Monday, December 19, 2011

65+ iPad Adds Perfect for Elementary School

All Subjects/General:

  1. Keynote – Keynote makes creating a world-class presentation — complete with animated charts and transitions — as simple as touching and tapping.
  2. iMovie – Make beautiful HD movies anywhere with iMovie, the fast and fun moviemaking app for iPhone, iPod touch, and the amazing new iPad 2
  3. Pages- Pages lets you create, edit, and view documents wherever you are.
  4. Numbers – A spreadsheet application
  5. Whiteboard – Collaborate with friends and family with Whiteboard, the easy-to-use collaborative drawing app for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.
  6. iBooks – an ereader book store.
  7. eClicker/eClicker Host – eClicker is a personal response system that allows teachers to poll their class during a lesson.
  8. ComicLife – It’s the funnest, easiest and fastest way ever to create photo comics on a mobile device.
  9. TypeDrawing – TypeDrawing is a really easy app to use, but it’s perfect for creating TYPOGRAPHY ART and UNIQUE WATERMARK over your photos.
  10. Animoto – Animoto turns the pictures on your iPhone into beautiful music videos! It takes just a few minutes to make one, and then you can share and collect them with your friends
  11. Discovery Education – Educational videos
  12. Mobile Mouse – Mobile Mouse instantly transforms your iPad into a wireless mouse and trackpad for your computer.
  13. Professor Garfield Cyberbullying – Through comic strips, questions and ansers and problem solving, Garfield teaches what cyberbullying is and how to prevent it.
  14. Sundry Notes – Text, images, audio recording, tables, real-time WiFi collaboration, wireless sync with the cloud, and much more!
  15. Blackboard Presenter – This app turns your iPad to blackboard presenter.
  16. Little Artist HD – Little Artist is a super easy to use finger painting app for kids of all ages !!
  17. DropBox – Dropbox is a free service that lets you bring all your photos, docs, and videos anywhere.
  18. CK12.Org – free online textbooks
  19. Templates for Elementary Students – works for all ages
  20. Notability – text to speech or just a note taking app
  21. Overdrive - allows you to check out books from any public library

Language Arts:

  1. Toontastic – Create your own stories on line using the story arch and our animated artwork.
  2. Book Creator – Create your own iBooks right on the iPad. (Allows everything except video)
  3. Popplet – Popplet is a platform for your ideas. Popplet’s super simple interface allows you to move at the speed of your thoughts
  4. Reading Trainer – This app teaches you how to train your eyes and brain to read and comprehend text faster. Think of it as exercise for your reading skills.
  5. Super Why – Help your child achieve the Power to Read with this collection of four SUPER WHY interactive games
  6. ABC Phonics Word Sight – Learn Dolch sight words the fun and easy way.
  7. Dr. Suess‘s ABC – The beloved classic “Dr. Seuss’s ABC” is now available for your iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch.
  8. Word Magic – Teaches young children how to read and recognize letters.
  9. Animated Rhymes 3 – This App contain 2 Rhymes (1) Pussy Cat (2)The Dog Says Bow,Wow.
  10. StarFall – The “ABCs” section of Starfall.com’s well-loved website
  11. SpellBoard – Monday, we get our weekly words. Wednesday, we have our pre-quiz and Friday is the spelling test.
  12. Story Wheel – Story Wheel” is an educational game that improves your child’s cognitive abilities.
  13. Shakespeare in Bits – This is the Free Lite edition of Shakespeare In Bits: Romeo & Juliet.

Math:

  1. MathBoard – MathBoard is a stunning app for teaching addition, subtraction, multiplication and division problems
  2. Free Graphic Calculator – With the highest number of available mathematical functions, you will be able to solve almost every mathematical problem you can imagine
  3. Ruler – Use your finger to drag the marker across the screen. Actual dimensions will be instantly displayed.
  4. Math Quizzer – Math Quizzer is an interactive and fun way to, not only learn, but also to boost your skills in; Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, and Division
  5. Ace Kids Math Games – Easily teaches kids how to Count, Add, and Subtract VISUALLY using fun animations with a prize reward system for completing each level.
  6. Math Bingo – The object of Math BINGO is to get a pattern of five BINGO Bugs in a row by correctly answering math problems.
  7. iFactor Quadratics – This is a simple application that will factor quadratic equations, if possible
  8. eSolver HD – eSolver HD enables you to solve quadratic equations in a very simple way.
  9. Math Flash Cards – Math Flash Cards is a fun to use math drill application that looks and works just like the old paper flash cards.
  10. Numerate: Count, Add and Subtract – Learn how to recognize numbers (1-20) and explore simple addition and subtraction with interactive calculations.
  11. MakeChange – Practice counting change and doing addition problems.
  12. Equation – EQUATION is a very fast and easy tool to solve Quadratic Equations.
  13. Park Math – Park Math introduces early math concepts to children in Preschool and Kindergarten (ages 1-6).
  14. MotionMath – By playing Motion Math, learners improve their ability to perceive and estimate fractions in multiple forms.
  15. Math Ninja Lite – Teaches basic concepts of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, to more advanced and complicated problem solving such as mixed operator usage.
  16. Math Ninja – Use your math skills to defend your tree house against a hungry tomato and his robotic army in this fun action packed game!
  17. Motion Math Zoom – They’ll have a blast zooming through the number line as they master place value.
  18. Pizza Fractions – In chef’s pizzeria your child masters the concept of naming simple fractions using pizza picture examples

Social Studies:

  1. Geo Play 2 – States, Countries, International Capitals, Continents, Potpourri.
  2. The Presidency – The Presidency application is an excellent educational reference for easy access to historical information regarding the 44 United States Presidents.
  3. GeoMaster – In GeoMaster – US State Game, your goal is to place as fast and as accurately as possible all US states on a map.
  4. Stack the States – Stack the States makes learning about the 50 states fun!
  5. Early Jamestown – Victory Productions presents an interactive textbook exploration of the early days of the Jamestown settlement and the state of Virginia.

Science:

  1. 3D Sun – “3D Sun” lets you carry a virtual window onto today’s sun, right in your pocket.
  2. Stars – Stars is a light application that displays the 88 constellations in the sky
  3. Bobo Explores Light – Hold a fully functional science museum in the palm of your hand!
  4. 3D Brain – Discover how each brain region functions, what happens when it is injured, and how it is involved in mental illness.
  5. Molecules – Molecules is an application for viewing three-dimensional renderings of molecules and manipulating them using your fingers.
  6. Starwalk – Star Walk enables you to point your iPad at the sky and see what stars, constellations, and satellites you are looking at in real-time.
  7. SolarWalk – This 3D Solar System model enables you to navigate through space and time, observe all the planets in close-up, learn their trajectories, inner structure, history of their exploration, points of interest and more.
  8. NASA VIZ – This is the NASA Visualization Explorer, the coolest way to get stories about advanced space-based research delivered right to your iPad.

Electives/Other:

  1. iSign3D – Introducing an innovative application for learning the American Sign Language alphabet for the iPad!

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