COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. -- At the Pikes Peak Prep charter school students have access to the latest information at the touch of a screen.

"It really extends the possibilities for kids because there is a limitless amount of resources that they can get from the iPad," Dr. Patricia Arnold, principal at Pikes Peak Prep, said.

The school is incorporating iPads in almost all of their high school classes.

"We do science, reading, language arts, history. It's been a great way for me to have access for the kids at their fingertips to historical facts," Marlene Duran, science teacher, said.

Students can draw graphs, work out problems, and even dissect a frog on the iPad; something Eileen Alvarez wishes she had the option to do in seventh grade.

"I hated the smell, and it was gross, and I had to touch it, and I was really queasy, and I couldn't get out of it because it was like half my grade," Alvarez said.

While the students now have the option to tap their way through school work, they still have to do some the old fashioned way - with paper and a pencil.

"We still incorporate those kinds of things because we feel that it is critical that students know how to do that kind of research as well," Arnold said.

Still, the staff believes exposing students to the latest technology, like the iPads, will help prepare them for a high tech future.

"We want to be sure that our students are prepared to enter the workforce, and by giving them the tools that they most likely will be expected to know how to work, we've given them an advantage already. Just a step up that other schools might not have," Arnold said.

In addition to having the latest information, Arnold said the iPads could also save the school money in the long run by eliminating the need to buy updated textbook adoptions, which she said are very costly.