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- Overview
- Ten Sites Supporting iPads In Education…
- Top Search Engines
- 10 Tech Skills Every Students Should Have
- 40 Sites for Educational Games
- Top 10 Sites for Creating a Chart or Graph
- 10 Sites for Teaching a Foreign Language
- Nine Must-Have Free iPad Apps
- Stoodle
- Keyboarding – free typing games
- Copyrights Laws
- Top 50 Math Sites and Apps
- Computational Thinking: Over 50 Resources To Teach CT Across the Entire Curriculum, Part 2
- DIY Professional Learning
- Geography Tools that Mess with Your Head. Cause that’s a Good Thing
- 9 Top YouTube Channels to Boost Classroom Lessons
- 21 st Century Educational Technology and Learning
The Digital Backpack: Nine Must-Have Free iPad Apps
August 25, 2012
Your district has made the iPad plunge: Either every student will receive a shiny new iPad or every class will have an iPad cart to use for all classes. Here are the must-have apps for all iPads—and the best part is they are all FREE!
App |
Cost |
Features |
Grade |
Highlights |
Free |
Thesaurus Example Sentences |
All Grades |
Word of the Day |
|
Free |
Three calculating modes- Standard, String and RPN |
All Grades |
Retina Ready Biorhythm calculator Tip Calculator Great colors- to help differentiate |
|
Free |
3 in 1- notepad, bookpad and photopad |
All Grades |
Monthly and weekly calendar- use as a memo pad |
|
Free |
Recordable whiteboard |
All Grades |
Enables differentiating instruction |
|
Free |
Make your own Flashcards |
All Grades |
Use photos, audio or text for your vocabulary word |
|
Free |
Drawing App |
All Grades |
Comes with paintbrush, chalk, glitter, and more |
|
Free |
Graphic Organizers |
All Grades |
Free version comes with 5 graphic organizers |
|
Free |
News |
Grades 4 and up |
Needs Wi-Fi |
|
Free |
Storytelling |
K-6 |
Storytelling and understanding of the Story Arc |