Available iPad Apps on Elementary School iPads
Language Arts
-Alphabet flashcard tracing phonics and drawing
- Animal counting game
- Alphabet tracing game
Classic game of hangman
Draw, then shake to erase
- WriteWords teaches your child handwriting while playing a fun and entertaining game.
Learn Sight Words- Over 300 sight words flashcards based on the popular Dolch Word List. In most schools, children are expected to learn these "high-frequency" words by sight, without sounding out, by the end of the first grade
Dragon Dictation- Dragon Dictation is an easy-to-use voice recognition application powered by Dragon® NaturallySpeaking® that allows you to easily speak and instantly see your text or email messages. In fact, it’s up to five (5) times faster than typing on the keyboard.
Mad Libs- Mad Libs is now available in a fun, new interactive AND digital platform! In this sample version of Vacation Mad Libs you can test your fill-in the-blank skills
Textropolis- Travel word-wide and build up your Textropolis by finding the words hidden in each city. Play through 30 different cities in this free-play word discovery game. Stumble across a new word? Textropolis includes definitions for every word in the game. Watch each city grow as you discover its words and add to your total Textropolis population.
ABC G0- ABC Go just got amazingly interactive. See how much fun kids will have playing with vehicles! (without needing a drivers license
Story Kit- Create an electronic storybook. Make use of the little gaps in life - on the sofa after dinner, in the back seat of the car, or on a train - to do something creative together.
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.
Math
Divide Free- Division skills
Add Free- Addition Skills
Subtract Free- Subtraction skills
Multiply Free- Multiplication skills
123 Counting- Teaches toddler and young kids VISUALLY and VOCALLY how to COUNT with fun animated animals and touch screen interactions.
Sea Math- The object of the game is to unlock all levels and reach the final level. The levels are unlocked when the puzzles are solved, and as the levels progress, the puzzles are more challenging and less time is given to complete the level.
123 Color HD- 123 Color HD, version 2.0, was released adding freestyle finger painting, voice-overs of 30 spoken colors in four languages, stickers and finger painting on your own photos, Australian and British English voice-overs, many new drawings, and much more!
ArithmeTick- The objective in ArithmeTick is to solve as many problems as possible before time runs out. You are awarded up to 10 points and additional time for each correct answer. A practice mode is also included to help sharpen your math skills!
Pizza Maker Free- Whip up any pizza you want-from a three cheese to a supreme combination! You can even create a yummy dessert pizza topped with fruits or chocolates!
Math Bingo- The object of Math BINGO is to get a pattern of five BINGO Bugs in a row by correctly answering math problems
Pizza Fractions 3- In chef's pizzeria your child masters the concept of naming simple fractions using pizza picture examples. Designed for grade levels 2-6, Pizza Fractions provides introductory practice with fractions in an approachable game-like environment.
Pop Math- PopMath is a fun game for kids of all ages to practice basic math
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Reading
iBooks- iBooks is an amazing way to download and read books. iBooks includes the iBookstore, where you can download the latest best-selling books or your favorite classics – day or night. Browse your library on a beautiful bookshelf, tap a book to open it, flip through pages with a swipe or a tap, and bookmark or add notes to your favorite passages.
Letter Lab- Letter Lab is the ideal application for children learning to write and recognize their ABC’s. Intuitively trace both uppercase and lowercase letters with the touch of a finger. Hear and see English alphabet letters and real world objects that relate to them
ABC Tracer- ABC Tracer is a comprehensive ABC learning app
ABC Phonics- Learn ABC recognition, writing, and listening skills with animals
Alphabet Fun- Simply scroll through the letters, colors, and numbers with the swipe of a finger. Explore how each character is written by tracing over it. Even practice writing entire words with ease
Letters A to Z- Letters A to Z is a captivating set of animated flashcards designed to help toddlers and preschoolers learn the letters of the English alphabet in a fun and engaging way. Each flashcard contains adorable characters and creatures that come to life in beautifully illustrated scenes accompanied by entertaining sound effects
Clifford BE Big Words- Help Clifford, Cleo and T-Bone give Jetta ideas of things to paint by spelling words. As they play, kids will experiment with letters and letter sounds as they learn to spell three-letter words.
Time Reading- K12 Timed Reading Practice Lite lets readers in grades K-4 practice fluency, the ability to read smoothly and quickly
Sequencing-
Starfall ABC’s- Children delight as they see, hear, and interact with letters and sounds in words, sentences, and games. They learn to recognize letters and develop skills that will ensure they become confident leaders.
Social Studies
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. You can hear the national anthems of countries on the day they became a nation, listen to presidents’ speeches on the anniversaries.
Today in History- Today In History is the easiest/best way to get the history information you want when you want it.
Farm Story- Welcome to Farm Story™ where you and your friends can grow fruits, raise farm animals, and decorate the most beautiful farms!
Oregon Trail- Westward, Ho! Your favorite pioneering adventure game is back and takes you to an exciting, historical side-scrolling adventure
Stack the States- As you learn state capitals, shapes, geographic locations and more, you can actually touch, move and drop the animated states anywhere on the screen. Carefully build a stack of states that reaches the checkered line to win each level.
123 World HD- 123 World introduces geography to children using engaging artwork, sound effects, animation, live Google maps, and music from around the world. 123 World also includes voice-overs of numbers and letters spoken in multiple languages.
GeoMaster US- In GeoMaster - US State Game, your goal is to place as fast and as accurately as possible all US states on a map.
The faster and the more accurate you are, the more points you win.
Tour Wrist- Check out travel destinations one minute, hotels and restaurants the next, or even look inside new homes. With powerful search, sort and sharing tools, Tour Wrist® gives you the power to travel, remotely
Kindergarten
Memory Zoo- Memory Zoo is a simple memory card game that features great animal illustrations, so that your kids can have fun while learning the animal names
Learning Pad-1. ABC ALPHABET: Recognition and pronunciation with associating word (i.e. "A as in Apple") to reinforce connective learning, using Upper-Case and Lower-Case Pairing.
2. ANIMALS: Animals' picture, name, and along with their sound (i.e. Duck goes quack-quack) - Associative learning technique.
3. NUMBERS: Counting recognition, pronunciation, and spelling.
4. COLORS: Recognition of different colors, associating objects, and the spelling of the color words.
Animal Match- Memory Match Card Game - Fun and Challenging for All
Pocketphonics- Aimed at kids aged between 3 and 6, and using the best ‘phonics’ teaching techniques, PocketPhonics introduces kids to each of the key letter sounds. As they learn the sounds, the app guides them how to write each letter through its unique follow-me arrow making it easy to learn how to correctly form letters. There’s nothing else like it in the app store.
Pocket Charts Letters- Teach young learners (ages 3-8) beginning letter sounds with this simple and clever matching system!
Pocket Charts Numbers- Teach young learners (ages 3-8) to count objects 1-20 with this simple and clever matching system!
Sight Words-
First Puzzles-
Smokey Lite- Help Smoky The Train find its way by reproducing the railroad template and by drag-and-dropping the right track patterns from the inventory to your railroad.
Science
Chem Touch- Explore the properties of the elements, the standard amino acids, and the nucleobases with The Chemical Touch. A touch sensitive periodic table and chemical information companion, it provides a wealth of information right at your fingertips. Recolor the periodic table by selecting properties other than Atomic Mass to visually investigate periodic trends.
• Physics
• Chemistry
• Biology
• Zoology
• Earth
• Inventions
• Space
Rock Hound- Features a large database of over 160 sites and over 60 rocks and gems with full screen pictures. Add your own sites to personalize the App or include your own finds.
Life Cycles- Following life cycles are covered in this app at this moment:
- Frog Life Cycle
- Water Life Cycle
- Butterfly Cycle
- Plant Cycle
- Pollination
- Photosynthesis
- Moon Phases
- Nitrogen Cycle
- Oxygen Cycle
- Rock Cycle
PUniverse HD- Have you ever looked up at the night sky, and wondered what exactly you were looking at? Pocket Universe is an easy-to-use app that will help you learn constellations, bright stars and planets.
Animal Encyclopedia- The Encyclopedia of Animals is an application developed thinking of all those who like the vast knowledge of the animal and its characteristics, it can find a full range of illustrations, as well as the different kinds and types of animals that exist. It is a support material for the development of an unlimited number of assignments and for the education of our children
3D Brain- Use your touch screen to rotate and zoom around 29 interactive structures. Discover how each brain region functions, what happens when it is injured, and how it is involved in mental illness
NASA- This is the NASA Visualization Explorer, the coolest way to get stories about advanced space-based research delivered right to your iPad. A direct connection to NASA’s extraordinary fleet of research spacecraft, this app presents cutting edge research stories in an engaging and exciting format. See the Earth as you’ve never seen it before; travel to places otherwise unavailable to even the most intrepid explorers.
Games
Crazy Copy- Memory game of listening to the sequence and repeating it back accordingly. Easy to learn, hard to master.
Pac-Man- The world famous arcade classic, returns
iMazing- Challenging youngster with a variety of mazes
Tic Tac Glow- Tic Tac Glow is the best way to play the classic game of Tic Tac Toe
Hidden Pix-The original Highlights Hidden Pictures™ – classic, fun and irresistible
Problem Solving
Cool Reversi- Cool Reversi is an iPhone/iPod touch/iPad version of the classic strategy game Othello (also known as Reversi). The game with very simple rules but it offers so many strategic possibilities, that you could spend the rest of your life to master it. Cool Reversi has many features to make the game more interesting.
Scrabble Free- Classic Scrabble game that can be played with a partner
What’s The Difference- Your power of observation sharpens as you search for the differences and advance through the modes. Time is not your friend and hints must be used wisely.
Blokus Free- The winning strategy: Block your opponents so they cannot add anymore blocks on the board! Blokus is a strategy game that will captivate you and get into your mind.
Idioms- Idioms is a multiple choice quiz system for English which provides 700 common idiomatic questions across different topic & categories with explanations.
UniSudoku- Enjoy the best aspects of the pencil and paper puzzle with all the advantages of playing digitally. Play from thousands of easy puzzles and get tougher puzzles or enter your own when you buy the full version. Intuitive controls and a sleek minimal interface bring you sudoku bliss.
Treasure Hunt- 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 maths and literacy skills to make sure you collect the correct item before tackling the next obstacle.
Talking Tom 2- You can now customize Tom's appearance by buying him accessories like hats, sunglasses, colored contacts, earrings and lots more.
McGraw Math
1-6 Baseball Facts- The Baseball Multiplication 1–6 Facts game by McGraw-Hill offers a quick and easy way to practice and reinforce basic multiplication facts (1–6)
Name that Number- McGraw-Hill’s Name That Number game offers a fun and easy way to practice computation and order of operations.
Beat the computer multiplication- McGraw-Hill’s Beat the Computer game offers a quick and easy way to practice and reinforce basic multiplication facts (0–10). T
Tric- Trac- McGraw-Hill’s Tric-Trac game offers a fun and easy way to practice addition facts. This competitive one- or two-player game
Top- it- McGraw-Hill’s Addition Top-It game offers a quick and easy way to practice and reinforce basic addition facts (0–10) and number comparisons. This one- or two-player game
Top- it Subtraction- The Subtraction Top-It game by McGraw-Hill offers a quick and easy way to practice and reinforce 2-digit subtraction computation and number comparisons. This one- or two-player game
Divisibility- The Divisibility Dash game by McGraw-Hill offers a quick and easy way to practice recognizing multiples of a number and applying divisibility tests.
Fractions- The Equivalent Fractions game by McGraw Hill offers a quick and easy way to practice and reinforce fraction concepts and relationships.
Creative
Create a Car- Create a Car is a click and drag activity for elementary age students.
Cookie Doodle- If you enjoy making cookies but hate the mess, this is the app for you. We provide the dough, a rolling pin, cookie cutters, your choice of frostings, sprinkles, and candies all in one easy to use package.
Doodle- Fit- Your task is simple: fit the given set of blocks into given shapes. Drag the blocks inside and outside in search for the layout that covers the whole shape. A level is complete when all blocks have been used and there's no more free space in the shape.
Creationary-“Roll” the LEGO Dice to find out which of the 4 randomly selected categories you’ll guessing: nature, vehicles, buildings or things. The game starts building an object from that category out of LEGO bricks, and you have to guess which of the four possible answers is correct by tapping the illustration that you think matches what is being built. The faster you guess correctly, the more points you earn. The more you play, the more difficult the game becomes. Guess incorrectly and the game ends.
Animoto- Turn your photos into stunning, professional-quality videos, complete with music and text, with Animoto’s free app!
Robot Tycoon- Find out in Robot Tycoon! Start by selling robots door-to-door, responding to your customers’ needs. Then, upgrade to a storefront or -- if you’re really tycoon material -- a factory! Will making custom products keep clients happy or prevent you from expanding
Brain Pop- Bring learning to your fingertips™ with the BrainPOP® Featured Movie app for the iPad®, iPhone®, and iPod touch®. Watch a different animated movie every day, then test your new knowledge with an interactive quiz – free!
Research
Dictionary.com- The free Dictionary.com app delivers trusted reference content from Dictionary.com and Thesaurus.com. NO INTERNET CONNECTION IS NEEDED TO SEARCH WORDS. The app includes nearly 2,000,000 words, definitions, synonyms and antonyms. It also features audio pronunciation, voice-to-text search
Easy Bib- Create accurate MLA, APA, and Chicago style citations in seconds by scanning a book bar code or by typing the name of a book. Build and manage your works cited. Once done, email your citations and then export your citations to EasyBib.com's popular bibliography management service.
Word Web- The WordWeb English dictionary and thesaurus: fast searching, spelling suggestions, definitions, usage examples, synonyms, related words - and no adverts.
In The Dock
Safari-
Keynote-Keynote is the most powerful presentation app ever designed for a mobile device. Built from the ground up for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch, it makes creating a world-class presentation — complete with animated charts and transitions — as simple as touching and tapping.
Pages- ages is the most beautiful word processor you’ve ever seen on a mobile device. This powerful app has been exclusively designed for the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. Create, edit, and view documents wherever you are. Use dictation in iOS 5 on your iPhone 4S to easily create and edit documents
Google Earth
Dropbox- Dropbox is a free service that lets you bring all your photos, docs, and videos anywhere. After you install Dropbox on your computer, any file you save to your Dropbox will automatically save to all your computers, your iPhone and iPad and even the Dropbox website! With the Dropbox app, you can take everything that matters to you on the go.
Evernote- Evernote turns the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad into an extension of your brain, helping you remember anything and everything that happens in your life. From notes to ideas to snapshots to recordings, put it all into Evernote and watch as it instantly synchronizes from your iPhone to your Mac or Windows desktop. See why millions of people worldwide use Evernote:
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