All Subjects/General:
iAnnotate -
Keynote - Keynote makes creating a world-class presentation — complete with animated charts and transitions — as simple as touching and tapping.
iMovie - Make beautiful HD movies anywhere with iMovie, the fast and fun moviemaking app for iPhone, iPod touch, and the amazing new iPad 2
Pages- Pages lets you create, edit, and view documents wherever you are.
Numbers - A spreadsheet application
BrainPOP Featured Movie - Tim and Mobi on the iPad! All access to BrainPOP's 750+ Movie library and Quizzes if your district subscribes.
Whiteboard - Collaborate with friends and family with Whiteboard, the easy-to-use collaborative drawing app for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.
iBooks - a ereader book store.
eClicker/
eClicker Host - eClicker is a personal response system that allows teachers to poll their class during a lesson.
ComicLife - It’s the funnest, easiest and fastest way ever to create photo comics on a mobile device.
TypeDrawing - TypeDrawing is a really easy app to use, but it's perfect for creating TYPOGRAPHY ART and UNIQUE WATERMARK over your photos.
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
Professor Garfield Cyberbullying - Through comic strips, questions and ansers and problem solving, Garfield teaches what cyberbullying is and how to prevent it.
Sundry Notes - Text, images, audio recording, tables, real-time WiFi collaboration, wireless sync with the cloud, and much more!
Blackboard Presenter - This app turns your iPad to blackboard presenter.
Little Artist HD - Little Artist is a super easy to use finger painting app for kids of all ages !!
Notability - text to speech or just a note taking app
Overdrive - allows you to check out books from any public library
Language Arts:
Toontastic - Create your own stories on line using the story arch and our animated artwork.
Book Creator - Create your own iBooks right on the iPad. (
Allows everything except video)
Popplet - Popplet is a platform for your ideas. Popplet's super simple interface allows you to move at the speed of your thoughts
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.
Super Why - Help your child achieve the Power to Read with this collection Lof four SUPER WHY interactive games
ABC Phonics Word Sight - Learn Dolch sight words the fun and easy way.
Dr. Suess's ABC - The beloved classic "Dr. Seuss's ABC" is now available for your iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch.
Word Magic - Teaches young children how to read and recognize letters.
Animated Rhymes 3 - This App contain 2 Rhymes (1) Pussy Cat (2)The Dog Says Bow,Wow.
StarFall - The "ABCs" section of Starfall.com's well-loved website
SpellBoard - Monday, we get our weekly words. Wednesday, we have our pre-quiz and Friday is the spelling test.
Story Wheel - Story Wheel” is an educational game that improves your child’s cognitive abilities.
Preposition Builder -
PrepositionBuilder™ is designed to help elementary aged children learn the correct use of prepositions and learn how prepositions can change the meaning of a sentence.
Conversation Builder - ConversationBuilder™ (Patent Pending) is a Conversation Simulator designed to help elementary aged children learn how to have multi-exchange conversations with their peers in a variety of social settings.
Language Builder - Language Builder is designed to help children accomplish the following educational goals: 1) Improve sentence ideation ; 2) Improve sentence formation; and 3) Improve receptive and expressive language.
Question Builder - Question Builder is designed to help elementary aged children learn to answer abstract questions and create responses based on inference.
Sentence Builder - Sentence Builder is designed to help elementary aged children learn how to build grammatically correct sentences.
Story Builder - Story Builder is designed to help children accomplish the following goals: 1) Improve paragraph formation; 2) Improve integration of ideas; and 3) Improve higher level abstractions by inference.
Books (not in the iBooks App)
Math:
MathBoard - MathBoard is a stunning app for teaching addition, subtraction, multiplication and division problems
MATHsKOOL 1 - MATHsKOOL 1 contains twelve activities designed to develop numeracy skills.
Free Graphic Calculator - With the highest number of available mathematical functions, you will be able to solve almost every mathematical problem you can imagine
Ruler - Use your finger to drag the marker across the screen. Actual dimensions will be instantly displayed.
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
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.
Math Bingo - The object of Math BINGO is to get a pattern of five BINGO Bugs in a row by correctly answering math problems.
iFactor Quadratics - This is a simple application that will factor quadratic equations, if possible
eSolver HD - eSolver HD enables you to solve quadratic equations in a very simple way.
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.
MakeChange - Practice counting change and doing addition problems.
Equation - EQUATION is a very fast and easy tool to solve Quadratic Equations.
Park Math - Park Math introduces early math concepts to children in Preschool and Kindergarten (ages 1-6).
MotionMath - By playing Motion Math, learners improve their ability to perceive and estimate fractions in multiple forms.
Math Ninja Lite - Teaches basic concepts of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, to more advanced and complicated problem solving such as mixed operator usage.
Math Ninja - Use your math skills to defend your treehouse against a hungry tomato and his robotic army in this fun action packed game!
Motion Math Zoom - They'll have a blast zooming through the number line as they master place value.
Pizza Fractions - In chef's pizzeria your child masters the concept of naming simple fractions using pizza picture examples
Social Studies:
Geo Play 2 - States, Countries, International Capitals, Continents, Potpourri.
The Presidency - The Presidency application is an excellent educational reference for easy access to historical information regarding the 44 United States Presidents.
GeoMaster - In GeoMaster - US State Game, your goal is to place as fast and as accurately as possible all US states on a map.
Early Jamestown - Victory Productions presents an interactive textbook exploration of the early days of the Jamestown settlement and the state of Virginia.
Era of Dino Lite - Here you will find descriptions of more than 330 dinosaurs and some information about teh time periods of the Mesozoic era.
Science:
3D Sun - "3D Sun" lets you carry a virtual window onto today's sun, right in your pocket.
Stars - Stars is a light application that displays the 88 constellations in the sky
3D Brain - Discover how each brain region functions, what happens when it is injured, and how it is involved in mental illness.
iPad in Education
Comments
John Shoemaker
Feb 2, 2012
Hi Girtona, We are working on an ESE section with our ESE department. If you click the blog at the top of this page, the most recent post was about apps for ESE teachers. In addition, we have an ESE section on the Middle and High School App Lists.
Thanks again!
girtona (unauthenticated)
Feb 2, 2012
Fantastic, thanks so much. This is so helpful. I have found the ipad to be very helpful for my students with Autism. Is there any way that you can create an ESE section?
Patricky11 (unauthenticated)
Jan 13, 2012
I own and operate an iPad learning program for elementary aged children www.brainiapps.com The kids I work with also love Morris Lessmore and the Flying Books. The younger ones seemed to like Futaba which they played today :)
Sprout Labs (unauthenticated)
Dec 29, 2011
I wanted to introduce a new science app for kids ages 6-10l.
Plants HD delivers high-quality interactive content about plants and their lifecycle. The app provides an in-depth look into topics such as seeds, germination, pollination, flowers, trees, fruits, and dispersal.
Plants HD is an audio-visual exploration of plants and their lifecyle that is designed to be fun and entertaining
for all ages. You can flip through curated HD photos on the various plant topics, scroll through content or have it
read to you, listen to relaxing music, and test your knowledge by taking the quiz. The Did You Know section features interesting facts like - A strawberry is not a berry and a banana is a berry!
An engaging, fun and information packed app called "Plants HD" is available at http://bitly.com/vfUWTU
Jacob Klein (unauthenticated)
Dec 22, 2011
Try our latest math game –
Motion Math: Hungry Fish
Great for mastering mental addition and subtraction. Free to try: http://bit.ly/hungryfish
Justin Talmadge (unauthenticated)
Dec 20, 2011
Would you mind if I used this list in a publicatoin for staff in my district? Thanks for considering...
Mandy (unauthenticated)
Dec 2, 2011
Our 2nd graders have been enjoying Stack the States to learn US Geography.
Edward Buckne (unauthenticated)
Nov 5, 2011
Our school is having great success with the Millie Was Here book apps as well. ( not in iBooks-- find them in the book category of the app store)
Elizabeth (unauthenticated)
Nov 5, 2011
Awesome Math app to help teach kids the concept of numbers! Base Ten Number Blocks is a simple app that allows users to manipulate base ten blocks (ones, tens, hundreds) to assist them in solving addition and subtraction problems.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/base-ten-number-blocks/id474636096?mt=8
Joyce Valenzia (unauthenticated)
Sep 13, 2011
One wonderful new book app series my school is using in the classroom is called "Millie Was Here." Not only does it offer a read-along mode for beginning readers, but it also has lots of very intuitive interactivity which helps develop younger children's motor skills. The entire premise of the book teaches kids to use their imaginations. We originally introduced classes to the first book (which is free!!), called "Meet Millie." It was such a hit with the kids that we, got the second book, "Millie & The Lost Key" as well. We've found that it encourages even our most reluctant readers to read!
Bailey Harrison (unauthenticated)
Aug 31, 2011
Flight of the Pamplemousse, the illustrated story is phenomenal. If you have kids and an iPad, it's a must.
Brian Dawson
Aug 24, 2011
Great list. Will be adding to it soon, I'm sure!
John Shoemaker
Jul 20, 2011
Thank you everyone for the suggestions, we will work them in as soon as we have time!
Amanda Dykhuizen (unauthenticated)
Jul 18, 2011
Geo Master is a free app and great way to practice US states. It gives the capitals. Brain Pop is a free download and a neat tool as well
Brian (unauthenticated)
Jun 23, 2011
Try 'Templates for Elementary Students'
It gives pupils starting templates for creating their own work in Pages. Story-mountains, newspaper reports, cartoon book reviews & many more.
http://goo.gl/d2mUv
StopryWheel (unauthenticated)
Jun 21, 2011
A new education game for the iPhone and iPad was recently released called "Story Wheel". It is an interactive game that helps kids build their imagination as they create new stories. Players spin the story wheel and land on an image, they then have 30 seconds to record a portion of a story that is built upon by the other players. At the end of the game, you can play back your story while you enjoy the beautifully animated images.
Best of all, it is free and available on the app store.
itunes.apple.com/app/id437068725
The Website is
storywheelapp.com
And a video can be found here.
youtu.be/4Nsr0xjCEpA
Megan (unauthenticated)
Jun 8, 2011
Try Math Ninja Lite for math practice---so much fun, and free!
Joan Young (unauthenticated)
May 29, 2011
My students LOVE mathboard and Fractions! It's great that kids are "asking" to practice skills and build fluency.
John Shoemaker
Mar 2, 2011
Hi Jenni. We are unsure of the cost of the cost because the cost changes too often on the App store. In addition, each app is not installed on all of our costs. This was just a comprehensive list.
Jenni Voorhees (unauthenticated)
Mar 2, 2011
Any estimate on total cost of this collection of apps? I assume you can load each app on 5 ipads.
Melissa McBride
Dec 1, 2010
MotionMath looks very cool. Thanks for the tip Max!
Melissa
Max (unauthenticated)
Oct 14, 2010
Hello John,
Check out Motion Math - fun fractions game.
John Shoemaker
Sep 9, 2010
Thank you, we will look into that one too!
Paul (unauthenticated)
Sep 9, 2010
You might want to add MathBoard. Fantastic app for kids to practice math.