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Bottom Line: The WWF Together iPad app educates users about 16 at-risk species. It's free and provides some good, if cursory, information, but sometimes feels a bit like an ad for the WWF.
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Bottom Line: Notes on Blindness is a unique virtual reality app that helps sighted people to better understand the experience of people who have lost, or are losing, their eyesight.
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Bottom Line: How to Make Electricity is a top-notch educational iPad app, showing children the basics of electricity and power generation by working through a series of interactive labs and suggesting additional, real-world experiments.
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Bottom Line: The well-designed Living Earth: Clock and Weather iPad app displays granular time and weather information superimposed on a spinning globe.
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Bottom Line: Namoo - Wonders of Plant Life is a beautifully designed iPad app that helps young students explore the basics of plant physiology through magnificent interactive graphics and descriptive text.
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Bottom Line: The free Attenborough Story of Life iPad app is a magnificent tribute to Sir David Attenborough, letting you stream more than 1,000 nature clips narrated by the BBC documentarian.
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Bottom Line: The iCell iPad app gives students an interactive 3D look at several types of living cells, and provides textual descriptions of their internal structures. It's free, but is limited in scope.
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Bottom Line: Adobe's Lightroom for iPad is a full-featured photo-editing app that syncs with Lightroom on the desktop, and delivers a surprising number of photo-correction tools.
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Bottom Line: Never be stymied by The Bard again. Heuristic Shakespeare - The Tempest is an Editors' Choice-worthy play-reading experience.
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Bottom Line: Solar Walk 2 is a good astronomy app for learning about our solar system, though some of the content is only available through an in-app purchase.