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Elementary

20th Century American History:
Timeline Game, you pick where the event goes on the timeline.

 

iLearn Geography:

Students learning about natural and man made landmarks  interactive geography tool

 

Geography Quiz Game:  Multiplayer (application)


Stack the State: Answer questions about states and choose the correct state.


Fingerprint (age 5-8) 
 

Clever Crazes:  Learn about you and your money explore facts about our economy k-8

 

Time Traveler:  Exploring facts about American History

 

World Book:  This Day in History

 

Comics in the classroom: graphic novels concept, learn about history with humor.
(age 12+)

 

Early Jamestown: informative, interactive graphics  and videos, amazing maps.

 

Bull Run Battle App:  Study and interactive
 

Westward Expansion:  Includes Lewis and Clark and cause/effect of expansion.
 

Lincolntelegrams:  telegrams for Lincoln


My Congress:  Branches of government and current office


CIA World Factbook:  Statistics for every country Phenomenal Resources ($1.99)  Also on the web for free.

 

Stuck on Earth:  Virtual Field Trips

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Worth a Look:

 

Finding Sums:  10 Frames find all the combinations of 10.  (5-20,100)  Application K-5


Sushi Monster:  Fact knowledge and computational flexibility (10 is 8+2)

 

Splash Math: (K)

For visual learners, problem solving, practice basic math skills, monitor learning progress. (knowledge level)

 

I Can Count:  Sudents count a group of objects and choose quanity.  (counting and number id) 
(knowledge level)

 

Equivalent Fraction:  Student must create 3 equivalent fractions, and shows them on a number line. (Grades 3-5)

 

Tell Time:  Students matchup digital and analog clocks. (Grades 3-5)

 

Math vs. Zombie:  Students practice addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.  (Grades 3-5)

 

Reckoning (3rd grade and up)
Order of operations (Blooms Application level)

 

Math Tappers:  (K-1)

Students find sums and combinations to 10
(Knowledge level)

 

Clock Master: (Grade 1-2)

Student tells time to the hour, 1/2 hour, 1/4 hour and to the minute.  (knowledge level)

 

Montessori Math:  (K-1)
Number Sequence that is at the (knowledge level)

 

Nanzoo Clock:  (K-2)
Analog to digital and this digital to analog time.

 

Math Bugs: (K-5)

Students work with place value.

 

Questimate! (K-5)
Students work with problem solving and estimation.  Create questions and estimate the answers. (Application level)

 

Math Concentration:  (preK-5)
Student match to equivalent representations of whole numbers (+/-/x) This app was created by the NCTM and can be teacher controlled.  (knowledge level)

 

Myscript calculator:  Performs math operations using your own handwriting. Great for self assessment, students can write the problem and it is checked. 
(knowledge  & application level)

 

Apps They Like:

 

Okta's Rescue:  (k-1)

NCTM authored app that group objects to form numbers.
 

Tell Time: (K-2)

Multi level app that can be adjusted manually.

 

Banana Math: (K-2)

Addition and subtraction app.

 

Find Sums: (1-2)  Uses Ten Frames to find the sums

 

Arithmetic Invaders: (K-2) Counting On

 

Fraction Circles (2nd-3rd)
Good Intro Level

 

Jungle Coins (1-2)

 

Reading the Ruler (2-3)

 

Farmers Market (making change) (2-3)

 

Math Concentration (K-5)  Created by NCTM
 

Fill the Cup (1-5)

Various equivalent numbers  and shares ways to make fractions with manipulatives.

 

Portion Platter (fractions and decimals) (4-5)

 

 

 



 

Secondary:

Calculator Made Easy:  

Great and can use for everything math related

 

NASA Sector 33:  
Students justify changes in flight data. Then write an essay describing/defending why your flight plan won.  Real world use of geometry embedded in air traffice control game
(great for application/analysis)

 

King of Math: (all CC strands)  Practice, Assess, centers, RTI, Mental Math grades 6-8

 

 Math Champ Challenge: (all CC strands)  Practice, Assess, centers, RTI, Mental Math grades 6-7

 

Easy Measure:
Students analyze how they think the app is working.  They also can use this app to measure. (application & analysis)

 

Visual Algebra Puzzle:

Student take an alegebraic funciton and make it a visual. (Evaluation)

 

Middle School Math:
This is a user friendly app that could replace flash cards.

 

Number Line:
This App teaches students about fractions, percents, integeres, etc.  with number lines. This could be used to reinforce and review.

 

Factor Samurai:  ($)

Students are given composite number and then they slash to get prime number.

Science Elementary:

Science Secondary:

CDC: Outbreak 
Students solve the outbreak

 

Science 360:  HUGE!  video, pictures, articles, NSF

 

Middle School Science:  8th grade

A game to review concepts for the standardized test.

 

AstroApp:  Space shuttle crew/missions, there are biographies, NF reading, etc.

 

Snurflemeoisis & Genetics:  Studying genetics, punnett square

 

Go SKY watch: live update of night sky

 

Mahjong-chem:  Match compound to oxidation number

 

Essential Skeleton 2:  Skeleton construction.

 

Hudson Alpha-iCells:

Teaches the organelles in the cells use for presenations, reinforcement, and review.

 

Across the Curriculum

A Life Cycle: ($.99)
Great for the early learner, they learn about pollination, water cycle, life cycles.

 

Brain Pop and Brain Pop Jr.  

 

Science 4kids volume 1:  the text book but has read aloud options.

 

Insects A-Z:  Gives a different insect for each letter, and provides an illustration and real photos.

 

Energy Hogs:  Keep homes more eficient by preventing hogs from eating electricity (like angry birds kids will love)

 

Recycle Hero:  fun games in a make-believe world that teaches kids many recycling concepts 

 

Pocket Penguins:  Watch them in real time, great for observing live animals, and collecting live data.

 

Tinker Box:  Students build items.

 

JogNog:  Quiz for every curriculum standard (multi-curricular)

 

Physics for kids:  Learning physics through pictures and cartoons.

 

Moon:  great for moon phases

 

 

 

 

 

Free Books:

23,000 +classics can read nook, kindle, 

Use if classic hard copies aren't available

 

Storia:  Lots of interactive books

(k-5)

 

ReadSmart:

When you search you will find
leveled readers from A_Z reading

(K-5)

 

English Idioms Illustrated:
Students learn about the  
origins of idioms,
there are pictures for visual learners.

This app is at a knowledge level.

 

Daily Grammar:

These would be great for a bell-ringer or DOL,

This app is at a knowledge level.

 

Story Starters:  This app gives picture prompts for writing topics.

 

ABC Magic 2:  ABC's with picture correspondence and it reads the word to them.

 

Reading Eggs:  Great for sight words!  (K)

Alphabet Find:  Great for letter identification

 

Furious Frogs:

Synonyms and antonyms with group play.

 

Comparative Adjectives- 40 + adjusts to needs

 

Grammar Jammers:  Explains parts of speech with song (grades 1-3)

 

Jumbled Sentences:  (Grades 1-3)
This app gives them several words and then student can make sentences from those words.  

 

ABC Cursive: (Grades 2+)

Students can tace dots to form cursive letters.

 

The Poetry App: (Grades 3-5)

Famous Poets and their poems

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Creation Apps:   
 

Strip Designer:  ($1.99)

Students take photos, make comic strips.  they can use this to tell stories and work on dialogue. 

This app can be use for the knowledge, application, comprehension, and synthesis levels.

 

Audioboo:

This app allows students to listen to and create their own podcasts. Students can read along, sing along, and look at the stories for kids.   This app can reach different level of Blooms.  

 

Scribble My Story:

Students create their own books.  They can illustrate the book and have options to text.  it will read to them, and there is an independent or family option. You can even record your voice in your stories. This stories can also be purchased as a book if desired.

 

Puppet Pals:  Student creates own stories with graphics or student pictures

 

Dragon Dictation:  Turns talk to text.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Word Smart:  (FREE)

This app allows students to prepare for ACT.  Very similar to the ACT test.  This would be great for practice in and out of class.

 

Swipe Speare (FREE)

all of shakespeare works can read in modern or old English

 

Mad Libs:

This is good for independent or whole group.  This free app gives 63 stories.

 

 

 

 

 

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