***** Educators Choice Award - SIIA Innovation Competition ***** Flawlessly Designed - Children's Book Review ***** 2014 Kapi Award - Honorable Mention ***** Amazing! - Common Sense Media ***** Editors Choice Award -...
***** Educators Choice Award - SIIA Innovation Competition ***** Flawlessly Designed - Children's Book Review ***** 2014 Kapi Award - Honorable Mention ***** Amazing! - Common Sense Media ***** Editors Choice Award - Children's Technology Review ***** A Masterpiece - Teachers with Apps ***** Near Perfection - Mobile iEducator Parched Planet is a state of the art, elementary science book based on the desert biome. Developed in collaboration with the New Mexico University’s Jornada Experimental Desert Research Program and a team of educators, Parched Planet includes both interactive enhancements and universal design accessibility features. Parched Planet is part of our Crack the Books series of interactive science books. Crack the Books are the first digital books that can be ADJUSTED FOR READING LEVEL without sacrificing curriculum content. Targeting 3rd to 5th grade science and social studies core curriculum concepts, our digital books allow for reading level adjustment from 1st grade to 8th grade, making it possible for all kids to access the same content regardless of their reading ability. Designed with the goal of improving reading comprehension, fostering a love of learning, and building reading confidence, Crack the Books gives educators a powerful new teaching tool to help all students, from children with special needs to those who are academically gifted. Parched Planet covers a variety of topics, including descriptions of all Earth’s major deserts, range and climate of deserts, plant and animal wildlife, adaptations, desertification, and desert threats. Students will learn about all major desert types including rain shadow, trade wind, coastal, and polar deserts. Crack the Books features hundreds of supportive audio and visual elements including beautiful high definition photographs, integrated video footage, fun facts, custom animations, custom images, and interactive charts, tables and globes. There are comprehension supports built into the text, with pop up definitions for associated new vocabulary. Students may further interact with the content by creating bookmarks, highlights and study notes. For students with special needs, there are additional settings for common classroom and assessment accommodations including text to speech, answer dictation, image reinforcement and text zooming. Features: Lexile certified reading levels from 1st to 8th grade Visual supports for comprehension Over 100 high-resolution images Videos and custom animations Interactive globes and maps Built in vocabulary definitions Interactive glossary with record feature 35 leveled chapter tests across 6 chapters Custom tests Built in test grading Text to speech Integrated voice over features Text zoom Bookmarks for multiple readers Requires iOS11 and above
Version History Updates for iOS16 compatibility. Fixed bundle name 3.0.1 09/30/2023 iOS13 enhancements 2.0.1 03/28/2020 Added support for new book titles. 1.0.1 08/26/2016 1.0.0 08/23/2016
Previous Versions
Here you can find the changelog of Parched Planet since it was posted on our website on 2016-11-08 16:11:47.
The latest version is 3.0.1 and it was updated on 2026-06-10 12:09:20. See below the changes in each version.
Parched Planet version 3.0.1
Updated At: 2026-06-10
Changes: Version History Updates for iOS16 compatibility. Fixed bundle name 3.0.1 09/30/2023 iOS13 enhancements 2.0.1 03/28/2020 Added support for new book titles. 1.0.1 08/26/2016 1.0.0 08/23/2016
Parched Planet version 3.0.1
Updated At: 2023-09-30
Changes: Sep 30, 2023
Version 3.0.1
Updates for iOS16 compatibility. Fixed bundle name
Parched Planet version 3.0.1
Updated At: 2023-09-30
Changes: Updates for iOS16 compatibility. Fixed bundle name
Parched Planet version 2.0.1
Updated At: 2020-03-28
Changes: Mar 28, 2020
Version 2.0.1
iOS13 enhancements
Parched Planet version 1.0.1
Updated At: 2016-09-09
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