Recommended Education Apps for iPad
$.99
Created By: Greg Tang
Math
Can you add two numbers together? Do you love the challenge - and satisfaction of solving a great puzzle? KakoomaTM puzzles are deceptively simple, yet fiendishly difficult. You’ll be hooked - and won’t realize that math is getting surprisingly...easy! It’s amazing, mind-sharpening, brain-tastic fun for all ages. What are you waiting for? It's time to KakoomaTM!
$ 9.99
Math
Learning about time, money, and fractions can be challenging for many children. School Zone's On-Track Time, Money & Fractions iPad app is the perfect tool to help children build those skills! The program’s kid-friendly approach delivers solid practice that will build confidence and help children succeed in school. Exercises are presented with detailed instructions and clear examples. The section concentrating on time lets children manipulate the hands of a clock to learn about hours and minutes, while other exercises teach children to set clocks to specific times. The section dedicated to money lets children maneuver coins into a bank, which teaches coin values and how to count coins. In the exercises focused on fractions, children learn fraction values and how to divide and color pie pieces to show fractions. Performance is encouraged by audio guidance, instant grading, progress-tracking, and ample positive reinforcement. In addition, each skill section has a no-stress learning area where children can explore each concept without being graded. Colorful graphics, silly sound effects, and funny animations enhance the learning experience. Plus, engaging games offer an important break between exercises. When additional practice is needed, a click of the reset button will randomize the problems for extended learning opportunities.
Sentence Builder $ 5.99
Language Arts
SentenceBuilder™ is designed to help elementary aged children learn how to build grammatically correct sentences. Explicit attention is paid to the connector words that make up over 80% of the english language. Sentence Builder offers a rich and fun environment for improving the grammar of all children.
Encyclopedia Britannica Free
Reference
The complete Encyclopaedia Britannica - the world’s most trusted reference source, enhanced for your iPad.
Shake the States Game $1.99
Social Studies/Geography
Do you know the exact placement of each state on a map of the USA? Touch and drag one of the 50 states to its proper position on the board and it will stick, but make a mistake, and watch the state tumble.
Presidents vs. Aliens $.99
Social Studies/History
Presidents vs. Aliens makes learning about the presidents fun! As you learn presidential facts, quotes, nicknames and historical events, you can use your knowledge to help the presidents defeat the aliens. Fling the presidents at the aliens to knock them all down. Use the many special objects and "Executive Powers" to increase the fun!
Motion Math $2.99
Math
Developed at the Stanford School of Education, Motion Math HD follows a star that has fallen from space, and must bound back up, up, up to its home in the stars. Moving fractions to their correct place on the number line is the only way to return. By playing Motion Math HD, learners improve their ability to perceive and estimate fractions in multiple forms.
Solar System $13.99
Science/Astronomy
Solar System for iPad includes
- a stunning specially-composed launch track from Björk never before released
- more than 150 beautifully presented story pages lavishly illustrated with interactive scenes, videos and 3D objects
- over 40 fully-rotatable and pinch-zoomable 3D objects including the Sun, all its planets and their major moons
- over 600 painstakingly selected images representing the very best of images returned by NASA, ESA and JAXA space missions
- detailed captions for every image and object including technical data
- live data from Wolfram | Alpha (internet connection required) providing comprehensive astronomical information
Back In Time $7.99
Science/Astronomy
An imaginary clock will guide you through this quest, proposing a simple analogy: the entire Universe started 24 hours ago.
The Big Bang, the source of time and space, is the first event in our journey – the clock says 0:00 hours. Today, 13.7 billion years later, the clock says midnight. In between, is a sequence of key events that has brought us to where we are today. Explore them, place them in perspective, see how they relate, understand the consequences, and wonder what if
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Edmodo Free
For teacher to keep in touch
Edmodo for iPhone makes it easy for teachers and students to stay connected and share information. Use your iPhone to send notes, post replies, and check messages and upcoming events while away from the classroom.
Science House Free
Video lessons for Teachers
Science
A growing library of over 80 hands-on Science lessons that are great for home and the classroom. These short videos demonstrate inexpensive and easy to recreate experiments that are designed to inspire and excite kids of all ages.
Mild Elements2: Free Periodic Table Free
Science
Mild EleMints 2 is the interactive Periodic Table for the iPad. It is the free version of EleMints, which not only offers a Periodic Table, but also a Plot Graph, Element listing, Electron Diagram and a wealth of information on every element.
Teacher Pal Free
For Teachers
TeacherPal is a personal organizer for the teacher. It enables the teacher to organize classes, and students. Its simple and intuitive interface enables teachers to track the attendance, grades and behavior of students.
GeoMaster Plus HD $3.99
Social Studies/Geography
Following the great success of Geomaster for iPhone, the iPad Plus HD version is now available. This brand new version includes an atlas and 8 games with high resolution maps : World's capitals, European cities, Asian countries, States of America... The Flags game is coming soon! Interactive and fun, Geomaster can put your Geography knowledge to the test while you are playing!
Features:
- The ultimate Atlas
- High resolution maps
- More than 40 difficulty levels
- Available challenges :
- World capitals
- European countries
- Asian countries
- African countries
- South American countries
- US cities
- US States
- French departments
- Flag game (coming soon)
Mathboard $4.99
Math
MathBoard is a stunning app for teaching addition, subtraction, multiplication and division problems. The number of customization options available make this a brilliant app for making math fun for elementary school children
Science 360 Free
From NSF
Science
The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Science360 for iPad provides easy access to engaging science and engineering images and video from around the globe and a news feed featuring breaking news from NSF-funded institutions. Content is either produced by NSF or gathered from scientists, colleges and universities, and NSF science and engineering centers.
Features:
- Spectacular images from NSF-funded institutions available in high resolution for download to your iPad
- Fun and engaging streaming video (WiFi or 3G connection required) on a wide range of topics
- Hundreds of images and videos to experience, with new content added weekly
- Share images and videos on Facebook and Twitter or via email
- Keep abreast of breaking stories in scientific discovery as they happen with the in-app news feed
- Pan through content in the unique 360 view or find content via keyword with a simple two finger touch
- With a single touch, save favorite images and video within the app so that they can easily be found again
Hubble Top 100 Free
Science
Feel the Universe at your fingertips and access a universe of knowledge with the ESA/Hubble Top 100 Images, which brings users the best Hubble pictures from ESA, as NASA’s partner in this international project.
Features:
- The 100 most astonishing astronomy images from the Hubble Space Telescope
- Ready to use as wallpapers.
- Slideshow play mode, with chill-out music!
- Captions with additional information just a tap away.
Star Walk $4.99
Science
Star Walk enables you to point your iPad at the sky and see what stars, constellations, and satellites you are looking at in real-time.
PlanBook $9.99
Teachers
Planbook is lesson planning software for educators. Enter the courses you teach and the type of schedule you use and you'll be planning in no time at all. Planbook lets you create lesson plans using six customizable text fields. You can easily create assignments with assigned and due dates and attach web sites directly to your lessons.
You can view an entire week of lessons at once, or zoom in and focus on one day at a time. Making quick edits is as simple as tapping once on a lesson. For more extensive editing, tap with two fingers on any lesson to bring up a full screen editing mode. When viewing a week at a time, pinching out on a lesson will show just that lesson using a large font suitable for use when teaching.
History: Maps of the World Free
Geography
A glossary of scientific terms and short biographies that support our science education website, http://www.visionlearning.com. All definitions link to related terms and to free, detailed science learning modules. Though geared for high school and undergraduate student's using our website, the glossary and modules are appropriate for anyone generally interested in science.
Book Creator for iPad $6.99
Teachers
The simple way to create your own beautiful iBooks, right on the iPad.
Read them in iBooks, send them to your friends, or submit them to the iBookstore.
Ideal for children’s picture books, photo books, art books, cook books, manuals, textbooks, and the list goes on.
Reading
This enhancing illustrated book captures the same magical spirit found in the film. In this iTunes exclusive, clips from the movie have been included throughout and can be viewed either embedded in the page or at full-screen. The book also contains interactive animations as well as sound effects and music clips. Download the book for free and enjoy it on iBooks on your iPad, iPhone, or iPad touch.
