McGraw Hill AR

McGraw-Hill School Education

About this app

This award-winning app brings learning to life through bite-sized, multisensory activities that promote deep, conceptual learning. The app leverages augmented reality to gamify challenging and abstract concepts, helping students learn through play. A growing library of activities cover 3-12th grade Math, Science, Social Studies, and ELA. A Group Play option for select activities offers collaborative opportunities, Spanish versions of activities are available via Settings, and web versions of activities can be found at mharonline.com.



Examples of activities across subjects:



- Math: Slope: Calculate slope to help an animated skateboarder make their jump.

- Social Studies: Boston Massacre: Experience the Boston Massacre from various witness viewpoints

- Science: Human Eye: Dissect the human eye to explore its different parts

- ELA: Romeo and Juliet: Transform Romeo & Juliet’s balcony scene to create your own AR version of what happened




Math

- Cross Sections

- Nets

- Rotations

- Slope

- Solve Equations

- Growth Functions

- Parallel & Skew Lines

- Pythagorean Theorem in 3D

- Reflections

- Graph Theory

- Quadratic Functions (group activity included)

- Coordinate Plane

- LCM

- Equivalent Fractions

- Ratios

- Game Theory (Group activity included)

- Divide with Remainders



Social Studies

- Vikings

- Boston Massacre

- Westward Expansion

- Parthenon

- Space Race (group activity included)

- Trench Warfare

- Silk Road

- Industrial Revolution

- Civicstown

- Machu Picchu

- Pyramids

- Stickball

- Grocery Go!

- The Colosseum

- Civil War

- Panama Canal

- Deforestation in the Amazon

- Map Dash! (group activity included)



Science

- Human Eye

- V8 Engine

- Photosynthesis

- Circulatory System

- Respiratory System

- Glaciers

- Law of Reflection (group activity included)

- Periodic Table

- Simple Machines

- Sonic Shapes

- Tornado Factory

- Fibonacci Forest Quest

- Fireworks Factory

- Animal Cell Lab

- Big Dig



ELA

- Romeo & Juliet

- The Great Race

- GrammarBot: Modifiers

Ratings and reviews

The app feels responsive, interactive, and AR doesn't feel like a gimick, but actually enables nice visualization. Also, the walkthrough is a plus.

no option to create

very good