Recommended Free Apps

Compiled June 2013

General Education To This Day This app is based on a powerful anti-bullying themed spoken word poem, written and performed by Shane Koyczan, and animated by dozens of dierent animators. The Gizmo Sampler app is for students and teachers with subscriptions to ExploreLearning.com. The Gizmo Sampler allows access to selected Gizmos right from your iPad! Login with your existing username and password to get started. The app provides a comprehensive word. With over 1800 words and their meanings, synonyms and examples of usage, this is a comprehensive reference word tool. Ideal for kids in Kindergarten through grade 3, the app spans subjects within Science, Social Studies, Reading, Writing, Math, Health, Arts and Technology. ScootPad is an adaptive learning platform for Common Core Standards in Grades K-5. ScootPad delivers continuously personalized learning experience for each student.

Gizmo Sampler

Flashcards App HD

BrainPOP Jr.

ScootPad

Create! Pic Collage Get creative with freeform collages, cutouts, lters, borders, stickers, and text. ImageChef is an easy to use application for doing amazing things with photos & text. Annotate images and documents with arrows, stamps, shapes, text, and more. Very quick and easy to use. Haiku Deck is the simple and fun way to create stunning presentations whether youre pitching an idea, teaching a lesson, telling a story, or igniting a movement. Educreations turns your iPad into a recordable whiteboard. Creating a great video tutorial is as simple as touching, tapping and talking.

Image Chef

Skitch

Haiku Deck

Educreations Interactive Whiteboard

Bobbleshop Lite

Bobbleshop Lite is a fun app that lets you create your own virtual bobble-head avatar that you can share with the world Create, edit, present, and share your prezis anywhere with simple, intuitive multi touch gestures. Knowmia Teach is a new free lesson planning and recording tool for teachers. It helps you create short video lessons on any subject and publish them on Knowmia.com With Story Creator you can easily create beautiful story books containing photos, videos, text, and audio all in one gorgeous collection. A simple doodling board, markers, and one-click sharing tools make spreading your ideas and know-how easy and fun! Pearltrees is a free, visual and collaborative library. Its unique interface lets you organize and retrieve your favorite web pages, photos and notes -- even oine. Create and manage Kidblog accounts from your iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch. Teachers can monitor blog activity and moderate comments and posts.

Prezi for iPad

Teach by Knowmia

Story Creator

ScreenChomp

Pearltrees

Kidblog

Productivity/Teacher Tools Edmodo Access edmodo on your iDevice.Use your device to send notes, submit assignments, post replies, and check messages and upcoming events while away from the classroom. Ask3 allows students and teachers to collaborate on lessons in and outside of the classroom. Keep track of your games with this easy to use Scoreboard. Upload photos, videos, documents, and other les that are important to you, then access what you need wherever you go, on any device. Find great apps without spending a dime! Get high quality paid apps for free each day.

Ask 3

Scoreboard

Google Drive

Apps Gone Free

Three Ring

The easiest way to capture qualitative evidence of student learning. It allows teachers and students to document anything, organize it in seconds, and have it seamlessly available at school and at home. Helps teachers improve behavior in their classrooms quickly and easily. It also captures and generates data on behavior that teachers can share with parents and administrators. Grade It! makes it easy to calculate percentages for any assessment. Grade It! also allows teachers to email a copy of the assessment table. The LiveBinders App gives you quick access to all of the binders from your LiveBinders.com account. SchoolBoard is the all-in-one oce suite designed specically for iPad. It is created for working people and students to make use of iPad for their everyday tasks. This is a simple and easy to use timer application for your presentation. This App allows you to use several GoClass services and features on Apple iPads, iPhones and iPod Touch devices. If you do not already have a GoClass account you can set one up for free at the GoClass website. Eortlessly assign, collect, and review student work from anywhere with Showbie! In Subtext, teachers can embed instruction and scaolding right in the pages of almost any digital book or ePub. If you have an an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch, you can now compete head to head with your friends to become to the class Math Champ (everyone can play at the same time!) Math Champ is a challenging and innovative quiz game designed for classrooms that your kids will go nuts over The app enables teachers to use their iPads to manage content on students' iPads, iPhones or iPods. It combines presentation, collaboration, and real-time assessment tools into one integrated solution.

ClassDojo

Grade It!

LiveBinders

SchoolBoard

Presentation Timer

GoClass

Showbie for iPad

Subtext

Math Champ (Host)

Math Champ (Client)

Nearpod

Literacy SpellingCity This free app includes ten of their most popular word lists and eight of their most popular learning games and activities. This application is for practicing English Cursive Handwriting. You can practice to write word as well as upper Case and lower Case. his app offers an easy and interactive way for beginners to learn the word order in a fun way. 'OK' button allows you to do self-checking on your own and get the correct answer without anyone's help. Kids will have a blast learning their ABC's and building vocabulary with the adorable monsters in Endless Alphabet. The app that teaches the fundamental skills of spelling while staying motivated and having fun. In the FREE version, students have access to 10 games, samples from all of the 6 paid versions of the Reading Eggs Spelling app Grades 1 to 6. Children build language skills in a fast-paced game of tictac-toe! Fun, interactive game explores vowel sounds, syllables and more. For ages 6-8 years. Word Mover allows children and teens to create "found poetry" by choosing from word banks and existing famous works; additionally, users can add new words to create a piece of poetry by moving/manipulating the text. Mad Libs goes Digital! -Use your camera to add photos or images to your story -Use voice recognition to enter your funny, silly words! -Use the accelerometer when looking for hints! In just a few simple swipes, you can create personalized storybooks that feature your students face and name. The app contains over 2,000 words in 3 categories with clear and crisp pronunciations, denitions and etymology. Spell Games allows you to test your spelling skills against the commonly misspelled words in an easy to use format.

Cursive Practice

Eggy 100 HD

Jumbled Sentences 3

Endless Alphabet

Spelling Games Lite HD

Phonics Tic Tac-Toe Interactive Game

Word Mover

Mad Libs

Starring You Books by Storybots Spell + Friends by Tap to Learn Spell Games by Tap to Learn

Spelling Hero Game

The app provides denitions and their correct pronunciation. Word pronunciations using their recorded audio les, which are embedded in the app deliver the words the way they should sound. Roots to Words teaches you the fastest way to learn about Root Words. Roots are a real key to understanding the meaning of new words you come across in your reading. Spelling Test allows you to Create your own Custom Spelling Tests. Use this app to create the words that you want to practice and its a great way to save time on homework. Use your word recognition and spelling skills to click on the basketball that completes the word at the top of the page. Choose correctly and you'll hit a basket or threepointer, choose incorrectly or too slowly and your opponent will score. Phrasal verbs are, more than anything, action. And action must be visual. The more visually stimulating the learning, the better we will understand and assimilate the phrasal verbs.

Roots to Words

Spelling Test

Sweet 16 Word Madness

Phrasal Verbs Machine

Math CandyFactory Educational Game for iPad Tortoise and the Hare Algebra By coordinating actions of partitioning (slicing) and iterating (copying) candy bars, students learn to conceive of fractions as sizes relative to the whole. This app helps students explore the effects of different rates of change on the classic race between the tortoise and the hare. Math Dojo is the fun way to practice addition. Your students will love the engaging superpowers. It includes 3 different levels. Cover Up helps students develop a strategy for solving algebraic equations that is more intuitive than mechanical use of order of operations. The Geoboard is a tool for exploring a variety of mathematical topics. Learners stretch bands around pegs to form line segments and polygons and make discoveries about perimeter, area, angles, congruence, fractions, and more.

Math Dojo Free

Cover Up

Geoboard

Equivalent Fractions

Create equivalent fractions by dividing and shading squares or circles, and match each fraction to its location on the number line. This app helps to introduce the concept of number lines to young students through the use of cute little frogs that make steps and leaps. Tiny Chicken is determined to get across the bridge that is weighed down by sandbags. Balance the Number Line by dragging the weights lying under the bridge and setting it to the right an Designed to promote kindergarteners' mastery of number order. This app replicates a simple classroom activity in which children place number tiles, 1-100, in order from least to greatest. A very basic game for children just beginning to learn about numbers. Using numbers up to 32, Count Sort helps children recognize that counting must be done in a one-to-one fashion. Learn the mechanics of long division with a touch interface. Drag digits down, slide the decimal into the correct position, and tap to identify repeating decimals. This game will allow children to hone their addition, subtraction, multiplication and division skills via a fun, easy to play game mechanic. In this game, people from the village come down to the Farmer's Market which is run by you. They buy goods and pay in cash and it is your job to tender the correct amount of change. Sell 10 items correctly to win the game! This app provides an engaging interface to help children identify prime and composite numbers. The player is required to slash the composite numbers - but leave the prime numbers alone. The app provides an visual practice environment for students to master fraction concepts. Students will tap the screen to create a fraction from a Vial of Liquid. The difculty level of the game is adaptive. The app includes more than seven animals which walk onto the screen and need to be measured with the help of a translucent ruler.

Teaching Number Lines

Math Chicken Number Line

Line em Up

Count Sort

Long Division Touch

Tiny Chicken learns math

Tiny Chicken Learns Currency

Ninja Chicken Tiny Chicken Learns Prime Numbers

Tiny Fractions

Measure Length Tiny Chicken

Math Vs Zombies

Save Yourself from a Zombie Attack using Math as Your Weapon! The objective of the Math Monsters game is to nd the Math Monsters hidden under the tiles as you answer math questions correctly from the available four games. This app will teach your students how to tell time from an analog clock in a fun. Swipe 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. With MyScript Calculator, perform mathematical operations naturally using your handwriting.

Math Monsters - Bingo Wake the Rooster by Telling Time: Tiny Chicken Oh No Fractions!

MyScript Calculator

Science Ralphs Killer Muenster BioIQ: Biology Picture Game Gene Screen Solve puzzles using genetic methods and processes. Help lift Ralph's health code violations and get him back to making cheese! The objective of the game is to label a plant cell. Simple and fun way to review the parts of the plant cell. Gene Screen is a fun way to learn how recessive genetic traits and diseases are inherited and how certain diseases are more prevalent in different populations. The Living Lung is a real-time 3D tool, featuring incredibly detailed anatomical respiratory models. The app is compatible with the iPad 2 or newer. Keep up to date with Seismic events all around the world with Earthquakes Info and tips. Zoom into human bones, see how broken bones heal, and investigate some of the cool and weird cells found in the middle of our most sturdy organs. Shake and tilt sugar molecules to set off chemical reactions. This game features a cast of protein characters based on real structures found inside our cells. Explore the structure and function of ten of the tiny proteins that break down sugar in the cell.

Living Lung Earthquakes Info and Tips Powers of Minus Ten Bone

Sugar Shake

Solar Walk - Saturn

Explore Saturn and its moons: travel in time, read info and watch photos. The objective of the game is to solve (balance) a chemical equation. 4D Anatomy takes viewers inside the human body via a simple-to-use 3-dimensional learning environment. HeartCam is an Augmented Reality heart viewer that creates the startling effect of seeing someones heart beating through a hole in their chest.

ChemIQ

Anatomy 4D

HeartCam

Social Studies To Be Free With Changing America: To Be Free, you can discover rsthand accounts of individual circumstances and reactions to the Emancipation Proclamation. A fun and educational approach in which you discover the story of Louis XIV's most famous engineer. Congressional Moments explores key legislation that still impacts our lives today, including child labor, civil rights, the SEC, the National Park Service, the Marshall Plan and women's suffrage.

Vauban - Quelle Histoire

Congressional Moments

Special Education What is Dyslexia? This app is designed to help you understand dyslexia. Watch a video comic and follow the story of a typical dyslexic. It also shares ways that parents can help at home. A visual timer to help students stay on task. In the free version the timer setting is limited to 5 minutes. Easybee Age Calculator is fast, accurate, and FREE! This chronological age calculator was designed to calculate age faster than guring it manually. This free collection of tools assists therapists and teachers in their day-to-day tasks. It includes an IEP scheduler, a tally counter, a percentage calculator, and an age calculator.

VisTimerFree

Easybee Age Calculator

TxTools

Electives (Art, Music, Etc.) Draw this App Draw this App turns your iPad into a virtual studio that will improve your drawing skills using metrics to track progress. This app is designed to spark an interest in music among kids. With tons of songs to learn on the Piano, Guitar and Drum Kit included in the App, plus many fun games, your students will love to play while they learn! Making music has never been so fun, or so easy! Play realistic instruments and watch as little jungle animals copy your tunes. Use your own real piano, or an on-screen virtual one, to play your favorite songs. Dust off your piano with the Piano Dust Buster music game! Test your knowledge with DKs Quiz app and play thousands of questions for free. There is a quiz for you whether you love music, lm, history, food, travel, insects, inventions, plants, sports, animals. This app enables users to retrace the lives of a lidded bowl, a silver fountain, a side chair, and a wall light in the Gettys collection by examining physical clues. The interactive app features stunning photography, animations, video, and 360 rotations that bring the rich biographies of these objects to life. LIFE's legendary photo collection at a never-before-seen resolution. The app allows you to explore LIFE's vast archives, up-to-the-minute news photos, and special features not available anywhere else.

TuneTopia!

Monkey Drum

Piano Dust Buster

DK Quiz

The Life of Art

LIFE for iPad