The Khan Academy app provides access to Khan library of videos. Khan Academy provides thousands of educational videos on math and science. The app allows quick access to video content. Please not that users will need a log in for progress monitoring.
Cost: Free
The Smithsonian Channel app provides users with access to series, documentaries, and facts. The app is being used in some of our middle school social studies and geography classes.
Cost: Free
JogNog provides thousands of assessment and review questions based on state standards by grade level. JogNog is a free app with several in-app purchase options. Students can use JogNog for preparation and practice before state testing. JogNog also provides teachers with quiz builders and ways to share quizzes with students. Teachers can see student progress and help them prepare for testing.
Marshall Simonds Middle School 8th graders will be part of a JogNog pilot during the first year of their 1:1 program.
Cost: Free (In-App Purchases and Subscription Content Available)
Skitch is one of highly recommended App Essentials. Skitch is a simple yet powerful interactive whiteboard style app that allows users to take notes or create content that can easily be saved to their Evernote accounts. While Evernote is one of most important apps in Burlington, it does not have the ability to use hand writing for annotation. Skitch provides this missing feature and ties everything together well for users who rely on Evernote for notes and content organization. Skitch is also a great tool for creating how to guides and presentation materials.
Skitch is great for nearly all grade levels and curriculum areas. Skitch provides a perfect platform for math practice, hand written notes, and science labs.
Cost: Free
Oh Say Can You Say Di-No-Saur? All about Dinosaurs is the second book app in the Cat in the Hat’s nonfiction Learning Library series. This app like the book follows the Cat in the Hat on an expedition millions of years back in time to find dinosaur fossils. Older readers as they explore this animated book learn interesting facts about the dinosaurs and details of their prehistoric lives. They can search each page for hidden information cards, access an instant glossary by tapping on special bold words, and tap the dinosaur name on any page to uncover additional information.
Cost: $5.99
Polar Bear Horizon book app is an informative story with beautifully detailed illustrations. This interactive book includes a glossary, a polar bear fact section, professional narration, background audio and enlarged artwork for each scene. To promote reading in young children, individual words are highlighted as the story is read and words zoom up when pictures are touched. By combining the original text and artwork with features that educate, entertain and promote reading, this book appeals to readers of all ages. Other iPad book apps in the Smithsonian Collection include : It’s Tyrannosaurus Rex, Penguin’s Family, Triceratops Gets Lost and Wooly Mammoth in Trouble.
Cost: $2.99
There’s No Place Like Space! : All About the Solar System app is the first Learning Library title to turn digital. This app is a curriculum based educational and adaptation of the revised (without Pluto) book written in the style of Dr. Seuss. The app also includes definitions and extra facts for the planets, as well as the sun and moon.
Cost: $5.99
Life Cycles for Kids is an app that teaches a variety of life cycles to elementary students. The app also helps with developing hand-eye coordination and nutritional information. The full version has the following life cycles: frog, butterfly, bird, tree and water cycle.
Cost:$1.99 (Free lite version)
