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The Best Apps to Help Kids Control Their Emotions
A big part of growing up is learning to control the wide array of emotions inside. Children sometimes don’t know what to do with these big, big feelings. Fortunately, there are some handy apps that can help with the job. From general mindfulness to specific help for specific challenges like anger management and ADHD, these …
3 Ways to Keep Student Engagement High Despite Growing Classroom Sizes
When budgets tighten, class sizes often increase as a money–saving measure. This can put additional strain on instructors, and make it more difficult for them to find the time and energy to connect with students on an individual level. There is a very real fear that students may slip through the cracks in a busier …
Chortopia
Chortopia makes chore time fun with stories, games, and lots of adventures. Perfect for families with multiple children and parents who want to teach a bit of responsibility.
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.
Best Free Websites to Learn Anything and Everything
The internet is a wonderland of information, if you only know where to look. If you’re serious about learning a new skill or pursuing a new hobby, check out our big list of websites where you can learn almost anything. DIY Home Improvement DIYNetwork: Whether you want to upgrade the inside or outside of your …
Trybie Journey
Trybie Journey is a unique storybook app that includes fun experiments and scientific information for children to learn and enjoy. Educational, entertaining, and perfect for little scientists ready to explore the world of chemistry.
Here’s Why eBooks Are the Perfect Gift for Your Child
It’s the holiday season, and that means it’s high time to think of gifts. Getting a gift for a child is a slightly tricky thing – it’s hard to tell, sometimes, at exactly what stage of development your kid is. Is he or she ready for a phone, or is it too soon? Are they …
Peppa’s Seasons: Autumn & Winter
Peppa’s Seasons: Autumn & Winter takes players on a journey through Peppa’s world to explore the differences between the seasons using fun, interactive games. Great for families and children of all ages.
Thomas Edison’s Secret Lab
Thomas Edison’s Secret Lab is an exciting app full of great educational material shared through fun music videos, interactive games, and entertaining lab experiments that kids will love.
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.
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.
2015 Edition: Best Apps for Back to School – 2nd Grade
Our reviewed and recommended apps for 2nd grade include a wide variety of apps such as logic puzzles, apps for creativity and self-expression, building language skills and math. Brain Quest Brain Quest is full of fun and educational trivia that will keep children engaged and entertained while traveling. Not only is it diverse in the …
2015 Edition: Best Apps for Back to School – 1st Grade
Best Apps for Back to School – 1st Grade Our reviewed and recommended apps for 1st grade develop literacy and numeracy skills, place value concepts, geometry, thinking and logic skills, cause and effect skills, and more. Take a look at these apps. Best 1st Grade Apps ScratchJr ScratchJr is a hands-on learning environment that …
2015 Edition: Best Apps for Back to School – Kindergarten
Kindergarten apps are plentiful in the App Store. Our list of reviewed and recommended apps for Kindergarten will help narrow down the best educational apps for your child or 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 …
2015 Edition: Best Apps for Back to School – Preschool
Apps for Preschool-aged children are pretty easy to find in the App Store. With so many available it can be difficult to decide which will help your preschooler develop important skills such as sequencing, patterning, building language skills and developing problem solving skills. Our list of reviewed and recommended Preschool apps can make finding the …
Save Your Planet Kids
Save Your Planet Kids is a fun educational app that teaches children simple ways they can work to conserve water, energy and save the planet.
Bob Books Reading Magic Sight Words
Bob Books Reading Magic Sight Words is an engaging and fun look at thirty common words that will help kids learn to read and spell while they enjoy the familiar characters and scenes from a favorite series.
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.
Make A Scene: Easter
Make A Scene: Easter is a fun sticker app for young children to explore their creativity as they craft a variety of pictures and scenes to share.
Migalolo: The Ocean Musical
Migalolo: The Ocean Musical is a fabulous educational experience that includes wonderful music, a fun storyline, and lots of information about the ocean and it’s inhabitants.
Pacca Alpaca-Australia
Pacca Alpaca-Australia is a great educational app that teaches children their shapes, colors, and counting in a fun, vibrant environment.
Montessori Preschool App
Montessori Preschool App is a fabulous educational tool for children that will teach them a wide variety of words and concepts in fun learning environment.
David Wiesner’s Spot
David Wiesner’s Spot is an outstanding app that taps some of the iPad’s unique capabilities to create an engaging experience in five strange new worlds that are exciting for all ages.
President’s Day Apps for Kids 2015
Reviewed and recommended, these apps are a fun way for kids to learn about our American presidents anytime of year. Presidents vs Aliens Presidents vs Aliens is a game-like app that takes learning to the next level. This fun, interactive app teaches children fun facts, names, quotes, and so much more about presidents and includes …
Off the Rails
A fun roller coaster creator app that allows players to create epic, one-of-a-kind coasters to play and enjoy.
Monkey Preschool-When I Grow Up (Holiday Edition)
A cute app for young children that explores various careers in a fun, interactive way.
MarcoPolo Weather
MarcoPolo Weather is a cute educational app that teaches children about various weather conditions through interactive exploration and play.
D5EN5 Fruits
A simple, entertaining app for toddlers with bright colors and fun sounds to keep them engaged.
Where Are We? Learning Library Collection
Four interactive stories introduce kids to the solar system, the desert, the North and South poles, and the entire globe.
This is my car – Mechanics for kids
Grab your keys, rev your engine, and start making your car your own as you learn all about how it runs.
Gro Flowers
Gro Flowers provides multiple educational and creative play opportunities, and it is fun to play.
Skill Champ
Simple activities help kids build basic skills in a series of random and customized lessons.
Grandpa in Space
Blast into outer space with Grandpa to learn fun facts about the planets, life as an astronaut, opposites, rhyming and so much more. Grandpa in Space is another adorable educational app by Fairlady Media.
Smithsonian Prehistoric Pals Collection
Smithsonian’s Prehistoric Pals Collection combines 10 stories on kids’ favorite dinosaurs. Featuring prehistoric sound effects and interesting stories, this app is a must for all dinosaur lovers.
Seasons by Cleverkiddo
Seasons by Cleverkiddo will introduce young children to the four seasons through multiple activities; activities can be used to improve a number of educational abilities.
Sailing Home-Learn Animal Habitats
Sailing Home-Learn Animal Habitats is a cute app that teaches children about various animals and their habitats.
PlayKids
PlayKids is a wonderful app with so many activities, well-known video programs (Calliou, Super Why, and more), music, stories, and so much more that will keep children entertained for hours.
Water Cycles
Water Cycles is an overall great educational app that is interactive, challenging and fun for parents and children!
Brainfeed
Brainfeed is an amazing app full of wonderful educational videos across a wide variety of topics that will keep children engaged and entertained for hours!
Matching Games Mega Bundle
Matching Games Mega Bundle is a simple yet fun app for children who love a challenging game of memory match. Simple, challenging, and fun for children of all ages.