encylopaedia Britannica is known for.” - Adam Curry, The Big App Show

“A lot of the learning will be incidental to the game play, but so what?” - Best Kids Apps (www.bestkidsapps.com)

“…provides wonderful content in a friendly and educational presentation. The app definitely lives up to the Encyclopedia Britannica name…This is a beautifully designed app that’s full of information, activities and games.” – The iPhone Mom (www.iphonemom.com)

Explore the fascinating world of the dinosaurs through this new interactive app and learn about dozens of different dinosaurs, their evolution and ultimate extinction. Learn and play at the same time through a variety of games like Memory Match, Jigsaw Puzzles, and the Magic Square among others. Learning has never been more fun with this interactive and educational app that is based on school curriculum.

Learning about Dinosaurs has never been more fun with this quick, interactive and educational app based on the school curriculum. Ideal for homework help, the app features:

Exclusive Encyclopædia Britannica curriculum-based features with high quality videos, pictures and captions written specifically for ages 8-12. Coverage of the topic includes:

The World of Dinosaurs
Dinosaur Characteristics
Death of the Dinosaurs
Discovering the Dinosaurs
Dinosaurs A-Z (featuring 36 different dinosaurs)

Then the fun starts:

Jigsaw Puzzles, created from amazing graphics of dinosaurs. Break apart the puzzle and have some fun by shaking your device and then sliding the pieces back into place to complete the puzzle, it’s not as easy as it looks!

Scramble images of dinosaurs in The Magic Square game by shaking your device. Challenge yourself by rearranging the squares to unscramble the image.

Brush off - brush off the sand to expose the fossils of dinosaurs and then try to guess what it is – how many can you answer correctly?

Test your knowledge on dinosaurs with the Quiz feature - how much have you learned? But hurry, you must answer quickly as the quiz is timed!

Test your memory with the popular Memory Match game and match up the pairs!

Discover more about dinosaurs and link to Britannica’s online services, Britannica Online for Kids or Britannica Online, to continue your discoveries.

Try it today!