As of Friday, January 14, the iPads were all synced with the free apps I had chosen. Tomorrow is the first day we will be taking them into the classroom for student use. The Science teacher and I are planning on using the molecules app. This app allows you to look at molecular structures in 3-D, and manipulate and rotate them.
The Science students will be searching for particular substances, finding their molecular structures and drawing them. While this is a simple activity it posed some problems in the planning stage. For one the molecules on the app are all protein based molecules and our science teacher wanted all different types of molecules. Second the molecules already in the database were too complex for students to draw in a 50 minute period.
To fix these probelms I did a little research and found a website which contained a lot of simple molecular structures that were already in the correct format for the application. So all students had to do was use this website, find their substance, click on the pbd form, and it opens up the structure in the molecules app! The website is http://www.nyu.edu/pages/mathmol/library/.
I will let you know how it goes tomorrow, also if you are interested in this app here is a link to information about it, http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/molecules/id284943090?mt=8.
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