top10-apps-2013-2014

= Top 10 Apps for 2013-2014 =

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Early Childhood

 * ** Another Monster at the End of This Book ** // (reading)  //
 * Grover tries to keep kids from getting closer to the end of the book. Elmo asks for kids’ help to slip past Grover. Build vocabulary with engaging activities. ** ($3.99) **
 * **Breathe, Think, Do with Sesame** // (life skills) //
 * Help a Sesame Street friend learn to deal with everyday challenges. Kids help the monster cope with problems by calming down, coming up with a plan, & trying the plan. ** (free) **
 * **Endless Alphabet** // (phonics) //
 * Build students’ vocabulary & help them learn their ABC’s. Each word has a puzzle with talking letters & animations over the definition of the word. ** ($6.99) **
 * **Endless Numbers** // (math) //
 * Kids are introduced to counting & basic addition with the Endless monsters. ** (free) **
 * **FingerWorks: Amazing** // (game) //
 * This is a great visual app that requires simple touch to interact, & cause and effect. Effects that can be created are rocket, sparkle, power fingers, energy flow, atomic, & more. ** (free/$1.99) **
 * **Intro to Math, by Montessorium** // (math)  //
 * Learn to read, write & understand numbers from zero to nine through a series of interactive, guided & challenging activities. ** ($4.99) **
 * **MosaicHD** // (game) //
 * Boards with patterns in a grid style layout, & pins that are used to complete the board. It requires very simple motor skills, & also engages the mind & brain. ** (iPad - $1.99) **
 * ** Pocket Playground – Play With Friends ** // (game)  //
 * Kids play with friends at a playground & help them have fun. Teach kids about the emotions of others & how to treat their friends. ** (free) **
 * **Sago Mini Bug Builder** // (game) //
 * Toddlers & preschoolers hatch, design, play, feed, & clean their own little bug. ** (free) **
 * **Scribble My Story** // (storytelling)  //
 * Preschoolers & early elementary students can become a little author, & illustrate their own stories. 6 stories included. ** (iPad – free/$2.99) **

Elementary

 * **Book Creator** // (storytelling) //
 * Create storybooks & share to iBooks. We have a first grade teacher that uses this app with her class to create both class books & individual books. ** (iPad – free/$4.99) **
 * ** ChatterPix Kids ** // (multimedia) //
 * Take a picture, add a mouth, & record your message! Absolutely the easiest animated voice app! Great for K-2 age students. ** (free) **
 * ** Educreations Interactive Whiteboard ** // (productivity) //
 * Create & share lessons, by recording your voice while on your iPad. We have teachers using these apps to have students talk about how they are solving math problems. ** (iPad – free) **
 * **Fotobabble** // (multimedia) //
 * Snap or select a photo, record voice, & share! It’s that easy! This would be a powerful tool to use as a reflection piece after a field trip or a science experiment. ** (iPhone – free) **
 * **Math Slicer** // (math) //
 * Students love practicing their math facts with this app. They will solve math problems & slice the answer by using their finger. ** (free/$0.99) **
 * ** Sight Words Ninja ** // (reading) //
 * Students will want to practice reading those sight words with this app. They are asked to slice sight words by using their finger on the iPad screen. ** (free) **
 * ** Skitch ** // (productivity) //
 * Snap a picture, mark it up, add labels, & share! Can be used in various subject areas, such as math or science. Students can label parts of a flower or label the perimeter of an image. ** (free) **
 * **Tell About This** // (storytelling) //
 * Allow students time to explore, respond to pictures, & capture their voice responses to image prompts. This app reinforces storytelling, reading fluency, & retelling. ** (iPad – free/$2.99) **
 * ** Write About This ** // (writing)  //
 * Students will enjoy exploring & responding to pictures & writing their response. This app reinforces storytelling, creativity, sentence structure, & voice. ** ( **** iPad – free/$3.99) **
 * **YAKiT Kids** // (multimedia) //
 * Snap or select a photo, add a mouth, record your message, & play it back. There is an option to change the voice pitch & add more than one scene. ** (iPhone – free) **

Primary Language Arts

 * **ABC Phonics Animals Writing**
 * Preschoolers can practice their handwriting by spelling & tracing animal names with connecting the dots. Letter stroke guidance animations included. **(iPad – free/$2.99)**
 * **Endless Reader**
 * A terrific app that expands the vocabulary of your students by using sight words, letter sounds, & animation to provide a fun way to help students remember the definition of a word. **(free)**
 * **Little Matchups ABC**
 * An interactive matching game for preschoolers that matches letters & sounds together. Fully customizable. **(free)**
 * **Shadow Puppet**
 * Students choose photos, & narrate their story. They can also interact with the photos while recording. **(free)**
 * **Sight Words Ninja**
 * Students will slice their way through sight words from preschool to 3 rd grade. **(free)**
 * **SparkleFish**
 * Ad-lib stories where students are given grammar prompts (ex: noun, adjective, number, etc…) & record their words for voice playback. **(free)**
 * **The Opposites**
 * An antonym matching word game, where students have to match up pairs of words with their opposite meaning before the screen fills up. **(free)**
 * **Toontastic**
 * A great storytelling app where students can animate, draw, & create their own cartoons. It allows students to create 5 scenes to follow a story arc & select music based on the mood of the scene. **(iPad – free/$19.99)**
 * **Word Clouds by ABCYa.com**
 * Create, customize, & share beautiful word clouds. A word cloud is a visual representation of the most common words in a passage of text. **(iPad – free)**
 * **Writing Prompts for Kids**
 * Help students spark their creative writing. Just tap a situation, a character, a setting, & an object to get started. Includes a built-in thesaurus. **($1.99)**

Primary Math

 * **[|Interactive Telling Time] **
 * For young students who are just starting to learn how to tell time. Convert from analog to digital, puzzles to learn parts of the clock, setting the time, stop the clock, & more. **(free/$2.99)**
 * **[|Measure Length – Tiny Chicken] **
 * A simple game where students measure 6 different zoo animals with a ruler. A good app for preschoolers & students just starting to use a ruler. **(free)**
 * **[|Meerkat Math] **
 * With multiple levels & 8 games to choose from, this app gets students to practice their math facts in video game style. Choose from the Hurdle Chase, Magnet Escape, Egg Mania & more. **(free/$1.99)**
 * **[|Motion Math: Wings] **
 * A fun & challenging game practicing multiplication facts, but in a visual way by comparing expressions through a variety of ways. **(free/$6.99)**
 * **[|Oh No Fractions!] **
 * Helps students with comparing fractions by seeing the visual differences. **(free/$0.99)**
 * **[|Slice It!] **
 * Helps students understand symmetry by having them slice shapes into equal parts. **(free/$0.99)**
 * **[|Sushi Monster] **
 * Students increase their speed with creating equations in addition & multiplication with sushi eating monsters. **(free)**
 * **[|Telling Time Quiz]**
 * Students choose the right clock from a choice of multiple clocks within a time limit. As they master a level, the game advances to the next level with more clocks to choose from. **(free)**
 * **[|Toy Store Delivery Truck] **
 * Preschoolers practice sorting & counting with loading, delivering, & unloading toys onto & off of a toy truck. **(free/$0.99)**
 * **[|VersaMate] **
 * A strategy game that uses fractions to move your monster around the board to get the most fraction tiles. **(iPad – free/$4.99)**

Primary Science

 * **Cargo-Bot **
 * Teach kids simple principles of programing with this fun & challenging logic game. Students have to program a robot arm to move crates from one point to another, with each task more complex than the last. **(iPad – free)**
 * **Creatures of Light **
 * From the American Museum of Natural History, this is a companion app for their exhibit, //Creatures of Light: Nature’s Bioluminescence//. This app takes a close look at organisms that produce light. Includes interactive animations, images, & videos. **(iPad – free)**
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Eat-And-Move-O-Matic **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Have students learn about the foods they eat & how they help fuel their body with different activities. **(free)**
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Galaxies by KIDS DISCOVER**
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">KIDS DISCOVER has a series of interactive iPad apps for elementary students. The Galaxies app allows students to tour the Milky Way, travel through galaxies, & more with interactive activities. **(iPad – free)**
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**GrowthCam**
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Create an animation of a plant growing & more. Create a project, take photos, & create a video. This app also has a built-in timer to remind students when to take another picture for their project. **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(iPhone – free) **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Happy Little Farmer**
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Teach the life cycle of plants, from preparing the soil & planting a seed, to maintaining the care of a plant. Great for young students. **(free/$2.99)**
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Paintng with Time**
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Select an image, & paint it with the different seasons. Watch as the images of nature turns from spring to winter. A companion app is **Painting with Time: Climate Change** ($1.99). **($0.99)**
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Pettson's Inventions 1**
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students put together parts of an invention to make it work. An app to work with simple machines, & gives students a chance to experiment. Companion apps, the more challenging **Pettson's Inventions 2** (free/$2.99), & **Pettson's Inventions Deluxe** ( iPad – $3.99), which is 1 & 2 combined. **(free/$2.99)**
 * **Smash Your Food**
 * Students get to figure out how much sugar, salt, & oil are in foods like French fries, soda, corn dogs, & more. **(free/$2.99)**
 * **WWF Together**
 * An interactive app that allows students to get a closer look at endangered animals with stunning images. **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(iPad – free) **

Primary Social Studies

 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Aliens Abducted **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Help the little aliens learn about the different countries by collecting the flags to unlock arcade style games to help the aliens escape. **(free/$2.99/$4.99)**
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Counting Around the World **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Preschoolers learn how to count by going on a global adventure. They can watch videos, play music, & more by visiting friends in other counties. **(free)**
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Fingerprint: Whole Wide World **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Another app for preschoolers who travel around the world by playing simple games to learn fun facts about different countries. **(free/$2.99)**
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">National Geographic Today **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">View new gorgeous photos daily from around the world with news, videos, quizzes, & articles. **(iPad** <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> – <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**free)**
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">News-O-Matic, Daily Reading for Kids **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Covers relevant news of the day in a fun, engaging way for students. Students can explore images, videos, & games related to the article. Geared towards 3 rd & 4 th grade readers. Three free trail issues, before purchase of a subscription. **(iPad – free/$19.99)**
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">One Globe Kids **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Learn about other countries from the kids that live there. This app includes simple phrases & counting in different languages, with students being able to record themselves. **(free/$12.99)**
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Presidents vs. Aliens **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students learn facts about our nation's presidents to defeat the aliens. **(free/$0.99)**
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Stack the States **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Learn information about the individual states of the United States in a fun toppling game of state recognition. **(free/$0.99)**
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Touchable Earth **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students can learn about other countries from kids, by watching videos to explore the culture & lifestyle. **(free/$2.99)**
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What is my job? **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Preschoolers will enjoy learning about the different kind of jobs found in their community through flash cards & a matching game. **(free)**

Middle School

 * ** Barefoot World Atlas ** // (geography) //
 * A free atlas app that not only tells about countries from around the world, but also their famous landmarks & events. Everything is found by touch a symbol or flag & then it gives information about the area you touched. ** (free) **
 * **Calcul8** // (math) //
 * This is not just another calculator app. It also helps you calculate percentages, sale prices, gratuities, loans, & more. ** (iPhone - $1.99) **
 * ** Eighty-Eight ** // (logic) //
 * This app is one that makes students think about what strategy will gain them the most points. Students place numbers in a grid using several strategies at once. ** ($0.99) **
 * ** Goodreads ** // (reading) //
 * This app is for all booklovers. It allows students to keep their own booklist & have discussions about books with friends & authors. ** (free) **
 * ** Google+ ** // (collaboration) //
 * This can be used as an alternative to using Skype to talk to classrooms around the world. ** (free) **
 * ** Google Drive ** // (productivity) //
 * This app can be used on multiple devices to create documents, spreadsheets or drawings & other projects with kids. ** (free) **
 * **HISTORY Here** // (social studies) //
 * This is a History Channel App that shows several historic sites & gives info about those sites near whatever city or state that you tell it to go to. ** ( **** iPhone – free) **
 * ** Kindle ** // (reading) //
 * This app is a great eReader for all mobile devices. You need an Amazon account to purchase books, which can be stored in the cloud & downloaded to several devices. ** (free) **
 * ** Stack the States ** // (social studies) //
 * A fun game that uses groups of states that kids need to identify & stack up to play the game that goes with the app. ** (free/$0.99) **
 * **Weather Now** // (science) //
 * Check the weather anywhere in the world & get current conditions as well as the forecast for the next week. It has an interactive globe that you can find cities on or you can search for cities as well. ** (free/$0.99) **

High School

 * **AudioNote** // (productivity) //
 * Record notes & audio at the same time. Better yet, have the audio synced with your notes. Insert text, drawings, photos, & highlight notes. ** (free/$4.99) **
 * **Diptic** // (creativity tool) //
 * Easy to create & share picture collages, either of activities in your classroom or student projects on characters, events, & concepts. ** ($0.99) **
 * **Duolingo** // (world languages) //
 * See it, hear it, write it, translate it; earn points, set goals, & practice in short increments while waiting in line or going through the car wash. ** (free/$2.99) **
 * ** Halftone 2 ** // (comic creator) //
 * Turn your photos into a comic page. Which is a fun way for students to share learning in any subject area. ** ($2.99) **
 * **Journalized** // (composition) //
 * Nice clean journal look for a more attractive or engaging way to keep notes & incorporate photos. Will also share entries easily and sync with Evernote. ** ( **** iPhone – free) **
 * ** Paper by FiftyThree ** // (creative tool/productivity) //
 * A beautiful drawing & painting app that allows students to create sketchbooks. Can be used to create notes, make sketches, & brainstorm to stay organized. ** ( **** iPad – free) **
 * ** Remind101 ** // (communication) //
 * Easy way to communicate with students & parents on their terms while not having to trade phone numbers, email addresses or screen names. ** (free) **
 * ** Skitch ** // (productivity) //
 * There are seven simple tools to mark up images for analysis. Whether images are from film/theatre, personal snapshots for art class, historical images. ** (free) **
 * ** Stop Motion Studio ** // (creativity tool) //
 * Stop motion is fun to watch, but can be overwhelming to produce. This app, in its free form, keeps the process relatively simple, but polished. ** (free/$4.99) **
 * ** Twitter ** // (social networking) //
 * Use this platform as a learning tool to share tidbits with students & colleagues; publicize what's going on in your classroom; follow professional mentors/organizations, posting assignment reminders & pop trivia. ** (free) **

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Secondary Language Arts

 * **A Novel Idea**
 * Have students plot their stories by adding in details of their characters, locations, scenes, ideas, & novels (theme, tone, POV, etc…) to link them together. **(free)**
 * **Classical Contraption**
 * This game style app helps students memorize & familiarize them with poetry. **(free/$0.99)**
 * **Flowboard**
 * Flowboard can be used to teach students about the design of a composition by creating an interactive presentation using images, PDFs, video, & typed texts. **(iPad – free)**
 * **Haiku Deck**
 * Create beautiful slide presentations with built-in templates. Haiku Deck limits how much text can be placed on the slides, to help students focus on the content. **(free)**
 * **Peer Edit**
 * Provide comprehensive & prompt review of a student’s work by selecting from a preloaded checklist. No uploads are needed, but instead constructive feedback is emailed to the student. **($4.99)**
 * **Presentation Timer+**
 * Students can create a time limit for each section of a presentation with alerts to help them manage their time for the delivery of information. **(iPhone – free)**
 * **Spelling Notebook**
 * Create words lists with dictation & games for practice. Results are kept & can be emailed to a teacher with percentages & spellings used. **(free/$0.99)**
 * **SwipeSpeare – Modern Shakespeare **
 * This app translates the words of Shakespeare with a swipe of a finger from the original text to a more modern style. Also included is a dictionary to help with more translation activities. **(free/$29.99)**
 * **Winning Words – Synonym, Antonym, Homophone Match**
 * A series of apps that features a matching, memory style vocabulary game. 3 levels of difficulty are included making it a great app for multiple grade levels. **(iPad – free)**
 * **Writing Prompts**
 * This app randomly generates writing prompts from five categories – sketches, scenes, texts, words, & news. **($1.99/$4.99)**

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Secondary Math

 * **<span style="color: #333399; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|5 Dice: Order of Operations Game] **
 * <span style="color: #111111; font-family: arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif;">An order of operations game using dice. A challenging way for students to build & solve math equations. **(free)**
 * **<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Algebra Touch] **
 * <span style="color: #111111; font-family: arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif;">Students can solve complex equations by interacting with the equation itself. **<span style="color: #111111; font-family: arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif;">($2.99) **
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|BallparkIt] **
 * <span style="color: #111111; font-family: arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif;">Students can test their estimating skills by solving right triangle problems. **(iPhone – $1.99)**
 * **<span style="color: #333399; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Fraction Calculator] **
 * <span style="color: #111111; font-family: arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif;">A calculator designed just to solve equations with fractions. This app also supports improper fractions to help students check their work. **(free/$0.99)**
 * **<span style="color: #333399; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Geoboard] **
 * <span style="color: #111111; font-family: arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif;">A virtual geoboard complete with colored rubber bands. Students can build & explore geometric figures in a creative way. **(free)**
 * **<span style="color: #333399; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|iCrosss] **
 * <span style="color: #111111; font-family: arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif;">Students can observe shapes in 3D & manipulate by cutting & pulling the objects into two pieces. **<span style="color: #111111; font-family: arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif;">(free/$0.99) **
 * <span style="color: #111111; font-family: arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif;">**<span style="color: #333399; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Meta Calculator] **
 * One of the most comprehensive & user-friendly graphing calculators available. Can perform simple math operations, graph equations, perform scientific calculations, as well as work with statistics & matrices. **(free/$2.99)**
 * <span style="color: #111111; font-family: arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif;">**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Quick Math+] **
 * Four leveled games where students write on the screen to practice quick recall with keeping track of their scores for improvement. **(free/$1.99)**
 * <span style="color: #111111; font-family: arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif;">**<span style="color: #333399; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Solve - A scientific & graphing calculator] **
 * This app solves expressions as the student types, & features a memory system to store & recall answers with four different colored calculators. Also plots graphs in 2D & 3D. **($2.99)**
 * <span style="color: #111111; font-family: arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif;">**<span style="color: #333399; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Virtual Manipulatives!] **
 * Virtual math manipulatives that students can compare fractions, decimals, & percents. Students can also write on the screen to help solve a problem. **(iPad – free)**

Secondary Science

 * **Build a Body**
 * 6 complete body systems. Drag & drop major organ systems to their correct position within the human body. **(iPad – free)**
 * **Elements - Periodic Table Element Quiz**
 * Periodic table & element quiz with two modes of gameplay. Choose either matching symbol to name or name to symbol. Includes zoomable periodic table. **(iPhone –** **free)**
 * **Essential Skeleton**
 * This app covers the essential anatomy of the human skeleton using 3D technology. There is a companion app, //Essential Anatomy// for $19.99. **(iPad – free)**
 * **Exoplanet**
 * An exoplanet is a planet orbiting stars beyond our own solar system. This app is an interactive catalogue of known exoplanets & is updated when new discoveries are made. **(free)**
 * **NASA Earth as Art**
 * Stunning satellite images provide new perspective of our planet Earth. Features time-lapse images of location on Earth undergoing significant change. **(iPad – free)**
 * **Project Noah**
 * A platform to collaborative, explore, & document wildlife in your community. 3 modes – Spotting, Location-based Field Guide, & Field Missions. Visit their website at ** www.projectnoah.org ** . **(iPhone – free)**
 * **SimplePhysics**
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Use your engineering skills to build complex structures from tree houses to submarines, but remember to stay under budget. **($1.99)**
 * **Skitch**
 * From Evernote, Skitch allows you to annotate images & documents with arrows, stamps, shapes, text, & more. Annotate a PDF & photo. Share over email or sync with your Evernote account. **(free)**
 * **Solve the Outbreak**
 * Be a disease investigator by solving clues & analyzing data. Do you quarantine the sick? Check lab results? Move quickly to save lives. From the CDC. **(iPad – free)**
 * **Visual Anatomy**
 * An interactive reference tool using Grays anatomy. High-resolution images & feature points which are labeled with short descriptions. Quiz included. **(free/$1.99)**

Secondary Social Studies

 * **Civic Quotes**
 * Quotes from political & historical figures of America, with images of primary sources. A question accompanies each quote to ask students to interpret the quote & civic issue being said. **(iPad – free)**
 * **EarthViewer**
 * A time machine for exploring the ancient history of Earth by seeing what it looked like billions of years ago. Add layers of data such as temperature, biodiversity, day length, & more. **(iPad – free)**
 * **Fotopedia Heritage**
 * In cooperation with the UNESCOWorld Heritage Centre, students can access 30,000 inspiring photos from around the world to celebrate its cultural diversity. **(free)**
 * **inClass**
 * Create & share class notebooks. Take text, audio, & video notes, along with setting reminders & tasks all in one app. **(free)**
 * **Interactive Graph of a Competitive Market**
 * Demand & supply is studied in every economics class. In this app students can study a demand & supply graph by making changes to the variables. Exercises are included. **(free)**
 * **Pocket Law Firm**
 * Great way for students to learn the amendments to Bill of Rights. Decide if clients have a right to a trail, match them with the right lawyer with the amendment expertise, & win the case. **(iPad – free)**
 * **Show of Hands**
 * A real-time, anonymous polling tool over public questions & opinions from the U.S. Congress to MIT. Students can submit their own questions & see the results within a national map. **(free)**
 * **Smithsonian Channel**
 * Explore hundreds of videos over art, space, science, nature, culture, & history, & more from the Smithsonian. **(//iPhone/////iPad//** **–** **free)**
 * **Stats of the Union**
 * Have students make their own conclusions over different demographics, health, births, diseases & more. **(iPad – free)**
 * **Timeline Eons**
 * A timeline with facts & photos over events in our world. The timeline can be expanded &/or condensed to allow students to see sequences of events. Explore topics over natural, world, & U.S. history. **(free/$6.99)**

SPED Learners

 * ** ASL Dictionary ** // (speech & language therapy) //
 * Does exactly what it says it does. Also includes great videos that model ASL signs. ** ($4.99/$6.99) **
 * ** Avokiddo Emotions ** // (life skills) //
 * Teach kids about emotions with helping them learn how to read expressions & body language. Three animal characters do this with lots of props. Dress them up & watch their reaction. ** ($2.99) **
 * ** Conversation Social Stories & PECS Communication Tool ** // (life skills) //
 * This app helps show your student how to have a conversation based on where they are & what they are trying to do. ** ($3.99) **
 * ** Cut the Buttons ** // (fine motor skills) //
 * Great for fine motor development, does not mirror a typical scissor hold but must use two fingers to “cut” buttons off pockets as they are moving around on the screen. ** ($0.99/$1.99) **
 * ** DialSafe Pro ** // (life skills) //
 * Helps children learn how to dial important numbers, like 911 & other numbers added by parents. ** (free) **
 * **IF…** // (game) //
 * A role-playing game that practices social & emotional learning by interacting with characters, rebuilding Greenberry, & saving & collecting the Zim. ** (iPad – free) **
 * ** Model Me Going Places 2 ** // (life skills) //
 * An app that builds social skills with 6 sets of narrated photos that demonstrate appropriate & expected behaviors at different locations. ** (free) **
 * ** My Video Schedule ** // (life skills) //
 * 100+ photos & videos with step-by-step instructions for scheduled activities & behaviors. You can also add a photo or video of your own to supplement the library. ** (iPhone – $4.99)  **
 * ** Petting Zoo – Animal Animations ** // (game)  //
 * Play with 21 animals & see what they do when you tap them. Musical sounds & funny animations are used for each animal. (Ex – Can a dog breakdance? What would an elephant do in your bathroom?) ** ($2.99) **
 * **SlowTunes** // (music) //
 * A music player that lets you slow down the song without changing the pitch. Helps children keep up with their favorite song & to sing along at their pace. ** (iPhone - $1.99) **

Speech & Language Therapy

 * **Clicker Docs**
 * A child-friendly keyboard that has a built-in word prediction & recognizes phonetic spelling. It has text to speech, customized word banks, & students can share their writing through Dropbox. **(iPad – $28.99)**
 * **Cookie Next Door - Rainy Days**
 * Students become voice actors for the animated characters. They can then record their voice & tell an imaginative story. **(iPad – free)**
 * **Enchanted Dictionary 7-12th Grade**
 * Learn core vocabulary for Science, Social Studies, Math, & Language Arts. This app helps to focus on word definitions while students put the words in order. Also available, **//Enchanted Dictionary 4-6th Grade//**. **(iPad – $1.99)**
 * **Endless Alphabet**
 * Build students vocabulary with monsters. Each word has a game putting the letters in order, sounds, & animation over the definition. **($3.99)**
 * **Little Finder**
 * Using text & audio, this hidden object game helps little ones race to find the matching photo to build their vocabulary. Can be played with 2 players at once. **(free)**
 * **Phonics Tic-Tac-Toe Interactive Game**
 * Exploring phonic sounds while playing the classic game tic-tac-toe. **(free)**
 * **SentenceBuilderTeen**
 * Helps students learn how to build a grammatically correct sentence using themed images. **(iPad – $5.99)**
 * **Toontastic**
 * A great storytelling app where students can animate, draw, & create their own cartoons. It allows students to create 5 scenes to follow a story arc & select music based on the mood of the scene. **(iPod – free/$19.99)**
 * **Touch the Sound**
 * Using 4 pictures, students need to choose which image made the sound. **(free)**
 * **Videolicious**
 * Use this app for digital storytelling with your students. A simple video creator app that allows students to use photos or videos to create narrated videos. Have students practice sequencing, articulation, & more. //<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(Thanks to **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">SpeechTechie **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> for the great idea.) //**(free)**

//Last Updated - April 2014//