app-solutely awesome! apps for every subject and every age… and they’re free!!
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App-solutely Awesome!
Apps for every subject and every age…AND THEY’RE FREE!!
Reading/ELA
• Features include:• ABC upper/lowercase• Numbers 1-10• 20 basic shapes including lines, circles, rectangles,
and more• Dozens of 3 and 4 letter words• Add an unlimited number of your own words and
pictures• Additional letters for foreign language characters
Little Writer – Tracing App for kids
Tic-Tac-Toe Phonics
• Features include:• Build language skills• Fast-paced game of tic-tac-toe• Explores vowel sounds, syllables and more• For ages 6-8
World’s Worst Pet
• Features include:• Teaches more than 1000 words across 5 grade levels (grades 4-8) with
content available for students who are working a level behind• Student-friendly definitions and examples• Engaging narrative and reward system keeps students motivated• Activities include word context, word sort, synonyms, and antonyms• Students see same word multiple times in a single set of activities• Includes Spanish cognates• Immediate feedback• Real human voice not synthesized robotic speech• Aligns with CCSS• Writing prompts included
Common Core Quest
• Features include:• Students in K-12 can take quizzes to demonstrate mastery
of CC Math and ELA skills• When student doesn’t achieve mastery, recommends
videos and games to learn concepts needed to pass• Earn ribbons for each standard• Teachers see results in mastery charts for easy remediation
or intervention• Over one million videos, games, and assessments• PARCC style questions• All K-12 standards covered
Math
Tiggly Chef: Preschool Math Cooking Game
• Features include:• 3 kitchens, each with 15 unique ingredients• Each kitchen presents a higher level of difficulty• Create your own kooky culinary concoctions• Critique Chef’s dishes and save your voice in the
recipe book
Math Planet*apps available for 1st grade
through middle school
• Features include:• 30+ game levels supporting Common Core
Standards with learning analytic dashboard to track learning progress
• Math Fact Fluency System• Research-based• 2nd grade topics covered: number sense,
addition/subtraction technique, place value, estimation, time, geometry, addition/subtraction facts
Math Chat
• Features include:• Instant, online help for Math, including algebra,
trigonometry, geometry, calculus, and more• Snap a photo of the problem and post for help from online
community• Use for help on homework, classwork, math practice,
tutoring, and more• Teachers can use in the classroom to enable student
collaboration and enhance math practice classwork• Aligned with Common Core State Standards
Common Core Math for Teachers by Front Row
• Features include:• Differentiated instruction made easy• Over 30,000 common core questions covering K-8 math• Over 1600 videos to help students build core skills• Diagnostic pre-test to establish baseline for students• Adaptive engine that helps students with specific trouble
areas• Motivating and engaging features• Real world questions• Dashboard shows teachers exactly where students are
performing
Science/Social studies
CK-12
• Features include:• Comprehensive library of elementary, middle, and
high school concepts in math and science• Learn and practice math and science concepts
with thousands of free quizzes, lessons, simulations, interactives, and real world examples
• See progress with reports across concepts• Get recommendations for learning resources
EarthViewer
• Features include:• Like a time machine for exploring Earth’s history• Go back through the last 4.5 billion years• Continental reconstructions and accompanying data
dating back billions of years• Ability to manipulate the globe and zoom to any
location• In-depth features on major geological and biological
events in Earth’s history• Clickable details on geologic eons, eras and periods
K12 Periodic Table of Elements
• Features include:• Lets you explore the elements and their key attributes• Colors change in the table to show classification,
melting point, boiling point, outermost orbital, radius, ion radius, electronegativity, and ionization energy
• Table includes newly named elements Darmstadtium (110), Roentgenium (111), Copernicum (112), and Ununhexium (116).
• Both traditional and expanded views of table
Cell World
• Features include:• Travel through translucent blue cytoplasm and feel
the movement of the cell membrane• Discover the details of each cell part by navigating
in game-like fashion to the nucleus, mitochondria, ribosomes, and more
• Click to explore
DOGOnews
• Features include:• Great source for current events, news, and non-fictional
articles for kids and teachers• Thousands of articles on topics ranging from Science and
Social Studies to International current events• Every article features categorization by grade level, key
words highlighted and linked to definitions, places highlighted and linked to maps, lesson plan suggestions for Common Core State Standards, National Academy of Sciences, and National Council of Social Studies curriculum standards
Special populations
Best Sand Timer
• Features include:• Can be used to time anything up to 60 minutes• 16 different sounds to choose from for alarm
when time is up• Easily change the color of the timer to one of 5
different colors: turquoise, green, red, amber, and pink
News2You*Login with your Unique Learning System
username/password for free access
• Features include:• Read weekly symbol-supported news stories that
correlate with real world events• Optimize for each learner with 4 reading levels• Use with multiple students• Learn by playing games• Comprehension activities
This for That:Token Board
• Features include:• Create token boards and display progress toward
earning rewards• Easily create custom boards by adding your own
pictures of rewards• Choose from 6 fun token designs
This for That:Visual Schedule
• Features include:• Create unlimited visual schedules• Add custom steps that walk the child through a
task• Upload pictures• Include a picture of the reward the child is
working toward• View progress as each step is marked complete• Edit and delete schedules as needed
Other Apps
Bitsboard
• Features include:• Easily create your own study sets or download study
sets from teachers and classmates• Fully customizable• Over 25+ minigames/study modes including
flashcards, photo touch, memory cards, pop quiz, match up, word builder, sentence builder, and many more
• Tracks progress for multiple users• Fully supports switch control to make all games
accessible for users with disabilities
QR Reader for iPad
• Features include:• Scans QR codes and barcodes• Scan to PDF – turns your iPad into a digital scanner• Create your own QR codes• Scan and share photos and files• Share using email, MMS, Facebook, or Twitter
Undecided Lite
• Features include:• 6 sided die – roll up to 6 dice at once• Coin flip – allows you to keep tally of heads and
tails• Spinner• Straw Pull
Teacher stuff
Common Core Standards
• Features include:• View Language Arts and Math Common Core State
Standards for all grade levels• Find standards by subject, grade, and subject
category (domain/cluster)• Math standards include both traditional and
integrated pathways and synthesizes Language Arts standards with the Corresponding College and Career Readiness Standards (CCRs)
Next Generation Science Standards
• Features include:• View Next Generation Science Standards• Quickly find standards by various topic
arrangements or keyword search
Book Retriever*Not Free – cost is $0.99
• Features include:• Allows you to scan books in your classroom library• Can scan one at a time or multiple books• Gives leveling data such as Guided Reading Levels, Lexile,
Accelerated Reader, Reading Counts, DRA and Reading Recovery
• Label printing function allows you to print leveling data wirelessly and easily attach labels to books
• Almost 1 million titles in database• Can manually add books not found in the app database
Remind(formerly know as Remind 101)
• Features include:• Offers teachers a free, safe, and simple way to instantly
text students and parents• Teachers, coaches, or administrators can send reminders,
assignments, homework, assessments, or motivational messages directly to students’ and parents’ phones
• Messaging is safe because phone numbers are kept private
• Saves time because teachers can send quick, one-way announcements, or opt-in to chat for personalized communication with a student or parent
Autism Apps
• Features include:• Comprehensive list of apps that are being used
with and by people diagnosed with Autism, Down Syndrome, and other special needs
• Apps are separated into over 30 categories• Descriptions are searchable so apps are easy to
find• Includes links to information for each app• Has links to video demonstrations or video reviews
of the app when available