iPad+and+iPhone+apps

=iPad and iPhone apps for Kids = Do you have an iPad or iPhone at home? Have you been looking for great apps to use? Here are some that educators are recommending for students. (Some of these I've tried, and some I haven't. Please read my note at the bottom of the page.)

Rocket Math - Practice math facts, counting coins, telling time, recognizing fractions, decimals, geometric shapes, and number patterns while earning money to buy parts to build a rocket.

Splash Math Summer Math Workbook - a comprehensive review of 2nd and 3rd grade math skills

Rootology - practice Greek and Latin roots, prefixes, and suffixes

Mental Case Classroom Edition - Create flashcards for you child to practice math facts, vocabulary, or just about anything. You can use photos and record audio.

iLive Math - There are 3 levels of difficulty that allow students to practice a wide range of math skills.

Bluster - This app helps students develop vocabulary and word pattern recognition skills.

Slice It!- Practice geometry, area, fractions, and percentages by cutting shapes into equal sized pieces.

Number League - Enter a comic book world where super heroes fight evil number villains. Helps students practice mental math to build computational fluency- a skill that is essential to a firm mathematical foundation!

KickBox - allows students to develop procedural thinking by reading points on a coordinate grid

*** ScreenChomp - Students can use this app to help them when working on the weekly math homework question. Record the steps you used, and then play it back so you can write it down. (I'm loving this app, and will hopefully use it to record how to do some of the projects we are doing in class.)

Moment Diary - This app creates time-stamped notes that coordinate with words, photos, audio recordings, or videos. This is a great app for documenting a process such as an experiment for a science fair project because it stamps each entry with the date and precise time. You can go back and review what happened on each date at a certain time. It can also be used as a diary or journal.

Tally Pad - create surveys or track performance with this app. The tap of a finger creates a tally mark to document responses or data.

Toontastic - a storytelling app that stands out from the rest. Plan, organize, draw, animate, record audio, and publish your stories online! Kid approved!

Book Creator - This is a quick and easy way for students to create eBooks and share them on iBooks.

Storyboards - Budding filmmakers and screenwriters will enjoy this app that allows them to plan their upcoming movies. It is useful for the planning and designing of camera shot sequences. Students can pick from a range of camera angles, action poses, backgrounds, characters, props, and costumes.

iMovie - Some say this is by far the best app for movie creating on iPad. Students can merge photographs, film clips, sound tracks, artwork, audio files, and sound effects into unique combinations. Final products can be published for the world to see.

Garageband - This app does for music what iMovie does for film. Students can generate, compose, and produce their own music. Students can arrange and mix up to 8 soundtracks. When finished, songs can be e-mailed or uploaded to iTunes.

TinkerBox HD - gives students the ability to invent machines that incorporate basic engineering concepts. There are two modes: one to manipulate mechanical gadgets so they solve a given task, and another where students can invent their own machines.

Juxtaposer - This app makes it easy to overlay and merge images. There are many brushes, stamp tools, and layering options so that students can playfully generate ideas for story characters or product designs.

123D Sculpt - Interested in art? This app lets students create virtual sculptures! This is another tool to build product designs and construct models for plans, plus it has a feature that allows the user to paint photographic images directly onto the sculpture.

Faces iMake - merges images of everyday items into collages. There are 20 different categories of images, plus frames, head shapes, soundtracks, and art tutorials. Apps like this can help students develop flexible and fluent thinking necessary for creative problem solving.

== Please note - I often find reviews for apps from other educators' sites, and have not necessarily used the app myself. Always review information about the app before downloading to decide if the app is right for you and your child. Also, I encourage parents to use every app themselves before allowing their children to use it to ensure that all content is appropriate for the age of the child. I cannot guarantee the content of these apps, or exclude the possibility of in-app purchase opportunities.==