Great iPad Applications for Students
Application / Grade? / Cost / How Can This App Be Used?Inkflow / All / Free / This app allows students to think through their thoughts through writing and graphics.
Paper by Fifty-Three / All / Free / Students can write in different journals. Apple designated this one of the best apps of 2012.
iTranslator / All / Free / Take any text and translate it using Google or Babble.
SkyMap / All / Free / Allow students to learn about the stars and the constellations.
PopMath / Free / Students can practice their basic math skills: addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
GrafioLite / Free / Students can create diagrams, thinking maps, and organizational tools using this app.
Skitch / Free / Take screenshots, pictures, or texts and annotate or further design great images.
BrainPoP / Free / Students watch a different movie each day and quiz themselves on what they learn.
PuppetPals / Free / Students create stories using puppets. It is a great ways to teach students the elements of a story.
Toontastic / Free / This application is similar to PuppetPals except students are using cartoon figures.
Educreations / Free / Explore different lessons or create your own.
VoiceThread / Free / Create presentations with audio.
Scribble / Free / Students can create their own books or stories using this app.
Stack the States / Free / Students can learn the 50 states in a fun and engaging way.
Evernote / Free / Evernote helps organize documents, save ideas and improve productivity.
/ $9.99 / Students can develop and edit movies.
Lakeshore Tic Tac Toe Phonics / Free / Great for kids still learning their phonics; students play tic tac toe and answer questions related to phonics.
Lakeshore Beginning Sorting Sounds / .99 / Students match words that have the same beginning sound.
Phonics Genius / Free / Students can practice their reading skills and check to see if they are sounding out words correctly.
Counting Money / Free / Students practice their math skills using money.
MadMath / Free / Students can practice their math skills in fun, interactive games.
Science 360 / Free / Every student wants to learn about the world around them. This application has great videos to teach about many different subjects.
TanGram App / Free / This app is great for beginning learners to learn more about patterns and shapes.
Pages / $9.99 / The perfect application for word processing. With or without a keyboard, students can type documents using this application.
Keynote / $9.99 / This application works as your place to create presentations. Students can use this in a similar way to PowerPoint, but it allows students to use their hands to move everything around.
CashCow Lite / Free / Help Buck the Cow and his friends save the farm in this original game of coin counting. The objective is simple: earn money by counting up your loose change. Small coins make big coins, and big coins make dollar bills. Things get trickier when you add counterfeit money, ladybugs, gold nuggets, glowing coins, and powerups into the mix
Chicktionary / Free / This fun game allows students to take scrambled letters and make words.
Freddy Fraction / Free / Freddy Fraction is an alien who needs your help! Freddy is lost! Help Freddy find his way back home safely using fractions, decimals, and percentages to lead him back to his spaceship!
Grammar Dragon / .99 / 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
/ Free / This app in the free trial allows you to connect your iPad to your computer as a SmartBoard
/ Free / Edistorm is an online brainstorming tool that uses the metaphor of sticky notes to allow you to brainstorm. Edistorm is the best way to brainstorm before, during and after your meetings. Edistorm allows you create brainstorms, add or retrieve your ideas anywhere you are.
Bridgit / Free / Smartboard software for your iPad.
Red Light, Green Light / Free / Nothing too complicated: just a traffic light that goes from green to yellow to red!
Too Loud? / Free / Measure the noise in your class to determine how loud students are being.
Whiteboard Lite / Free / Allows two iPads to collaborate together.
AutoRap / 2.99 / With Smule’s proprietary “rappification” technology, AutoRap maps the syllables of your speech to any beat, creating a unique rap every time.
Useful Websites:
- Free Audio Books:
- 18 Ways to Use an iPad Now:
- Khan Academy:
- Manga High:
- Mentor Mob:
- Ten Marks: