Apps for Elementary Classrooms

8/3/2019 Apps for Elementary Classrooms

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App Recommendations for Elementary ClassroomsApp Grade Level Subject Price

Who isRecommending How You Use It

Evernote

teacher Productivity Free Cindy Geddes I use this app to take notes and save ideas,photos and websites for my NB organized innotebooks.

teacher Education/Entertainment

Free Cindy Geddes My favorite use of this app is to f lip throughmy Google Reader. It is the easiest way forme to keep up with all the blogs I follow.

Wunderlist

teacher Productivity Free Cindy Geddes Create and organize to do list with your freeaccount. It syncs with you computer and allyour devices.

Math Ninja Free

1-5 Math Free Cindy Geddes I use this app for my students to practiceaddition and subtraction facts.

It has features for +,-,x and .


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Toontastic

K-5 Language Arts- Storytelling

Free Cindy Geddes Toontastic lets students draw, animate andshare their own cartoons through imaginativeplay.

Popplet

K-5 All - mind-mapping

Free(nowonly liteversionis free)

Jayme Linton Create a mind map with text and images.Color code popples to show connections orrelationships.

neu.Annotate

K-5 All - annotatePDFs

Free Jayme Linton Highlight, underline, and add sticky notes,stamps, and images to PDFs. Works greatwith PDFs in Reading A-Z and Science A-Z!

Sound Sorting:Beginning Sounds

K-1 Early literacy Free$0.99

Jayme Linton Choose 3 beginning sounds or let the apprandomly select 3 for you. Find images thatmatch those beginning sounds. Students getimmediate feedback.


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Letter of Day

K Early literacy Free$1.99

Jayme Linton Choose a letter, then listen to a chant thatteaches the letters sound. Find words thatstart with the sound the letter makes, thentrace and practice writing the letter.

Phonics Tic Tac Toe

K-2 Phonics Free Jayme Linton Play in teams (X and O) to answer phonicsquestions, like What letters are missing fromthis word? and Which word has the same osound as goat?

Magnetic ABC

K-5 All Free Jayme Linton Practice spelling words, respond to shortanswer questions, do word sorts, etc.

iBrainstorm

K-5 All Free Jayme Linton Add sticky notes, text, and drawings to studyor organize information. Great for word sorts:Once you create a word sort, iBrainstorm

saves it to use again later.


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ScreenChomp

K-5 All Free Jayme Linton Works like an interactive whiteboard. Recordwriting or drawing on the whiteboard along withvoice narration. Teacher: Use to record step-by-step instructions or model a process for studentsto review. Students: Use to show the teacher what

you know. Students can solve a math problemwhile explaining what theyre doing, and teacherscan quickly tell whether students have masteredthe content.

Dropbox

Teacher All Free Cindy Geddes You can use this app for so many things...tosave pictures, videos, documents, etc. andto pull up things already saved in yourDropbox. Also so many apps sync toDropbox to make saving and retrievingmaterial easy.

Paint with Time

K-2 Science Free Cindy Geddes Explore how the world is changing bycontrolling the flow of time with your fingers.

Brain Pop

3-5 All Free Cindy Geddes Sign in with the Shuford username andpassword to gain access to all videos.


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Show Me

K-5 All Free Angie Sigmon This app is just like Screen Chomp. I like thisapp because of the size of the screen whenyou play back your recordings.

Cloud On

teacher All Free Angie Sigmon This app will link to your dropbox and allowyou to create and edit Word, Excel, andPowerPoint documents.

MultiTouch Math

2-5(maybe higher1st gradestudents)

Math free

$1.99

Angie Sigmon This is a fun and challenging way to work outmath problems (all operations). You aregiven a problem to work out. Once you knowthe answer, you have to make the numberusing only 1s, 2s, 5s, and 10s. Forexample, if the answer was 37, you would put3 fingers on the number 10, 1 finger on thenumber 5, and 1 finger on the number 2. It isso much fun!!

Math Pentagon

3-5 Math free Angie Sigmon This app offers math practice on a huge

variety of objectives. It also provides a boardfor the student to work out the problem.Some objectives only have a few mathproblems, but others offer 6 or more.


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Pandora

Pre-K-K early literacyor group time

free Angie Sigmon This app offers an internet radio. I uploadeda nursery rhyme station for Karsyn and itplays great songs.

Fish School

Pre-K to K group time 1.99 Laura Hall The fish transfer themselves into letters,numbers and shapes

Typing Bee

Pre-K- 2nd Typing Free Laura Hall Typing Bee keeps kids busy with and intuitiveand innovative way to learn and practice theirspelling skills.

Action Typing

K-5 Typing Free Laura Hall Action Typing is a typing game that will surelytest and improve your typing proficiency.


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K-5 Feelings Free Laura Hall This app explores all emotions...really cool!

My little girl loves this app...she is in 1st.

iTube List

All YouTubePlaylistFinder(withKids Video)

Free Laura Hall iTube List is an app with YouTube playliststhat are grouped videos usually related to acertain topic.

Wordventure

2-5 writing Free Angie Sigmon Mad Libs app

Tools 4 Students

K-5 All $0.99 Angie Sigmonvia CindyGeddes

25 graphic organizers for students to organizetheir thinking while reading or preparing towrite. This app covers all commoncomprehension skills.


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Accelerated Reader

All Reading Free Cindy Geddes Students can take AR tests with this app. Ilove how it shows pictures of the covers ofthe books and at the end you rate the booksby filling in stars. There is no teacher option

with this app.

1-3 Math Free Laura Hall This app is a fun and innovative way topractice math.

PBS Kids

Pre-K to 2nd Videos Free Laura Hall Watch videos from your favorite PBS Kids

television series anytime, anywhere.

WatchKnow

Teacher Videos Free Laura Hall This app is a companion app to thewww.WatchKnow.org website which provideseducational videos for teachers, students and

parents.


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Netflix

All Videos Free Laura Hall If you do not have a Netflix account andwould ever need to show a movie in yourclass....they have tons of WATCH NOWmovies.

Professor GarfieldFact or Opinion

3-5 Reading Free Angie Sigmon This app uses a comic strip to teach fact andopinion.

Sky View

3-5 Science Free Lynette Ryhal You can find the constellations, sun, moon,and even satellites from your exact location.

Nature Tap

All Science Free Laura Hall Nature Tap App gives ability to engage users,kids and adults to enjoy nature and sounds


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Scribble Press

K-5 Writing Free Laura Hall Scribble Press- a great app for students tocreate a book

NASA App HD

All Science Free Laura Hall NASA App HD....Come and explore withNASA

Animoto

All Videos Free Laura Hall Animoto- Turn your photos into a video withmusic and text.

Skitch

All Social Studies Free Cierra Winstead You can take any picture or map and writeand draw on it. You can use your own

pictures or pictures from the web.


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Mini Word

All Language Arts Free Cierra Winstead Students can make words with the droppingletters.

Google Earth

All Social Studies Free Cierra Winstead With the Google Earth app you can look upany place. It shows students what that placemake look like as if they are actually there.The visuals with the app are way better thanthey are on the computer.

Math Zoom

All Math Free Cierra Winstead Math Zoom is a great app that teachesstudents the values of numbers. Students

have to pop the bubble where it belongs onthe number line. The levels go to decimalsand a challenge level.

Times Table Quiz

3-5 Math Free Cierra Winstead Times Tables Quiz lets students practice their times tables with different quizes.

Can

3-5 Math Free

$0.99

Cierra Winstead Candy Factory- This games teaches studentsabout fractions while using pieces of candy.


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Hungry Fish

K-5 Math Free Cierra Winstead Hungry Fish- This game goes from teachingkids how to match numbers to levels that areeven challenging for adults.

Early Jamestown

All Social Studies Free Cierra Winstead Early Jamestown-This is an interactive appthat goes through the early town ofJamestown.

Tap Quiz Map

3-5 Social Studies Free Cierra Winstead Tap Quiz Maps- This app that lets studentstake quizzes about the placement of countrieson a map from all over the world.

Kibaki

All Math Free Cierra Winstead Kibaki-This is a card game that is just likeWar.


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Wordlands

All Language Arts Free Cierra Winstead Wordlands HD- Kids slide their fingers on theletters to make words. Students can be timedor not timed.

Easy Bake Treats

All Game Free Cierra Winstead Easy Bake Treats- You get to make your owncupcakes! I dont think I need to say anythingelse!

Dragon Dictation

All Language Arts Free Cierra Winstead Dragon Dictation- The students can speakinto the app and it will type what they aresaying.

TestmakerGrades 1-12

1-5 Tests Free Laura Hall This is an application designed for the iPadthat allows students to select from over60,000 questions by subject and grade level,and create a customized test.


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Splashtop RemoteDesktop

All All $2.99$4.99

Cindy Geddes Yes, I actually bought an app! Best $3 I everspent. I can use the iPad with this app as aremote that will run Mimio, Active inspireflipcharts or flash through your laptop. Well

worth the money!

MathBlasterHyperblast

K-5 Math Facts Free$2.99

Cindy Geddes This app has amazing graphics and is a funway to practice your facts. You can pickdegree of difficulty and what type of fact.

Sock puppets

K-5 Puppet show Free Cindy Geddes Add puppets, props, scenery, andbackgrounds and start creating. Hit therecord button and the puppets automaticallylip-sync to your voice.

Puppet Pals HD

K-5 Puppet show Free Cindy Geddes Simple app. Pick out your characters andbackdrops, drag them on to the stage and taprecord. Your movements and audio will berecorded in real time.


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Stack the States Lite

5 Social Studies Free Cindy Geddes As you learn state capitals, shapes,geographic locations and more, you touch,move and drop the animated states anywhereon the screen. You try to carefully build astack of states that reaches the checkeredline.

Make Dice Lite

All Any Free Jennifer Lingle You can create your own dice with words or numbers. You can use one or multiple dice.

Game Buzzer Free

All Any Free Angie Sigmonvia Julianne

This game buzzer can used in any grade withany subject. You can divide the class inteams and then show flash cards, vocabwords or ask review questions.

Paint Sparkles

All Any Free Cindy Geddes I use this app for students to practice spellingsight words. Students pick the color paper

and pen. It sparkles and makes sounds asthey write.


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How to MakeOrigami

All Any Free Eileen Cangemi This is a great app for following directions. Itis 3D and you can re-watch any part of theinstructions.

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