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