App Detail » Astronomy Buddy

Published by: Feraco media Inc.

+ Universal App - Designed for iPhone and iPad

Price: $1.99
Current Version: 1.2
Released: March 29, 2012

What's New

All new lessons, flash cards for vocabulary, Videos and backgrounds.

App Description

Teacher Review
"As Science teacher, I find many obstacles in finding the perfect medium in which to share information with my students. This often includes hours of google searches, you tube searches, etc. This app is amazing! It takes those hours I used to spend and turns them into seconds with one touch of this app. I love it! Thanks again for creating such an awesome app that gives me hours of my life back! "

What makes a star shine? For how long will the Sun keep shining? What are black holes and how can they form? Astronomy Buddy includes how stars form and how they end their existence, will provide answers to these questions and more.

Astronomy Buddy is the ultimate tool for learning about the Astronomy. This app was designed by a teacher who has used all possible multimedia resources in the classroom for teaching regents curriculum. Astronomy Buddy is not only an app for learning Astronomy, but also a app for teachers. The features of this app makes studying extremely convenient.

This app provides
1.Astronomy lessons about all topics below with extraordinary pictures of the universe.
2.Includes interactive fun quizzes about each topic
3.Daily news feeds about astronomy and the universe
4.Question banks for each topic
5. Driving Directions and locations to the biggest observatories in the world.

Topics
•The Sky
•Earth, Moon and Sun
•History of Astronomy
•Newton, Einstein and Gravity
•Light and Telescopes
•Starlight and Atoms
•Sun
•The Family of Stars
•The Interstellar Medium
•The Formation of Stars
•Stellar Evolution
•The Deaths of Stars
•Neutron Stars and Black Holes
•The Milky Way Galaxy
•Galaxies
•Galaxies With Active Nuclei
•Cosmology in the 21st Century
•The Origin of the Solar System
•Earth
•Moon and Mercury
•Venus and Mars
•Jupiter and Saturn
•Uranus, Neptune and Pluto
•Meteorites, Asteroids and Comets
•Life on Other Worlds

This app would be ideal for classrooms with iPads because it has the resources to prepare for a regents or to present a lesson. All the regents buddy apps are available on the app store and have been helping teachers and students since their release.