iPad Apps for School

The Best iOS Apps for Students and Teachers

elementary school

Chore Cards for iPad – Record and Reward Your Child’s Good Work

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Screen Shot 2013-03-11 at 10.08.27 PM Chore Cards is a simple iPad app that you can use to create custom, digital chore cards. Chore Cards for iPad allows you to record a child’s completion of tasks that you have assigned to him or her through the Chore Cards app. You can create profiles (name and image) for each of your children, assign chores to them, and assign rewards toward which each child is working. You can assign any or all of 25 pre-defined chore cards or create your own custom chore cards.

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Chore Cards includes an option to print QR codes for each chore. Children can scan the QR codes to view the chores and record their completion on through an iPhone or iPad. The full version of Chore Cards costs $0.99 USD. There is also a free version to try. The free version only allows you to track chores for one child.

Kids First Words With Phonics – A Nice App for Learning to Read and Spell

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Screen Shot 2013-01-27 at 10.31.33 PM Kids First Words With Phonics is a nice iPad app designed to help children learn to read and spell. The app shows students a picture, reads a word to them, then asks the child to drag and drop letter to spell the word they have just heard. The preference settings allow you to specify how many letters the longest words will have, whether or not a child will see hints, specify uppercase or lowercase letter display, and turn the narrator’s voice on or off. The preferences menu also lets you choose whether or not you want the narrator to speak the synthetic phonics of the words that children see in the app.

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Kids First Words With Phonics offers 27 animal pictures and names for free. An addition 45 pictures and words can be added to the app through an in-app purchase at a cost of $0.99 (USD).

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Tiny Countries is a Great Geography iPad App for Kids

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Screen Shot 2013-01-14 at 9.05.23 PM Tiny Countries for iPad is one of the most fun apps that I’ve tried in a while. The purpose of the app is to help students learn the locations of 75 countries, their capitals, their notable cities, and some of their unique geographic features. Students learn this information in a game format. The scenario of the game is this, students have to help capture the “evil” characters (the characters are farm animals) by correctly answering the questions faster than the evil characters. Before trying each of the missions students can review each of the countries by tapping on the “learn” icon in the game. Watch the video below for an overview of the game.

Tiny Countries for iPad could be a great app for elementary school students to use to learn world geography. Older students might like it too. In fact, if I hadn’t forced myself to stop after two missions I might have played the game all evening.

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Tiny Countries for iPad is currently listed at $3.99.

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Draw Along With Stella and Sam Lets Students Add Color to Short Stories

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Screen Shot 2013-01-13 at 1.38.31 PM Draw Along With Stella and Sam is a fun app for kids of preschool and Kindergarten age. The app provides children with ten objects that they can color by using the drawing tools in the app. The drawing tools include three brush stroke sizes, twelve colors, and nine virtual stamps to apply to each drawing. Children can erase part or all of a drawing at any time. Children can also include pictures of themselves or others by using the camera on their iPads. I took a picture of one of my dogs and included it in my sailboat drawing.

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There are ten objects in all that a child can color in Draw Along With and Stell and Sam. The list of objects for coloring include a sailboat, a plane, a butterfly, and a group of three friends that resemble paper dolls. After a child completes a drawing he or she can hear Stella and Sam tell a short story centered around the object he or she just colored in. A video of the story featuring the child’s drawing can saved to his or her iPad.

Marble Math Offers a Fun Way to Practice Math on iPads

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Screen Shot 2013-01-06 at 8.56.57 AM Marble Math is a fun mathematics game for kids to play on their iPads. The game has students practice basic multiplication problems through a maze layout. Students are given multiplication problems to solve by rolling their marbles through mazes that contain the correct answers. Students have to avoid the incorrect answers while moving their marbles toward the correct answers. Some of the mazes contain additional obstacles to avoid while searching for the correct answer. Students earn points for each maze they solve. When they reach 2,000 points (ten-fifteen correctly solved mazes) students earn a new marble.

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Marble Math gives students a couple of ways to navigate the mazes. They can navigate mazes by dragging their marbles with their fingers. For an extra challenge students can navigate the mazes by tilting their iPads to make their marbles roll.

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Marble Math is available in three versions. Marble Math Lite only offers multiplication problems. Marble Math Junior offers addition, subtraction, division, and multiplication problems. Marble Math includes fraction problems, decimals, and negative integers.