General Knowledge Apps
Name the topic and you will find the app that can help you learn all about it. This category looks at these specific interest and general knowledge apps and gives you the best of the best recommendations.
ARcheology-Dig Into History
ARcheology-Dig Up History is an intriguing app that has a lot of potential for fun and learning. Developers have used augmented reality to simulate a real archeological dig, so users will have a feeling of being in the middle of the action. It’s fun and it’s educational.
Issa’s Edible Adventures
Issa’s Edible Adventures is a great app that will encourage young children to play and explore cultures and other lands. It’s engaging and entertaining, and best of all, it encourages real-world experiences in addition to the digital play.
Learning Upgrade
Learning Upgrade will provide hours of productive content for students learning English (K-5 level) or math (K-adult level). The lessons are engaging, animated and musical. The practice games are fun and provide valuable review of the material. All in all, it’s a really great app!
Romeo and Juliet’s Secrets
Romeo and Juliet’s Secrets is a creative and entertaining interactive ebook that makes the famous Shakespearean play more accessible with modern language narration and historical background and information.
Animal Sounds, Photos and Info
App Info Price: Overview Animal Sounds, Photos and Info offers 50 animals in the free version with high-quality pictures, recordings of sounds, and fact sheets about each. The app includes a match the sound to the animal game, and a jigsaw puzzle activity. Features include: 50 animals in free version, 60 others available as in-app …
Poppetto Costumes
Poppetto Costumes is a challenging and entertaining collect and match game that will sharpen players’ grasp of strategy, their observation skills, their memory, and their logic. It’s fun for nearly any age group.
ExplorArt Klee – The Art of Paul Klee, for Kids
ExplorArt Klee – the Art of Paul Klee, for Kids is a beautifully designed and illustrated ebook that invites users to explore many artistic styles and concepts through play. Let your imagination fly with this ebook!
Tongo Music – for kids and families
Tongo Music-for kids and families is a shining example of a high-quality, valuable app that is both beneficial and fun. It’s suitable for the whole family (including the very young), and will provide hours of educational entertainment.
Finding Stubby
Finding Stubby is a pleasant, low-key app that will help younger children discover some basic information, facts, and more as they pilot a remotely-operated vehicle down into the very bottom parts of the ocean floor.
Thinkrolls: Kings & Queens
Thinkrolls: Kings and Queens is a fun app that will help elementary children learn basic physics concepts while nurturing critical cognitive skills and emotional resilience.
Bloom by Megalearn
Bloom by Megalearn is a fun and entertaining way to learn about some important aspects of biology and plant life cycles, and activates some important higher-learning skills such as generalization and finding similarities and differences.
Best Apps for Back to School – 5th Grade
Here are some of the best of the best apps for fifth graders as they head back to school. This list includes reviewed and recommended apps to help practice fractions, basic math, and grammar. There are also some apps that will open doors of programming and science. Enjoy! The Everything Machine The Everything Machine gives …
Best Apps for Back to School – 2nd Grade
Here are some great reviewed apps for spelling, phonics skills, listening skills, and more! These apps are perfect for second-grade students. Planet Lettra Planet Lettra is a playground for word-building. Users are magically transported to the mythical Planet Lettra where letters float in bubbles in the sky. When the bubbles bump, the letters combine, and …
TwinGo London
Learn all about London when you travel there with Alicia and Theo in TwinGo London.
World of Liberty: Paintings, Planes, and Pioneers
World of Liberty: Paintings, Planes, and Pioneers is a great app to encourage young elementary children to learn more about specific aspects of our country’s history and geography while encouraging the overall values of love of learning, research, and finding connections with other times, places and peoples.
Art Stories Cities
Explore some of the world’s major cities through the geometric world of Art Stories Cities.
Piig Forest Explorer
Explore the forest with Chipper the Chipmunk and learn all about his animal friends in Piig Forest Explorer.
Bitsboard PRO
A unique flashcard and games platform makes Bitsboard PRO the ideal app for learning just about anything.
12 Huia Birds
Learn about the extinction of the huia birds and how to protect other birds from suffering the same fate in the interactive story 12 Huia Birds.
Animals: Sounds & Games
Toddlers will have fun exploring a wide variety of animal sounds and puzzles in Animals: Sounds & Games. Simple format and fun to play this app is perfect for the little one in your home.
Big City Vehicles
Big City Vehicles is a great app for young children that offers an easy to use free play environment to explore, learn, and interact with a wide variety of vehicles you might find in the city. Fun, safe to play, and highly interactive, this app will keep little minds busy for hours.
Learning Emotions with the Rainbow Feelings Bear
Learning Emotions with the Rainbow Feelings Bear is a storybook app that teaches children how to express themselves and understand a wide variety of emotions.
I Got This: An Interactive Story
I Got This: An Interactive Story is a wonderful example of a high-quality public education ebook that is designed to appeal to the target age group, provides vital health information and does so in an engaging and memorable way.
Name Play
Name Play is a great free-play app that allows children to practice reading, writing, and recognizing their own name with a variety of fun games and activities. Very well done!
Sparky’s Brain Busters
Sparky’s Brain Busters is a fun game that will entertain middle elementary students while they review concepts from fire safety and Common Core literature, math, science and social studies.
Safari Tales
Head on a jungle safari and learn about jungle animals through fun activities and stories.
Pacca Alpaca-Travel Playtime
Join Pacca Alpaca as he travels to 23 countries with over 50 highly entertaining and educational activities children of all ages will love. Pacca Alpaca Travel Playtime is great for long road trips or play time at home.
Jazzy World Tour
Jazzy World Tour is an excellent educational app with lots of great information and fun activities for children to enjoy. Particularly great for music lovers!
Khan Academy
Khan Academy’s app provides a comprehensive library of topics and skills that support Common Core goals. It includes a wealth of information particularly on middle school and high school classes, as well as useful topics for college students and adults.
CK-12
CK-12 offers a comprehensive system of review resources and practice questions that will help students get ahead in school. The app does a thorough job of covering vital ideas in elementary math as well as middle and high school high school math and science.
Middle School Science Pro 8th Grade
Middle School Science Pro 8th Grade is an engaging way to encourage students to review middle school science concepts. Two modes of play, the ability to earn banana tokens and unlock levels, and the potential to gather game enhancements will help many students stay more engaged.
Attributes by Math Doodles
Attributes by Math Doodles is an entertaining way to sharpen a host of higher-order thinking skills that will not only support the development of understanding of math concepts, but will also build attention to detail, reasoning and many other vital mental muscles.
Kids U.S. Atlas
Explore the United States through its animals, landmarks, and geography with this exciting virtual atlas for kids.
At a Glance: Road Trip Apps for Kids 2015
Summer is here and that means it’s time for family road trips! We have put together a list of apps that will help keep kids engaged and entertained on long trips. Sago Mini Road Trip Sago Mini Road Trip is a free play app with lots of friends, interactive activities, and magical destinations for children …
Lucky’s Tree of Puzzles
Lucky, a squirrel, and a series of educational games will entertain kids, but may be a bit challenging at times.
Season of Tree: forest animals friends story
Season of Tree is a unique app full of wonderful images and great learning activities that allows little ones to explore nature from their home. Educational and fun to play!
Mini-U: OverColor
Mini-U: OverColor is a creative puzzle app that challenges children to replicate animal images made with overlapping geometric shapes. Fun, challenging, and easy to use.
Why Bath Time
Why Bath Time is a cute storybook app that teaches children not only the importance of bath time, but also how to stay clean, healthy, and germ-free.
JFK Challenge
JFK Challenge is a wonderful and well-designed app that may spark a life-long love of history in children. It also is a great source of information about two very important milestones in U.S. history.
Pacca Alpaca-Australia
Pacca Alpaca-Australia is a great educational app that teaches children their shapes, colors, and counting in a fun, vibrant environment.