best apps for 5th grade
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 …
Crazy Times Tables-Multiplication Photo Fun
Crazy Times Tables is one of the most perfect multiplication fact practice apps available. It offers repetition and choice of facts made enjoyable by creative and visually interesting special effects.
The Everything Machine
The Everything Machine offers a great combination of programming practice, logic skills, and sequencing as well as a healthy dose of creativity by giving users tools to access the Apple device’s input and output features with switches, timers, and even transmitters.
2015 Edition: 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 …
2015 Edition: Best Apps for Back to School – 5th Grade
The apps we’ve chosen for our reviewed and recommended list for 5th grade include basic fraction concepts, searchable math video tutorials, visual and written creativity while creating professional-looking books and word analysis practice covering multiple concepts. Slice Fractions Slice Fractions offers a wordless, hands-on walk through basic fraction concepts such as the meaning of the …
2015 Edition: Best Apps for Back to School – 4th Grade
There are so many great educational apps in the App Store for elementary school-aged children, we couldn’t narrow it down to our top 5 reviewed and recommended apps for 4th grade. Our list covers apps for encouraging creative writing and self-expression, text and visual design, scientific inquiry and observation, spelling, coding for kids and even …
Intro to United States by Montessorium
With the help of the Montessori approach, Intro to United States introduces kids to the name, location, shape, and animal of each of the 50 states.
Geoboard, by the Math Learning Center
Geoboard, by the Math Learning Center is an outstanding app that will help students from middle elementary school through high school develop and improve their understandings of geometry, fraction concepts, and much more.
Mad Libs
Mad Libs, the word game that makes learning parts of speech worthwhile, is great fun for players of all ages and stages. There’s something timeless about nonsense, and this app hides significant learning beneath a layer of fun.
Foldify Zoo – Create, Print and Fold Paper Animals!
Foldify Zoo – Create, Print and Fold Paper Animals! is one of those rare apps that reaches out into the real world and gets kids interacting beyond the screen of their devices. Let them enjoy creating animal figures in the digital world and with real paper and scissors.
Mr Glue Stories
Mr. Glue Stories puts a unique spin on the traditional storybook app by allowing readers to customize each story with their own sound effects, characters, narration, and illustrations to be saved and shared. A very creative app, great for children who love a good adventure.
DIY Lake Science
Science activities, videos, and simulations encourage kids to explore the lakes and other bodies of water around them.
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.
Star Walk Kids – Explore Space & Planets
Star Walk Kids-Explore Space and Planets is a wonderful adventure into the science and culture of the nighttime sky. It will encourage interest in astronomy and also allow families to explore the beauty of the night together.
Quick Fractions
Quick Fractions offers no-frills practice with fractional equivalencies, fractional inequalities, and all four operations with fractions.
Seashores to Sea Floors-the Ocean Biome
Seashores to Sea Floors-the Ocean Biome is a phenomenal digital textbook covering science content for students in grades 3 to 5.
Pines to Vines-the Forest Biome
Pines to Vines-the Forest Biome is an outstanding example of a digital textbook and does an exceptional job of covering this science content for grades 3-5.
Monki Chinese Class
Monki Chinese Class offers a unique opportunity to learn a select few Chinese characters in a multi-sensory environment.
Numbers League
Join the Numbers League and start battling the villains of Infinity City in this adventurous app that helps kids build their math skills in unique ways.
My Incredible Body
Get up-close and personal with the human body, exploring all of its parts, seeing how they’re all connected, and absorbing key information about each body part at the same time in this highly interactive and informational app.
Squeebles Word Search
Traditional paper-based word searches get a technological update in this cute app that offers ready-made words lists and the ability to create your own word lists.
Squeebles Maths Bingo
Kids build math skills by solving problems in an attempt to lure back customers the Math Monster has lured away in this entertaining bingo game which also offers them the chance to make and serve ice cream.
Tower Math
Solving math problems becomes kids’ special power as they use their skills to build towers and help transform monsters back into numbers in this game that increases in difficulty as kids practice their basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division skills.
Virtual Nerd Mobile Math
Virtual Nerd Mobile Math is an outstanding reference tool offering searchable video tutorials on math concepts ranging from pre-algebra through algebra II.
Tynker Premium
Tynker Premium not only teaches programming to children, but all of the educational skills that come with learning to program.
Presidents Challenge
Presidents Challenge is a fun and diverting way to memorize the names of the presidents of the United States in order. Users can choose to tackle specific eras or the entire list at once. There is a blank timeline with the year of election on one side of the screen, and a tray of presidential portraits with names on the other side. Users drag pictures from the tray to the correct place on the timeline. The app also provides a little biographical and background information about each president.
Disney American Presidents
Users of all ages will appreciate learning American history with the Disney American Presidents app.
Hopscotch: Coding for kids, a visual programming language
Whether you or your child wants to learn programming or you just want to work on problem solving and critical thinking skills, Hopscotch is a definite must download; especially being it is free.
Timeline Civil War
Timeline Civil War is a highly interactive tool for those wanting to learn about an important time in American history.
Crapoks: Maths & Memo
A card game of match is always a fun way to improve a number of educational skills. Crapoks: Maths & Memo uses it to present math problems in an entertaining app for kids.
Kodable
Kodable is a challenging app that teaches children various coding and programming concepts through a variety of maze activities.
7 Little Words for Kids
7 Little Words For Kids is a fun and challenging app with lots of word puzzles and clues that kids will love.
Pettson’s Inventions
For the science lover who enjoys a good challenge, Pettson’s Inventions provides a puzzle like game for children to assemble a variety of inventions. This app is challenging, fun, and great for the entire family!
Ansel and Clair: Paul Revere’s Ride
Paul Revere’s Ride is another fabulous Ansel & Clair adventure.