education
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.
DNA Play
DNA Play is an incredibly fun and entertaining app that gives children fun environment to learn a bit about how DNA and genes work. Fabulous images, sound effects and offers lots of fun creatures for children to build and play with for hours!
Kids Dreams: Gogo & Gaga Playground
Kids Dreams: Gogo & Gaga Playground is a fun early-learning app that lets children explore an interactive playground full of exciting mini-games including puzzles, music, shapes and more! Perfect for the little one in your home!
Alphamonster
Alphamonster is an awesome alphabet app with great visuals and sound effects that teaches little ones about each letter and sound in the alphabet. Great graphics, sound effects and educational activities!
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.
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!
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.
How to Make Electricity
How to Make Electricity is an app that allows children to experiment with and learn various forms of electricity in a free play environment. Perfect for the little scientist in your home.
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.
At a Glance: History Apps for Kids 2015
Thanks to the advances in technology educators and parents have more options available to them to make learning history fun. Apps can be a great tool to present material in an interactive and entertaining way. The apps included in our recommendations are not only educational, but also entertaining. Some apps may be rated age 9+.
Vocabubble
Vocabubble is a unique early learning app that is designed to help children practice their alphabet while adding a variety of new words to their vocabulary.
Little Big Car Factory Spelling Game
Little Big Car Factory: Spelling Game is an outstanding example of a fun and flexible app that adults can customize with the exact words students need to study or learn to spell.
Words with Ibbleobble
Words with Ibbleobble is an educational vocabulary app to teach children a wide variety of new words using fun images and illustrations.
This is my Food-Nutrition for kids
This is my Food is a fantastic educational app that teaches children all they need to know about nutrition and eating healthy. Educational, engaging, and perfect for home or the classroom!
2015 Edition: Back to School Apps for Kids
Top Educational Apps for Back to School We’ve scoured the App Store to find the top educational apps for kids. It wasn’t easy to narrow it down to just five for each category so in some cases we’ve listed more, especially for those hard to find apps for middle school, high school and special …
2015 Edition: Best Apps for Back to School – Special Needs
Sometimes finding apps that meet your student’s learning challenges can be nearly as difficult as school, but these app developers have really come through for students, parents and teachers. This selection of recommended apps will help with communication, organization, social skills, reading problems, and much more. Voice Dream Reader Voice Dream Reader is more than …
2015 Edition: Best Apps for Back to School – High School
In high school, students are getting down to business, and they need apps that will support their learning. Bells and whistles of entertaining educational games often (but not always!) give way to practicality as kids focus on the job at hand. Our selection of recommended apps will help students review important concepts in core subjects, …
My Alphabet: Underwater ABC for Kids
My Alphabet: Underwater ABC for Kids is a great early learning app that teaches children to learn, recognize, build words, and write the alphabet. Perfect for young children!
2015 Edition: Best Apps for Back to School – 8th Grade
Our reviewed and recommended apps for 8th grade offer review of middle school science concepts, inspire kids to start writing as well as quiz them on verbs, nouns and adjectives, work on foundational concepts in Algebra, and provide a homework planner to help students stay better organized. There’s a nice review of challenging skills in …
2015 Edition: Best Apps for Back to School – 7th Grade
The seventh grade year is often a year of big changes-changing classes, new teachers, and higher educational expectations. It’s also time to begin planning ahead for high school challenges. These recommended apps will help your student learn and grow with the best. iBiome-Wetlands iBiome-Wetland is a hands-on, experiential look at three types of wetlands. Players …
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 …
Robot School: Programming for Kids
Robot School gives kids a chance to rescue a stranded robot while learning basic computer programming skills and developing a better understanding of how computers work. Along the way, they will build logic skills, observation skills, attention to detail, and other important life skills.
Shape Gurus
Shape Gurus is a delightful romp through shapes and colors that toddlers and preschoolers will enjoy again and again while they learn to recognize green circles, red squares and purple triangles.
Teachley: Subtractimals
Teachley: Subtractimals is a fabulous tool with two teaching methods to help children learn and practice their subtraction tables in a game-like environment. Perfect for use in the classroom or at home.
Duolingo-Learn Languages for Free
Duolingo offers a positive and comprehensive language learning experience that most middle school, high school, and adult students will find engaging and fun. It features short, effective lessons and practice, motivational rewards, and a built-in goal-setting feature.
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.
Smart-EZE Minutes A Day
Smart-EZE is a great app with lots of educational lessons and reviews for children grades 1-5. With Math, English, & Reading Comprehension review options, this app is perfect for practice any time of year.
Connect-O-Dot
Connect-O-Dot is a fun app with lots of great pictures that teaches children their numbers and letters in a variety of fun connect-the-dots games. Great for children of all ages.
Achoo Gaboo
Achoo Gaboo is a cute storybook app about a fun elephant with a sneezy problem. Loaded with beautiful illustrations and fun sound effects this app is great for children of all ages.
Ocean Forests
Who needs shark week when you have an app like Ocean Forests that takes learning to the next level? This underwater virtual app is full of awesome images and great information for children of all ages!
Imagination Playground
Imagination Playground is a virtual 3D building app that is designed to allow children to build anything their amazing minds can come up with. Great for future engineers or little ones who love to build.
Plum’s Photo Hunt
Plum’s Photo Hunt is the perfect app for the nature lover and little explorer in your home. With a variety of photo missions and a field journal to add notes, kids are going to love this app.
Charlie Jumped out of the Clock
Charlie Jumped out of the Clock is a great app that teaches children to tell time by incorporating educational lessons into an interactive story.
Grandma’s Preschool
Grandma’s Preschool is a great virtual learning app with lots of fun, interactive learning games and activities for children to explore. Great for the preschooler in your home!
Education Apps for Kids
Moms and teachers have voted. Here’s our list of the Best Educational Apps for Kids. Perfect for keeping children mentally active these apps compliment all that hard work in the classroom with after school fun that continues the learning process. Best Apps List: Civics Apps, Early Learning Apps, Alphabet Apps for Kids, Learning Colors, Learning Numbers, Flash Card Apps, General Knowledge …
Motion Math: Cupcake!
App Info Price: Overview Motion Math: Cupcake! is an incredibly entertaining and educational app that teaches children a variety of math skills in a unique and fun game. With a cupcake business and the freedom to create exciting new cupcakes, players must create, sell, and deliver their orders in order to make money and keep …
At a Glance Environment Apps for Kids 2015
Earth Day is a good time for us to remember the need to be good stewards of the Earth. Children are never too young to learn how important it is they do their part. We’ve included a list of reviewed and recommended apps for a wide range of ages. Recycle Hero For Kids Recycle Hero …
Theasaurus
Theasaurus is an easy to use educational app that teaches children a variety of words and their synonyms in a challenging word match game.
Thinkrolls 2
Kids learn physics while rolling a host of characters through a maze of brand-new challenges in the latest Thinkrolls app.