Apps+for+Middle+School

Reading/Language Arts

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Allows you to browse and read books on the iPad. New in the latest version is the ability to have some children's books read aloud. ===== Kindle (Free)  : eBook reader that allows the reader to change the size of text, switch from white on black, black on white or sepia text.

A great looking journal with appealing addition for including up to 30 images for each entry. Easy text and image manipulation.
Motion Math HD ($):

Developed at the Stanford School of Education, Motion Math HD follows a star that has fallen from space, and must bound back up, up, up to its home in the stars. Moving fractions to their correct place on the number line is the only way to return. By playing Motion Math HD, learners improve their ability to perceive and estimate fractions in multiple forms.

Math

The Ruler ($): This app allows you to measure accurately in English and Metric. Quick Graph: (free) A free 2D and 3D graphing calculator. Algebra Touch: ($) Refreshes Algebra skills using unique methods integrating the ability to touch and move on the touch device. Algebra Kaiser: ($) Algebra Kaiser (Algebra Emperor) is a game that can vastly enhance both your basic algebraic skills and ability to concentrate. Practice your ability to handle variables, expressions, terms and simple equations. 17 different types of dynamic exercises ranging from simplifying terms to exponents, linear equations and their graphs. [|Free Graphing Calculator Symbolic: (free)] PocketCAS is the best choice for doing mathematics on your device. This award-winning app offers you the fastest way to input formulas you have ever experienced. With the highest <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">number of available mathematical functions, you will be able to solve almost every mathematical problem you can imagine. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%;">Easel Algebra: (free) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Easel combines interactive, hands-on Algebra workbooks with instant "ShowMe" lessons. If you get stuck on a problem, just tap "ShowMe" and see a step-by-step animation of how to solve the problem, instantly. It's like having a tutor on demand! <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 180%;">Number Line (free): <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Number Line is an educational game app to help students learn about fractions, decimals, and percents by ordering equivalent fractions, decimals, and percents on a number line. The app features multiple levels where the player must drag circles with either a percent, decimal or fraction onto a number line in the correct sequence. A score is earned based on the time it takes to put all the circles in the correct order (faster is better), plus points for each correct placement, minus points for each error.

Social Studies <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px; text-align: left;">World Atlas HD: ($) <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">National Geographic Maps in high resolution. Allows for spinning, panning, rotating. <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px; text-align: left;">The History Clock: ($) <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">This app converts the time of the day to a year in history and opens a page about the history of that year. each factual page is linked to a Wikipedia site to learn more. For modern dates switch to a 24-hour clock and it will give more recent dates correlated to the present time of day. <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px; text-align: left;">World Book - This Day in History: (free) <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">Multimedia calendar that includes historical and trivia information for each day of the year. Each event is linked to additional learning opportunities. Video, audio and images will add to the information you can take in each day. <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px; text-align: left;">Declaration for iPad: (Free) <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">A copy of the Declaration of Independence including notes, images and text of original documents. <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px; text-align: left;">Constitution for iPad: (Free) <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">A copy of the Constitution of the United States on your iPad. Complete with images, information on each of the signers and additional notes. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;"><span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 23px;">GoogleEarth (free): Hold the world in the palm of your hand. With Google Earth for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, you can fly to far corners of the planet with just the swipe of a finger. Explore the same global satellite and aerial imagery available in the desktop version of Google Earth, including high-resolution imagery for over half of the world's population and a third of the world's land mass. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 180%;">Early Jamestown (free): <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">Victory Productions presents an interactive textbook exploration of the early days of the Jamestown settlement and the state of Virginia. Enjoy the rich interactive graphics and the engrossing story of a key moment in the history of the United States.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 23px; text-align: center;">Science <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px; text-align: left;">3D Cell Simulation and Stain Tool: (Free) <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">Learn about the cell and all of its structures. Zoom in on the parts, rotate 360 degrees, and get information about the functions and structures. <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px; text-align: left;">EMD PTE: (Free) <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">An interactive Periodic Table of Elements <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 180%;">iCell (free): <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">iCell gives students, teachers, and anyone interested in biology a 3D view inside a cell. Included are examples of three types of cells: animal, plant, and bacteria. Learn about the various parts of the cell, which biologists, biochemists, and DNA researchers at the HudsonAlpha Institute study and use to advance the limits of biotechnology. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 23px; text-align: left;">3D Brain (free): <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">Use your touch screen to rotate and zoom around 29 interactive structures. Discover how each brain region functions, what happens when it is injured, and how it is involved in mental illness. Each detailed structure comes with information on functions, disorders, brain damage, case studies, and links to modern research <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;"><span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 23px;">BrainPop (free): Learn something different each day with the free BrainPOP Featured Movie App for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch! Watch BrainPOP’s daily animated movie, then test your new knowledge with an interactive quiz. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 180%;">Frog Dissection ($): <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">This iPad app is suitable for middle-school students who are learning about organs and organ systems as part of their life science curriculum. Students can try dissecting a virtual specimen with all the trappings that come with the real procedure-minus the mess of course! Besides a virtual chloroformed specimen, the app comes with all the dissection tools and detailed instructions to complete the procedure. Once dissection is complete, the frog’s organs are exposed for further study. Vivid 3D images will help students visualize the internal organs very effectively. For enhanced learning experience, the app also has information on the different types of frogs, frogs’ life cycle, anatomical comparison of frogs with humans, an interactive quiz and detailed descriptions of the organs. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 180%;">NASA (free): <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">The first official NASA App invites you to discover a wealth of NASA information right on your iPhone or iPod Touch. The NASA App collects, customizes and delivers an extensive selection of dynamically updated information, images and videos from various online NASA sources in a convenient mobile package. Come explore with us. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 180%;">Star Walk ($): <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;"> Think of this app as a virtual planetarium. It looks great on the iPhone and it looks even better on the iPad. The least that one can say is that this app's data is impressive: you can explore more than 9000 stars, constellations, planets, & other celestial bodies. As you move the iPad around, the app, using the digital compass shows you the stars in the sky as they look in that particular moment, and it helps guiding your gaze to show where you can spot Orion for instance. This app does an impressive job at recreating how you could see the stars. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 23px; text-align: center;">Foreign Languages

<span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px; text-align: left;">Free French Tutor 24/7: (free) <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">24/7 Tutor French goes beyond the simple talking phrasebook or flashcard programs, providing a set of engaging, interactive study tools that help you really learn the language. FREE French Tutor lite edition is a fully functional version containing a useful subset of vocabulary and phrases drawn from several of the learning modules in the 24/7 French series. Free Spanish Tutor 24/7: (Free) 24/7 Tutor Spanish goes beyond the simple talking phrasebook or flashcard programs, providing a set of engaging, interactive study tools that help you really learn the language. FREE Spanish Tutor lite edition is a fully functional version containing a useful subset of vocabulary and phrases drawn from several of the learning modules in the 24/7 Spanish series. Free Spanish Tutor 24/7: (Free) 24/7 Tutor Spanish goes beyond the simple talking phrasebook or flashcard programs, providing a set of engaging, interactive study tools that help you really learn the language. FREE Spanish Tutor lite edition is a fully functional version containing a useful subset of vocabulary and phrases drawn from several of the learning modules in the 24/7 Spanish series. iTranslate (Free): The first real Universal Translator with Voice Recognition, an exclusive Conversation Mode & 18 free voices. You can make a conversation in another language. Translate words, phrases and even whole sentences into over 50 languages.