Lucy Gray’s Education Favorites – January 2011

Toontastic

Great creation app! Kids are led through the elements of a good story and can use pre-created backgrounds and characters. Also, kids can narrate and animate these characters. Finally, toons created can be posted to a safe YouTube-like space after receiving parental approval.

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Animalia for iPad

Great example of what can be done with a book on the iPad. Contains challenging seek and find game. Also, recommend buying the print books by this author. Truly beautiful work.

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VideoScience

Videos of science experiments that parents and kids might want to do together. These videos could inspire some science fair projects!

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iWriteWords (Handwriting Game)

Creative fun app for helping younger kids learn how to write their letters.

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Tric-Trac

McGraw-Hill has published its first app called Tric-Trac intended to complement its Everyday Math curriculum.

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Train Conductor

Not sure what the attraction is, but my kids and husband love this game.

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Symmetry Shuffle

Fantastic tool for teaching symmetry. Kids have to manipulate objects to complete a puzzle. From the same developer of Sum Stack.

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Sums Stacker

This apps helps kids develop fluency with solving math problems. Very well designed.

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Learn Spanish by MindSnacks

My daughter is taking Spanish this year, so I bought this for her and she loves it. It keeps track of her progress.

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SpellBoard

I bought this app to create customized word lists for my son. He has weekly tests based on 200 common words, so I thought this app might help.

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