Educational Apps

General

v  Lino allows you to create boards where you can add “sticky notes” for organization, memos, etc.

v  PBS KIDS Video contains links to “Word Girl,” “Arthur,” “The Cat in the Hat” and many more. 

v  Easy Bib for iPads allows you to find citations (MLA, APA, & Chicago formats) by searching or scanning resources.

v  Educreations is an interactive white board with text, graphics, & voice recording capabilities.

v  Animoto (iPhone) Videos is an easy way to create and share videos (can integrate photos, video clips, music)

v  Dictionary.com has a word of the day, daily crossword, word games, and other features in addition to the dictionary and thesaurus.

v  Quizlet (iPhone) allows you to create “flashcards,” but is more fun and interactive.

v  Red Stamp (iPhone) can help you communicate with parents.  You can email, text, tweet, Facebook, Instagram and paper mail personalized photo cards, notes, invitations, & announcements.

v  NearPod is for the synchronized use of iPads in the classroom.  You swipe on your device and your students follow along and participate from their own devices.

v  Popplet Lite features a combination of mindmapping, online bulletin board, and alternative presentation tool.   A popple can hold text, images, videos and even Google maps.

v  Skitch helps you get your point across with fewer words using annotation, shapes and sketches.  You can take or choose a photo, draw on a map, capture from the web, or start with a blank page.

v  QR Reader will allow you to scan or create QR codes.  There is also a “History” and “Favorites” feature. 

v  ShowMeInteractive gives you the opportunity to create and share “white board” style tutorials through pictures and voice recording.  You are also able to link to Facebook and Twitter. 

v  DoodleBuddy – You can paint, draw, scribble, and sketch. 

v  iTooch – Elementary school math, language arts, & science worksheets

v  AppsGoneFree is a source for the best daily free apps.

v  Evernote is designed for note taking and archiving.  It helps you stay organized, save ideas, and improve productivity.

v  Symbaloo is a visual gathering tool that lets you bookmark and share your online favorites. 

v  Pic Collage – The app allows you to create collages with pictures from the web, your own pictures, or your own drawings.

v  Socrative is student response system to formatively assess students.

v  PaperPort Notes allows you to annotate PDF files with drawing, images, text, and voice recordings.

v  AudioBoo captures audio recordings and allows you to listen via an Internet link.

v  DropBox uploads student work from the iPad.

v  Group Chat (Qurki) is a closed chat program for students to collaborate in ideas.

v  BrainPop Edumovie – Edumovies are updated daily.

v  Qwikipedia is a video/audio encyclopedia with a myriad of topics.

v  Showbie is like a drop box for the classroom. Using Showbie, students can submit pictures, video, podcasts, presentations and other work from hundreds of apps into their Showbie online assignment folder. Teachers use the Showbie app to easily review students’ work and provide rich feedback with document mark up annotations and voicenotes.

v  Cramberry allows students to create electronic flashcards for any subject.  You also have the ability to access other users’ flashcards.

v  Zite is a great app to read articles based on your reading interests.

v  Mindmodo - Mind maps to organize work, solve problems creatively, find the next big idea, and learn more effectively.

v  SimpleMind+ is a Mind Mapping tool that turns your iPad into a brainstorming, idea collection and thought structuring device.

v  Sock Puppets lets you create your own lip-synced videos and share them. Add puppets, props, scenery, and backgrounds and start creating. Hit the record button and the puppets automatically lip-sync to your voice.

v  Daisy the Dinosaur - Learn the basics of computer programming with Daisy.  This free, fun app has an easy drag and drop interface that kids of all ages can use to animate Daisy to dance across the screen. Kids will intuitively grasp the basics of objects, sequencing, loops and events by solving this app's challenges.

v  Rover is the only education browser for your iPad, designed specially for teachers and students of all ages. Rover brings the best K-12 online learning content to your fingertips, including access to content ordinarily unavailable on the iPad (e.g. Flash content).

v  Prezi - cloud-based presentation software

v  Common Core Standards - Access the Standards Anytime, Anywhere.
They've made it easy to access the standards from any mobile device and have synthesized the College and Career Readiness Standards for Language Arts and included the traditional and Integrated pathways for Math.

v  Describe It Free - Play with a friend or a random opponent, and describe something to them - and guess their descriptions - without using any of the banned words.

v  ScootPad is the ultimate way to engage kids in mastering Common Core Standards and Concepts in MATH & READING with personalized, self-paced and stimulating practice.

v  ConceptBANK by ScootPad - Navigate the Common Core Standards, Concepts and Practice Questions - anytime and anywhere using the ConceptBANK™ App!

v  USA TODAY - All the USA TODAY content you love in a sleek new design, updated 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

v  4 Pics 1 Word - Each puzzle contains four pictures that have something in common - what is it?

v  In Dog Story your children will meet many adorable dogs in their loveable surroundings. Interact with them to learn important concepts, ideas and vocabulary.

v  SPORTS ILLUSTRATED KIDS magazine comes to life on the iPad with fun interactive features and bonus content!

v  Fotobabble allows you to upload and image and then record audio to accompany it.

v  Viddy lets you quickly shoot, edit, and share short video clips.  It comes with a variety of music options as well as visual effects that you can integrate. 

v  Vimeo is a U.S.-based video-sharing website on which users can upload, share and view videos.

v  SoundCloud – Allows students to record and upload audio directly to a web-based account.  There are no editing features included in this simple, one-button-to-record interface.

v  Wunderlist – Includes all the features of the built-in Reminders app (task lists, due dates, notes, etc.), but also allows you to share lists and push or email reminders.  In addition, reminder can be accessed using a web login. 

v  Skype – Instant message, voice or video call on Skype for free!

v  iTalk Recorder – A full-featured recording app.  You can append existing recordings, choose levels of recording quality, and manage recordings. 

v  AudioNote Lite combines the functionality of a notepad and voice recorder.

v  ScreenChomp – A simple doodling board, markers, and one-click sharing tools make spreading your ideas and know-how easy and fun!

v  Chalkboard – Pictures can be saved or uploaded.

v  Kid Paint Express – Fun and easy paint app for kids of all ages.

v  Penultimate gives you the natural experience of writing on paper, with the added power and availability of Evernote. 

v  Bookster records and plays students’ voices. 

v  iSwifter lets iOS users view and interact with Adobe Flash content

v  Google Search

v  Tips and Tricks - easy-to-read tips, tricks, and secrets about the iPad

v  Memory Stick Free - The easiest way to transport your documents!
Use your iPhone/iPod as a memory stick. Simply copy the files in iTunes. Compress your folders as zip files and on your iPhone/iPod they will be displayed as folders.

v  KAHN Academy allows you to learn almost anything for free.  Our iOS app is the best way to view Khan Academy’s complete library of over 3,500 videos.

v  Inspiration Maps engages students in active learning.  Students build their knowledge by creating diagrams, maps and organizers that help them brainstorm, plan, organize and build thinking skills. Tap to transform visual work into outlines that export for writing.

v  iTranslate  is an award winning translation tool that helps you break down language barriers. With its state of the art technology you can speak any language (60+) in a second.

v  Air Video supports almost all video formats and performs the conversion "on-the-fly.”  No waiting for files to convert, they are done in real time as you watch!

v  QuickVoice is the most popular, full-featured iPhone/iPad/iPod voice recorder available. Record ideas, voice memos, voice email, dictation, lists, meetings, classes, or entire lectures!

v  Splice (video editor) together HD photos and videos in an amazingly simple way. Add music tracks from your iPod library, sound effects, transitions, borders, effects, trim video and audio, narrate with your own voice, and much more.

v  Shop Savvy Barcode Reader - Find the right product at the best price! Now the fastest, most accurate and most comprehensive scanner around. It won’t find everything in the world, but it is close. Now you can be savvy when you shop!

v  Whiteboard Lite is a collaborative drawing app for the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.
It is the leading real-time collaborative painting app for iOS.  Wirelessly connect two iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad devices over local Wi-Fi or Bluetooth peer-to-peer!

v  Too Noisy provides a metered measurement of noise levels and lets everyone know when it has reached an unacceptable level.

v  Live Notes Lite - THIS IS A LITE VERSION OF LIVE NOTES. BRING YOUR NOTES TO LIFE WITH VOICE RECORDING IN SYNC! CLICK ON THE NOTES TO DRAW CONTEXT TO YOUR NOTE TAKING.

v  Crazy Booth - Choose a pic, put it in the Booth, and pick a crazy Effect!!

v  PBS Kids Photo Factory - Put your child in a photo with a favorite PBS KIDS character in three simple steps. Easy and safe for kids to use, too! Features leading characters from series that air on PBS KIDS and PBS KIDS GO!, including Arthur, Caillou, Clifford, Curious George, Dinosaur Train, Fetch!, Sesame Street, Sid the Science Kid, SUPER WHY!, Word Girl, and more.

v  Pirate Treasure Hunt (Math & ELA) - Join forces with Pirate Jack. He needs your help to solve eight problems and find the hidden treasure. Use the map to work your way through the obstacles one by one and in the right order. Apply your math and literacy skills to make sure you collect the correct item before tackling the next obstacle. For example, you’ll need to order a set of words from coldest to hottest to find a lantern before you can explore a dark cave. Use different strategies to solve the clues, and you’ll find the booty.

v  Remind101 - Remind101 provides a safe way for teachers to text message students and stay in touch with parents. It is 100% free and is used by over 500,000 teachers, students and parents to send millions of messages every month.

Math

v  Math Kid features flashcard-like problems for addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.  You can purchase additional features such as Roman numerals, percentage, fractions, equations, and arithmetic sequencing.

v  Ace Kids Math features addition, subtraction, and counting problems. A “full version” is available for purchase. 

v  Math Quizzer  is a fun way to boost skills in addition, subtraction, multiplication, & division.  There is an easy to understand chalkboard visual, keeping track of the score as you progress. 

v  Mad Math Lite is perfect for kids to practice their addition, subtraction, multiplication, & division facts.  You can also choose whole, decimal, or a mix of numbers.  Students can even draw right on their flashcard.    

v  Math Blaster (HyperBlaster) is a space-themed math adventure for working on multiple math skills.

v  10 Plus Free (iPhone) is a fun, math puzzle game that allows kids to exercise their minds by combining and sliding numbers to make them add up to a certain number.  It is fun and challenging!

v  Mathtappers: Clockmaster – great math app for working with clocks

v  Mathtappers: Find Sums – for younger students

v  Virtual Manipulatives has virtual fraction sticks to help students compare and order fractions.

v  Grid Drawing for Kids Lite - With a sheet of paper, a grid, and a template, your children will be able to draw 32 drawings on the iPad.

v  Oh No Fractions makes students prove equivalent fractions by using fraction bars.

v  Math Sprint can be used to build fluency in addition, multiplication, subtraction, and division.

v  Flash to Pass Math Flash Cards is an easy-to-use, elegant program designed to facilitate mastering the basic math facts studied in Elementary School (can be used as an Exit Slip). 

v  Motion Math Zoom is an animal adventure through the world of numbers! It features the most interactive number line of all time. The intuitive pinch gesture on iDevices allows kids to navigate among concrete objects (animals) that represent abstract numbers: from dinosaurs in the thousands to amoebas in the thousandths.
Motion Math Zoom is a fun, engaging way for children to master a foundational pillar of math: place value.

v  Ace Writer Numbers - Learn tracing numbers zero (0) through fifty (50).
Learn Number counting, writing, and listening skills. This game reinforces associative learning which may aid in early brain development in young kids and may help your child get a HEAD START in READING and WRITING. 2 WRITING MODES - NUMBERS: Write the numbers and learn the audio recognition.
WORDS: Hear the numbers, write the number words, and learning the spelling in the process.

v  Slice It! Begins - Fast Fun with a Geometric Flair!  "Slice It!" is all about slicing shapes into pieces that are equal in size.

v  Calculator Pro - Calculator Pro for iPad is designed for everyone looking for simplicity and functionality. The app features calculators sporting elegant interface that won't leave anyone indifferent. Users who want to make basic calculations will definitely enjoy the standard option while math gurus will find it very handy to use a scientific mode.

v  Snowflake Station is designed to offer children a foundation for learning about symmetry, a key concept in math, science, art and architecture. Snowflake Station encourages children to fold, cut, plan, share, and animate falling snow with their own symmetrical designs. Winter settings and accompanying music add a bit of warmth on the chilliest of days. We have also added butterflies, robots, peacocks, daisies, hearts, stars and more, because exploring symmetry is intriguing and educational throughout the year. This app provides all the fun of classic seasonal crafts and classroom art/math projects, but with none of the mess.

v  Playful Minds: Math (5-8 years old) is a fun and appealing educational application that provides your child with a gradual and in-depth understanding of math. Your child will enjoy learning and progressing freely through the math program.

v  Splash Math (3^rd grade) is a fun and innovative way to practice math. With 12 chapters covering over 140+ math worksheets and an endless supply of problems, it is by far the most comprehensive math workbook in the app store.

v  Motion Math: Hungry Fish – Goals: To develop fast, agile mental arithmetic, To learn there are multiple paths to add up to every sum, & To build automaticity in adding and subtracting positive and negative integers

v  Motion Math Zoom - An animal adventure through the world of numbers!
Give your child a chance to play with numbers - they'll have a blast zooming through the number line as they master place value.

v  Geoboard is a tool for exploring a variety of mathematical topics introduced in the elementary and middle grades. Learners stretch bands around pegs to form line segments and polygons and make discoveries about perimeter, area, angles, congruence, fractions, and more.

v  Math Puppy is designed with 3 difficulty levels and 5 game types that provide complete coverage of basic math skills for preschool, elementary school, grade school and more.

v  Math Fractions: Understanding Fractions – This app provides a quick and simple way for students to learn and understand fractions step-by-step. They will be engaged to learn through a variety of ways such as interactive demonstrations, hands-on exercises and by answering simple multiple choice questions.

v  Pizza Fractions – Ranked a top 100 iPad education app in the United States, March 2013, Pizza Fractions offers a simple, visually-based introduction to fractions for elementary school kids.

v  Fraction Factory – This application connects students to the job world, the real world, by solving real-life problems using reasoning. Computation of fractions and determining proportions are a part of everyone’s everyday life when it comes to making decisions. Use this game as part of an m-learning model to address common educational standards that expect students to master decimal-to-fraction conversion and the ability to assess proportions.

v  Egberta’s Equations – Egberta the Macaw has a nest full of tasty eggs that Cliff the Climber wants to eat. Unfortunately, the eggs are on top of a tall cliff. Help Cliff the Climber reach the top and get the eggs by completing equations. Beware though! Egberta will drop eggs on Cliff's head if you waste too many numbers.

v  Pop Math Lite – It is a fun way for kids to practice basic math: 6 pairs of bubbles with numbers float on the screen above beautiful backgrounds.  Each bubble contains a number, like 7 and 3+4: pop the right pairs!  As you progress through levels, numbers increase.  End of levels greet you with your time for that level, a message personalized to your performance, and the number of mistakes you did.
This free version is limited to additions.

v  Magic Math Facts Cards – Math Facts App Features: The best and most interesting math facts,  Interesting random facts for kids, Random facts that will get your brain ticking, Interesting facts that are cool and intriguing, Math facts are funny and surprising, Great for ALL ages: adults, kids (boys & girls) and children, Share your favorite fun facts by email, SMS, Facebook or Twitter, Try using them in games, quizzes and puzzles for more fun, Impress your family and friends with your new found knowledge

v  Pearl Diver – Addresses number and operations standards established by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), including: Understand numbers, ways of representing numbers, and number systems.  Understand and represent commonly used fractions. Understand fractions as part of unit wholes and as locations on number lines. Compare and order fractions, and find their approximate locations on the number line.

v  Teaching Number Lines – Little Monkey Apps Number Lines helps to introduce the concept of number lines to young students through the use of cute little frogs that make steps and leaps.  Little Monkey Apps Number Lines aims to students to visualize numbers for rote counting and ordering and to see the physical position of a number linking patterns and relationships.

v  Gamer Dice – Play with as many dice as you like and keep track of them all.  Group dice into colorful groups for quick and easy totals.  Roll dice one at a time or in a group.  Lots of colors to choose from to match your mood.  Great for exploring the math of probabilities and statistics.

v  IQ Gym – IQ Gym is a mathematical educational game. The user must solve mathematical questions within a time-limit to get to the next level. There are 3 different game modes:  Challenge: 20 mathematical tasks must be solved within 60 seconds and with above 90% correct answers in order to progress to the next level.
Survival: 30 mathematical tasks need to be solved without a single error in order to progress to the next level. Every task has a time limit of 5 seconds. Time Attack: 30 mathematical tasks must be solved with above 90% correct answers in order to progress to the next level. Every task has a time limit of 3 seconds.

v  Get Primes – Get Primes is a fun, simple app that not only determines if a single integer is prime, but also lists and counts all the prime numbers between any two integers you enter.

v  iPolygons lets you see what different regular polygons look like and find out information about them.

v  MultiMeasure – Taking measurements with MultiMeasure, as simple as 1-2-3. Take a picture (or choose one from your library).  Mark various objects whose measurements you are interested in, and Provide one reference measurement.

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v  Anglemeter – Angle Meter is an accurate angle (from the surface of the earth) measurement tool.

v  Temperature Convert – Temperature Convert is a powerful yet simple tool for converting temperatures from Fahrenheit to Celsius or Celsius to Fahrenheit. It also has support for Kelvin so you can convert kelvin to Celsius or Fahrenheit or vise-versa. Also included is a decimal and negative point, so you can convert decimal temperatures and negative (below 0) temperatures.

v  Counting Money – Counting Money is an app designed to help people of all ages count money. Counting Money can also be used as a brain training exercise for adults and anyone else looking to improve their skills at counting money. There are two game play types. In practice mode the user must answer the question correctly in order to proceed to the next question. The user presses the check button after each attempt to check the answer. In quiz mode the user has one opportunity to answer the question correctly. There are two difficulty types, beginner and normal. You use four coin buttons to add to the tally.

v  Learning Money: Counting Coins – With Learn Money, start your kid's learning about American money from the basic identification of coins & bills to making change.
Learn Money includes engaging lessons with natural voice-over and follow-up quizzes that helps students score well in their benchmark and state tests.

v  Math Snacks Videos – Enjoy these five fun Math Snack videos while learning about number lines, ratio, rate and proportion: Bad Date: A date goes horribly awry because of bad ratios! Overruled!: Two kingdoms teeter on the brink of war over different measurement standards. Atlantean Dodgeball: Two teams face each other in a battle of ratios. Scale Ella: Our heroine Scale-Ella uses scale factor to reverse the evil antics of the evil Scaleo. Number Rights: Numbers rise up and fight for their rights

v  Math: Your Teacher - Get the exact math help you need with your own personal math teacher! Browse or search Your Teacher's complete library of over 50 courses for elementary, middle, and high school math; community college and college math; and standardized test prep. Each course contains over 100 lessons, and each lesson features video examples, interactive practice, multiple-choice self-tests, a worksheet of extra problems, and more! PLEASE NOTE that your first 5 lessons are FREE!

v  Maya Numbers - Take your math skills to the next level while learning the ancient Maya’s remarkable number system in this fast-paced counting game!  Dig-It! Games presents MayaNumbers, a stimulating math game that challenges players to translate numbers using the Maya math system before time runs out. Call upon the ancient civilization’s revolutionary numeral symbols—shell, dot, and line—to translate randomly generated numbers and see how high you can get your score. Base 20 has never been so much fun!

v  Math Tub - Math Tub is a smart game to learn and improve multiplication and division skills. Created by an experienced teacher it offers 3 games for kids to learn and understand the basic principles of multiplication to algebraic thinking, and working with multiplication and division with decimals.

v  Math Bugs - Are you 5-12 years old and want to learn math in a fun way? Math Bugs teaches you about number groups like thousands, ones and hundredths. Meanwhile, you create a fun math bug by putting together parts like wings, arms and antennas.

Five different number ranges: 100, 1 000, 10 000, 0.1 and 0.01
Five cool characters, each with its own special characteristics.
No time pressure - play and collect gold coins and gems at your own pace.

v  Pick a Path - Help Okta reach the target (maximum, minimum, or a specific value) by choosing a path from the top of the maze to the bottom. Seven levels with seven puzzles will test your skills with powers of ten, negative numbers, fractions, decimals, and more. How many starfish can you earn?

v  Motion Math: Wings - Practice mental multiplying and estimation with Motion Math: Wings! This fun math game helps children ages 4 and up develop a conceptual understanding of multiplication in six different visual forms: rows of dots, clusters of dots, “groups of” dots, a grid, a labeled grid, and symbols. Seeing the many different forms helps learners master the concept of multiplication.

v  Math, Age 4 – 6 - It is in three parts, graded in difficulty – and each is a separate purchase. Part 1 is now available. Try the first topic for free- “shape and position.”

v  Lobster Diver HD - Ideal for middle school and upper elementary students, grades 3-8.  Addresses number and operations standards established by NCTM, including:
=> Understand numbers, ways of representing numbers, and number systems.
=> Understand and represent commonly used fractions.
=> Understand fractions as part of unit wholes and as locations on number lines.
=> Compare and order fractions, and find their approximate locations on the number line.

v  Chicken Coop Fractions Game - In this hilarious educational game you will be shown a fraction and your job is estimate the decimal equivalent by placing a nest on a number line. Our hens are mathematical experts and they will fire their eggs towards the correct answer. If your estimate is good the eggs will be caught in the nest but if you’re too far out it all gets very messy.

v  Fill the Cup – In this app, students practice the addition of fractions. Eight cups are filled by some fraction which shows on the cup. The child selects one to pour into a target cup, trying to fill it exactly. As the level goes up more difficult fractions are used.

v  Math Tappers Multiples is a simple game designed first to help learners to make sense of multiplication and division with whole numbers, and then to support them in developing fluency while maintaining accuracy.

v  Number Pieces helps students develop a deeper understanding of place value while building their computation skills with multi-digit numbers. Students use the number pieces to represent multi-digit numbers, regroup, add, subtract, multiply, and divide.

v  Slate Math develops mathematical intuition and skills through playful interaction. The app's 38 activities prepare children for kindergarten and first grade math.

SlateMath forms the foundation of numbers, digit writing, counting, addition, order relation, patterns, parity and problem solving.

v  Number Line is an educational game app to help students learn about fractions, decimals, and percents by ordering equivalent fractions, decimals, and percents on a number line. The app features multiple levels where the player must drag circles with a percent, decimal or fraction onto a number line in the correct sequence.

v  Wuzzit Trouble - Your job is to free the lovable Wuzzits from the traps they’ve inadvertently wandered into inside the castle.  The game is built around the important mathematical concept of integer partitions – the expression of a whole number as a sum of other whole numbers.

v  Okta’s Rescue - How fast can you transport the Oktas? Use your counting skills to save as many as you can before the timer runs out.  This app was developed for children in grades preK–2^nd grade.

 

English /Language Arts

v  TumbleBooks – oaklandelemsc, books

v  Bluster is a vocabulary game app that lets you select number of players, grade level, and match type (rhyming, prefixes, synonyms, etc.)

v  Dragon Dictation will dictate for you as you speak and gives you the opportunity to email, tweet, or Facebook your dictation. 

v  iBooks allows you to download and read books designed exclusively for the iPad.

v  Kindle will allow you to download book from their store if you have an Amazon account.

v  Sight Words

·         Sight Words (star) - primary

·         Sight Words (chalkboard) – preschool through 3^rd grade, also nouns

·         **Sight Words 2 – grades 1 & 2, more interactive with bingo, memory game, unscramble, etc.

v  Free Books 23 – 469 – classics with highlighting, notes, & dictionary support (just added a “Modern Collection”)

v  Puppet Pals HD - Choose your characters and setting to create your own play.  You can record your voice.

v  Scholastic Storia – You will need a Scholastic account to access several free books.  An extensive collection is available for purchase. 

v  Toontastic gives you the opportunity to create your own stories online using a story arch (setup, conflict, challenge, climax, resolution) and animated artwork (draw your own or purchase for 99 cents).

v  StoryKit (iPhone) allows you to create an electronic storybook with text, illustrations, and sound.

v  Barnes & Noble Kids Nook for iPad allows you to download more than a million titles and provides a free sample of every eBook. 

v  Story Wheel Lite – You can learn about storytelling, create your own story, or listen to stories. 

v  Textropolis (iPhone) is a game that has kids find and piece together words in order to build up their “textropolis.”

v  ABC Magnetic Alphabet Lite is a magnetic board on which you can manipulate letters.

v  Little Writer helps young children correctly form letters, numbers, shapes, and words by incorporating easy tracing techniques and positive reinforcement.

v  Rocket Speller is a fun and engaging spelling app for 3-7 year olds. Educators, occupational therapists, special education teachers, and parents agree that kids are engaged and learning with this app.

v  ABC Magic Apps – phonics, spelling, & reading practice for various levels

v  Endless Alphabet is a fun and interactive app to help kids learn their ABCs and build their vocabulary.

v  Aesop’s Fables

v  Wild Fables - Don't just read a story - play along! Save a lion, leap for a grape, and watch Aesop's fables come to life with unique and fun interactions on every page.

v  Fox and the Crow is an interactive version of this Aesop’s fable.

v  Wordventure! - Enjoy the great new word game (formerly known as RadLibs)! It's lots of fun for kids and adults alike. Kids can learn about parts of speech and have a wonderful time doing it! This is how it works: First, choose a Wordventure! story. Pick Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Adverbs, etc., save your completed Wordventure and then read YOUR hilarious story! You can play alone or with friends to share all of the great times!

v  Learn with WordFriends - Learn with WordFriends is the exciting new educational game from WordWorld, the Emmy-winning show seen on PBS.

v  Spelling City

v  Phonics Genius - This app is loaded with content. We are talking over 6,000 professionally recorded words carefully grouped into 225 categories by phonics.

v  MeeGenius is the fun, free and easy-to-use library of e-books you and your little ones can enjoy. Our top-rated children's ebook app allows you to create a customized library for your youngest readers.

v  OverDrive Media Console - Download eBooks and audiobooks from your library directly to your iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch.

v  Google Docs/ Google Drive - Rich Text Editor for Google Docs, HTML and EMAIL Signatures.  Google Drive is a free service that lets you store all your files including documents, photos, videos and Google Docs online and access them anywhere.

v  StudyBlue is your online home to store lecture notes and make flashcards.

v  Start a WordPress blog or create a free website in minutes. Choose from over 200 free, customizable themes.

v  Grammar Wonderland Lite (Primary & Elementary) – Lead your character through adventures as you practice using nouns, verbs, adjectives, and more!

v  Google Translate – Translate words and phrases between more than 60 languages.  For most languages, you can speak your phrases and hear the corresponding translations. 

v  Learning A – Z – Reading A – Z leveled books and quizzes to practice reading and check understanding.

v  Alphabytes Lite – Learn the alphabet with fully animates interactions for every letter.  Write uppercase and lowercase letters through the repetition of tracing.  This app also has a spelling and memory game.

v  Build a Word Express-  Practice spelling and learn letter sounds and names

v  What Is It? Auditory Flashcards – Listen to the sounds (animals, musical instruments, foods, etc.), and try to guess what it is. 

v  Sentence Builder (K – 2) – Learn about words, sentences, pronunciation, grammar, and punctuation. 

v  Playwords Lite – first words, reading, & spelling

v  FableScapes - Select an inspiring setting and choose from a wide variety of characters, animals and objects that you can make interact as you wish!

v  How Zebras Got Their Stripes is a Ugandan folktale about two donkeys that are tired of working and want an easier life. They meet a wise man who turns the donkeys into zebras by painting them. The idea catches on, but some of the donkeys run out of patience and pay the price.

v  Cinderella

v  Three Little Pigs: The Wolf’s Story - This retelling of The Three Little Pigs is told from the wolf’s point of view. Readers will sympathize with the homeless, freezing wolf as he suffers a cold and can’t stop sneezing. Illustrations support the text.

v  LAZ Library - Each Learning A–Z library contains ten books on that reading level, the free sample book for that level, and the free sample book for the next level to challenge readers to expand their reading skills. Developmentally appropriate sentence construction, vocabulary, and engaging illustrations make it easy for readers to feel confident about their skills. (Totem Poles, Landon’s Pumpkin Patch, How to Make Lemonade, Introducing Planet Earth)

v  iDiary for Kids  is a top-notch first experience in journaling for kids ages 5 to 13 to express themselves; make a photo, drawing, and text scrapbook of their day; and create their first address book.

v  Toy Story Read Along - Hear the story read aloud, record your own narration, or explore at your own pace.

v  Jack and the Beanstalk – interactive book

v  Grammar Quiz – specifically for elementary kids

v  Grammar and Vocabulary (Preschool) - This app is part of the iLearnWith program for kids 3 to 6 designed to get your child ready for school while having fun!

v  ABCs and Me - It's never too early to start learning pre-reading and pre-math skills!  ABCs and Me by Five Pumpkins contains 6 fun flashcard sets.

v  ABC Phonics Animals Writing HD - Letters, phonics and handwriting for preschoolers.

v  ABC Phonics Sight Words HD – word flashcards, unscramble words, spelling words, playland

v  ABC Writing Zoo Animals Game HD – Learn ABC reading, writing, and listening skills with zoo animals. Scroll and select the letters you want to learn and practice writing on the left hand side.

v  Ace Writer Apps – Alphabet, Sight Words, Cursive Alphabet

v  Elmo Loves ABCs Lite - Explore the letters A, B, and C in this free preview of Elmo Loves ABCs. Download the full version for more letter fun - games, videos coloring pages, and more!

v  1000 Sight Words

v  With Super Duper StoryMaker, you can create all the picture and photo stories you want and tell them over and over — plus, you can make your own photo albums, special occasion cards, comic books, etc. Educators and parents will love StoryMaker because it helps children practice learning skills, such as reading, sequencing, vocabulary and sentence building, following directions, grammar, storytelling and retelling, interacting with others, and more.

v  Children’s Short Stories 1-4: A collection of kids’ short stories with lively narration to ease reading for children.  In-app purchase for full version of app with all stories for just 99 cents.  Children can listen and enjoy these stories anytime especially before going to bed.

v  ABC Cards – Word Family Writing - Featuring 73 Word Families and over 630 Vocabulary Words

v  Grammar Jammers - Catchy animated songs and rhymes make English language arts exciting! Grammar Jammers animations will have you tapping your toes to the beat while learning grammar usage and mechanics. Each animation unlocks a quiz. Answer all the quiz questions for all the Grammar Jammers topics and unlock an interactive reward.

v  Sentence Scramble - Designed for beginning readers, grades K-3, these sentence puzzles move into place to create beautiful, engaging photos. Puzzle themes include transportation, animals, birds, ocean life and sports. More than 50 puzzles to do!
Need help? Tap the wizard and the puzzle solves itself.

v  StoryBuddy is a magical way to create, read and share stories with the power of multi-touch on the iPad. Draw directly on the iPad's screen with your finger and create a picture book page by page. Add customizable text with the built-in keyboard. Import images from your photo album for that personal touch. Even publish your story and flip through its pages like a real book.

v  Word Games for Kids (Futaba) - 

Futaba is a 4 player game designed for kids. This outrageously fun word quiz game can be used at home or in the classroom as a entertaining way to build language skills. 



v  My Spelling Test- Do you want your child to be a better speller? Imagine your kids begging you to practice for their next spelling test. This app is like creating your own spelling bee and is a great way to save time on homework.

v  Read Me Stories - A new book EVERY DAY develops your child's love for books and a daily reading habit. Wow!!!

v  ABC PocketPhonics Lite teaches the basics of reading and writing to young kids.

v  Mad Libs – Great for parts of speech!

v  Idioms Lite is a multiple choice quiz system for English which provides 700 common idiomatic questions across different topic & categories with explanations of 619 Idioms with meanings & examples.

v  Chicktionary - Unscramble a roost full of LETTERS and create as many WORDS as possible. Each chicken bears a letter. Touch them to and spell out a word, then watch as the word appears below them.  Press Enter to submit the word into the egg crates. The more words you create, the more points you earn!

v  Vocabulary Bubble - With more than 4,500 college level vocabulary words and definitions, you will improve your vocabulary simply by playing only a few minutes a day.

v  POETRY - You can now take thousands of poems by classic and contemporary poets with you wherever you go.

v  RhymeNow Free - Writing a poem? Crafting a song? Creating a rap? Need to find exactly the right word? Then RhymeNow Free Edition is the tool for you. With RhymeNow Free you can quickly find rhymes from a database of 55,000 English words.

v  POETRY EVERYWHERE is a collection of short poetry videos featuring contemporary poets reading their own works, introduced by Garrison Keillor. It’s pure poetry! With easy navigation, this app is a sure way to provide reflection and inspiration.

v  Haiku Poems is a fun app for everyone. The haiku form of poetry in Japanese is typically composed of 17 sound units divided into three parts with 5,7,5 sound units in each part. We encourage experts and beginners to contribute their haiku for consideration and possible inclusion in this app.

v  Snow White by Fairytale Studio - With enchanting illustrations moving with the physics of your iPhones and iPads, the story comes to life before your eyes. Completely interactive, explore and immerse yourself in the world of Snow White, the Dwarves, the Evil Queen and even the Huntsman!

v  Grendel’s Great Escape - This interactive book app includes: An engaging and relatable story, Fun and interactive animation and sound, Read to Me or Read by Myself settings, perfect for a range of young readers, Beautiful illustrations by a professional children's book illustrator, & Original music score and sound effects by an award-winning composer

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Science

v  Who Am I?  provides clues and students have to guess the animal. 

v  Era of Dino Lite provides information on dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and the time periods in which they lived. 

v  How Stuff Works (HSW) HD is a cool discovery app with articles, podcasts, and videos about “how stuff works.”

v  NASA App invites you to discover a wealth of NASA information right on your iPad. From satellite tracking to live NASA TV, the app delivers an extensive selection of dynamically updated mission information, images, videos and Twitter feeds from NASA right on your iPad.

v  Project Noah was created to provide people of all ages with a simple, easy-to-use way to share their experiences with wildlife. By encouraging your students to share their observations and contribute to Project Noah missions, you not only help students to reconnect with nature, you provide them with real opportunities to make a difference.

v  Google Earth -Take a virtual journey to any location in the world. Explore 3D buildings, imagery, and terrain. Find cities, places and local businesses.

v  Emma Zoo – Join Emma as she explores the zoo with her dad.  They will take you on a difference spotting adventure. 

v  Discovery News – You can get free science articles daily.

v  The ABCmouse.com Zoo apps feature five popular zoo animals per set. Each animal comes to life with photo–realistic animations in its natural environment. Touching an animal brings up one of a series of interesting and educational facts about the animal–characteristics, anatomy, diet, etc. After visiting the exhibit, children can join the Zoo Guide for an interactive quiz using the information learned throughout their tour of the zoo.  Zoo Set 1: Elephants, Penguins, Pandas, Lions, and Zebras; Zoo Set 2:Giraffes, Monkeys, Camels, Flamingos, and Impalas; Zoo Set 3:Anteaters, Gorillas, Ostriches, Birds, and Seals

v  WWF Together: World Wildlife Fund - Experience the world’s most amazing animals in one app — together. This interactive experience brings you closer to the stories of elephants, whales, rhinos and other fascinating species. Discover their lives and the work of WWF in a way you’ve never seen before.

v  Weird but True by National Geographic Society - Kids will devour thousands of wild, wacky, mind-bending facts from the magazine and book franchise with this amazing new interactive app loaded with supercool sound effects and surprises! Stump your parents and wow your friends with amazing kid-friendly trivia presented in the fun, colorful, and dynamic style that only National Geographic Kids can do. From animals and weather to geography, science, outer space, and beyond—Weird But True is the ultimate brainteasing treat for inquisitive minds of every age!

v  Ranger Rick’s Tree House is like no other digital magazine for children ages 7–12. It’s a fun house, a reading corner, an arcade, a video screening room, and a comic book, all rolled into one! It’s totally interactive, highly innovative, and all about animals!

v  WSPA WX for iPad - WSPA Storm Team 7 Weather

v  Sea World (Ruckus Reader) - Perfect for emergent readers (ages 4–6), Shark Goes to the Doctor is an engaging story teaching children about sharks while following a sand tiger shark as it is checked by vets. Peppered with fun-facts, children are presented with a different angle on sharks’ lives.

v  ZooBooks - Meet your favorite animals in their natural environments—collect animal stickers, move and interact with them, share your creations! Read and listen to fascinating facts about animals. Hear the background sounds and wild calls of the jungle! Play fun and exciting interactive games, or record your own voice and hear it repeated back in a funny voice! Includes 3 beautiful backgrounds, 12 animal stickers, and a wealth of sounds. New packs available for purchase within the app!

v  Seasons and Weather for Preschool & Kindergarten – Info text and games about the seasons and weather. 

v  Journey North - Journey North engages students in a global study of wildlife migration and seasonal change. K-12 students share their own field observations with classmates across North America. They track the coming of spring through the migration patterns of monarch butterflies, robins, hummingbirds, whooping cranes, gray whales, bald eagles— and other birds and mammals; the budding of plants; changing sunlight; and other natural events.

v  WeatherBug gives you access to the world’s largest network of real-time weather sensors for forecasts, alerts and more. Get the industry’s most accurate pinpoint forecasts for your neighborhood and around the world. Benefit from the fastest, most advanced early warning system, powered by the largest nationwide weather and lightning network.

v  Nature’s Notebook is a citizen science program for observing and recording plant and animal life cycle events, like flowering and bird migration (also known as phenology). We recommend that you create an account, and register your location, as well as the plants and animals you'll observe online at www.usanpn.org first, and then use this app for going out into the field to record your observations through the seasons.

v  Science 360 - The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Science360 for iPad provides easy access to engaging science and engineering images and video from around the globe and a news feed featuring breaking news from NSF-funded institutions. Content is either produced by NSF or gathered from scientists, colleges and universities, and NSF science and engineering centers.

v  GoSkyWatch - Displays the sky view at the correct orientation when held at any angle not just landscape or portrait. Simple operation, no buttons to press or modes to select, just point to the sky to start exploring. Unique rotation scheme enables touchless navigation.

v  Leaf Snap - This free mobile app uses visual recognition software to help identify tree species from photographs of their leaves.

v  Planets - 3D guide to the solar system for aspiring astronomers

v  Moon Globe – Discover Earth's Moon with amazing 3D graphics and touch navigation. Moon Globe shows you how the Moon appears today, and lets you zoom in like a telescope with up to 500x magnification. Switch to globe mode, and you can spin above the surface, taking in the hidden far side, and look over the limb to see Earth in the distance. Surface features and landed spacecraft are labelled in an elegant 3D tag cloud. Adjust the time dynamically with on screen controls, and watch the sunlight move over the terrain. It even shows you where the Moon and Sun are in the sky at your location, with its dynamic sky compass.

v  3D Sun – NASA's STEREO mission is a pair of satellites orbiting on nearly opposite sides of the sun. Together, these two satellites provide an unprecedented wrap-around view of most of the sun's surface each day.

v  Stargazer Free – Stargazer is a fully-featured flash card app that helps you learn about astronomy.

v  Pocket Earth Free – Pocket Earth gives you a gorgeous 3D view of the Sun, the Moon and the Earth - complete with day and night areas.  See the day and night areas of the Earth as it looks right now.  3D view of the Earth, the Sun and the Moon that can be rotated and zoomed.  See the current position and phase of the Moon.  Tilt to landscape view to see a flat map of the day and night areas of the Earth.  View the position where the Sun is at the zenith (shown as a red dot).

v  Animals 360 – Animals on your iPhone/iPad and much more: many high-definition pictures, real sounds, a series of habitat tours, recognition quiz and puzzle with different difficulty levels.

v  World Book’s World of Animals – World Book's extraordinary educational app gives kids of all ages plenty of opportunities to explore, compare, rank, and quiz themselves on their favorite animals. This interactive app features stunning pictures, videos and animal sounds, quick facts, encyclopedia articles, a captivating educational game, and more!

v  Salt Marsh Virtual Field Trip – The Salt Marsh Virtual Field Trip (VFT) was originally produced by the SC Life Project at Clemson University in collaboration with South Carolina Educational Television (SC ETV).

v  Swamp Forest Virtual Field Trip – The Swamp Forest Virtual Field Trip (VFT) was originally produced by the SC Life Project at Clemson University in collaboration with South Carolina Educational Television (SC ETV).

v  Explore the Animal Kingdom – This educational game offers an extensive collection of 100 high quality animal pictures and sounds to give your kids a rich and fun learning experience about the animal world.  This app is designed for young kids, as young as 6 months old, when your baby shows a need to touch everything! The combination of visual and auditory contents makes this application ideal for learning animal vocabulary.

v  Amazing Animals - Browse through a plethora of the absolute best, absolute highest quality and absolute top notch images of some of nature’s most beautiful creations! Amazing Animals has a wide selection of stunning imagery of wild animals throughout the animal kingdom.

v  Pepi Tree is an educational game where children explore tree-dwelling
animals and their habits in a fun way.  The application has an educational background focusing on a tree as an eco-system.  Children get to know many facts about them: what they look like, what they eat and how they get their food, where exactly they live - in the branches, on the leaves or under the ground, when they sleep and more.

v  National Geographic Explorer - Subscriptions to National Geographic Explorer are now available for download.

 

Social Studies

v  History Pin (iPhone) Discover windows into the past by seeing and interacting with the history all around you.  The official Historypin app reveals photos near your current location and allows you to view them layered over the modern scene in front of you. You can also explore Collections of some of the best old photos from around the world, wherever you are.  You can add your own piece of history and pin it to the map, too, by using your phone to digitize an old photo, capture a modern moment of historic importance, or take a modern replica of a photo on the app.

v  Today in History Lite is the easiest/best way to get the history information you want when you want it.

v  iLearn: Continents & Oceans - A fun way to learn the names and locations of the continents and oceans.

v  National Archives DocsTeach - Engage in activities that will help you make sense of stories, events, and ideas of the past using documents from the holdings of the US National Archives. Choose an historical topic and challenge yourself with an activity. Or, find activities in a classroom set up just for you, using the code provided to you from the DocsTeach.org web site.

v  Model Me Going Places – Helps your child learn to navigate challenging locations in the community (grocery store, restaurant, etc.).  Each location contains a photo slideshow of children modeling appropriate behavior.

v  World Book: This Day in History – This Day in History for iPad is an interactive multimedia calendar that displays historical events for the current day or any selected day, along with related media such as photos, illustrations, music, and speeches.

v  Time for Kids

v  Oregon Trail Free – You’ve conquered the trail, now it’s time to tame the frontier! Experience the next step in The Oregon Trail story, where you and your family can finally settle down and build a new home in the Wild West…

v  Westward Expansion – United States History Unit: Westward Expansion
Explore the westward expansion of United States history in the 1800s:
1. Journey on the Lewis & Clark expedition 2. Match territories acquired by the U.S. 3. Learn about the causes and effects of the westward expansion
Features - Interactive Maps, Scrollable Timelines, Historical Figures & Events, Label the States, Review Questions, and more...

v  European Exploration: The Age of Discovery - Explore the new world as a European power in the 15th Century by funding and sending expeditions out into the unknown. Hire captains, build ships and outfit voyages to learn of the wonders of the new world. The other powers of Europe will also be exploring so it`s a race to who can chart out the world first!

v  US Presidents Facts!

v  Presidents Quizzer - How much do you know about the Presidents of the United States? Play this fun, quick-fire quiz game to learn who they were and how they changed the world. Answer correctly before time runs out, or it’s game over!

v  States & Capitals Challenge - States and Capitals Challenge is a fun way to quickly learn all of the US State Capitals, capital locations within each state, and State locations within the USA.

v  Flash US State Capitals - Capitals for all 50 United States of America
- Fast and easy flipping between word and definition by tapping on the card, Move between cards by using the familiar swipe gesture, Remove words that you have mastered from the stack, Reshuffle the ordering of the cards by shaking the device