Social Studies- World Factbook

The World Factbook app is very useful. I would have students use this app when working on research projects. The app has many different categories of statistics for either the whole world or specific countries. It offers facts on geography, people, government, economy, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues. There is also a tab where a user can view the country on a map and can look at comparisons of countries. What I like about the app is that it gives the dates in which the statistics were made. This allows the teacher and student to see how recent the information was taken and decide if they can look for more recent data. Finding more recent data could allow for students to do some research and comparisons about what changed in a country and what caused that change.