Chapter Two Apps Corner
Apps Corner is designed for teachers and other educators who are looking for innovative ways to integrate apps into their content-specific curriculum. Apps Corner not only provides great apps with current information but also shows how other educators are using and integrating education apps. As a result, Apps Corner is designed with all educators in mind, regardless of their interests or subject area. You can use Apps Corner to expand your resources by reviewing apps outside your curriculum area; remember many apps associated with one curriculum area can be adapted for use and added to lesson plans in a wide variety of other curriculum areas.
Use Apps Corner as a springboard for collaborating and sharing the successes and hurdles of integrating apps in a classroom or an entire school system. Consider Apps Corner a place to locate app integration ideas and resources. Information on educational apps are organized in four Corners (Early Childhood, Elementary, Middle School, and Secondary), and different apps are available for each chapter. Many apps are free, others cost from $1 to $5. Inexpensive site licenses for classrooms, schools, and school districts are available for many apps.
Early Childhood
1. Dictionary.com
This easy-to-use app features a search bar, thesaurus, search history and word of the day. This is a great app for teaching antonyms, synonyms, sequencing, and word recognition.
2. Spanish Tutor
Introduce or help your kids review Spanish with this app that features native speaker audio, puzzles, written tests, flash cards, and a multiple choice quiz.
3. Textropolis
Travel world-wide and build up your Textropolis by finding the words hidden in each city. Play through 30 different cities in this free-play word discovery game. Stumble across a new word? Textropolis includes definitions for every word in the game. Watch each city grow as you discover its words and add to your total Textropolis population.
4. iWrite Words
Small children learn to write by tracing words with this game. Bright background colors are juxtaposed against equally bright and scribbly child-like artwork that conveys the word being spelled.
Elementary
1. Fractions
The Fractions App is your online guide and tutorial to help young people with learning fractions. The app uses a simple tactile interface where you can tap the screen to create a fraction from an everyday objects like a pizza or a chocolate bar. The difficulty level of the game increases as you master the simpler fractions and then more questions in an increasing level of difficulty are offered.
2. How Rocket Learned to Read
Watch and listen as words are highlighted while the story is read aloud by actress Hope Davis. Turn off the narration and read at your own pace. Tap on the words to hear them read back to you.
3. Grammar Up
Grammar Up is a multiple choice quiz system for English which provides over 1,800 questions across 20 grammar categories. Grammar Up can help learners to improve their grammar, word selection and vocabulary. Custom timer setting can assist learners to improve response times under exam time constraints.
4. Manual for the United States of America
Kids can learn about and read the Articles of Confederation, Declaration of Independence, Federalist Papers, biographies of Supreme Court justices, and a lot more. This app is a wonderful way for children to retain dates, historians, and learn about the USA through pictures and audio.
Middle School
1. Algebra Touch
Algebra Touch refreshes your skills using strategies and techniques. Enjoy the wonderful conceptual leaps of algebra, without getting bogged down by the tedium of traditional methods. Easily switch between lessons and randomly-generated practice problems. Create your own problems or edit current ones.
2. Math BINGO
Math BINGO allows you to choose from 4 games: Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication and Division. You can choose from 3 different levels of difficulty: Easy, Medium and Hard and create up to 5 player profiles. Choose from 8 different fun cartoon avatars and keep track of your scores by making a profile.
3. Presidents HD
The best United States president’s education and informational iPad app. See all the presidents on one large view with HD high-quality graphics with tons of useful presidential Info. Features include authentic portraits of each President, term dates, Vice President info, living dates, currency info, political party info. Presidents HD is the perfect app for anyone wanting to learn more info about the Presidents or for anyone preparing for tests.
4. Dictionary
This free app, derived from the website of the same name, gives students access to almost 1 million word definitions and 90,000 synonyms and antonyms in the app's thesaurus section. The app also gives the origin and history of words, as well as example sentences so kids can see how unfamiliar words are used.
Secondary
1. Monster Anatomy - Lower Limb
This application is designed for healthcare professionals (Radiologists, General Practitioners, Orthopedists, Surgeons, and Physiotherapists among others) as well for students, as a reference and learning tool. It contains 384 contiguous MR slices (4-5 mm thickness) in the three anatomical planes.
2. Virtual History ROMA
The virtual tour proceeds south to Pompeii and many other important Roman cities in Europe and the Mediterranean. These are presented with 3D models, information pages and hundreds of superb quality images.
3. Safari
Safari is a general and easy way to find information/check homework online. Secondary students will find this useful for researching resources for homework. Safari on iPhone 4S, Web pages render quickly, and the high-resolution retina screen displays pages with crisp text and bright, vivid graphics.
4. Wolfram Alpha
Wolfram Alpha is another phenomenal app for finding information. You can input math equations, words, places, chemical formulas, and it sends back information about what you typed in.