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MERGE Explorer

Description

Engage your students in active, hands-on learning with a MERGE Cube and the MERGE Explorer app! With interactive experiences for elementary through middle school, MERGE Explorer lets students investigate a smoking volcano, examine a great white shark, and hold the earth in the palm of their hands. They can even dissect a frog (humanely)!

MERGE Cube required.

What Works Well

Students can use this app to learn about topics such as earth science, life cycles and traits, ocean animals, space systems, structure and properties of matter, energy, waves, light, sound and more.

Discipline

  • Biological (Life) Sciences
  • Education

Keywords

3d modeling, educational media, platform, quizzing, rendering, simulation, study aid

Functionality

Consumption

Developer

MERGE Apps

Level of Integration

Guidance Level 2
What does this mean?

The Level of Integration indicates how much the developer has connected the AR app with the real world environment.

For instance, a Level 1 AR app would bring a pre-created object or projection into the viewer’s space. A Level 2 AR app might incorporate a connection between object and physical surroundings, such as anchoring to a particular plane or surface. A Level 3 AR app would rely on several connections to the surroundings, including functional awareness of conditions in the space. A Level 4 AR app would employ increased awareness of conditions and real-time mapping of content onto the physical environment. And a Level 5 AR app would employ all of the above and allow for sophisticated real-time integration of real world and generated content.

Location

iOS App

Android App