Some Amazingly Useful Apps For Parents/Educators

1) Innovative Mobile (35 apps!)

2) Educreations Interactive Whiteboard (make/share whiteboard videos)

3) ** Toddler/Preschool Flash Cards (warning: now has ads)

4) Mrs. Judd's Games (11 apps designed by a teacher!)

5) Grasshopper Apps (18 apps)

6) ** Super Duper Publications (6)

7) ** Build a Word Express 

8) ** Storylines for Schools (creative and fun story writing)

9) PBS Kids (20 apps)

10) Scholastic's Sushi Monster (addition and multiplication)

11) Preschool University (11 apps)

12) See.Touch.Learn. 

13) ** Toontastic (we rated five stars)

14) Rover (flash-enabled web browser for kids)

15) ** SoundingBoard (customizeable AAC app)

16) Khan Academy (educational videos for adults and older children)

17) NASA App

18) Achieve It With Sesame Street!

19) ** Alphabet Tracing (only in-app is for creating PDFs)

20) I Like book series (for speech therapy)

21) ** Draw Something (Pictionary online! 13+)

22) Green ABCs (environmental app, previously cost $30)

23) ShowMe (virtual whiteboard app, shared education videos) 

24) Bluster! (McGraw-Hill vocabulary app)

25) Chugginton - Be Safe

26) ** Scribble My Story

27) Miracle Modus ("I'm autistic, and I wrote this")

28) Color Uncovered (please don't let your dog drive)

29) ** Star Chart

30) Collins Big Cat Story Creator books (8 apps! kids can create stories)

31) Language Lab: Core Words (expressive vocabulary)

32) ** BrainPop Featured Movie (No. 1 on our Editor's Choice list)

33) KidsDental

34)**  StoryBots (4 apps!)

35) ClassDojo 

36) SmartMusic (full access requires subscription)

37) SpellingCity (use weekly spelling words in games)

38) Boosky Learn to Read Platform

39) Beginning Phonics

40) ** Mad Libs (this app will make your kids -adjective-)

41) The Electric Compamy Feel Electric (about emotions)

42) ** Sock Puppets

43) iTunes U (go to college on your iOS device, was No. 1 in app store forever) 

44) ** Articulation Station (tremendous app, but only one letter free)

45) DialSafe Pro (we gave five stars, kids learn to dial emergency numbers)

46) ** iLearnWith series (6 apps!, one section free per app)

47) ** ElfYourself (even my wife and I love this app)

48) Jamie's (Oliver) Recipes

49) Science 360 

50) Creatures of Light (bioluminescence!)

51) ** Looney Tunes Phonics

52) Hands on Equations - The Fun Way to Learn Algebra

53) Minecraft - Pocket Edition Lite

54) Aurasma

55) Screen Chomp (virtual whiteboard) 

56) The Adventure of the  7 Wonderlicious Girls

57) Historypin

58) ** Draw This App 

59) QatQi (word game, Lisa M. loves)

60) My PlayHome Lite (a favorite of therapists)

61) Garfield apps (4 apps: forms of media, online safety, cyberbullying, fact or opinion)

62) Google Earth  

63) The Raven (nevermore!)

64) Cool To Be Clever (bullying message)

65) Alien Assignment (scavenger hunt app from Fred -Mr.- Rogers Center)

66) Splash Math Kindergarten

67) Hotel Dash: Suite Success (just for fun!)

68) Injini Child Development Suite Lite

69) Real Fireworks Artwork (safely play with fireworks and make art)

70) How Stuff Works (WARNING! **only for kids who have had "the talk"**)

71) ** Pitfall! (did you have an Atari?)

72) The Wider Image 

73) First Phrases HD Lite

74) Puppet Workshop Lite

75) Angry Birds Rio

76) Find My iPhone (or iPad, I use this all the time when I can't find my phone in the house)

77) ** McGruff Safeguard Browser

78) TinyTap, Moments into Games

79) BuzzMath Middle School

80) ** Cambugs Letter Sounds (one user free)

81) Pocket Law Firm (learn the U.S. amendments!)

82) ** Kidomatic (decorate face photos)

83) Project Noah

84) Beach Buggy Blitz (just for fun!)

85) Logos Test-College Sports

86) Biobots Under Sea Rescue

87) Maily (safe email for young kids, including drawn emails)

88) Pandora Radio (listen to my Journey channel!, app has ads)

89) Nearpod (classroom app)

90) Math With Your Friends (free with in-app for additional board layouts)

91) Logos Test Sports

92) 4th Grade Math: Splash Math Worksheets

93) Flipboard

94) Official SAT Question of the Day

95) Picturebook: School Edition (free with in-apps)

96) My Diamonds Free

97) Domino's Pizza Hero (kids design and you order!)

98) TED - riveting talks by remarkable people (must have)

99) WebMD

100) Nova Elements