When deciding on a default set of applications for students and teachers to use, the technology team, along with curriculum leaders and a focus group of classroom teachers had to balance many factors. We wanted to give teachers as many of the best apps that we could, but also wanted to keep as much space free as possible to allow for the creation of iMovies, GarageBand songs, and multimedia documents. In addition to these base apps, teacher have the ability to request apps be installed on their student’s machines.
With an ever-growing list of apps being deployed for the district, it can be difficult to determine what to choose. The following list serves as a searchable database in which you can search for an app by name, or grade level, as well as learn more about each app via the descriptions.
| App Name | App Description | Grade Level | Self-Service Category |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grammar For Kids | A perfect app for kids to practice the 8 parts of speech: Noun, Pronoun, Adjective, Adverb, Verb, Preposition, Conjunction and Interjection. | K-6 | Literacy |
| Tell Time Little Match Ups | A fun matching game to tell time | K-1 | General |
| Number Line by MLC | Number Line helps students visualize number sequences and model strategies for addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. | K-1 | Math |
| Animal Math Games | Join math-explorer Emma through more than 100 fun math games on a quest to help her animal friends find a way home! | K-1 | Math |
| Lolas Math Train | Join Lola on her journey as she makes her way through a fun filled environment of bright colors, interactive characters and creative problem solving to get all of her friends to a party! | K-3 | Math |
| iWrite Words | iWriteWords teaches your child handwriting while playing a fun and entertaining game. | K-1 | Literacy |
| Starfall ABC's | The "ABCs" section of Starfall.com's well-loved website is now available as a universal application for your iPad | K-3 | Reading |
| Duolingo-Language Lessons | Learn Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Irish, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, and English. Totally fun. | K-3 | ELL |
| Endless Reader | Collection of sight words to learn and to play | K-1 | Literacy |
| Adobe Express | Quickly and easily make graphics, logos, posters, collages, flyers from thousands of beautiful templates | 3-6 | Creation |
| Spark Video | Students can create compelling video stories in minutes. | 3-6 | Creation |
| Spark Page | Students can easily turn words and images into beautiful gliding web pages | 3-6 | Creation |
| Rocket Math | Students will work on math facts fluency in addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. | K-3 | Math |
| Staff Wars | StaffWars is a game designed to help beginning and intermediate musicians learn, practice and woodshed the note names of the treble, alto and bass clefs | K-3 | Music |
| Word Magic | Word Magic is designed for preschool age kids and helps with visual recognition and spelling ability. | K-1 | Literacy |
| Number Pieces by MLC | Number Pieces helps students develop a deeper understanding of place value while building their computation skills with multi-digit numbers. | K-3 | Math |
| Explain Basics | Infinite Digital whiteboard, draw, add images, shapes, text, record video and use a laser pointer. Screencast recording | K-6 | Creation |
| Puppet Pals | Students can pick out actors and backdrops, drag them on to the stage, and tap record. Their movements and audio will be recorded in real time for playback later. | K-6 | Creation |
| Flip | Video discussion where curious minds connect, share short videos, respond to questions. | 3-6 | Feedback/Assessment |
| Pages | A powerful word processor allows students to create gorgeous reports, resumes, and documents: Students can add video, images, charts, and tables. Work can be easily shared | 3-6 | Productivity |
| Keynote | Students can design presentations using a variety of slide layouts, animations, fonts, and style options. Students can also create a variety of charts. | 3-6 | Productivity |
| Numbers | Spreadsheet app with over 30 design templates, students can insert photos, video, tables, charts, formulas and text. | 3-6 | Productivity |
| iMovie | iMovie for iOS lets you browse through your clips, turn them into your favorite films or trailers, and then watch them anywhere with iMovie Theater | 4-6 | Creation |
| Garage Band | Music creation app that allows students to record, play, and mix their own songs. | 4-6 | Music |
| Socrative Student | Teachers can initiate formative assessments through quizzes, quick question polls, exit tickets and space races. Socrative will instantly grade, aggregate and provide graphs of results. | K-6 | Feedback/Assessment |
| Nearpod | Nearpod provides the ability to upload/share existing presentations as well as create new ones from scratch. Adding interactive features such as question/answer polling, surveys, and drawings. The entire pacing of the presentation is controlled from the teacher’s iPad. | K-6 | Feedback/Assessment |
| Google Slides | You can create, view, and edit presentations created in Google Slides, as well as Microsoft PowerPoint® files | K-6 | Productivity |
| Google Docs | Create, edit, and collaborate with others on documents | K-6 | Productivity |
| Google Sheets | Create, edit, and collaborate with others on spreadsheets | 3-6 | Productivity |
| iBooks | iBooks allows you to download and read books | K-6 | Literacy |
| Google Earth | Explore the whole world from above with satellite imagery. | K-6 | Social Studies |
| Newsela | Newsela builds reading comprehension by delivering relevant, daily articles from trusted news sources at the reading level that’s just right for you. It is effective, engaging, and easy to use. | K-6 | Social Studies |
| Chatterkid | Students can use this app to make anything talk. Simply take any photo, draw a line to make a mouth, and record your voice. | K-3 | Literacy |
| Bluster | Students build their vocabulary while they battle the elements. This has different beginning levels, which makes it great for easy differentiation. | K-3 | Literacy |
| Sushi Monster | Strengthen reasoning strategies for whole number addition and multiplication by helping monsters make a target sum or product. | K-3 | Math |
| GeoBoard | The Geoboard is a tool for exploring a variety of mathematical topics introduced in the elementary and middle grade | K-1 | Math |
| Spelling City | Students can practice their spelling skills using their own list or use one that is computer generated. | K-6 | Literacy |
| HMH Readers | This mobile reading program features leveled nonfiction and fiction texts to reinforce reading skills, promote academic vocabulary acquisition, and improve reading fluency & comprehension | K-3 | Literacy |
| Notability | Notability is a powerful note-taker to annotate documents, sketch ideas, record lectures, and take notes. It combines, typing, handwriting, audio recording, and photos so students can create notes. | 4-6 | Productivity |
| Paper 53 | Paper is the best way to capture and connect your notes, photos, and sketches. | 4-6 | Creation |
| Breathe2Relax | instructions and practice exercises to help users learn the stress management skill called diaphragmatic breathing | K-6 | Brain Breaks |
| Class Dojo | ClassDojo is a beautiful, safe, and simple communication app for teachers, parents, and students. | K-6 | Classroom Management |
| ScratchJr | With ScratchJr, young children (ages 5-7) learn important new skills as they program their own interactive stories and games. | K-3 | Coding |
| Tynker | Play fun puzzles to learn the basics and then create your own amazing games using over 100 step-by-step coding tutorials | 4-6 | Coding |
| Classroom | Classroom turns your iPad into a powerful teaching assistant, helping a teacher guide students through a lesson, see their progress, and keep them on track | K-6 | Classroom Management |
| Socrative Teacher | Engage, assess and personalize your class with Socrative! Educators can initiate formative assessments through quizzes, quick question polls, exit tickets and space races all with their Socrative Teacher app | K-6 | Feedback/Assessment |
| Imagine Learning | Imagine Learning® harnesses the power of technology to teach language and literacy to students around the world through engaging, interactive instruction. | K-6 | ELL |
| Brainpop | Bring learning to your fingertips™ with the BrainPOP Featured Movie app for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch. Watch a different animated movie every day, then test your new knowledge with an interactive quiz – free | 4-6 | ELL |
| BrainPopJr | Ideal for kids in Kindergarten through grade 3, the BrainPOP Jr. Movie of the Week app spans subjects within Science, Social Studies, Reading, Writing, Math, Health, Arts and Technology. | K-3 | ELL |
| Book Creator | Book Creator is the simple way to make your own beautiful ebooks, right on your iPad | K-3 | Literacy |
| Dictionary | Top-rated app with trusted reference content from Dictionary.com & Thesaurus.com. | K-6 | Literacy |
| Epic | Epic! is the leading all-you-can-read eBook library for kids 12 and under offering unlimited access to over 10,000 high-quality children’s books, now including thousands of read-to-me and Audio books. | K-6 | Literacy |
| Grammar for Kids | A perfect app for kids to practice the 8 parts of speech: Noun, Pronoun, Adjective, Adverb, Verb, Preposition, Conjunction and Interjection. | K-4 | Literacy |
| iBrainstorm | Capturing and sharing your inner most creative genius has never been easier. Introducing the first multi-device collaboration tool | K-6 | Literacy |
| Kids A-Z | The Kids A-Z mobile app delivers interactive learning content for Raz-Kids, Headsprout, and Science A-Z anytime, anywhere. | K-4 | Literacy |
| Padlet | Padlet is a digital canvas to create beautiful projects that are easy to share and collaborate on. | 3-6 | Creation |
| Seesaw | Seesaw is a student-driven digital portfolio that empowers students of any age to independently document what they are learning at school and share it with their teachers, parents, classmates, and even the world. | K-2 | Literacy |
| Starfall ABC's | Children delight as they see, hear, and interact with letters and sounds in words, sentences, and games. | K-1 | Literacy |
| Starfall Reading | Starfall I’m Reading develops comprehension and reading fluency in beginning and advancing readers. | K-1 | Literacy |
| Endless Numbers | Kids will have a blast learning number recognition, sequences, quantity, numerical patterns, and simple addition | K-3 | Math |
| Gracie & Friends | The math-focused curriculum supplement of Early Math | K-1 | Math |
| IXL Math | With over 4,500 skills in math and English language arts, students can find comprehensive, standards-aligned content for all grade levels. | K-6 | Math |
| Math Slide | Math Slide: hundreds, tens & ones is a multiplayer game helping children understand hundreds, tens and ones; numbers up to a thousand. | 4-6 | Math |
| Pattern Shapes | Students use Pattern Shapes to explore geometry and fractions, creating their own designs, or filling in outlines. | K-1 | Math |
| Subitize Tree | Su-bi-tize (verb) – To perceive (know), at a glance, the number of items quickly presented. | K-1 | Math |
| SumDog | Sumdog offers fun games to learn math skills | K-6 | Math |
| TuneTrain | TuneTrain is a music creation app, where kids can quickly create and edit melodies through a fun line-drawing | K-6 | Music |
| Shadow Puppet | Easily create videos in the classroom! Students as young as five can make videos to tell stories, explain ideas, or document their learning. | K-6 | Creation |
| Quizlet | Master your classes with the leading education app! Create your own flashcards or choose from millions created by other Quizlet users on thousands of subjects | K-6 | Feedback/Assessment |
| Green Screen-Do Ink | Green Screen by Do Ink makes it easy to create incredible green screen videos and photos. | K-6 | Creation |
| Google Translate | Translate between 103 languages by typing | K-6 | ELL |
| NASA | Come explore with NASA and discover the latest images, videos, mission information, news, feature stories, tweets, NASA TV and featured content with the NASA App for iOS. | K-6 | Science |
| NSF Science Zone | The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Science360 app for iPad provides easy access to engaging science and engineering images and video from around the globe and a news feed featuring breaking news from NSF-funded institutions. | K-6 | Science |
| WWF | WWF Together brings you closer to amazing and endangered species than you ever could have imagined, letting you discover their lives and the work WWF does for them | K-6 | Science |
| Popplet | Popplet is the simplest tool to capture and organize your ideas. With Popplet you can quick jot down your ideas and sort them visually. | K-6 | Creation |
| Stop Motion | Get Stop Motion Studio, the world’s easiest app to get you into stop motion moviemaking today! | K-6 | Creation |
| Todo Math | Todo Math’s early elementary curriculum is ideal for learning foundational math skills at home and in the classroom. | K-2 | Math |
| Calcbot | Calcbot is an intelligent calculator and unit converter for the rest of us. Featuring an easy-to-read history tape, expression view, intuitive conversion, and much more! | K-6 | Math |
| Post-it Plus | The Post-it® Plus App takes the momentum from your collaboration sessions and keeps it rolling. Simply capture your notes, organize and share with everyone. | K-6 | Productivity |
| Fry Words | The Fry 1000 Instant Words are a list of the most common words used for teaching reading, writing, and spelling. | K-1 | Literacy |
| EDpuzzle | EDpuzzle video comes to life with audio-notes and questions. An interactive an unique experience for your students. | K-6 | Feedback/Assessment |
| Phonics Genius | Learn how to speak, read, and recognize words is through phonic awareness | K-6 | Literacy |
| Know your Math Facts | Know Your Math Facts is an educational app to help children memorize addition and subtraction math facts with sums/differences to 20. | K-3 | Math |
| Coin Crash | A fast paced game-helps students with counting money. | K-3 | Math |
| AgingBooth | What will you look like when you’re old? And what about your friends? Find out with AgingBooth, an easy to use and amazing face aging machine on your iPhone, iPod Touch & iPad. | K-6 | Creation |
| Comic Life 3 | Easily go from taking photos to creating full comics all on one device with full page templates and panel layouts. Create original stories with the integrated Script Editor then drag and drop your words to the comic page when you're done. | 3-6 | Creation |
| Osmo Monster | Bring your drawings to life! Each item you draw for Mo will be magically pulled into his world. Create animated adventures to share with family and friends. | K-4 | Coding |
| Pixelmator | Pixelmator is a powerful, full-featured, layer-based image editor that lets you touch up and enhance images, sketch and paint, as well as create advanced image compositions on iPad and iPhone alike. | 4-6 | Creation |
| Toontastic 3D | 3… 2… 1… ACTION! With Toontastic 3D you can draw, animate, and narrate your own cartoons. It’s as easy as play. Just move your characters around on screen, tell your story, and Toontastic records your voice and animations and stores it on your device as a 3D video. | K-3 | Creation |
| Math Speed Drill | Helps students (and parents) learn basic math tables while playing a fun and challenging game with over 100 levels | 4-6 | Math |
| 5 Minute Relaxation | A combination of vocal guidance, soothing music and relaxing sounds to create a calm journey into peace and tranquility. | K-6 | Brain Break |
| Clips | Students can make videos using filters, music, text, stickers, emojis and more. | 3-6 | Creation |
| Zen Sand | Zen Sand is a relaxing game of logic that is easy to play but hard to master. The objective is simple: Place bamboo stalks to guide the flowing sand into the vases. | K-6 | Brain Break |
| Kahoot | Create or Play engaging quiz based games to check for understanding or exit tickets. | 3-6 | Feedback/Assessment |
| Swift Playgrounds | Students explore unique coding experiences by solving interactive puzzles and learn the basics of building apps. | 4-6 | Coding |