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McGraw Hill AR
McGraw Hill AR
Bring learning to life
with our augmented reality app
McGraw Hill AR
McGraw Hill and Verizon have partnered to create McGraw Hill AR, a free app combining proven content with powerful technology to engage your students in unique and impactful ways. See what's possible in your classroom.
Bring learning to life
with our augmented reality app
McGraw Hill AR
McGraw Hill and Verizon have partnered to create McGraw Hill AR, a free app combining proven content with powerful technology to engage your students in unique and impactful ways. See what's possible in your classroom.
What is McGraw Hill AR
An Educational App Powered by Augmented Reality
McGraw Hill AR is an augmented reality app that provides engaging, bite-size experiences that promote deep conceptual learning. These standards-aligned experiences give teachers flexibility in how they integrate them while helping students learn a concept in minutes. The app can supplement any core curriculum by:
- Stimulating engagement on challenging topics through interaction, exploration, and multi-sensory experiences.
- Encouraging student agency through self-directed activities.
- Working with existing technology in your classroom like tablets, smartphones, and laptops.
How Does McGraw Hill AR Work?
Each activity offers a familiar, three-step approach.
- Observe: Students watch a narrated animation within the app.
- Explore: Students interact with 3D objects and experiment at their own pace.
- Evaluate: Students apply knowledge by answering interactive questions.
Guide your AR Integration with Standards-Aligned Lesson Plans
Professionally developed lesson plans include
- Learning objectives and standards
- Implementation tips
- Student worksheet (same Evaluate exercises from app)
- Extension activities (not in app)
- Enrichment activities (not in app)
You can access these lesson plans by creating a free account at verizon.com/learning.
Web Versions of AR Experiences
No mobile devices in the classroom? No problem. Students can now access web versions of select math lessons at mharonline.com. Web versions exist for these 10 math activities: Cross Sections, Rotations, Nets, Slope, Solve Equations, Parallel & Skew Lines, Growth Functions, Reflections, Pythagorean Theorem in 3D, and Graph Theory.
Spanish Versions of AR Experiences
Reach more students with Spanish versions of select AR experiences. If downloading the app for the first time, select the language preferred when prompted. If the app is already downloaded, go to Settings to change languages. The app currently has Spanish versions of the following 10 math activities: Cross Sections, Rotations, Nets, Slope, Solve Equations, Parallel & Skew Lines, Growth Functions, Reflections, Pythagorean Theorem in 3D, and Graph Theory.
Augmented Reality Experiences Across the Curriculum
Math App Activities
McGraw Hill AR helps students visualize math and see math in the world around them. From ski slopes to fireworks, from racing cars to desert islands, students can experience the fun in learning math and realize it’s not just about numbers and equations.
Topics Covered
- Cross Sections**
- Rotations**
- Nets**
- Slope**
- Solving Equations**
- Growth Functions**
- Parallel and Skew Lines**
- Reflections**
- Pythagorean Theorem in 3D**
- Graph Theory**
- Quadratic Functions (Group)
- Coordinate Plane
- LCM
- Ratios
- Equivalent Fractions
** Web versions available for Chromebooks/laptops at mharonline.com and Spanish versions available in the app.
Science App Activities
Your science students can now experiment with the impossible in the classroom like dissecting the human eye, taking apart a v8 engine, or playing mini golf to understand reflection.
Topics Covered
- The Circulatory System
- Glaciers
- The Human Eye
- Photosynthesis
- The Respiratory System
- V8 Engines
- Law of Reflection (includes Group activity)
Social Studies App Activities
With McGraw Hill AR, your social studies students can become time travelers, immersing themselves in the past by exploring events, making choices, and simulating strategies.
Topics Covered
- Vikings
- The Boston Massacre
- Westward Expansion
- Parthenon
- Trench Warfare
- Space Race (Group activity included)
- Industrial Revolution
- Silk Road
Helpful Resources on Augmented Reality
Research on Augmented Reality
- We surveyed teachers, administrators and parents on their views about augmented reality in education. Read the results of our AR survey.
Podcasts Featuring McGraw Hill AR
- Forward to Different: "Finding Easy to Use VR, AR, and GAI Resources That Effectively Accelerate Learning"
- My EdTech Life: “The Future of AR/VR in Education”
- Shake Up Learning: “10 AR Math Lessons You Need to See”
Articles on Augmented Reality and/or Featuring McGraw Hill AR
- Renee Dawson, an ed tech specialist at Atlanta Public Schools, shares her experiences using augmented reality in the classroom, including using McGraw Hill AR: “How Augmented Reality Helps Teachers Reach More Students"
- Instructional technologist–and former teacher–Jaime Donally shares her thoughts in this review of McGraw Hill AR: “STEAMverse Day 20 - McGraw Hill ARC”
- Get behind the scenes with the authors and developers of McGraw Hill AR to learn about the pedagogical and technical decisions made: “Deepen Learning with McGraw Hill AR”
- In this Q&A, Heather Brantley, an instructional technologist and teacher at a Texas junior high school, discusses collaboration with McGraw Hill AR: “How Augmented Reality Fosters Student Curiosity and Collaboration”
- This teacher shares how augmented reality has given her students opportunities to actively engage with lessons and how our free app, McGraw Hill AR, can help you effortlessly integrate AR into your classroom: ”How One Teacher Uses Augmented Reality in the Classroom”
- Unsure about using augmented reality in the classroom? Read this blog post by an early adopter of augmented reality.
Jaime Donally, author, speaker, and instructional technologist on emerging technologies, speaks with Renee Dawson, Educational Technology Specialist from Atlanta Public Schools. They introduce you to the app, walk you through the app's features, and then dive into all of the lesson planning resources available for free in Verizon Innovative Learning HQ.
Jaime Donally, author, speaker, and instructional technologist on emerging technologies, speaks with Renee Dawson, Educational Technology Specialist from Atlanta Public Schools, as well as a panel of McGraw Hill content specialists. This webinar explores how McGraw Hill AR can transform traditional classroom lessons into engaging and interactive experiences that motivate students to learn through play.
Jaime Donally, author, speaker, and instructional technologist on emerging technologies, speaks with Renee Dawson, Educational Technology Specialist from Atlanta Public Schools, as well as a panel of McGraw Hill content specialists. Here they dive into the new unique group play feature that students can use in-person and remotely and how the solo activities can be used collaboratively to build up to the group experience. Discover how collaboration and AR technology truly benefit the overall learning experience.
Explore how a free, award-winning augmented reality app facilitates active learning in different ways within different subjects, including math, social studies, and science. Whether students learn on mobile phones, tablets, or laptops, speak English or Spanish, thrive learning solo or within groups, McGraw Hill AR expands opportunities for learning through immersive, bite-sized experiences.
In this engaging panel discussion, you’ll learn how AR can be a scalable way to create new, equitable opportunities for learning that engage even the hardest to reach students. Whether you’re an administrator looking to integrate innovative technology into your school or district or a teacher looking for free and engaging ways to supplement your curriculum, this webinar has something for you to learn and share with others.
While augmented reality (AR) deeply engages students through multimodal learning, it’s not widely used for instruction. Using a new, free AR app, participants will explore how AR can be powerful yet easy to integrate when experiences are bite-sized, aligned to learning objectives, and created with real classrooms in mind. Please plan to bring a mobile device to the session.
What Educators Say About Our Augmented Reality Experiences
The students found the app extremely easy to use. They were appropriately challenged by some of the exercises, but they weren’t discouraged at all. In fact, it was the opposite. They were so engaged that even when the bell rang, they didn’t want to leave the classroom and just wanted to figure out the current challenge.
I love how this is designed for the students to work collaboratively or independently. It allows for students to foster that sense of independence with a rich learning experience.
This app helps with the challenges that we experienced by giving the students a 3D representation of the concepts that we're learning. It's also super engaging so they're more interested in playing around with the concept.
Get McGraw Hill AR Now
Access the web versions at mharonline.com. Currently, 10 math activities are available there. Those plus more are in the app versions available on any Apple or Android tablet or smartphone.
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