iPad Apps for School

The Best iOS Apps for Students and Teachers

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Take a Virtual Tour Inside Bones With This iPad App

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Screen Shot 2013-01-24 at 4.06.17 PM Powers of Minus Ten: Bone is a neat iPad app for biology students. The app takes students through ten levels of viewing the inside of human bones. Students can zoom through and explore each of the microscopic levels. The imagery starts at the level of viewing bones from the outside and ends with viewing the atoms within the bones. A neat aspect of the app is that students can select “healthy bone” or “broken bone.” By selecting “broken bone” students can view a broken bone and see how it heals.

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Powers of Minus Ten: Bone is the free (for now) follow-up to the Powers of Minus Ten: Cells and Genetics. The same concept of zooming through levels of microscopic views is used in Powers of Minus Ten: Cells and Genetics. Watch a short overview of that app in the video below.

Create Stop Motion and Time Lapse Videos on Your iPad

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Screen Shot 2013-01-15 at 1.35.48 PM OSnap is an iPad app (available in a free version and in a paid version) that you can use to create stop motion and time lapse videos. The app is quite easy to use. To create a video with the OSnap app you simply need to start a project and take a series of still pictures using your iPad’s camera. Then adjust the number of frame per second to edit your video. If you want to, you can add a sound track to your video by selecting audio files that are stored on your iPad. You can go back and edit your videos by removing images and from the project at any time. Completed projects can be stored on your iPad, uploaded to YouTube, or shared via email.

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OSnap could be used by students to create claymation videos. Your students can create figures with clay, arrange scenes, and then take pictures of each scene with the OSnap app. After capturing each scene students could add a soundtrack from the audio files stored on their iPads.

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OSnap is available in two versions. The lite version is free and is good for testing the app. The paid version costs $2.99 USD and it offers some additional features like importing stored images from your camera roll that is not offered in the free version.

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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Scrollshow – A Nice Free Alternative to Keynote for iPad

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Screen Shot 2012-12-21 at 11.25.28 AM Scrollshow is a neat presentation creation app for iPad. The idea behind Scrollshow is to present your slides as a continuous stream on top of a panoramic background. Unlike a typical slide presentation tool in which each slide is a separate entity, in Scrollshow the slides are integrated into the flow of a panoramic background. It kind of reminds of me Prezi. Learn more about Scrollshow in the video below.

Creating a Scrollshow presentation is similar to other slideshow creation apps. To get started select a theme and background. When you build your slides you’re really building frames within your background image. You’ll notice that the frame at the top of the editor moves with every new element that you add to your presentation. The frame is there to give you an idea of where each of your presentation elements will appear in the panorama.

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Scrollshow is a free app. For students of middle school age and higher it could be a good alternative to Keynote.

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Create Music Videos With Video Star

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Video Star is a fun and free music video creation app. To create a music video on Video Star just select a song that you have stored on your iPad then start shooting live video. The music will play for as long as you record or until the end of the song. You can also import images from your iPad to create your video. Video Star also lets you apply special effects to your video. Some of the effects that you can apply include text boxes, title boxes, frames around images, transitions, and split screens.

Your completed Video Star video can be exported to YouTube or sent to anyone via email.