In June, the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) announced their Best Apps for Teaching and Learning 2018. The apps encourage qualities such as creativity and collaboration and encourage discovery and curiosity.

This impressive app is available across different platforms and features a ton of interactive resources for students of varying levels to learn about all aspects of the periodic table. They even have a podcast for each element that gives an explanation for the story behind it!

The Royal Society of Chemistry’s interactive periodic table features history, alchemy, podcasts, videos, and data trends across the periodic table. This fact-filled, image-rich app is the only periodic table learners need. Users can opt to access the information at introductory, intermediate and advanced levels and it allows learners to view data like melting point, temperature or atomic radius for the complete table. With an Internet connection, users can watch videos about the elements.

Platform: iOS, Android
Grades: Middle & High School
Cost: FREE

The Educational App Store has this Teacher Review of the app and this article from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has this video (and transcript) that really details the app’s capabilities along with ideas for ways to get students engaged with the app. And the Royal Society of Chemistry also has an entire site dedicated to helping educators with resources, tools, and best practices.

Watch this quick video to see all the neat ways this app helps students learn about the periodic table!