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Reviewed on February 1, 2014 | The App Review
Gr 4–8—Kids Discover continues to engineer their award-winning print magazines into well-designed apps. This one provides history aficionados with a thorough introduction to the idiosyncratic state politics leading up to the drafting of the Constitution. Also highlighted are the role of James Madison and his Virginia plan in instigating not only a revision of the Articles of Confederation, but a drafting of a new document. One of the outstanding interactive features of the app is an historical map of U.S. expansion. Upon tapping a year, the states fly into a map, giving viewers an animated experience of the growing terr...Log In or Sign Up to Read More