Touchable Earth app for iPhone and iPad


4.8 ( 8958 ratings )
Education
Developer: Touchable Earth
Free
Current version: 2.3, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 12 Dec 2012
App size: 276.03 Mb

Winner of a United Nations award for innovation in teaching young students about culture.

Touchable Earth is the first dedicated Global Citizenship app for kids.  

Kids learn key facts and develop an insight into life around the world by visiting families, schools, seeing the games kids play, and being introduced to other cultures.

An international peer learning resource for K12.

Touchable Earth involves children teaching children. It is exclusively presented first hand in portrait photographs and videos of children aged 7-12 living in each place. Videos not in English include translations.    

We have donated tablets and internet connections to schools in Iraq, Yemen, South Africa, Nepal, India and Romania so the kids who helped create Touchable Earth can learn from it too.

The chapter on Nepal is free to download. Chapters on India, China, South Africa, Iraqi Kurdistan and Romania are available via in app purchase.

***** Winner United Nations AOC Create App competition
www.unaoc.org/create

***** Rated Top App

http://www.funeducationalapps.com/2013/04/touchable-earth-children-teaching-children-about-themselves-app-review.html

*****Rated 5/5 for Home School Kids:

http://appsforhomeschooling.com/2013/homeschool-geography-app-touchable-earth-review/