Puppet Pals provides a simple user interface for creating digital stories and animated movies. Puppet Pals can be used in many grade levels and curriculum areas. Digital storytelling is one of the most powerful uses of an iPad in a 1:1 classroom. Puppet Pals allows students to create digital stories that explain literary works and concepts.
Cost: Free
Spanish Dictionary Pro is a free language translation tool. The app includes vocabulary builder games and review questions.
Cost: Free
Your World is a fun app for learning about countries and states. The app provides a visual search like Google Earth and has some built in assessment and review. Screenshots can be saved for use with presentations and projects.
Cost: Free
Google Translate provides text translation between 64 languages. Users can speak text rather than type. Translations can also be listened to for greater comprehension. The app is great for foreign language practice and geography curriculum.
Cost: Free
XE Currency is a great free converter app for currency and precious metals. The app can be used in many different curriculum areas including math, foreign language, social studies, and geography. The app provides simple conversion and detailed charts based on the needs of the project.
Cost: Free
Spanish Touch Trainer is an app that teaches you verb conjugation by using the context of real sentences. The advanced side of the app offers more complex sentences. Once you figure out what Spanish word matches which English word, you can listen to a recording of the sentence from a Spanish teacher. There is also a conjugation section which can be used as a reference tool while you are learning.
Cost: Free
