Too Cool for School The Best iPad Apps for Education Joan Greene-Fisher Education Specialist Technology Initiatives State Department of Education

Stack the States Stack the States: $.99 Have fun learning about the 50 states: ▸ Capitals ▸ State shapes ▸ Abbreviations ▸ Bordering states ▸ Location on the map ▸ Nicknames Stack the Countries (also available)

Star Walk Star Walk: $4.99 Point your iPad at the sky and learn the identities of the stars, constellations and satellites.

Everyday Mathematics Baseball Mathematics Baseball: $1.99 Designed for both iPhone, iPad, and iTouch Great practice for Multiplication tables in a game form.

Beat the Computer Everyday Mathmatics- Beat the Computer: $ rounds of play Practices basic multiplication facts from 0 to 10 Correct and incorrect answer feedback

Mad Libs Mad Libs: FREE Test your fill-in the-blank skills Educate and entertain simultaneously

Under the Sea Under the Sea: FREE (Expanded paid version available.) Designed for 1 st -2 nd grade Learn simple addition facts in game form.

Pearl Diver Pearl Diver: FREE Ideal for middle school and upper elementary students, grades 3- 8 Understand numbers, ways of representing numbers, and number systems. Understand and represent commonly used fractions.

K-12 Timed Reading K-12 Timed Reading: FREE Allows levels K- 4 to practice fluency. Variety of fiction and non-fiction. Track one reader, multiple readers, or even a whole class.

Geo Play 2 Geo Play 2: FREE Fun geography review and quiz. Play as a multiple choice game, or just review geography facts with flash cards. Over 80 questions or upgrade to over 400 questions.

Free Spanish Tutor Free Spanish Tutor: FREE Native speaker audio for all words Entertaining puzzle game Write-in quiz to test language recall Multiple choice quiz Flash cards built in Self contained, internet not required

Grammar Prep: Subjects & Verbs Grammar Prep: $3.99 Contains multimedia tutorials, quizzes and mastery tests, answer feedback, and progress tracking.

Teacher’s Assistant Pro Teacher’s Assistant Pro: FREE (Upgrade version - $6.99) Allows teachers to keep track of student actions, behavior, infractions, and achievements in the classroom. Communicate quickly and easily with parents and your administration by documenting student classroom habits and behaviors and sending reports via or making a call right from your iPhone.

Easy QR Easy QR: FREE Allows you to generate and scan QR code. Share via e- mail, Facebook, or Twitter.

Puffin Puffin: $2.99 Super fast web browser that renders full versions of web pages and supports FLASH!

Khan Academy Khan Academy: FREE Learn almost anything free with over 2,700 videos. Topics such as K-12 math, science, biology, chemistry, history, etc. are covered. Downloadable videos.

Instapaper Instapaper ($4.99) Lets you save articles, blogs and news for offline reading. The app turns Web pages into a great reading experience.

Paper Paper: FREE Use different pen types and colors to: Sketch Write Outline Color Share

Penultimate Penultimate: $.99 Write directly on the iPad to take notes. Various color “pens”. Import pictures onto notepaper. Save for future reference.

Three Ring Three Ring: FREE Allows teachers to take pictures of student work and keep track of them online. Digitize students’ handwritten assignments and organize their work.

Dropbox Dropbox: FREE up to 2GB Lets you bring your photos, docs, and videos anywhere and share them easily. Never yourself a file again! Offers offline file access.

Documents to Go Documents to Go: $9.99 Have access to your Office documents (Word, Excel and PowerPoint) on your iPad at any time. Provides a 2- way file synchronization between your desktop and your iPad (or iPhone).

Adobe Photoshop Express Photoshop Express: FREE Simple photo editing. Crop and rotate photos, create effects and borders, manipulate color, apply filters, etc.

Dragon Dictation Dragon Dictation: FREE Very accurate voice transcription Share messages via , Facebook and Twitter as long as you are connected to the web.

Explain Everything Explain Everything: $2.99 Easy-to-use design tool that lets you annotate, animate, and narrate presentations. Use as an interactive whiteboard using the iPad2 video display. Insert a web browser for live annotations and basic recordings. Record on-screen while the audio is captured on the iPad microphone.

Popplet Popplet: FREE (only allows 1) Paid version unlimited: $4.99 For brainstorming and mindmapping Plan projects, presentations, projects, etc. Share and collaborate with others.

Type on PDF Type on PDF: FREE Users can both type or write on PDF forms. Export completed forms as PDFs via . Make templates of commonly used forms.

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