Video Creation Apps
News Apps
Creative Writing Apps
Trading Card
Free
Create trading cards for any number of categories. Each category has specific guiding questions for creating a dynamic, information-rich trading card. Summarizing skills are critical as they drill down to the most important information to fit on the card. In addition, they become aware of writing for an audience because they can share their cards with others.
Watch 1-minute video
Click here to link to lesson plans for this app.
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Word Mover
Free
Word Mover allows children and teens to create “ poetry” by choosing from word banks and existing famous works; additionally, users can add new words to create a piece of poetry by manipulating the
text. Features of the app highlighted in this 1-minute video
Click here to link to lesson plans for this app.
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Things to Think About
Kids’ Things to Think About provides 100 prompts to spark thinking for written responses and encourage conversations about ideas and issues for kids. Created by students and teachers in Michigan, it can be used in classrooms or with families by allowing children to explore the prompts and by using them to guide a discussion or lesson.
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Make Beliefs Comix
Make Beliefs Comix provides comic strip making fun for kids of all ages. Tap into your rich imagination to create your own world and stories with help from the easy-to-use comic strip generator.
Reference Apps
Whiteboard Apps
Sight Word Work
PhotoTouch Sight Words
Free
Features:
* Add your own voice
* Add your own items – take pictures of favorite items to make the game more fun and personal
* Learn by sight, sound, and touch
* Uses real, crisp child friendly fonts that are easy to read
* Adjust difficulty (the number of objects per page)
* Multi-sensory learning tool – combining audio, voice, and written words
* Multi-language support – since you can edit existing items and add new items, you can record everything in your native tongue
* Sights words are neatly organized by level including preschool, kindergarten, first grade, second grade, and third grade
* Add your own voice
* Add your own items – take pictures of favorite items to make the game more fun and personal
* Learn by sight, sound, and touch
* Uses real, crisp child friendly fonts that are easy to read
* Adjust difficulty (the number of objects per page)
* Multi-sensory learning tool – combining audio, voice, and written words
* Multi-language support – since you can edit existing items and add new items, you can record everything in your native tongue
* Sights words are neatly organized by level including preschool, kindergarten, first grade, second grade, and third grade
Other Favorites
Wi-Fi Transfer
Free
Tutorial available below
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Skype
Free
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Brain Pop, Jr.
Free
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Word Work/ Vocabulary Apps
Digital Storytelling Apps
Brainstorming/ Organizing Ideas/ Graphic Organizers
Puzzles/ Games/ Brain Exercizers
Math
Classroom Management
Science
Simple Rockets
Design your own rocket ships. Choose and connect parts together to build rocket ships. You can choose from a variety of rocket engines, fuel tanks, and other gizmos. Several challenges are built into the game so you can compete with other humans from around the world to see who can go the fastest, fly the farthest, orbit with the least amount of fuel, land on the moon, and much more.
Mastery Connect Apps
NWEA
ThinkCentral- Journeys/ Go Math!
ELL/ Translator Apps
QR Code Readers
(Nice to have 2 on an ipad in case one doesn't work for the code you are wanting to scan)
Web Proxy
(Needed to use Compass Learning on the iPad)
Puffin Academy
Puffin Academy is needed to use Compass Learning
on the ipad.
on the ipad.