Common Sense Media's Essential App Guide
PhotoScan by Google FREEPICTURE PERFECT AND GLARE FREE
Don’t just take a picture of a picture. Create enhanced digital scans, wherever your photos are. – Get glare-free scans with an easy step-by-step capture flow – Automatic cropping based on edge detection – Straight, rectangular scans with perspective correction – Smart rotation, so your photos stay right-side-up no matter which way you scan them 10 Questions to Ask Before Installing a New Educational AppThis checklist will help teachers select apps that not only improve learning outcomes but also align with school and district technology goals.
MoonWalking FREETranquility Base, the site of the first Apollo moon landing, is one of the greatest of all historic sites — and now you can bring it down to Earth to watch history unfold in front of you.
4 Excellent STEM Apps for SummerSMART Notebook $5.99** Now featuring SMART Notebook Maestro which connects SMART Notebook for iPad to SMART Notebook software. Visit http://go.smarttech.com/notebook-maestro-download to download the Notebook Maestro Add-On to enable this feature in SMART Notebook desktop. **
American Revolution Interactive Timeline for iPadThis award-winning, graphically rich timeline, developed by The Museum of the American Revolution offers information and access to rare treasures from the collection that will be displayed in the new museum.
VR Lessons by ThingLink $4.99Visit the most fascinating places on the planet and learn by looking around, spotting details, and unlocking additional information in these narrated virtual reality lessons.
13 apps that promote higher-order thinking standardsThese mobile apps go way beyond games. Mobile devices are becoming increasingly common in schools because they cost so much less than computers—especially since so many students are willing to bring their own devices to school.
PBS Kids Scratch Jr FREEWith PBS KIDS ScratchJr, kids can create their own interactive stories and games featuring their favorite characters from Wild Kratts, Nature Cat, WordGirl and Peg + Cat! The storytelling possibilities are endless with this creative coding app for children ages 5-8.
Crafty Cut FREECrafty Cut is a block slicing game that offers three creative game modes dealing with 2D and 3D geometry
Field Trip FREEField Trip, your guide to the cool, hidden, and unique things in the world around you is now on the iPhone! Field Trip runs in the background on your phone. When you get close to something interesting, it will notify you and if you have a headset or bluetooth connected, it can even read the info to you.
New versions of Google Classroom and Drive apps for iOS fix lots of issuesIdeament FREEIdeament lets you easily draw a diagram - mind map, concept map, or flow chart - and convert it to a text outline, and vice versa. You can use Ideament for anything, such as brainstorming new ideas, illustrating concepts, making lists and outlines, planning presentations, creating organizational charts, and more!
Venn Diagram FREEThis app allows users to create Venn diagrams that contain two or three overlapping circles. Users identify and record concepts that can be placed in one of the circles or in the overlapping areas, allowing them to organize their information logically. The finished Venn diagram can be emailed out or saved to the device's photo album.
Virtual Nerd Mobile Math FREEPearson is proud to introduce Virtual Nerd Mobile Math. This amazing math app provides on-the-go access to Virtual Nerd's extensive video library. Interactive tutorial videos review fundamental math concepts in middle school and high school.
World's Worst Pet Vocabulary FREEHelp your students build a rich vocabulary of essential words! World’s Worst Pet exposes students to over 1000 Tier Two words at 6 different levels through four engaging games. Aligned to the Common Core, this app provides student-friendly definitions, a playful narrative, a fun reward system and thought-provoking writing prompts!
PBS Kids Scratch Jr. FREEWith PBS KIDS ScratchJr, kids can create their own interactive stories and games featuring their favorite characters from Wild Kratts, Nature Cat, WordGirl and Peg + Cat! The storytelling possibilities are endless with this creative coding app for children ages 5-8
Arloon Science Apps $9.99Science applications that spark the curiosity for knowledge.
We deliver high-quality, innovative curricular content that is easy to use and enhances student learning. Inventioneers FREEBE CREATIVE! In this game you can create your own crazy, fun inventions! With the help of the Inventioneers, our tiny helpers with unique characteristics, you can invent fun, creative and often quite weird inventions. A lot of inventions are included in the game, the more you solve the more parts you receive for your own inventions!
Learn with Homer FREE2015 Winner of the Teacher's Choice Gold Award, Mom's Choice Gold Award + recommended by Today Show
Harvard & Stanford Research shows Learn with Homer increases early reading scores by 74% Teacher Recommended: 50 Favorite Classroom AppsEducators and students are quickly becoming more comfortable with classroom technology, allowing them to shift from thinking about the technical side of integrating a new tool to focusing on how it improves learning. While the sheer number of education apps is still overwhelming, increasingly teachers have found what works for them and are sticking to them.
Classify It! FREEThink you know what poison ivy and a firefly have in common? How about some of the ways a dolphin and a goldfish are different? Download Classify It!, a new game from AAAS Science NetLinks, to test your knowledge of how various organisms can be sorted and grouped.
Epic! Unlimited Books for Kids FREEEpic! is the leading all-you-can-read eBook library for kids 12 and under offering unlimited access to over 10,000 high-quality children’s books, now including thousands of read-to-me and Audio books.
SeeSaw FREESeesaw is a student-driven digital portfolio that empowers students of all ages to independently document and share what they are learning at school.
Chatterpix Kids FREEGrab your camera! Let’s ChatterPix! Chatterpix Kids can make anything talk -- pets, friends, doodles, and more.
Simply take any photo, draw a line to make a mouth, and record your voice. Then share your Pix with friends and family as silly greetings, playful messages, creative cards, or even fancy book reports. And best of all, it’s FREE! World Book's World of Animals $4.99Which animals have been shuttled into space? Which animals can detach their limbs to escape a predator's attack?
Which extinct mammal do scientists think they might be able to clone and bring back to life one day? Find out all this and more in World Book’s World of Animals! Back to School with Explain EverythingLearn more about Explain Everything 3.0 when Greg Kulowiec, checks in with educator and co-creator of Explain Everything, Dr. Reshan Richards about the newest updates to our favorite Screencasting app.
Fresh Grade EducationThe FreshGrade app allows teachers to quickly and easily capture artifacts of student learning while it happens - through pictures, videos, audio recordings and anecdotal notes. Instantly tag individual students or groups of students, which automatically posts captured learning in the individual student ePortfolios and can be sent to parents or guardians for review. Teachers will also be able to send class-wide announcements, manage student profiles and monitor ePortfolio activity (parent views, comments, etc.).
Outstanding STEM AppsOutstanding STEM Apps: Digital resources on life science, physical science, and earth and space sciences
iLEAP Pick a Student FREEPick A Student is a simple app designed to help teachers pick students to help or participate in class. It supports multiple different classes and various options to choose students. Choosing a student randomly will pick any student from the class, and using turn based selection every student will be picked before any student is picked again.
Quick Key Mobile FREEQuick Key eliminates hand-grading of quizzes, tests, and formative assessments, even for teachers working in paper-based classrooms, without a computer...and even without a network connection of any kind.
Meet Science:Light and Sound $4.99The 2nd version of ‘Meet Science’, Light and Sound edition inspires all school-aged kids to explore fundamental concepts of Light and Sound with variety of fun features such as animations, experiments, and mini-games.
Ripped Apart: A Civil War Mystery
Ever wondered what it’s like to work at the Smithsonian? With the sudden and curious departure of her last intern, Museum Curator Isabella Wagner needs your help solving a mystery dating back to the Civil War. Could there be ghosts trapped in the basement of the National Museum of American History?
Ansel and Clair: Little Green Island HD
Award winning Ansel & Clair series (20 awards) launches a groundbreaking educational game on the environment & pollution combining creation, problem solving, strategy and fun with stunning animations and interactivity.
Noodle releases list of 32 best free apps for EducationNoodle, a site that provides families with information about schools, tutors, summer camps, study abroad programs, and online learning tools, has just released a list of the 32 best, free apps for education.
Shadow Puppet Edu FREEEasily create videos in the classroom! Students as young as five can make videos to tell stories, explain ideas, or document their learning. 30+ lesson ideas supporting Common Core make it easy to get started!
Flipink $1.99Flipink is a neat app for you to sketch, share and organize your ideas, thoughts, write down your memos and notes.you can insert images,type texts,and draw graphics as you want, It helps you stay organized and improve productivity, capture ideas flashed through your minds, either at home, at workplace, or on the go.
Image Transfer FREEImage Transfer is the easiest and fastest way to send and receive photos and videos from/to your iPad, iPhone, iPod and computer over Wi-Fi.
littleBIGhistory FREEA brief history of everything ever.
littleBIG History is a revolutionary interactive timeline that lets you explore world history on an unprecedented scale - from the first miliseconds after big bang to the present and beyond. It places humanity in the large context of cosmos, earth and evolution of life. Evernote Scannable FREEScannable moves paper forward. Scan contracts, receipts, business cards, and any paper that comes your way. Save or share documents instantly and move on.
Math Monster Bingo FREEMath Monsters Bingo is a new, fun way to master math on your iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. The game lets you practice math anytime and anywhere using a fun Bingo styled game play. Math Monsters has several unique features like individual player profiles, high scores and ranks along with an interesting "Reward Jump" game.The objective of the Math Monsters game is to find the Math Monsters hidden under the tiles as you answer math questions correctly from the available four games.
Book Builder FREEPick your own path through fun and interactive storybooks for kids. Perfect for early readers, this app encourages kids to follow the read-along text as they navigate through exciting stories. Kids can explore oceans, exotic islands, outer space and fantasy worlds as they pick their path to build exciting stories.
Kid Screen Time Timer FREEToo much screen time isn't healthy for children.
Help your kids establish healthy device-usage habits! Tynker FREELearn to program with puzzles and easily build your own games. No internet connectivity required. Start by solving coding puzzles. Great for Hour-of-Code and more. Easily build games using the Tynker Workshop, with themed graphics,10 game-kits and customizable characters to inspire imaginative games and stories. Additional puzzle levels are available as in-app purchases.
Drawp for School FREEBuilding on the success of Drawp, the popular art app for kids, MoonDrop Entertainment released Drawp for School, an iPad app that offers all the innovative creativity tools of the original Drawp, with the addition of intuitive workflow management that saves teachers valuable classroom time. Drawp can be used with all subjects, and lets teachers distribute and collect work as easily as with paper worksheets while automatically storing them in the private Drawp cloud.
Book Writer One FREEInnovative application to make books with iPhone/iPad!
Make your own book with Book Writer. Anyone can easily make a book. Make an interactive book and enjoy making and reading the books you made! You can use it in school, work, and at home to make all types of books such as photo book, recipe book, diary, PR booklet, PDF documents, and etc. Healthy Heroes $2.99Yogopolis is in trouble and it needs your knowledge of nutritious foods to save it! Hungry monsters have come to destroy the city, and the only way to satisfy their appetites is by feeding them fruits and vegetables. Are you up for the food-chomping challenge?
Plickers FREEPlickers lets you poll your class for free, without the need for student devices. Just give each student a card (a "paper clicker"), and use your iPhone to scan them to do instant checks-for-understanding, exit tickets, and impromptu polls. Best of all, your data is automatically saved, student-by-student, at plickers.com.
Stick Around $2.99Play, design, and share sorting and labeling puzzles! Stick Around comes with an assortment of puzzles, including ordering decimals and classifying rocks. It's the player's job to drag the stickers from the tray to their correct spots on the background before time runs out.
Rosetta Stone - Kinds Lingo FREERosetta Stone® Kids Lingo Letter Sounds is the lively way to learn, read, and speak. This preschool learning game reinforces English reading skills while simultaneously introducing a new language. It’s a fun way to help make your child a stronger, more confident reader. And it’s kid-tested and designed with your children in mind by the world leader in technology-based language learning, Rosetta Stone.
Avokiddo ABC Ride $2.99Have you ever seen the letter E hatched from an egg? How about a K popping out of a kangaroo’s pouch? Bike with your favorite characters Beck and Bo in this wonderful A - Z alliteration adventure and experience the alphabet like never before!
Synopsis FREEIntroducing Synopsis for iPad. Whether you are studying or reading a non-fiction book or reviewing a seriously long study document, haven’t you secretly wished that you could note all your important points in one place which you can later use to summarize? Have you ever felt the need to create study cards or review cards or ‘Flash Cards’ as we call it, in a much more simpler way? Have you ever got confused about the location of your documents in the cloud ?
Spell Mania FREEDictionary : once you spell a word you can check its definition & thesaurus. Check the definitions for all the valid words at the end of each game. Universal app GameCenter: compete on 2 leaderboards and try to earn 15 achievements iCloud Sync: sync your game progress across multiple devices
KidEWords FREEKidEWords is an educational crossword game, ideal for learning words and improving your spelling! Help you children to form more than 500 easy, average or difficult words, distributed across 20 levels of increasing difficulty! The level of the words and the size of the grids increases little by little, right up to 10 difficult words per grid! The grid generator means that there are an infinite number of possible games to enjoy!
7 Little Words $2.99Discover 7 colorful worlds as you solve the mini word puzzles. But don't worry if you get stuck. You can always get a hint if you need it. It's made just for kids, but many parents will love it too.
Post-It Plus FREEThe Post-it® Plus App takes the momentum from your collaboration sessions and keeps it rolling. Simply capture your notes, organize and share with everyone. That way your great ideas don’t stop when the meeting ends.
Field Day $2.99Field Day is a Project Based Learning iPad app that leads 4th-12th grade students through the inquiry process with prompts from Bloom’s Taxonomy roots. After creating questions and strategies, they have a set of tools within the app to collect answers to the questions. An organized summary of every question asked as well as the evidence collected can be sent as a PDF for review and reflection.
Spreaker Radio and Podcast FREECreate and share LIVE audio broadcasts on the go from your mobile device! With Spreaker, let your inner radio host shine through by recording your own podcasts. Become a sports commentator or report on live events, then share all the latest news with your friends on any major social network. Now users with iOS versions 5.0 and up can access the new DJ console to mix voice, music and effects, and feel like a pro over the airwaves.
Story Bug FREERead together, even when you’re apart. Story Bug combines video chat with a shared reader displaying educational books to enable story time with a loved one anywhere, anytime.
Common Core Math for Teachers FREEFront Row is the only math program made for the iPad by teachers, for teachers. Front Row provides over 15 thousand common core aligned questions that are graded automatically and given to students based on their level. This means no writing worksheets, no grading, and differentiated teaching made easy.
Crackers And Goo - Multiplication and Addition Math Skills Practice $2.99Crackers and Goo is a math game designed by a math educator with the goal of teaching children critical thinking, a skill that elevates thinking beyond memorization into the realm of analysis and logic. Developing critical thinking skills in children is a major objective of the new Common Core standards. Crackers and Goo uses patterns to teach children how to think critically; they need to identify patterns and make decisions about how to complete those patterns. Education experts agree that patterning is an excellent tool to help young children develop and grow their critical thinking skills.
Google Docs $FREECreate, edit and collaborate with others on documents from your iPod, iPhone or iPad with the free Google Docs app.
Google Sheets $FREECreate, edit, and collaborate with others on spreadsheets from your iPod, iPhone, or iPad with the free Google Sheets app.
Google Slides $FREECreate, edit, and collaborate with others on presentations from your iPod, iPhone, or iPad with the free Google Slides app.
Osmo $67 per classroomPlay on the iPad with Real People and Real Objects. Osmo promotes social intelligence and creative thinking. Back Osmo and help us shape the future of play.
Halftone $0.99Halftone turns your photos into unique, vintage comics that friends and family will love! More than a simple “photo filter” app, Halftone makes it easy to add paper styles, captions, speech balloons, graphic stamps, and fonts (including built-in comic fonts). Your final image can be sent via e-mail, uploaded directly to Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr, shared with apps like Instagram, Camera+, and Color Splash, printed, and even sent as a real, physical postcard through the mail!
Social Express $FREEThe Social Express™ is engaging, educational curriculum for children and young adults with social learning challenges. The curriculum is designed to teach users how to think about and manage social situations, helping them to develop meaningful social relationships and succeed in life.
HudsonAlpha iCell $FREEiCell gives students, teachers, and anyone interested in biology a 3D view inside a cell. Included are examples of three types of cells: animal, plant, and bacteria. Learn about the various parts of the cell, which biologists, biochemists, and DNA researchers at the HudsonAlpha Institute study and use to advance the limits of biotechnology.
Element Matching $FREEElement Matching makes learning the symbols, charges, and Bohr models of the most important elements easy! Including timed versions of three different games, students are challenged to match all of the elements as quick as they can!
Codeacademy: Hour of Code $FREELearn how to build amazing things online by programming with Codecademy - all for free. Our app gets you started by introducing you to the basic concepts behind the apps on your phone and the websites you visit. You’ll learn to understand the basic structure of code when you see it.
Scribblenauts Remix $0.99Let your imagination run wild in this groundbreaking puzzle game. Summon to life a ‘colossal, winged car’ or a ‘shy, frost-breathing, robotic hippopotamus’! If you can think it, you can create it. It’s the perfect game for the casual player looking for fun and extensive replay with unlimited solutions and different outcomes. Or, the Scribblenauts fan wanting the complete Maxwell experience.
Slice It! $0.99"Slice It!" is all about slicing shapes into pieces that are equal in size. Sound easy? It may start out that way, but soon you'll be cutting shapes that will puzzle you like never before. Brainteasing puzzles: over 200 Basic Stages and a five-star rating system so you can play until you get it right! Time to start thinking and slicing!
Motion Math: Pizza! $3.99Create the pizzeria of your dreams in Motion Math: Pizza! Learn economics and mental math as you buy ingredients, design pizzas, set prices, and serve customers in this delightfully delicious simulation game.
Graphical Analysis $4.99Graphical Analysis™ is a powerful tool for creating and analyzing graphs in science and math classrooms. Using a Vernier LabQuest 2 device or a computer running Logger Pro (version 3.8.6 or newer), students can connect to sensors and view experimental data in a table or a graph. Multiple members of a lab group can connect at the same time while collecting data from any of over 70 compatible Vernier sensors.
BioDigital Human $FREEA better way to understand health and the human body. The BioDigital Human is the most comprehensive set of true 3D anatomy and health condition models ever assembled. Choose from 1000’s of interactive visualizations to build your own custom library of models.
Kblam! $0.99Make your own comic strips with KBLAM!. KBLAM! allows you to add comic book style effects, captions and graphics to your photos. Turn your friends and family into comic book superheroes in seconds (Costumes not included...). With KBLAM! you can easily create amazing comic images, and instantly share them with email or social media.
Audiolio $FREEAudiolio gives you an easy way to mark specific locations in your audio recordings, so important information is literally at your fingertips!
MayaNumbers $FREEEveryone knows 1 + 1 = 2. But did you know Dot + Line = 6? Take your math skills to the next level while learning the ancient Maya’s remarkable number system in this fast-paced counting game!
Shutterbugs $FREELions! Pandas! Naked mole rats? Come visit them all at Smithsonian’s National Zoo. We are on the lookout for animals that are swimming, running, wiggling, and stomping. Grab a camera and take some pictures of animals on the move!
World's Worst Pet $FREEHelp your students build a rich vocabulary of essential words! World’s Worst Pet exposes students to over 1000 Tier Two words at 6 different levels through four engaging games. Aligned to the Common Core, this app provides student-friendly definitions, a playful narrative, a fun reward system and thought-provoking writing prompts!
10 Apps for Every EducatorA resource page for iPads in education. Join Will Purcell and Eric Lawson as they discuss and present 10 apps that could change how you teach in your classroom.
Thinking Blocks $FreeThinking Blocks is a series of free iPad apps based on theweb tool of the same name. The apps are designed to help students develop models of word problems. In each of the apps students create block models to work through a series of progressively more difficult word problems. As students work through the problems they are provided with feedback as to whether or not they are using the correct sequence to solve each problem. There are templates and problems for addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, and ratios. You can find links to all of the apps on the Thinking Blocks site.
5 Digital Storytelling AppsReading stories, watching videos, and listening to podcasts is one way to learn with an iPad. But a more fun way to learn with an iPad is to create things. Here are five iPad apps that elementary school students can use to create stories.
The 25 Most Used Apps in EducationApps, smartphones, and tablets are storming into classrooms around the world. But how do you figure out which apps are being used by teachers, admins, students, and parents?
Air Drop $FreeNot an app, but a new feature with the latest iOS 7 upgrade for the iPad. This app allows you to drop files from one iPad to another without cables. Click above to read a blog on how useful this tool can be in your classroom.
Bill Nye the Science Guy $FreeBill Nye The Science Guy® 20th Anniversary App—of Science! Science rules, especially when you grab a seat at The Science Guy's desk and help yourself to heaping handfuls of science. Just scan your thumb to gain entrance to Nye Labs, the most amazing, scientifically fascinating place on Earth (and possibly beyond!). Twenty orbits around the sun and 28 Emmys along the way—now that's something to celebrate!
goREACT $FreeWith goREACT, you can become a virtual chemist. Whether you're a novice or expert, the free play and guided modes make it fun and fascinating.
Guide for iOS7 $FreeWhat is Control Center in iOS 7? How to use the AirDrop? Where should you start to set up the ios 7 on your idevices? iOS 7 comes with many new features and changes, which starts the new chapter of iOS. To help millions ios users best use ios 7 system, Guide for iOS 7 brings all the tips and tricks for iOS 7.
Solve the Outbreak $FreeDo you quarantine the village? Talk to people who are sick? Ask for more lab results? The better your answers, the higher your score - and the more quickly you’ll save lives. You’ll start out as a Trainee and can earn badges by solving cases, with the goal of earning the top rank: Disease Detective.
TurnItIn $FreeEverything you love about grading with Turnitin® is now available on iPad, allowing educators to Grade Anywhere™. Teachers using Turnitin's grading tools save time grading student papers while offering more meaningful feedback and ensuring their originality.
Designs for Pages $2.99The modern and polished Designs for Pages pack for iPhone and iPad supplies a set of 1050 easy-to-use templates for creating business and personal content with Apple’s Pages for iOS.
Math Ref Free $FREEMath Ref Free is a free version of the award winning education app Math Ref. This app gives you just a sample (over 700) of the over 1,400 helpful formulas, figures, tips, and examples that are included in the full version of Math Ref. So, if you're a student, teacher, or need math for work and want to try before you buy, this app is for you.
ScratchWork $FreeScratchWork allows you to take notes and browse the web while having the two side by side to avoid back and forth flipping. It also provides a custom math keyboard.
Composer Pro $4.99Produce rich interactive content with Composer Pro-the tool used by many independent storytellers and leading publishers such as McGraw-Hill Education and Kane Miller Books. Use Composer for interactive presentations, tutorials and design prototypes.
Ansel and Clair: Cretaceous DinosaursIf you teach a unit on dinosaurs or fossils, this app is a must include! -iPad Curriculum
Following their most excellent iPad app from 2011, Ansel & Clair’s Adventures in Africa, Cognitive Kid has now come out with a new iPad app, Ansel and Clair: Cretaceous Dinosaurs. Just like the Africa app, this one is fantastic fun and very educational - Wired/Geekdad ThingLink $FreeUse ThingLink to instantly add video and text to images. Create unforgettable greetings, interactive travel photos, and capture best moments. Share images to your friends on Twitter or Facebook — and communicate in new ways.
Sproutster $FreeAll the proceeds from advertising are donated to the UN World Food Program to feed malnourished kids. In Sproutster, you’re a little sprout-dude who is running around catching falling raindrop letters. After you spell a word in your bucket, you dump it on a rice plant and the plant sprouts a word leaf. You travel the world growing rice and we donate the rice you grow to feed real kids. The more you play, the more we donate!
Kid Weather $1.99A true weather app for kids designed by a 6 year old boy (and his meteorologist dad). Power packed with real time weather conditions, forecasts, science and fun facts about the weather, plus it is interactive making it fun for the kids. This includes math and science with S.T.E.M in mind to make parents and teachers happy as well.
Dragon Box Algebra 12+ $9.99DragonBox Algebra 12+ is a must-have tool for students so they can earn better grades and gain confidence in algebra and mathematics. It is based on the award winning game DragonBox Algebra 5+ and covers more advanced topics in mathematics and algebra.
Dragon Box Algebra 5+ $4.99DragonBox Algebra 5+ - The educational game that secretly teaches you algebra.
It’s perfect for giving your child a head start in mathematics and algebra. Children as young as 4 have solved equations meant for a 15 year old! Essential Skeleton $FreeThis is a fully functional self-contained app covering the essential anatomy of the skeleton. This app is being offered free to demonstrate the groundbreaking 3D technology and innovative design inherent in 3D4Medical's new range of apps. A custom-built graphics engine, built from the ground up, powers a highly detailed skeletal model and delivers outstanding quality graphics. It is a stand alone app and does not contain any In-App purchase requirements.
iSolveit Math Scaled $FreeMathScaled is a prototype series of puzzles based on a balance-scale format. The goal is to place different shapes with unknown weights on the scale so that it is balanced. Puzzles have embedded supports for solving, such as a Scratch Pad for recording information and the option for immediate feedback on your progress. Learners can also choose from different levels of puzzle challenge.
Stage: Interactive White Board and Document Camera FreeStage™ combines the convenience of a document camera with the power of an interactive whiteboard to bring your lessons to life and make you the star of your classroom.
Tech&Learning+ $FreeFor over three decades, Tech & Learning has remained the premier publication and leading resource for education technology professionals responsible for implementing and purchasing technology products in K-12 districts and schools.
Vernier Video Physics $4.99Video Physics brings physics video analysis to iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Take a video of an object in motion, mark its position frame by frame, and set up the scale using a known distance. Video Physics then draws trajectory, position, and velocity graphs for the object. Share video, graphs and data via the Camera Roll, email, and iTunes. Open in Vernier Graphical Analysis for iPad or with your computer running Vernier's Logger Pro software. Open with Dropbox or Google Drive to store your data file in the cloud.
Confer Lite $FreeWhether you teach Reading and Writing Workshop or simply want to take notes on your students, Confer enables you to take notes quicker and it lets you sort, group, and view your students in ways you just can’t do with paper and pencil. Confer also lets you export and import you data via email, or upload it as a spreadsheet, so you can access your notes anytime, anywhere.
Counting Money $1.99Counting Money utilizes US currency as virtual manipulatives to introduce money and apply it to mathematics. Three dynamic practice modes, fun BINGO games, and a customizable fish tank encourage children to add and subtract money in a variety of ways including word problems. Counting money has never been this fun and educational!
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Stop Motion Studios FREECreate beautiful stop motion animated movies anywhere instantly on your device. Everything you need is right at your fingertips. No computer needed. It's simple to use, deceptively powerful and insanely fun to play with. Create fantastic movies your friends will enjoy or share it with the world on YouTube, Facebook and other sites. Cool themes, titles and sound effects are easy to add, too.
3 Powerful Apps for Creating Green Screen Videos with StudentsGreen screen is a cinematographic technique that allows video editors to add a variety of visual effects to their videos. These effects include : adding virtual backgrounds, superimposing subjects over animated backdrops, placing a subject on another shot and many more. Green screen technology has been widely used in weather and movie industry. But now with the emergence of apps such as the ones below, everyone can use this technology to create engaging clips and presentations.
Voki for Education FREEJoin millions of teachers and students all over the world who have discovered the magic of Voki. Voki, an edtech tool, is a collection of customizable speaking avatars for teachers and students that enhances classroom instruction, class engagement , and lesson comprehension.
Lemonade Stand $0.99A faithful remake of the original classic computer game from the 70's and 80's, with a completely redesigned iPhone interface and gorgeous new graphics. If you remember playing this in the school's computer lab as a kid, you'll love the nostalgia of playing it on your phone!
DIY Lake Science FREEDIY Lake Science, funded by NSF, allows families and educators to investigate and learn about lakes and other freshwater ecosystems at home, at school, or anywhere you go! Developed by UC Berkeley’s The Lawrence Hall of Science.
ColorScape FREETurn your own photos into coloring pages with Colorscape! Colorscape takes any image and creates an outline that you can color in – on the screen, on paper or both. Take a picture of anything, anyone or anywhere and instantly you can create a blank canvas to add any color or shade you wish.
Social Stories Creator and Library for Preschool, Autism and Special Needs
An amazing app for easily creating, sharing and printing educational social stories, visual schedules and beautiful memories.
Locks by BreakoutEdu FREELOCKS is the companion app for Breakout EDU. Use LOCKS to create digital locks that can be used with Breakout EDU games. You can create a number, text, color, shape, and directional locks. You can also run these locks with a countdown timer. Any locks you create can be saved for use again and again.The app contains several preloaded puzzles for some of the most popular Breakout EDU games.
Settle Your Glitter FREESettle Your Glitter can be used to teach kids about their brains and about managing emotions. When the glitter is settled, we are calm, focused in our prefrontal cortex, able to make good decisions and do our best learning. When the glitter is swirling, our amygdala is in charge and clouds our judgment. Breathing and focusing attention helps us settle our glitter and fully access the thinking part of our brain.
Nat Geo World Atlas $1.99Welcome to the redesigned World Atlas app from National Geographic, the best world geography reference resource available. The Atlas features Nat Geo's award-winning cartography and stats and facts about every country on Earth.
Codeable Crafts FREECodeable Crafts is an app for kids to create their imaginative stories by drawing and coding. Find a template of your favorite or capture your drawing with the camera, and use crayons and stickers to design your character. Your character will become a hero of your story. To tell a story of your character, use the block-based coding tool.
Creationist 3D Modeling FREECAD tools have a high learning curve, that make them inaccessible to hobbyists, so we decided to make a modeling tool, that is simple to use. It uses basic shapes (cube, sphere, cylinder, cone, donut etc.) to create any 3D models. From the simplest design to the most complex objects – you can make anything by simply moving, rotating and resizing different shapes into the right place.
Some of the Best Apps for Creating Educational Animations & Video LessonsBelow is a chart we have created specifically for teachers keen on using and integrating animations and video materials in their instruction. The apps work perfectly on iPad and cover five main categories: apps for creating tutorials and video lessons, apps for creating stop motion videos, apps for creating stop motion videos, apps for annotating videos, apps for creating documentary videos, and apps for creating green screen videos. For similar EdTech charts, check out this page. Enjoy
RWT Timeline FREETimeline allows students to create a graphical representation of an event or process by displaying items sequentially along a line. Timelines can be organized by time of day, date, or event, and the tool allows users to create a label with short or long descriptive text. Adding an image for each label makes a timeline more visually appealing.
Grafio Lite FREEAllow Grafio to become an extension of your fingertip. Draw a rectangle, circle or an ellipse and watch Grafio recognize and replace it with a perfectly looking shape for your diagram or schematic. Grafio has been around for 5 years already, polished, efficient and full of features achieved through more than 26 updates and free upgrades.
50 Apps All Kids Should Play At Least OnceSifting through the app stores trying to find the cream of the crop isn't easy, so we've done it for you! Though plenty of other awesome apps are out there, kids should play these at least once. From art to coding, preschool skill building to problem solving, and social-emotional learning to endless runners, dive in with this list of 50 standout apps across all age groups. Check out ourEssential Apps Guide for even more titles, or find a curated list that fits your kid's specific interests.
Path for Dash Robot FREEDraw a path to your next adventure with Dash! Program your robot using a single “line” of code at the racetrack, on a farm, or even an obstacle course of your own. Unlock special abilities, sounds, and animations as you go forth and explore. For ages 5 and up.
Simple Machines $2.99Explore the playful side of physics! Experiment with six simple machines, discover how they work, and investigate the invisible forces behind them in this sandbox app. Destroy a castle, make music, send satellites into orbit & more!
Apprentice Architect FREEApprentice Architect is an app for kids who want to explore the Fondation Louis Vuitton and create their own Frank Gehry-inspired designs.
Book Crawler FREEForgot which books you have read? Tired of buying books you already own? Not sure what to checkout at the library? Want to tell others about what you are reading and share thoughts?
9 Amazing Augmented Reality Apps for Teaching and LearningAugmented reality (AR) has evolved in recent years and its application in classrooms is limitless. Educators don’t need to feel overwhelmed when trying to introduce AR in their classroom because there are many great apps that don’t require a lot of knowledge in the field. There are useful apps for every subject and there are also apps that when a teacher is ready they can create their own AR targets.
App Recommendations EdTechTeacherFind strong recommended apps by mobile device or by learning activity.
SeeSaw Parent Access FREESeesaw is a learning journal that gives you real-time glimpses into your child’s school day. Seesaw helps you stay in the loop and gives you an opportunity to support your child's learning at home. When your child adds a new item to their journal, like a photo, video, or drawing, you'll automatically get notified via app notifications, SMS or email. Simply follow the notification to view the new addition to your child’s journal—it’s fun and hassle free!
BandBlast FREEBandBlast is an interactive, easy-to-use curriculum based learning tool for anyone who wants to learn how to play an instrument. BandBlast is completely free with no in-app purchases, no mandatory data collection or no advertisements. BandBlast contains fun and innovative rhythm and pitch games, real life studio recording capabilities, and instructional videos from some of the top Philharmonic and studio musicians in the world. BandBlast is a well thought out and executed learning system that follows first year band and orchestra curriculums. BandBlast will teach you how to play violin, flute, cello, tenor sax, alto sax, viola, clarinet, trumpet, trombone, guitar, and double bass.
Back to School with SocrativeSocrative (http://socrative.com) is a FREE student response system that can be used on any device. During this Hangout on Air, Beth Holland, Avra Robinson, and Brenda Doucette will walk through the features of Socrative 3.0 and provide some tips and tricks for using Socrative during those first few weeks of school.
Mystery Word Town: Sight Word Spelling $2.99Use your spelling skills to find the gold and capture the outlaws in Mystery Word Town. Play with the supplied word lists, or record your own words.
Algadoo $4.99Become an inventor with Algodoo - Start designing and testing your ideas in seconds. Algodoo is endless fun for any age to create, play & learn physics!
Random Name Selector Lite FREERandom Name Selector Lite is a Fun (and fair) way to select students for that special task or to answer that question. Has anyone not answered yet?, did everyone get a turn? Bring your Classroom Management into the 21st century with the Random Name Selector Lite.
Monster Math $2.99Have your child practice and learn addition, subtraction, division, times tables and basic problem solving with Monster Math Pro! Be Maxx’s personal math helper as you explore new worlds, battle enemies and find allies in unexpected places by using addition, multiplication, subtraction and division!
Ansel & Clair: Paul Revere's Ride $4.99
Ansel & Clair: Paul Revere’s Ride provides hours of educational content for children that is both deeply memorable, historically accurate, and engaging. This incredibly full app uses a wide range of interactive, multi-sensory experiences to provide elementary-age children with an exciting, living experience of early American history.
Education Apps for KidsThis ultimate resource lists the best apps for kids, the best apps for parents, and the best apps for teachers. Please suggest links to help me build the most comprehensive top education app directory! Apps for kids, math apps, reading apps, science apps, classroom management apps, drawing apps for kids, and more!
Croak.it! FREEShare your sounds and hear what is happening on the internet!
Convey thoughts and expressions on the go via your voice with just one tap. Whether its a song you are humming, a poem you wrote , a story you want to tell or just your views on the weather, Croak.it! is the easy way to get your voice out there and be heard by the world. Discover, create and collect 30 second audio snippets ("Croaks") from around the world and follow the people you want to stay updated about. Elevated Math FREEElevated Math provides initial instruction or intervention on math topics that cover place value, estimation, large digit addition all the way through Algebra I (two years of math instruction!).
Door 24 Math FREEHelp your students achieve computational fluency – an integral part of success in mathematics! Aligned to the Common Core, Door 24 provides targeted practice in the use of basic facts, number sense, and algebraic thinking. Students can work through 6 different levels and multiple problem sets as they help fix Victor the robot’s circuits and solve the mystery behind Door 24!
The Math Hunter FREEThe Math Hunter is a mobile game for parents and teachers who wants to engage kids in Math by making learning math facts fun. Unlike existing math games designed to practice basic math skills, The Math Hunter adapts to kids’ skills to keep beginners motivated and advance hunters challenged.
Teachable FREETeachable is a productivity application that organizes all aspects of a teacher's curricular activities in one location. By integrating tools for planning, tracking, and reporting, Teachable allows teachers to be well-organized and prepared to meet the needs of their students.
ZooKazam FREEThe best just got better!!! Users describe Zookazam as "WOW" OR "This is AMAZING". To experience the possibilities of Augmented Reality download Zookazam 3.0.1, an educational AR App that not only allows you to learn about the animals but also you will be able to witness a giraffe popping out of a flat piece of paper in a photo realistic 3d animation. Now click the weather icon options to watch rain or snow on your favorite animal and take the most creative pictures or videos with our variety of live photo filters. Don't forget to share your personal zoo and creativity on Social Media.
Chromville FREEThe ancient world Chromville, is well known for its power source of color. It´s placed in a galaxy far, far away and there are at least five villages: Firecity, Stonetown, Greenland, Waterville and Cloudskingdom. Its inhabitants, the chromers, use to look like their environment and live in peace thanks to the colorful beauty of their homeland. However, the planet´s color is fading away mysteriously at some regions and they are in danger of losing its power.
Virtual Geocaching $2.99Xnote is a virtual take on geocaching that let kids (and adults) go on simple treasure hunts outdoors for virtual messages. Kids love the excitement of a treasure hunt. They get to experience nature and learn about geography, mapping skills and teamwork while having great fun. Xnote can be a practical and convenient alternative to regular geocaching for teachers and parents since virtual treasures can be hidden near home or school by just pressing a few buttons. Treasure hunts can also be sent to friends and family as a fun challenge.
Grid Lines $1.99Players will race (Multiplayer mode using WIFI) or practice (single player mode) in identifying two locations (ordered pairs) on the grid, drawing a straight line from one edge of the gameboard to the other passing through the two locations identified, scoring points for each shape that his or her line touches or through which his or her line passes that are located in all four quadrants of the coordinate grid.
WeLearnedIt FREEWeLearnedIt is an easy to use project-based learning platform that allows teachers to create and share dynamic assignments, leave meaningful feedback on student work, and allows learners to capture and track their academic growth and achievement over time in digital learning portfolios.
Teachley Mt. Multiplis FREELinka gets caught in a terrible storm while flying home after a successful treasure hunt. She escapes but her plane isn’t as lucky. Help Linka make her way through Mt. Multiplis by building bridges, unlocking treasure, and earning gems. Rebuild Linka’s plane by collecting the pieces from the greedy Crags who live on the island.
Math with Amigos FREEMath is arguably the source of the greatest achievements in the history of mankind. Queen Ignorantia knows this, but she wants to use that power for herself. Join Yogotars Dinamita and Estrella as they learn to harness the power of mathematics to outsmart the evil Queen’s minions and save the day!
TowerStorm FREEAward-winning educational games developer DimensionU introduces a first in mobile educational gaming. TowerStorm is a competition-oriented, real-time, 3D-multiplayer action game for Elementary, Middle and High School students.
Pixel Press Floors FREEPixel Press Floors is changing the way we experience mobile games by letting anyone be the creator, publisher and player of their own video game. With our creator platform, you can literally draw your own video game - no coding required.
World's Worst Pet FREEHelp your students build a rich vocabulary of essential words! World’s Worst Pet exposes students to over 1000 Tier Two words at 6 different levels through four engaging games. Aligned to the Common Core, this app provides student-friendly definitions, a playful narrative, a fun reward system and thought-provoking writing prompts!
DK Readers FREEPerfect for each stage of your child’s development, the new DK Readers app makes learning to read fun and exciting. You can browse through a whole library of fantastic DK Readers on every topic from farm animals to fishy tales and emperor penguins to Ewoks, picking eBooks at exactly the right level for your child. Each eBook has a read-aloud audio feature, paced so that your child can read along with the text according to their level of reading confidence. As they develop you can adjust the reading age to suit their new skills and they can even choose their very own avatar from a range of cool images for their growing bookshelf.
Quizzitive FREEAn entertaining quiz, an addictive game, and a new way to test and improve your vocabulary! The goal is to master "1000 Words Worth Knowing" – words selected by Merriam-Webster editors to challenge, intrigue, and contribute to a powerful vocabulary. Quizzitive offers 10 difficulty levels, with quiz types from “Speed Drill” to “Name That Thing.” Master the words, beat your personal best, and see how your scores compare to the crowd. The first two levels of the game are free. An in-app purchase unlocks the full game and turns off ads.
News-O-Matic $7.99This nonfiction reading comprehension app publishes five news stories each weekday! The stories range in length and difficulty to create opportunities for differentiated instruction. Readers learn what happened on this date in history through an educational game and write or draw to Editor-in-Chief Russ in the News Room. Each edition gives you access to a Teacher’s Guide.
ME Core FREEView your state standards in one convenient FREE app! A great reference for teachers, parents, and students to easily read and understand the standards. Quickly find and search standards by subject, grade level, and key word.
MasteryScan FREEMasteryScan (powered by GradeCam) is an app that allows teachers to scan plain paper bubble sheets right from an iPad!
ChemAssist FREEIt’s like having your own personal lab assistant. By utilizing the QR scanning function, which is built right into the app, you can instantly add any Fisher Science Education chemical to your inventory. Just scan the QR code that is conveniently printed on all Fisher Science Education chemical labels and with the touch of a button, you can instantly add the item to your inventory.
Strip Designer $2.99Impress your friends with your own personal comic strips, created on your iPad, iPhone or iPod using photos from your photo album or iPhone camera.
Instructables FREEFrom useful and entertaining how-tos and hacks, to delicious recipes and outrageous inventions, Instructables is the place to explore, document, and share your creations. With over 100k tutorials in technology, workshop, living, and more, we have the largest collection of do-it-yourself projects created by others just like you.
News-2-You FREENews-2-You is the weekly newspaper for beginning readers and special needs students. Every week, students can connect with the world through concise symbol-supported news articles, puzzles, games and recipes. The news stories provide stimulating information on reader-friendly topics.
Codea $9.99Codea lets you create games and simulations — or just about any visual idea you have. Turn your thoughts into interactive creations that make use of iPad features like Multi-Touch and the accelerometer.
Hopscotch Coding for Kids $9.99Hopscotch is programming designed for everyone. Kids can use simple, intuitive building blocks to create games, animations and apps. Program your characters to move, draw, and collide with each other, and use shaking, tilting, or even shouting at the iPad to control them. This version of Hopscotch is made especially for schools. Teachers can create private groups allowing students to easily share and play each other's projects. All paid characters are unlocked and there are no in-app purchases.
Daisy the Dinosaur $FREELearn the basics of computer programming with Daisy the Dinosaur! 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. After playing Daisy, kids can choose to download a kit to program their own computer game.
Sproutster HD $FREESproutster is a game from Dreamkind, an award-winning entertainment studio focused on raising money for children’s charities worldwide. You need to help Sproutster grow rice to feed your friends in different countries around the world. You must catch falling letters in your bucket to spell 3-5 letter words.
Pixel Press Floors $FREEHave you always wanted to create your own video game but never knew where to start? Pixel Press Floors offers a revolutionary and simple way to create & play games - create on paper with "Draw-on-Paper" and take a picture of it, create directly on the screen just like you would on paper with "Draw-in-App", and then share & play games created by you and the entire community in the "Arcade".
Reading Rainbow $FREEHosted by LeVar Burton, the reimagined Reading Rainbow app includes an unlimited library of children’s books and video field trips to ignite your child’s imagination.
Dragon Shapes: Geometry ChallengeThis app supports math learners with problem solving and reasoning as they progress through a fun puzzle pathway. Kids gain an intuitive sense for geometric relationships and boost their thinking skills at the same time.
Oh No Fractions! $FREESwipe left or right to answer if the fraction on the left is LESS, GREATER or EQUAL than the one on the right. Peek at the visual solution before committing your answer or wait until later to prove it. Tap above each fraction to see if they can be reduced/simplified. Check the statistics of your practice runs. Control audio options and set the max denominator using the Setup menu via the Curious Helmet.
IF... $FREEIF... is the new educational game for kids that helps develop Emotional Intelligence through research-proven SEL skills.
Questimate! $FREE**Get the ESTIMATION GAME where YOU make the questions!** How many giraffes would be as tall as the Statue of Liberty? How fast is the world's fastest train? How many jelly beans would it take to fill up a soccer ball? In what year was the cell phone invented?
Top 100 Apps of 2013Here is my favorite and most popular post of the year, my Top 100 Sites/Apps of the year! Continuing with the trend from last year, readers are going to find more and more apps on the list and fewer sites, as the flux in mobile learning and BYOD (bring your own devices) continues to rise.
App 101: "How to Use Videos of Popular Apps"Videos that explain how to use many popular apps!
Digital Passport $3.99Played by more than 300,000 students in schools across the US, Digital Passport™ is now available for classrooms to access on the iPad. Teachers can set up classrooms and monitor student progress using teacher dashboards on digitalpassport.org while students access the game directly on their iPads.
That's Baloney! $FREEBased on the best-selling Edupress™ card game, That’s Baloney! is a wacky quiz game that both kids and parents can enjoy together!
Aurasma $FREEAurasma is an augmented reality app that’s changing the way millions of people see and interact with the world. Bring tagged images, objects and even physical locations to life with interactive digital content, such as video, animations and 3D scenes, we call Auras
Undecided $FREEThis app has everything you need to make a difficult decision easier. It's six amazing and slick utilities can help you decide the undecided - whatever that might be. This app can also be a game saver if you've lost an important piece of a board game.
10 Great Apps for a Teacher's New iPadDid you receive a gift of a new iPad this year? If so, you’re probably spending this holiday vacation week trying out all kinds of new apps. Here are ten that Richard Byrne recommends getting started with.
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