TimePod Adventures: STEM Game app for iPhone and iPad
Developer: Discovery Education Inc.
First release : 17 Nov 2021
App size: 1.19 Gb
TimePod Adventures is a brand new way to play through a story. Pick up your phone or tablet, and land a time machine right in front of you!
This app uses augmented reality to project new surroundings onto your real environment. With this technology, nothing is impossible!
Meet your artificial intelligence assistant, ADA, and travel through time visiting amazing locations! You’ll be facing challenges and solving problems as you go.
Invite your friends or classmates to help you using a unique adventure code that will allow them to connect and collaborate from anywhere.
A wide collection of classroom activities makes connecting the dots to learning easier than ever.
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LAND A TIME MACHINE IN YOUR CLASSROOM
Scan your environment, then land the TimePod wherever you are! Step inside and take over the TimePod’s control panel.
MEET YOUR AI COMPANION
Say hello to ADA, your artificial digital assistant! With ADA by your side, you’ll solve challenges right across time and space.
VISIT FAR-OFF WORLDS AND TIMES
Ever wanted to stand on Mars, or meet a T-Rex? Jump aboard the TimePod and watch as your real surroundings are transformed into the Red Planet, or the prehistoric jungle!
BE FREE TO EXPLORE
You’re in charge! Step outside the TimePod into a new landscape and walk around inside it for real!
EXCITING STORIES
Where will ADA take you next? Look out for the next episode and continue the story – after all, you’re the main character!
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Free supporting classroom activities, guides and ideas by Discovery Education can be found at https://immersive.discoveryeducation.com
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ENGAGING STORYLINES | TimePod Adventures is a cinematic experience that puts the student in the heart of the story. Dramatic events, intriguing mysteries and puzzling challenges mean that learning is contextualized and memorable – not to mention exciting!
AUGMENTED REALITY | Stunning augmented reality and realistic animations bring 3D models to life, making for a truly immersive experience. TimePod Adventures transforms the classroom completely into locations and times that are impossible to visit in reality.
INTEGRATED STEM LEARNING | Bring STEM learning together with Social Studies and other topical content, so that technological skills can be embedded within everyday learning. Prepare students to encounter new technologies of the future with confidence.
STUDENT AGENCY | 50% of students say they are not engaged in what they are learning in school most of the time – let’s change that. Open worlds, realistic decision-making and exploratory experiences help students to see themselves in career roles, drive ambition and boost self-esteem.
STANDARDS-ALIGNED | The TimePod Adventures experience provides an immersive moment, centered in subject learning; supporting curriculum materials use jumping-off points from the experience to drive home learning, to which students are now more receptive.