- – a ereader book store
- – calendar and assignment planner
- – Mobile Mouse instantly transforms your iPad into a wireless mouse and trackpad for your computer
- – Manage things with 25 ready to use databases
- – Within moments of downloading GoodReader, you’ll be transferring files from the computer to the iPad. Supports a wide range of files
- – View, store, and print from the iPad
- – View and share videos from Google Drive
- – Garfield and Friends share information about Online Safety
- and – A personal response system that allows teachers to poll their classes in real time
- – Turns iPad into a blackboard presenter using the VGA dongle. Mirrors iPad screen to the projector
- - PDF reader
- – Designed specifically for the iPad, Browser Duo takes advantage of the iPad’s amazing screen size to enable multi-tasking in the browser.
Note Taking
- – An app for writing handwritten notes, diagrams, etc.
- – Sundry Notes is the first social note taking application. Write, draw, record and research right within the app – and then share your notes with others.Take notes right within your application, including: Write text (and change font color, size, etc.), draw anywhere in your notes, search Wikipedia, Google, and Google Books – and grab images from them for your notes using two fingers, Import PDFs from the internet, Import images from your photo library, record sound/voice, Change page background to graph paper, lined paper, legal paper, etc.
- – Take notes in class and keep them organized by subject area.
- – Mind mapping, brainstorming, organization.
- – A mind map tool for the iPad
- – This App is ideal for brainstorming, analyzing, and organizing information. If you are familiar with the desktop version of Inspiration, this is a great port to the iPad
- – Evernote turns the iPad into an extension of your brain, helping you remember anything and everything that happens in your life.
- – Sticky notes you can share with other iPad Users
- – WritePad lets you take notes in your own handwriting with an iPad stylus, pen, or even your finger
Flash Cards
- – Create flash cards to study from
- – Create flashcard decks from Google Docs with this handy app!
- – Make your own flashcard decks with this easy to use app!
- – An innovative and interactive twist on traditional flash cards
- – Flashcard app with a beautiful interface and the content of Quizlet!
Art
- – a digital sketchbook
- – A professional-grade paint and drawing application.
- – Brushes is a painting application designed from scratch for the iPad. Featuring an advanced color picker, several realistic brushes, multiple layers, extreme zooming, and a simple yet deep interface, it is a powerful tool for creating original artwork on your mobile device. The cover of The New Yorker was created in Brushes.
- – A virtual gallery of Vincent Van Gogh’s work featuring hundreds of high definition paintings of his greatest works.
- – A virtual gallery of Austrian Painter Gustav Klimt work featuring hundreds of high definition paintings of his greatest works.
- – A virtual gallery of Leonardo da Vinci’s work featuring hundreds of high definition paintings of his greatest works.
- – Finger painting app
- – Assemble famous masterpieces like a jigsaw puzzle. Learn interesting facts about the artists and their artwork while putting each piece in place.
- – an app that lets you draw with stars
- – Over 100 pages of hot rod artwork. Over one and a half hours of instructional videos that show the complete process from sketch to rendering.
- – Similar to Sketchbook Pro – a professional drawing / painting application
- – Similar to Sketchbook Pro – painting and drawing tools that work just like the real thing!
Astronomy
- – Highly graphic encyclopedia that has detailed and comprehensive information about the solar system
- – Easily and quickly identify and locate stars, planets, constellations and more with a touch or by simply pointing to the sky. Have fun with family and friends discovering the images in the night sky. Go outside and explore the night sky
- – An interactive astronomy guide
- – A 3D Solar System Model
- – A database of over 130,000 stars, nebula, and galaxies
- – 3D simulation of the Milky Way Galaxy
Calculators
- – MathStudio is the most comprehensive math app available for iPhone and iPad. Whether you need a simple calculator to do your finances or a replacement for your TI graphing calculator, MathStudio is the most powerful and versatile calculator available
- – Advanced Graphic and Symbolic Scientific Calculator. Handles every mathematical problem you might encounter in school or university
- – Free Graphic calculator. Not as many features as the pro version above
- – Free 2D and 3D graphing calculator
Electives/Other
- – Play timeless pieces on spiral and circular keyboards, or follow beams of light – mastery requires only imagination. Play alone, or travel through a warp hole and play Piano Roulette with other performers across the world
- – A fashion design application that allows the users to design outfits
ESE Modifications / Accommodations
- – full featured alternative communication solution for people who have difficulty speaking
- – A high quality text to speech app
- – Use pictures or graphics to create a visual calendar
Foreign Language
- – One click translation of text into numerous languages using Google translate
- – Touch, Listen, and Learn Japanese
- – 2,700 Japanese phrases with sound
- – French – English Dictionary
- – Learn over 2,000 French words and phrases
- – Learn Spanish vocabulary
- – The best Chinese English Dictionary app is now on iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch. It covers over 170,000 words and phrases of the contemporary Chinese language (Both Traditional and Simplified Chinese), along with example sentences, audio pronunciations, fastest search speed, flexible search methods, and more
- – German – English Dictionary
- – Italian – English Dictionary
Language Arts/Reading
- – a ereader book store
- – Create your own iBooks right on the iPad. (Allows everything except video)
- – 23,469 Classics to Go
- – This app teaches you how to train your eyes and brain to read and comprehend text faster. Think of it as exercise for your reading skills
- – A dictionary and a Thesaurus
- – Elements of literature are arranged graphically around three wheels (poetry, prose, and rhetoric)
- – Kindle is an eReader from Amazon.com
- – Complete works of Shakespeare. 41 plays, 154 sonnets, and 6 poems. All works can be cross searched for anything
- – Sixteen of Jules Verne’s books
- – A simple and elegant journal
- – Provide feedback on essays with this easy to use app
- – Link to LitCharts website. Each of the LitCharts are available on the iPad
Math
- – Develop your algebraic equation solving skills through playing a Bingo game. This game takes you step by step through the process of learning how to solve the most basic equation up through multiple-step equations
- – An amazingly easy App that allows you to refresh your knowledge of Algebra with an interface designed for iOS devices
- – measure things in inches or centimeters
- – (iPhone app) Math Quizzer is an interactive and fun way to, not only learn, but also to boost your skills in; Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, and Division. It offers an easy to understand chalkboard visual, which keeps track of your “score” as you progress
- – A mathematics practice book for 6th grade students
- 7 -A mathematics practice book for 7th grade students.
- – Bring the power of the most trusted source for financial information to your iPad, along with tools to help you analyze the world’s markets.
- – Move and pinch fractals in real time
- – Access the most commonly used theorems, postulates, and corollaries
Music
- – Learn how to play the piano
- – Learn the basics of music and how to play the piano
- – Play the piano freestyle or on a spiral keyboard
- – Strum and pluck the strings for a harp sound
Science
- – Learn about the cell and its structures in a 3D tool
- – A highly interactive periodic table of elements
- – A great app that explores 21 in-depth topics including lasers, telescopes, lightning, reflection, bioluminescence, and sunlight
- – Allows you to interactively zoom into a human hand and explore it in a 3D environment
- – All of the vocabulary included in the College Board AP Biology Course
- – Science experiments with video
- – If you think you’ve seen the periodic table, think again. The Elements: A Visual Exploration lets you experience the beauty and fascination of the building blocks of our universe in a way you’ve never seen before. And as the first really new ebook developed from the ground up for iPad, The Elements beautifully shows off the capabilities of this lovely device
- – Explains Newton’s first two laws of motion and his law of universal gravitation
- – Standard periodic table of elements. Free as of May 16, 2010
- – View and manipulate 3D renderings of molecules
- – Rotate and zoom around 29 interactive structures in the brain
- – an extensive glossary of scientific terms and biographies
- – An app that contains a series of exercises based on physics
- – 2012 CODiE Awards Finalist – Best Educational Use of a Mobile Device — Video Physics brings physics video analysis to iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Take a video of an object in motion, mark its position frame by frame, and set up the scale using a known distance. Video Physics then draws trajectory, position, and velocity graphs for the object. Share video, graphs and data via the Camera Roll, email, and iTunes. Open in Vernier Graphical Analysis for iPad or with your computer running Vernier’s Logger Pro software. Open with Dropbox or Google Drive to store your data file in the cloud
- – Highly graphic encyclopedia that has detailed and comprehensive information about a variety of birds
- – A great reference, testing and education tool. Includes 141 beautiful muscle images with name, action, origin, insertion and comments, plus audio pronunciation guide, a quiz maker, an action viewer and 6 short videos to create a rich learning experience
- – An encyclopedia of marine life
- – A virtual frog dissection app
Social Studies
- – Become an expert in U.S. Geography with this app. Dozens of videos and interactive gameplay
- -Civil War: America’s Epic Struggle Features over 1,000 high-res photos, more than an hour of multimedia presentations, in excess of 100 authentic maps, dozens of first hand accounts, and numerous text articles and biographies, it provides instantaneous access to information on every aspect of the war
- – Beautiful Planet is a groundbreaking app that captures the breathtaking beauty of our world and its cultures. Featuring a collection of galleries three decades in the making by travel photographer, author and explorer, Peter Guttman, Beautiful Planet spans seven continents and 160 countries
- – The best maps available from National Geographic
- – Collection of High-Resolution historical Maps
- – High quality maps filled with facts and information!
- – A USA puzzle that needs to be put together. Double tap on the state for information about that state
- – Maps and navigation instruments. Maps from all over the world. Can include waypoints. Can be good for Geocaching
- – An app that converts the current time to a year and gives a fast fact about that year
- – Extensive information of over 250 countries around the world
- – Interactive multimedia calendar that features historical events for the day
- – Historical information on every President of the United States
- – Historical information on every President of the United States!
- – A copy of the Declaration of Independence
- – A copy of the Constitution of the United States
- – A portal to detailed information about elected congress officials. Please note: This is not an official government resource
- – A reference app – containing maps which allow you to look up countries and find country information – as well as a quiz app
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