The Ecology HD app covers the following topics in a multi-modal learning environment -
1. Hierarchy of Life - Learn about communities, ecosystems, biomes, and biosphere.
2. Living Together - Learn about food chains, producers, consumer, decomposers, and symbiosis.
3. What goes around, comes around - Learn about biotic, abiotic factors, nitrogen, carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, and phosphorous cycles.
4. Staying Balanced - Learn about ecosystem balance, impacts of invasive species and global warming.
The content of the app follows what is taught commonly in middle schools. The various learning modes are designed to facilitate easier learning and to improve attention.
Each topic is presented using multiple learning styles -
1. Read and Learn
2. See and Learn
3. Watch and Learn
4. Quiz and Learn.
Read and Learn - In this learning style, the user can read the text associated with the topic as well as browse through amazing (WOW) facts about the topic. For beginning readers, there is a "Read to Me" feature that allows the text to be narrated.
See and Learn - This learning style incorporates visual learning. High definition photographs are presented with descriptive text below each photo to reinforce the topic.
Watch and Learn - Curated educational videos are used in this learning style. These ad-free videos are curated by our editorial team to enhance the learning for the particular topic.
Quiz and Learn - This section tests the understanding of the topic. Each topic has multiple questions ordered with increasing level of difficulty based on Blooms Taxonomy.
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