Educational Games for Kids
Kids learn the most when they’re having fun and their minds are open. We’ve put together a list of the most fun educational apps on the market for download to your mobile devices. Kids can learn about their favorite topics and get help in just about any subject, do research, create art and more. Your children’s potential is endless and so are the possibilites with this curated list of educational apps.
Best Apps for Back to School – 6th Grade
High-quality educational apps for 6th grade can be a little harder to find in the App Store. Our list of reviewed and recommended apps include world geography, middle school vocabulary prep, a comprehensive math practice tool, a tower defense geometry game and a graphic novel that covers a variety of middle school issues like self-esteem, …
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 – 4th Grade
Get your fourth graders learning and playing with these recommended and reviewed Best Apps for Kids. You’ll find math practice, story telling, and even coding! Sparky’s Brain Busters Sparky’s Brain Busters is a fast-paced trivia game for an elementary student (grades 3-5) that drills players in Common Core concepts in math, science, social studies, and …
Best Apps for Back to School – 3rd Grade
Reviewed and recommended apps for third graders will make finding just the right one for your child a piece of cake! Here are some great ones to help with cursive writing, math skills, composition and creativity, and more. Letter School Cursive Writing Teaching kids to write in cursive may seem like a lost art, but …
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 …
Best Apps for Back to School – 1st Grade
A little bit of science, a small bit of social studies, some reading and some math round out the suggestions for first graders this year. Take a look at these apps. Malama Honua My Voyage The My Voyage app will take users on an elaborate adventure through documentary-like videos, games, and more as the main …
Best Apps for Back to School – Kindergarten
Here are reviewed and recommended apps for Kindergarten that will be great for your child or your classroom. The apps we have recommended cover important skills such as developing high-level thinking and spatial skills, building reading and written expressions skills, and mastering basic sight words. Check out these apps! Bamba Space Station Bamba Space Station …
Solar Family
Solar Family is a very gentle and somewhat fictional introduction to outer space and the solar system that includes some interactive pages and a few simple games.
My World of Atoms
Learn about the elements on the Periodic Table while drilling your way through a pixelated world in My World of Atoms.
World of the Wild
World of the Wild will encourage kids to think about conservation and the environment as they use their logic and reasoning to solve interactive problems for the animals.
Malama Honua My Voyage
Malama Honua My Voyage is an outstanding app that will fascinate kids and adults alike with a detailed and engaging description of Polynesian and Hawaiian history and culture, interspersed with interesting and varied interactive activities and laced with positive core values.
Math Jungle : Grade 1
Run through the jungle in Math Jungle, collecting bananas and answering first grade math problems along the way. How many bananas can you collect?
Crazy Maths Adventure
Crazy Math Adventure is an engaging, educational app that allows children to practice their year 1 and year 2 math skills with an exciting game like platform. Full of adventure and tons of fun this app is great for children of all ages.
Pepi House
Pepi House gives users an in-depth look at daily life within a household by offering an interactive dollhouse-like experience that will stimulate language skills, imagination, and creativity.
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.
Andy Helps You Read
Andy Helps You Read Offers a thorough and thoughtful approach to reading instruction for kids with special needs.
Sound Salad-Help Mr. Ear By Sorting Sounds
Sound Salad-Help Mr. Ear by Sorting Sounds is an enjoyable app that will help children between ages of three and seven to build auditory processing, memory and attention skills, which form the foundation for later academic learning including phonics knowledge.
Rose Milany at the Beach
Join Rose Milany on a trip to the beach and interact with her as she builds a sand castle, collects sea shells, and enjoys other beach-related activities.
Curious George Train Adventures
Curious George Train Adventures is an entertaining app that gives young children a great opportunity to practice vital thinking, predicting, and problem solving skills while they enjoy the antics of one of their favorite characters.
Magic Store Math
Magic Store Math is a magical app that helps kids learn to add bigger numbers.
Manuel’s Socks
Manuel’s Socks is an entertaining ebook with read to me or read to myself options. It includes some well-designed comprehension exercises as well as a fun additional activity that’s sure to delight young readers.
Read – Kids learn to read and write in 20 easy lessons
Read-Kids Learn to Read and Write in 20 Lessons is an outstanding app that offers some simple, yet effective practice for early reading skills in the areas of phonics, sight word recognition, writing, and reading comprehension.
PBS KIDS Games Review
See the App in iTunes PBS KIDS Price: FREE PBS KIDS Games is a fun educational app geared towards children ages 2 through 8 years old. With PBS KIDS Games, children can learn along with their favorite PBS KIDS characters anytime, anywhere (no internet needed). I thought this app would be perfect for kids …
Sago Mini Robot Party
Sago Mini Robot Party is an entertaining and creative app that will spark the imaginations of toddler and preschool users as well as encourage them to build self-expression skills and have a great time creating robots.
Peyote
Explore Rainbow Town with Peyote, a little blue dog who loves music and adventure.
IQ Safari Math
IQ Safari MATH is an outstanding app for providing finely-tuned computation practice at the elementary levels (simple addition through division with five digit numbers) in an upbeat and friendly way. Kids will love the array of awards and incentives, so they just may forget that they are learning!
Professor Astro Cat’s Solar System
Professor Astro Cat’s Solar System is an educational and entertaining app that offers a close look at the sun and each of the eight planets in the solar system using fun facts, graphics and infographics, games and activities.
Spelling Bug Word Match
Practice your spelling words with a fun matching game in Spelling Bug: Word Match.
Tiny Trees
Head put on an intergalactic mission where your purpose is to plant and grow a tree in Tiny Trees.
Seterra Geography
Travel around the world and improve you knowledge of world geography all from the comfort of your own home with Seterra Geography.
Veggie Bottoms Kitchen
Head into the kitchen and get cooking with the Chef Monty in Veggie Bottoms Kitchen. Discover lots of healthy recipes too.
ABA Preference
ABA Preferences is a great tool to help teachers, parents, caregivers, and others who work with special needs individuals to understand their students’ and clients’ preferences. This information can be very useful in designing effective learning and behavior management interventions.
Matching! My First Brain Training
Matching! My First Brain Training offers children the opportunity to see and hear letters, numbers, and colors in four languages, then play a matching game based on choosing a response that includes the targeted three attributes. The game seems difficult for young children, and could use some tweaks to make it more entertaining.
Piig Forest Explorer
Explore the forest with Chipper the Chipmunk and learn all about his animal friends in Piig Forest Explorer.
Math Galaxy Word Problems Fun
Math Galaxy Word Problems Fun offers a wide array of word problems in topics and levels suitable for grades 1-8, and if players enjoy arcade-style maze games, will be a motivational way to practice applying math skills. Game play is quite complex, however, and players may need adult assistance to learn the game well enough to enjoy it.
Bitsboard PRO
A unique flashcard and games platform makes Bitsboard PRO the ideal app for learning just about anything.
Math Climber HD
Math Climber HD is an outstanding, engaging resource for practicing basic math and prealgebra skills, useful for students who are learning these skills for the first time and those who need quick review or extra practice.
Trace It, Try It
Trace It, Try It gives kids multiple opportunities to learn how to form their letters, numbers, and three-letter words while still having fun.
Monster Numbers
Monster Numbers is a math app full of adventure, excitement, and education all in one place this app is the perfect way for players to practice their math skills. Fun, exciting, and highly educational, this app is great for families.