Essential iPad Apps for Primary Education

Essential Apps: Nathan Jones Twitter: @elearnjones


APP NAME COST CURRICULUM AREA YEAR LEVEL/S (Based on Australia Primary Levels)

KEYNOTE

$10.49 -‐ For all Year levels -‐ Can be Integrated into all Curriculum areas

-‐ Presentation tool -‐ Links with many other Apps

PAGES


-‐ Writing -‐ ePub Docs

GARAGEBAND

$5 -‐ For all Year levels -‐ Can be Integrated into all Curriculum areas

-‐ Music -‐ Podcasting

iMOVIE


-‐ Best used with iPad2



REEL DIRECTOR


-‐ Best used with iPad2 -‐ Simpler to iMovie, great for the younger year levels

DICTIONARY.COM

FREE Or HD Version $5.49

-‐ For all Year levels -‐ Literacy -‐ Great for extending student vocabulary and understanding the International Phonetic Alphabet

iBOOKS

FREE -‐ For all Year levels -‐ Can be Integrated into all Curriculum areas

-‐ Literacy -‐ Storing PDF Docs from your emails

-‐ Record keeping -‐ ePub Docs

PUPPET PAL HD


-‐ Best used with iPad2 -‐ NB: Purchase the full version

TOONTASTIC

$1.99 -‐ Year 3+ -‐ Literacy, Humanities, LOTE and other Literacy based curriculum



DRAGON DICTATION

FREE -‐ For all Year levels -‐ Special Needs -‐ Spoken Word is recorded -‐ Need a quiet room

DISCOVR APP

FREE -‐ Year 5+ -‐ Teacher App -‐ Search Engine in finding similar Apps on your iPad

MY SPELLING TEST

FREE -‐ Year 3+ -‐ Literacy/Spelling -‐ LOTE -‐ Personalise spelling lists -‐ Student test themselves and email results to the teacher

KIDS SCRAMBLE GAME

FREE -‐ Prep to 3 -‐ Literacy -‐ Great App for Junior Primary



I SPY

FREE -‐ Prep to 3 -‐ Literacy -‐ Visual Memory -‐ Oral Language

ABCWordPuzzle

FREE -‐ Year 1+ -‐ Literacy -‐ Great App for Junior Primary

FUTABA

FREE -‐ Years 1+ -‐ Literacy -‐ Collaborative App. Can have four players playing at one time

MAGNETIC ALPHABET

$1.99 -‐ Prep to 3 -‐ Literacy, Numeracy, Integrated in all Curriculum areas.

-‐ Fun App -‐ Excellent for spelling and story telling



HALF TONE


-‐ Best used with iPad2 -‐ Transfers photos to Comic images

-‐ Transferable to other Apps such as Keynote, Pages and iMovie

-‐ Saves to Camera Roll

COMIC BOOK


-‐ Transfers photos to Comic images



STRIP DESIGN


-‐ Cheaper version of Comic Life

COMIC LIFE




WORDFOTO

iPhone App $1.99

-‐ For all Year levels -‐ Can be Integrated into all Curriculum areas



SHOW ME INTERACTIVE

FREE -‐ Years 4+ -‐ Numeracy, Literacy, LOTE -‐ Create a free account on the website

-‐ Screen Cast and record lessons or Peer Teaching

-‐ Student/Teacher App

EXPLAIN EVERYTHING

$2.99 -‐ Year 6+ -‐ Teacher App -‐ Assist in teaching focus -‐ Screen Casting -‐ Explain work -‐ How this work -‐ Peer Teaching

360 PANORAMA

$1.99 -‐ Year 4+ -‐ Can be Integrated into all Curriculum areas

-‐ Best used with iPad2 -‐ Camera App -‐ Uploads to their website -‐ Public or Private access -‐ Augmented Reality



ART STUDIO

$2.99 -‐ For all Year levels -‐ Can be Integrated into all Curriculum areas, especially Art

-‐ Great Art App

DROPBOX

FREE -‐ Cloud Computing -‐ Year 3+ -‐ Teacher App -‐ Productivity

EVERNOTE

FREE -‐ Year 6 Up -‐ Also teacher App -‐ Productivity -‐ Create a Free Account -‐ Store notes, photos and voice recordings

-‐ Great on going assessment record tool

GLOW DRAW FREE


DOODLE BUDDY




POPPLET


-‐ Mind Maps -‐ Using Camera Roll images or create new ones

-‐ Easily shared -‐ Creative

MathBoard

FREE Or $5.49

-‐ Year 4+ -‐ Numeracy -‐ Create a Free Account -‐ Mental Computation -‐ Progress of students can be monitored

WOLFRAM ALPHA

$1.99 -‐ Year 4+ -‐ Numeracy -‐ Create a Free Account -‐ Great Information App -‐ Find out how equations work and more

BLANKMATH

FREE

-‐ Year 3+ -‐ Numeracy (Four Operations)



TOUR WRIST

FREE -‐ For all Year levels -‐ Humanities, Geography, Integrated Curriculum and more.

-‐ Augmented Reality -‐ Fantastic App to use on display screen or IWB

QR READER

FREE Or $0.99

-‐ Year 5+ -‐ Can be Integrated into all Curriculum areas

-‐ Create QR Codes to be used as scavenger hunts, PDF Homework and scan to add to iBooks

-‐ Communication purpose

POCKET POND

FREE Or HD Version $2.99

-‐ For all Year levels -‐ Can be Integrated into all Curriculum areas

-‐ Numeracy (Count fish, colour pattern)

-‐ Relaxation of special needs students

-‐ Fun!

SCHOOL A-‐Z

FREE -‐ For all Year levels -‐ Parents Assistant App for Homework

-‐ Similar to Maths Dictionary or English dictionary

-‐ All Curriculum areas -‐ NSW Education App



RR (RUNNING RECORD CALCULATOR)

$1.99 -‐ Teacher App -‐ Accurately Calculates Running Records for you

PENULTIMATE

$0.99 -‐ For all Year levels -‐ Using a Stylus Pen you can write in the Note pad format instead of typing

-‐ All Curriculum areas

GRADEKEEPER

$5.49 -‐ Teacher App -‐ Excellent Assessment Recording App

-‐ Email attendance -‐ Multi class set up

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