Knowledge Share
Super Kids: Vocabulary Builder
Pick your grade level and learn a word a day to build your vocabulary. Includes PSAT and SAT Vocabulary Preparation. iPhone and iPad apps are available for a small fee.
Sesame Street
Sesame Street E Books
In love with Elmo, Grover, and all the rest of the Sesame Street gang? Now you can read their books on line. Some of the books are read out loud by the characters. Here is a great way to improve early reading skills. Topics include the...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Chemistry
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] A large resource guide to online textbooks for chemistry. Includes several chemistry online texts with links to download the text to PDF, Kindle or Ipad.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Nutrients
Students will learn about the 6 basic nutrients and how to keep track of their food intake using a food tracker app on the ipad. Through this information they will be able to analyze their diet and make corrections where necessary.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Building an Effective I Pad Lesson
Understand how personal devices can provide an environment for individualized learning. Summarize best practices when using personal devices to integrate project-based learning and other collaborative activities.
Curated OER
Google for Education: Children and Technology: Simulating an I Pad
Experience being a button on a touch screen, feel the power and control of an operating system, be as smart as a processor. During this activity, students simulate a calculator application.
Other
Ipad thinker.com: Spelling Words With Al, El, or Le Endings
Practice spelling by choosing the correct ending (al, el, or le) for ten words. Check your answers and try again on any you missed. Then move on to another quiz with ten new words.
Apple
Apple Home Page
Anything you need to know about Apple/Macintosh computers, this is the place to start. Everything from software, hardware, investing, employment and much, much more. This is the place to come first.
CNN
Cnn en Espanol: Week of 4 7 14: Quieres Algo Nuevo De Apple?
In Spanish. Article reports on new announcements that will be coming from Apple in June.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Tie It Up With Transition Words to Write a Story!
Read, write, and present a digital narrative with transition words to help us put the events in order! After modeling the lesson, groups of learners will write narratives to recount a short sequence of events, they will include details...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Increasing Student Learning With Technology: Lesson 2
List the different types of activities that can be used to assess their iPad lesson. Align the lesson objectives to the activity that uses personal device technology.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Engineering
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] A resource guide to engineering textbooks. Includes several engineering online texts with links to download the text to PDF, Kindle or Ipad.
Other
Nm Learning Games Lab: Math Snacks
Games and videos, each accompanied by guidelines for teachers and students, cover math topics such as proportion, ratio, number line, scale, and measurement. Downloads are available for iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch.
Other
The Digital Scoop: Using Skitch in Kindergarten
In this article, a teacher explains how she taught kindergarten students to take photographs. They were then shown how to open an iPad app called Skitch and add words to accompany their pictures. This was followed by a Math activity...
Edutopia
Edutopia: K 5 I Pad Apps for Evaluating Evaluation
The cognitive domain Evaluating focuses on skills necessary to judge the value of ideas, techniques, products, or solutions. Students must evaluate the credibility or functionality of given content with clearly defined criteria and...
TES Global
Blendspace: At Resources
This eleven-part learning module provides assorted assistive technology references. This blendspace provides reading and writing video, print, and audio resources that will help special needs students with their reading and writing.
Other
Atoms in Motion: Demo
Demonstration of the "Atoms In Motion" app running on an iPad simulator. User interactions and gestures control the entire simulation.
Other
Class Tools: Choose Game Formats: Figurative Language
Pick a game format that you would like to play: "Matching Pairs", "Wordshoot", "Flashcards", "Manic Miner", or "CannonBall Fun". For each game, choose the literal meaning for the figurative language presented. Also available in formats...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: What Is a Personal Device Classroom?: Lesson 2
This lesson describes how to integrate personal devices in the classroom.
Penguin Publishing
Penguin Random House: Rh Kids: Barbie Color, Sparkle and Style Official App Trailer
Available on the App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/barbie-color-sparkle-style!/id532245589?mt=8. Decorate, design, and dress up your favorite Barbies with this app.
Other
Recyclezone: Fun Zone: Is Your Brain Full of Rubbage?
This educational website offers a self-assessment quiz on the best ways to reduce waste. It also offers a variety of activities in addition the quiz, including games, extended research, and teacher resources.