Exploring iPad Apps
For Your Classroom
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Behavior & Attention
Visual Timer
Intuitive app for visual understanding of time left/passing of time. Quick set up and start.
https://goo.gl/qmC1fUToo Noisy
Helps to keep the noise level down within a room, visuals help students as well as noise levels stay lower for adults. Pro version allows for backgrounds to be changed and sound levels.
ClassRoom Timer Pro
Simple timer to show elapsed time and and amount of time left, also shows current time. Multiple themes and alarms sounds.
Choiceworks
Assist students to complete daily routines and control their feelings. Video support within the app.
Visual Schedule Planner
Visual schedule customizable using audio and visual schedule, use of checklists and timers and videos.
Chore Pad HD
HD & Lite Versions
Give the student the ability to earn rewards as they do chores and jobs through the day.
Fine Motor
Dexteria
Therapeutic hand exercises to improve fine motor and handwriting readiness in children and adults. Handwriting exercises take full advantage of the multi-touch features of the iPad.
Dexteria Dots
Visual tracking and fine motor activities for students while adding into the game mathematics. geared toward 2-8 year olds.
(Montessori) Letter Sound
App is by Les Trois Elles, app is multi-leveled that engages students in phonemic awareness, handwriting letter practice while students are given instant feedback and autocorrected through their errors
Wet Dry Try
The app mimics the program HWT to show students how to learn to write letters and numbers in their natural way...on an iPad! A multi-sensory approach in another form.
Virtual Bubble Wrap Pop Challenge
Try to beat the clock to pop the bubble wrap and earn points. Two handed game to ... pop the bubble wrap as it comes back to life. Who doesn't love to pop bubble wrap and get some frustrations out as well.
Draw with Stars!
The app was inspired by Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Night. The stars flow from your fingers as your work your fine motor skills. You are able to draw, write, or exercise your finders as you practice fine motor skills on the iPad.
Formative Assessment
Google Forms
Ability to ask 255 questions in a form, to use extensions to create response sheets and data. No Google account needed, use of al ink.
Quizlet
Create assessment and practice opportunities based on words, definitions, and/or images. Use in app and online.
Plickers
Assessment without the need for students with a device, teachers are the only person with a device.
https://www.plickers.com/Socrative
Use of two apps to engage students with questions, polls, writing. Instant grading within the apps.
Nearpod
Ability to assess students as well as present information. When assessing, you can show students information on the teachers side as well. Some pay features as upgrades, but not necessary. For use on iDevices or computers.
Kahoot
Survey based on colors/shapes to assess people on whatever you want to ask them. No app yet!
https://getkahoot.com/ create
https://kahoot.it/#/ play
Mind Mapping
Total Recall Mind Map
Simple and elegant mind mapping process to quickly create and share min maps with others. Sen maps via email to others.
Free version allows 3 maps to be created, Upgrade
Popplet
iPhone and iPad creation for generating ideas and project planning. Save as images, PDF, jpg. Ability to have text, images, drawing, and text colors.
Free and purchase app, when upgrading transfer free popplets into account
MindNode
Mind mapping app through a visual representation. Export via a PDF or image, and into apple reminders
Mathematics
IXL
Math (Grades Prek-12) and English (Grades 2-12) targeted in 4500 standard aligned skills. Students are corrected with systematic walk though when answering incorrectly. Sign in as a guest and your students will be able to play a timed activity for approximately 15 questions. Join and you will have unlimited access for a monthly fee paid through iTunes.
Skill Champ
No in-app purchases, access to all skills and themes. Focus learning on the students abilities and their early learning skills. Access to printable curriculum for carry over for home and repetition of skills.
Base Ten Math
Hands on practice as students work through manipulatives and have access to writing space within the app. School edition available. ABility to evaluate the app, look at link in iTunes.
Motion Math Educator
Educator access for K-6 students to reinforce skills being learned within the classroom. Combines many apps families purchase to practice skills.
Next Dollar Up
Give your students the ability to practice their money skills. Prompting given for the amount to be supplied in dollars rounding up. Students have the ability to work within $0-5, $5-10, $10-20, and $20-50 and all combinations of those. Alternate money is available as well.
Adding Apples
The first app in a series of 3 by Marcel Widarto. Teaching basic mathematic skills through manipulatives and scaffolding. Students score rewards for earning correct answers and earn trophies as they reach milestones.
Langauge Arts
Rocket Speller PLUS
Free, PLUS versions
Epic
Educator accounts is free to elementary teachers and librarians. Unlimited access to 10,000+ ebooks for children 10 years and under.
eBook - The New York Times
The ereader developed and supported through the First Book project from President Obama & First Lady Michelle Obama.
Create a non-profit accountTic Tac Toe - Lakeshore
Face paced game while teaching vowel sounds, blends, spelling, segmentation, etc, Targeted toward 6-8 year olds.
Grammaropolis
Schoolhouse Rock meets the 21st Century to teach Grammar! Videos, short quizzes for assessment, and direct teaching strategies.
Free with in app purchases & Complete- purchaseSchools use - Complete app
Venn Diagram
Create a Venn Diagram on the iPad. Email your finished creation to hand in your work or share with others. Ability to adjust font, circle colors.
Writing
Spelling City (free)
Fun way to learn vocabulary and spelling through games and practice. Access to ten of the most popular games from the Internet access.
Ability to access a premium upgrade
Sentopiary
Process to learn grammar through a free form or challenge mode. Learn through a four level process.
Bitsboard Pro
Popular opportunity to learn languages, reading, vocabulary, spelling, learning to speak, and many more ideas. Through the use of flash cards, multiple readymade created boards, to practice everyday skills.
Free or Pro versions
StoryTelling
StoryKit
Create an electronic storybook to help students. Add text, images, illustrations/drawing, voice, various layouts, multiple pages, reorder pages after creating, and beyond. View on your iPhone, iPad and iPod. Upload books to the server and email links to others.
PuppetPals
With the aid of puppets, create stories using puppets and character voices through the process of a movie. Puppet Pal is the basic version, HD/Directors Pass contains all unlocked/in app purchases, and Pals 2 has additional images/character sets.
PuppetPals, PuppetPals HD, PuppetPals2Book Creator
Create stories using images, drawing, test, voice recordings, music, video imported. and more. Make your book looks like books off of the shelf or as detailed as you want. When sharing, find multiple features to share with others. The most typical book is created as an iBook.
Free creates 1 book or Purchase creates unlimited booksStoryo
iPhone app, creates a story from your photos based on the metadata built into the photos based on time and location data.
Tellagami
Create an animated video with an avatar.
ThingLink
Presentation
Educreations
Interactive whiteboard and screencasting tool to explain concepts so students understand beyond lecture. Designed for the flipped classroom.
ShowMe
Interactive whiteboard and screencasting tool by recording your voice. Designed for the flipped classroom.
Doceri
Control the screen through your iPad, Mac, or PC. Annotate, record, or share your screen. Try before you buy with a watermark.
Explain Everything
Interactive whiteboard and screencasting app for the flipped classroom. Annotate, manipulate, document, show videos, and create visual presentations to entice learners.
Prezi
Create, edit, and present Prezi's. Prezi's are the newest way to present a PowerPoint as it becomes interactive with multiple features, uses timelines, and uses zoom features.
Corkulous
Presentation process by using an idea board with post-its. Ability to share via email through pdf or images and collaborate with others.
Bonus
Heads Up
iAnnotate
Annotation on steroids! Ability to markup PDF, DOC, PPT, and image files as well as add pages to them. Export and import via multiple features. Export flattened, marked up features, or ability to modified "document."
Stick Pick
Formative Assessment app to chose a student at random with multiple classes. Ability to also look at differentiation of questions to alter their leveling of complexity for students.
Osmo
Time's best invention of the year!
Game system for changing the way children ages 5-13 play on the iPad. Five interactive games that work with in their own app with the Osmo base and mirror. Use a playing field to record the students movements.
Speaky
This app helps solve your productively problem to read everything, it does it for you. Extract text from a typical internet link to be read offline. Other basic components are available as well: PDF, Plain Text, MS Word, MS PowerPoint , RTF and HTML Files. Multiple options for voices/translation.
Math Keyboard
Your ideal app for adding mathematics and scientific characters to your writing. Add your information through the keyboard section. Must be an app on the iPad, will live on the iPad, but not functionally used.