Apps Corner

For this assignment you choose one of the following apps or another educational App that you are familiar with to present in class.

Early Childhood

1. Nursery Rhymes with StoryTime

This app is a magical book that allows children to play with Humpty Dumpty, Jack & Jill, Three Blind Mice and other classic nursery rhyme characters. It includes a feature called StoryTime which lets you read the book to a loved one from anywhere in the world.

2. Intro to Letters by Montessorium

Help your child learn to trace, read, write, and pronounce letters and phonograms using the proven methodology of Montessori. A special recording section helps your children learn sounds, phonograms, and names.

3. Tic Tac Math Universal

Kids love Tic Tac Math Universal because it’s a game that they know how to play and it’s fun. Parents and teachers understand that a game that is fun, familiar and educational. This unique app combines the time-tested and kid approved favorite Tic Tac Toe game with math equations for an educationally fun experience.

4. LETTERS A TO Z

This app is a simple and quiet alphabet sequence. At first glance it looks like you’re only going to get letters on a card, but don’t forget to touch the letters and the pictures. The letters will be read to you and the pictures have a bit of animation.

5. Dictionary.com

This easy-to-use app features a search bar, thesaurus, search history and word of the day. This is a great app for teaching antonyms, synonyms, sequencing, and word recognition.

6. Spanish Tutor

Introduce or help your kids review Spanish with this app that features native speaker audio, puzzles, written tests, flash cards, and a multiple choice quiz.

7. Textropolis

Travel world-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.

8. iWrite Words

Small children learn to write by tracing words with this game. Bright background colors are juxtaposed against equally bright and scribbly child-like artwork that conveys the word being spelled.

9. Montessori Crosswords

Montessori Crosswords is an educational app that introduces new readers to the pleasures of crossword puzzles. It feels like playing, but it’s really a tool for teaching preschool aged kids to read and spell. This app has the options for focusing on certain letter sounds, cursive letters, and single word consonant blends.

10. Peekaboo Barn

A fantastic educational app for babies and toddlers new to playing apps. You have the option of having the names of the animals read in English or in Spanish as well as in a child’s voice for the English version. The app also spells out the name of the animal for older children who are learning to read.

11. Wheels on the Bus

The words on the app describing the page “The wheels on the bus go round and round” remain in English, but click on the musical note to find an option for the song to be sung to your child in Spanish, French, German or other languages.

12. Star Walk

A great educational tool, the Star Walk app is customized to your location, letting you see your night sky in new ways by taking you on a virtual tour through the stars, constellations and planets.

13. ABC Animals

Help young children learn the alphabet and phonics with this cute, illustrated app. It is great for beginning readers and works on phonics with bright colors, music, and very engaging. Students will love this app that not only helps with letter recognition but also helps with fluency.

14. Word Magic

Kids fill in the missing letter to form words, accompanied by bright pictures. Not only does this help with spelling but also helps educated children with vowels and CVC words.

15. Injini Child Development Game Suite

Injini Child Development Game Suite is a set of play-based learning games for toddlers, preschoolers, and special needs kids. It was developed over two years in collaboration with early childhood experts and occupational and speech therapists.

16. My PlayHome

My PlayHome is a calming app that encourages open-ended play. Students will enjoy discovering the many interactive features built in to this seeming simple but multi-layered dollhouse app. There are no scores, deadlines, power ups, or lives to lose, just four fun-filled rooms to explore in a sweet and simple house.

17. Clifford’s BE BIG with Words

In this game, kids spell out words so that Clifford and his friends can think of things to paint. Clifford is one of the favorites with children and this app really shows how excited Clifford is to teacher children how to read through colors, music, and fun filled activities.

18. Interactive Alphabet

Interactive Alphabet is a lovely way to experience the alphabet. Students will want to play it over and over. From a home screen kids choose from among 26 colorful letters (that look a lot like refrigerator magnets). Each page has an age appropriate original illustration (like D is for Dinosaur), background music, and an animation for your students to discover.

19. Spell and Listen Cards Kids

Spell and Listen Cards Kids rearrange letters to form basic words, improving their vocabulary and sight reading. This app will help children recognize, spell, pronounce, and learn more about 550 everyday words to strengthen his or her vocabulary.

20. TallyTots

TallyTots is a colorful, intuitive counting app that’s more polished than most. Twenty numbered cards fan out over a blue sky dotted with fluffy white clouds. After that, your toddler is in charge.

21. Shape-O! ABC’s

Shape-O! ABC’s is a sweet, calming educational app that lets toddlers and preschoolers get their jigsaw puzzle fix (drag-and-drop style) with everything from owls and mice to burgers and robots. There are letters to be dragged and dropped too for a little sneaky reading practice. 

22. Spot the Dot

Designed by children’s author David A. Carter, who wrote the best-selling pop-up book How Many Bugs in a Box, Spot the Dot is a perfectly executed and visually appealing app that teaches toddlers colors and fine motor skills.

23. Slice It!

Slice It! App divides various shapes into equal sized pieces. The crumpled graph paper graphics are gorgeous, the music is upbeat, and the navigation is seamless. This app is a wonderful way to introduce math but in an engaging yet challenging way.

24. Licking Letters

Licking Letters teaches kids aged 2-8 to spell with the help of a hungry frog named Hoppy. When they tire of spelling the over 150 available words, they can customize the frog’s outfit. There are lots of mini educational games and challenges built in. Best of all, the level of difficulty auto-adjusts based on the student’s performance.

25. BrainPOP Featured Movie

BrainPOP Featured Movie is an innovative educational app that delivers one short animated educational movie every day on a variety of topics. Your kids watch the hosts Tim and his robot pal Moby explore tons of subjects ranging from dinosaurs and aliens to natural disasters and the U.S. Constitution.

26. ABC Expedition

ABC Expedition is an appealing animated alphabet app that introduces babies and toddlers to the alphabet the animal way. It’s everything an app for this age group should be: simple, colorful, and intuitive.

27. Zoola

Zoola is an app that asks younger students questions like “What does the pig say?” and answers the question four different ways. This app shows letter recognition, colors, animal sounds, shapes and numbers all in a zoo themed app.

28. iBooks

The iBooks app allows students to download and read books. It 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.

29. Biscuit

A sweet puppy dog tale that’s enchanting for the little ones regardless if they’ve read other Biscuit story books. See what else Biscuit finds at the pumpkin patch besides pumpkins. We love that this app also contains a coloring book and a sticker book feature too.

30. Berenstain Bear

Pre-schoolers can touch words and characters to see the word read aloud to them, and turn the pages themselves by touching the lower right corner. Can be read to them with the audio or the text can be enlarged for all readers.

31. Book Word

An intuitive, educational word search game for new readers, rabid wordsmiths, and everyone in between. Link letters left, right, up, and down to build words and earn points with this fun app. Learn sight words and help your students learn the expected high-frequency words they need to know by the end of 1st grade with this cute app.

32. Wet Woo

This app is organized in channels that include Animals, Fun Shows, Learn, Music, People, and Places and developers have listed hundreds of hours of kid-friendly programming with everything from funny kitten videos to a Discovery Education short biography of Ludwig van Beethoven.

Elementary

1. NSF Science360

The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Science360 provides easy access to engaging science and engineering images and video from around the globe. Content is either produced by NSF or gathered from scientists, colleges and universities, and NSF science and engineering centers.

2. The Ruler

This app allows you to measure things by using your finger to drag the marker across the screen. Actual dimensions will be instantly displayed in centimeters or inches! Tap the screen twice to save the size, and to view it again later. The ruler will work in both portrait and landscape.

3. Stack the States

Stack the States is a geography quiz game in which users are asked trivia questions (e.g. What state's capital is Austin?) about U.S. states. When responding correctly, users drop the state onto the bottom of the screen, attempting to stack the states beyond a line about a third of

the way up. When the line is reached, users are awarded a state as a prize.

4. Math Magic

Remember flashcards? Well, think of this app like interactive flashcards that are a bit more visually appealing than tattered index cards. Math Magic frames addition, subtraction, and division problems like a game to engage young learners.

5. Fractions
The Fractions App is your online guide and tutorial to help young people with learning fractions. The app uses a simple tactile interface where you can tap the screen to create a fraction from an everyday objects like a pizza or a chocolate bar. The difficulty level of the game increases as you master the simpler fractions and then more questions in an increasing level of difficulty are offered.

6. How Rocket Learned to Read
Watch and listen as words are highlighted while the story is read aloud by actress Hope Davis. Turn off the narration and read at your own pace. Tap on the words to hear them read back to you.

7. Grammar Up

Grammar Up is a multiple choice quiz system for English which provides over 1,800 questions across 20 grammar categories. Grammar Up can help learners to improve their grammar, word selection and vocabulary. Custom timer setting can assist learners to improve response times under exam time constraints.

8. Manual for the United States of America

Kids can learn about and read the Articles of Confederation, Declaration of Independence, Federalist Papers, biographies of Supreme Court justices, and a lot more. This app is a wonderful way for children to retain dates, historians, and learn about the USA through pictures and audio.

9. Prepositions Remix

Prepositions Remix is highly interactive and it can be adjusted to meet the needs of all students. Users are able to adjust the number of prepositions played with on a session; adjust the type of feedback provided to the student, and whether or not to provide with additional cues such as a second audio production or written cues on the screen.

10. Grammar Up

Help kids learn adjectives, nouns, verbs, adverbs, infinitives, gerunds, conjunctions, and other grammar basics. Grammar Up is a multiple choice quiz system for English which provides over 1,800 questions across 20 grammar categories.

11. Oregon Trail

This classic game is now available on the iPad and helps children of various ages practice problem-solving and decision-making skills as they learn about history and try to survive the great trek through the West.

12. Civilization Revolution

Sid Meier’s Civilization Revolution teaches kids about world civilizations, including Japan, Germany, China, Spain, America, and others, as they lead their people to victory. This app makes you feel as if you are in a history book, but in an engaging way. Great pictures, sounds, and animations.

13. Grammar Ap

This app uses an Interactive Book approach with an easy to learn format and a simple step by step guide. It also includes a quick check while taking a tutorial to test your understanding of what you just read.

14. Grammar Dragon

The grammar dragon has captured all of your friends from the castle. You must rescue a different person on each level by correctly identifying various parts of speech. The touch mechanic of the game engages children in a hands-on learning process, implementing kinesthetic learning. The game also incorporates words and sentence structure to the particular grade level, based upon excerpts from grade-appropriate reading materials.

15. On This Day

Help your students learn more about history with this trivia-like game that lists important events each day. This app will allow you to save your scores and make up tests to quiz yourself or others. Engaging and fun history lessons throughout.

16. Dictionary

This easy-to-use app features a search bar, thesaurus, search history and word of the day. This is a great app for teaching antonyms, synonyms, sequencing, and word recognition.

17. Kids Math Fun

This app is devoted to second -third grade. This app is more of a game and uses games that the students are familiar with, like Double Dare and Minute Math. The students will love the competitiveness and the fun clues throughout.

18. The Chemical Touch

View the periodic table and learn about chemical properties with this app. This app breaks down where the elements go and teach how you can label the table to understand and retain the information.

19. Grammar Jammars

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.

20. Newspapers

Encourage your children to read about the rest of the world by linking them to newspapers from different cities. Students will love being introduced to a newspaper if they are not familiar. Very engaging and a great way to keep kids reading and keep them informed with the local news.

21. Grammar Games

Grammar Games brings out a new concept in learning grammar while having a fun time. Grammar Games provides the best visual learning for Parts of Speech and features learning grammar in the most intuitive manner possible for elementary level students.

22. Math Cards

This grade-as-you-go game teaches subtraction, division, multiplication and addition in a touch-screen game. This app uses flash cards, games and interactive displays to teach students about math, astronomy and more.

23. iLibrary+audio

Download whole chapters and then listen to them read aloud with this app. Books include The Call of the Wild, Emma and Treasure Island. This app is great for all learners, especially the auditory learner. The visual learner will love the slide shows and after you read them you can go back as many times to the same story- functions include, play, stop, pause, rewind, fast forward and are able to load quickly.

24. Memory Train

This app is a game of concentration and focus from Pi’ikea Street, the award winning developers of ‘Interactive Alphabet’. Hop on the train with Spacey the elephant and help him focus his memory while on the way to the circus. Memorize the characteristics of objects passing by and recall them to earn stars, badges, and peanuts. Along the way, kids may find a few surprises!

25. Mathemagics – Mental Math Tricks

More advanced students can practice multiplication, square numbers, and more. Use this before district tests and they are bound to do well. It is great for teaching strategies and standards for all levels of math.

26. Free Books

Help your children learn to read and get excited about reading the classics with these apps. Read over 23,000 classic books like The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and plays by Shakespeare. The amount of books is amazing and they are updated monthly.

27. PlayTime Theater

PlayTime Theater is a customizable, interactive castle play set that gives kids characters, props, and sound effects and invites them to create and record short shows.

28. The Math Master

Practice math drills and learn math facts on this app, which features a numeric touchpad. It is great for all ages and is a wonderful tool to use as a station in the classroom. This app has a timer for the favorite Math Minutes, and allows you to save scores and create profiles.

29. Garage Band

GarageBand turns your iPad into a collection of Touch Instruments and a full-featured recording studio so you can make music anywhere you go. Use Multi-Touch gestures to play pianos, organs, guitars, drums, and basses. They sound and play like their counterparts, but let you do things you could never do on a real instrument. Enjoy a full range of Smart Instruments that make you sound like a pro — even if you’ve never played a note before. Plug an electric guitar into your iPad and play through classic amps and stompbox effects. Use the built-in microphone or a guitar to record, or capture any performance.

30. Pocket Universe: Virtual Sky Astronomy

This app displays the night sky just as you’re seeing it, but with more detail and descriptions of constellations and stars. It is a great tool to use with your students in class to figure out where the stars are located and it will plot distances for you.

31. Mathematical Formulas

This app serves as a great reference and review tool that catalogs and explains math formulas for geometry and more. A must have when you are teaching strategies and skills for district tests. This app can be used for reviewing weekly or district tests.

32. Brain Tuner Lite

This free app is a great tool for getting your kids to practice math skills each day. The brain Tuner is a super fun and engaging tool that not only gets students motivated to learn though math but will keep them engaged.

Middle School

1. Periodic Table of Elements

With this application, one can look up information on 117 different elements. Scroll through all the symbols, signs, meanings, and gain a better understanding of all that is included on the periodic table. This vibrant app uses great colors to help students retain this science standard.

2. Reader Trainer

Practice your reading skills and WPM! This app provides everything you need to read texts of all types faster, more effectively and, most importantly, with better retention. The ideal app to double your reading speed while improving your retention at the same time.

3. iBooks

This app 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.

4. Britannica Kids: Volcanoes

Volcanoes are an awesome display of the Earth’s power. Explore them interactively with this app and learn about the world’s major volcanoes and their eruptions, lava, plate tectonics, and much more. Learn and play at the same time through a variety of games like Memory Match, Jigsaw Puzzles, and the Magic Square among others.

5. Algebra Touch

Algebra Touch refreshes your skills using strategies and techniques. Enjoy the wonderful conceptual leaps of algebra, without getting bogged down by the tedium of traditional methods. Easily switch between lessons and randomly-generated practice problems. Create your own problems or edit current ones.

6. Math BINGO

Math BINGO allows you to choose from 4 games: Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication and Division. You can choose from 3 different levels of difficulty: Easy, Medium and Hard and create up to 5 player profiles. Choose from 8 different fun cartoon avatars and keep track of your scores by making a profile.

7. Presidents HD

The best United States president’s education and informational iPad app. See all the presidents on one large view with HD high-quality graphics with tons of useful presidential Info. Features include authentic portraits of each President, term dates, Vice President info, living dates, currency info, political party info. Presidents HD is the perfect app for anyone wanting to learn more info about the Presidents or for anyone preparing for tests.

8. Dictionary

This free app, derived from the website of the same name, gives students access to almost 1 million word definitions and 90,000 synonyms and antonyms in the app's thesaurus section. The app also gives the origin and history of words, as well as example sentences so kids can see how unfamiliar words are used.

9. Algebra Pro

All major topics are provided with stunning visual graphics and sequential steps for transference of learning from the app to homework and the classroom. This app is easy to navigate and fun to use. There are a plethora of examples designed to support concepts taught in all basic algebra classes at the middle and high school levels. This is a perfect tutorial program for the new Common Core Standards and higher expectations for middle school mathematics curriculum.

10. Presidents VS Aliens

The title alone may be enough to snag the interest of middle schoolers, but Presidents vs. Aliens has solid educational value, too. Presidents vs. Aliens challenges kids to learn historical facts to help U.S. commanders-in-chief trounce a team of alien invaders. The app comes with 44 educational flash cards to help players brush up on their presidential knowledge.

11. Brushes

The painting application has been used to create four covers for The New Yorker, so it has plenty of sophisticated features. Users can create images with up to six layers, which can be rearranged and made more or less transparent. You can also import photos and zoom up to 3,200%.

12. Shakespeare in Bits: Romeo & Juliet
Older middle-schoolers may be starting to tackle the Bard in English class. Reading Shakespeare is a tall order for anyone, but this multimedia study guide provides a foothold to understanding the action. Voiced by actors Kate Beckinsale and Michael Sheen, the app provides an animated recreation of each scene, accompanied by the corresponding text from the play. There are also notes, definitions, and study tools for each section.

13. Wolfram Algebra Course Assistant

Taking algebra? Then you need the Wolfram Algebra Course Assistant. This definitive app for algebra--from the world leader in math software--will help you quickly solve your homework problems, ace your tests, and learn algebra concepts so you're prepared for your next courses.

14. Be Confident in Who You Are: A Middle School Confidential Graphic Novel

This app’s focus on hot-button middle school issues like bullying, family conflict, and changing friendships makes it worth checking out. This app is a 49-page digital adaptation of the first book in the award-winning Middle School Confidential graphic novel series. Aimed at tweens and reluctant readers, the app incorporates music and sound effects to explore the unique challenges of being in middle school.

15. World Book — This Day in History
If your middle school student prefers to learn in bite-sized pieces, check out World Book’s This Day in History app. The app automatically displays a historical event for the current date; students can also search other dates for an extra dose of historical trivia.

16. Beautiful Planet HD
For students delving into world history for the first time, Beautiful Planet HD could be a good companion to textbook-based learning. The award-winning app features 580 photographs from 160 countries and all seven continents. You can browse the photos using the app’s interactive map. Each picture is accompanied by a brief description explaining the image’s cultural context.

17. GeoMaster
This geography-based quiz game lets students polish their skills by locating cities and states throughout the United States. Internationally-minded players can learn to identify world capitals or the countries in Africa, Europe, Asia, and South America. This app is great for students getting ready for High School Pretests and Middle School Posttests.

18. myHomework

Make life easier by organizing homework assignments with myHomework. Once homework is entered, reminders will prompt the student in advance to get the work done on time. Simple in concept and easy to use, myHomework also offers access via the Web for a one-time in-app purchase, so that no matter where a student is, they can see what is due and when.

19. U.S. Geography

Become an expert in U.S. Geography using this app from Discovery Communications. The app is divided into seven different regions with six categories of information for each. Learn about the culture in the Pacific region or the land-forms of the mountain ranges. Once a student is done studying they can take challenges and share their achievements with friends and family on Facebook.

20. Vocabology

Vocabology is a free universal app that slowly builds a student’s vocabulary by introducing them to new words and showing them how they are used by giving several internet resources. Not only can students see how a word is used in a sentence, they can also hear a sound clip of the word so their pronunciation is correct. Included in the app is a quiz that reviews words that the student has covered.

21. Frog Dissection

Learning about organs and organ systems used to be a messy lab project for middle school students. Today, an entire frog dissection can be done on the iPad. No more ethical concerns, no more mess. Using 3D imaging a pupil can able to view the organs and organ systems clearly. The student is guided through the dissection by a voice over giving them step-by-step instructions. Frog Dissection is the winner of PeTA’s Mark Twain Ethical Science Award and IEAR – Best Science App Award for 2010.

22. The Gwaii – 3D Comic Book

If there is an underserved demographic on digital book scene it has to be tweens. Comic books have long served as a means to get this age group to engage with the written word, and The Gwaii puts everything kids love about comics into a 3D iPad comic book set in Northern Canada. The story is engaging and suspenseful, the characters area host of mythological creates rendered beautifully and the special effects are eye-popping.

23. Lobster Diver

Developed for grades 3 through 8, Lobster Diver makes understanding number and operation standards fun for middle school and grade school children. Fractions can be one of the more difficult math concepts to learn, but Lobster Diver makes it less stressful and even fun. This app was developed with input from professional educators and researchers and the development was partially funded by U.S. Department of Education.

24. Articles

Articles is a user-friendly way for students to access the vast wealth of information available in the modern replacement for encyclopedias. The app presents the information from Wikipedia posts optimized for reading and display the articles in a magazine-like format. The reader is easy on the eyes, and the GUI is easy to navigate.

25. Flashcards Deluxe

With this app, users can enter flashcard information into the app directly, browse quizlet.com for card sets created by users all over the world, and even search the orangeorapple.com decks for a set that matches their needs. The application allows you to share your decks with other users via a private code or to make them available to the public.

26. NASA

This app invites you to discover a wealth of NASA information right on your mobile device. The NASA app collects, customizes and delivers an extensive selection of dynamically updated information, images and videos from various online NASA sources in a convenient mobile package.

27. Kindle

The Kindle app is optimized for the iPad and gives users the ability to read Kindle books, newspapers, and magazines on a beautiful, easy-to-use interface. You’ll have access to over 1,000,000 books in the Kindle Store plus over 100 newspapers and magazines. Amazon Whispersync automatically syncs your last page read, bookmarks, notes, and highlights across devices (including Kindle), so you can pick up your book where you left off on another device.

28. FORA.tv

Watch FORA.tv videos over Wi-Fi and 3G. FORA.tv is the leading online destination for intelligent video programs on the people, issues, and ideas changing the world. Offers free, paid-membership, and fee-based video viewing of live events, lectures, and debates to a smart, deeply-engaging audiences.

29. Britannica Kids: Solar System

This most prestigious of encyclopedic brands, Britannica has a line of apps aimed at the tween age group across a wide variety of topics from volcanoes to the rain forest. The intuitive interface and mix of information and reinforcing games helps engage young people in a critical field of study at this most impressionable time.

30. Stack the Countries

Learning the names of countries is just the bare minimum of what students will learn while playing Stack the Countries. They will also learn capitals, landmarks, and geographical location. Stack the Countries really contains three games in one. As the student progresses in the levels the additional games unlock. 

31. Stanza

This app offers the digital book revolution to your pocket with a reading interface that is unrivaled in its clarity and ease of use. With over 4 million downloads around the world, Stanza has become an iPad phenomenon, and is featured as one of the top three Apple favorite.

32. Brain Thaw

Brain Thaw is an addictive puzzle game that will help keep your brain sharp. You're Newton, the most clever penguin in the land, and you love to snack on digits! Eat the right numbers to solve each puzzle according to a given math rule (e.g., “Multiples of 3”). Watch out, though; fearsome yetis are everywhere, and there’s nothing they like better than making a meal out of little eggheads like you.

Secondary

1. Science Glossary

This app is a glossary of scientific terms and short biographies that support science educational standards. Though geared for high school and undergraduate students, the glossary and modules are appropriate for anyone generally interested in science.

2. Frog Dissection

Instead of a real scalpel, and a slippery, formaldehyde-reeking amphibian that you dread slicing into, you can now dissect a virtual frog. The virtual frog is complete with pins to hold down the limbs, a marker to identify where you'll make the cut, scissors to open up the abdomen, and forceps and scalpel to prod and poke at the internal organs. Audio guides you through the dissection.

3. SpaceTime

This app is a graphing calculator with over 200 functions. Graph 2D function, parametric, polar, vector field, implicit and contour plots with our powerful 2D graphing calculator. Move, pinch and trace 2D graphs in real-time.

4. Dictionary

The Dictionary app delivers trusted reference content from Dictionary.com and Thesaurus.com. This app includes nearly 2,000,000 words, definitions, synonyms and antonyms. It also features audio pronunciation, voice-to-text search and Dictionary.com’s popular Word of the Day and Hot Word blog.

5. Monster Anatomy - Lower Limb

This application is designed for healthcare professionals (Radiologists, General Practitioners, Orthopedists, Surgeons, and Physiotherapists among others) as well for students, as a reference and learning tool. It contains 384 contiguous MR slices (4-5 mm thickness) in the three anatomical planes.

6. Virtual History ROMA

The virtual tour proceeds south to Pompeii and many other important Roman cities in Europe and the Mediterranean. These are presented with 3D models, information pages and hundreds of superb quality images.

7. Safari

Safari is a general and easy way to find information/check homework online. Secondary students will find this useful for researching resources for homework. Safari on iPhone 4S, Web pages render quickly, and the high-resolution retina screen displays pages with crisp text and bright, vivid graphics.

8. Wolfram Alpha
Wolfram Alpha is another phenomenal app for finding information. You can input math equations, words, places, chemical formulas, and it sends back information about what you typed in.

9. Pages and Numbers

Pages is the most powerful word processor available on a mobile device. Exclusively designed for the iPad, your students work is stored in Apple’s iCloud. Numbers is an innovative spreadsheet also created from the ground up for the iPad. Like Pages, Numbers works with iCloud so your student’s spreadsheets stay up to date across all iOS devices.

10. Literary Analysis Guide

Literary Analysis Guide is an essential tool for anyone studying literature or rhetoric in high school or college. Whether preparing for your Advanced Placement (AP) English Literature and Composition exam or writing a paper for a graduate-level literature course, Literary Analysis Guide will help you on your way.

11. Skramble

Assemble famous masterpieces with Skrambler, a jigsaw puzzle mind ware. Learn interesting facts about artists and their artwork while putting each piece in its place. A game designed specifically for quick play, its user interface is streamlined with no long load screens. Progress is saved automatically when the game is turned off.

12. Professor Garfield Cyber bullying

Willard and Lorenzo, the mean dogs next door to Garfield and Nermal, plan to humiliate Nermal online by using his e-mail address to write hurtful messages to him and to other Animal Idol contestants. This app is themed for cyber bullying and is a must see for all ages. High schoolers would be a perfect age to understand the importance of cyber bullying and consequences.

13. Merriam-Webster Dictionary

This app contains the Merriam-Webster Dictionary and can be used for all grade levels. The text can be formatted. This app can be used with audio and provides a thesaurus, Spanish-English dictionary, and medical dictionary.

14. The Elements
The Elements allows the user to explore chemical elements. For education or fun, this will encourage high schoolers to enjoy reading while engaging and teaching them.

15. Mathemagics

Mathemagics provides fun ways to learn fast ways of doing math in your head. This app will help for improving mental math and a great tool for those district skills for mental math.

16. Magic Piano

Experience the #1 music app in over 80 countries where you can add your songs to the 5 million already played. Create your own music or enjoy the app’s free classic and popular tunes.

17. World Factbook

The complete CIA World Factbook at your fingertips, including extensive information on more than 250 countries and locations throughout the world. Whether you're an avid traveler, a busy student, or someone who just likes to stay informed, this is the app for you!

18. Fractal

Fractal math app will help with fractions for lower level and higher level. Explore Mandelbrot and Julia sets, select between multiple equations and enter your own values. Save fractals to your photos and share with friends or save them to your Fractals album.

19. My Arm Muscles

My arm muscles is a visually rich, stimulating new way to experience and learn about the complex functions of the human body. Each volume accurately depicts one specific area of human anatomy or physiology. Visually stimulating illustrations identify human muscles, organs and their function. Each image identifies the name and illustrates the location of the body part for educational purposes.

20. Cramberry

Cramberry helps you study with flash cards. Make flash cards with Cramberry, or choose from over a million free public flash cards. When you study, Cramberry tracks your progress on each card and presents cards you need to study.

21. Beautiful Planet

Beautiful Planet is a groundbreaking app that captures the breathtaking beauty of our world and its cultures. Featuring a collection of galleries that was three decades in the making by travel photographer, author and explorer, Peter Guttman, Beautiful Planet spans seven continents and 160 countries.

22. World Fact Book
This app is a great app for keeping high schoolers engaged. With hundreds of facts that will help keep viewers reading, researching, and learning- while retaining information that is humorous, informative, and worth knowing.

23. GoSkyWatch Planetarium

GoSkyWatch Planetarium app displays the sky view at the correct orientation when held at any angle not just landscape or portrait. Unique rotation scheme enables touch less navigation even for devices without a compass. Simple operation, no buttons to press or modes to select … just point to the sky to start exploring.

24. Jules Verne Collection

This application contains 16 books of Jules Verne including "Around the World in 80 Days", "In Search of the Castaways", "Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon", "From the Earth to the Moon", "Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" and others.

25. HD marine Life

The Marine Life Encyclopedia is a beautiful and deep digital study, and developed thinking of those who love the great and extensive sea. Includes an Encyclopedia of Marine Life with different habitats and life forms.

26. History Clock

This is an amazing app that will literally make you stroll back into history and retain important information. 6:30 is not just time to wake up, 630 is also the year when Croats and Serbs settles in the Balkans, having been invited by the Byzantine emperor Heraclius. 12:01 is not just lunch time, it is also the year when John of England put an embargo on wheat exported to Flanders in an attempt to force an allegiance between the states.

27. Geometry Stash

This app is knowledge at your fingertips. Geometry Stash is ideal for anyone needing a quick reference guide for geometric theories. It allows access the most commonly used theorems, postulates, and corollaries through Geometry Stash's fluid, clean interface. Drag your finger up and down the list to navigate its contents.

28. Van Gough HD

Van Gogh HD is as educational as it is visually enjoyable. Van Gogh HD puts the entire Dutch painter’s works in one place. This app is really gives you an insight in the Van Gough Museum. It is great for artists and art lovers.

29. Maxjournal

Maxjournal is a simple and elegant way to make a daily diary or journal, with extensive photo scrapbooking features. Designed to be easy to use and easy to navigate, it makes it a joy to sit down and gain introspection. Everything you need is at your fingertips. Create separate journals for any situation – personal, work, travel – or for different users in your household. Each journal has individual settings and password control.

30. 3d Brain

3d Brain is an interactive app that allows you 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. Each detailed structure comes with information on functions, disorders, brain damage, case studies, and links to modern research.

31. Keynote

Keynote is the most powerful presentation app ever designed for a mobile device, and it allows students to create a world-class presentation. This app is complete with animated charts, transitions and is simple as touching and tapping. Use full-screen view to present right on your iPad and or use video mirroring to present it on an HDTV, and preview your slides and notes on your device using the presenter display. Keynote works with iCloud, so your presentations stay up to date across all your iOS devices automatically.

32. iMovie

Make a beautiful HD movies anywhere with iMovie, the fast and fun moviemaking app. Designed for the Multi-Touch screen, iMovie puts everything you need to tell your story at your fingertips. Browse and play projects in the Marquee view. Make a movie in minutes by adding video, photos, music and sound effects. Then give it the Hollywood treatment by adding a theme, titles and transitions. And you can share your movie with the world right from iMovie. 

Teachers Discovering Computers: Integrating Technology in a Connected World, 7th Edition. Gary B. Shelly; Glenda A. Gunter; Randolph E. Gunter