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Art/Creativity
- My Craft Book HD by KLAPP (normally $2.99)
Cross-Curricular
- Digital Passport for Kids (wonderful games about digital literacy; normally $1.99)
- GamePress - Create. Share. Play. (create your own games with coding; normally $9.99)
CTE
- Food Technology GCSE Revision (normally $2.99)
- Home Economics GCSE Revision (normally $2.99)
- Textiles GCSE Revision (normally $2.99)
ELA
- Busy Kindergarten Reading School (normally $2.99)
- Fourth Grade Life Science Reading Comprehension (normally $2.99)
- Compare a Twist (great app; create your own lessons using compare and contrast; normally $1.99)
- Cornerstone myFlashcard Maker Grades K-2 (good app from Pearson; includes hundreds of words or add your own; normally $2.99)
- Cornerstone myFlashcard Maker Grades 3-5 (good app from Pearson; includes hundreds of words or add your own; normally $2.99)
- Draw Alphabets (normally $1.99)
- Grammar Wonderland (Elementary) (strong app from McGraw-Hill; normally $2.99)
- Grammar Wonderland (Primary) (strong app from McGraw-Hill; normally $2.99)
- Grid Diary - The Simplest Way to Get Started with Keeping a Diary
- GRE Vocabulary Flashcards from Magoosh (normally $1.99)
- iJumble - SAT Vocabulary Prep (1,000 words included; additional words available with in-app purchase)
- Jumbled Sentences 7 (normally $0.99)
- K12 Timed Reading & Comprehension Practice Lite (includes five stories; additional stories available with full version)
- Kid's Journal (wonderful app; multiple students can add entries; export writing as a PDF; add photos; normally $1.99)
- Language Central myFlashcard Maker Grades 6-8 (good app from Pearson; includes hundreds of words or add your own; normally $2.99)
- The Opposites (vocabulary game)
- Phonics Fun 7 (normally $0.99)
- Phonics Munch - Letterstone Park (normally $0.99)
- Planet Read (normally $1.99)
- The Poetry App (very nice; normally $2.99)
- Position Words Matching Game (normally $1.99)
- Reading Comprehension - Fiction for Kindergarten and First Grade (normally $2.99)
- Roots and Inflections (normally $1.99)
- Shakespeare's The Tempest (great book with the play and social reading; normally $9.99)
- Sight Words Show (normally $1.99)
- Space Voyager Letters: Vowels, Consonants, Alphabet Order, & Upper/Lower Case (normally $2.99)
- Spelling Monkey Learn First Words for Kids and Toddlers (normally $2.99)
- Tick Tack Pippi Kids' Speed Reading Game (normally $0.99)
- Word Board (normally $0.99)
- Word Wonderland (Elementary) Full (strong app from McGraw-Hill; normally $2.99)
- Word Wonderland (Primary) Full (strong app from McGraw-Hill; normally $2.99)
ESL
- Learn English Vocabulary Pop Quiz (normally $0.99)
- Learn Spanish & English with Lingo Cat (normally $1.99)
- Pili Pop - English Learning Games for Kids! HD (normally $4.99)
Foreign Language
- iTalkSpanish (normally $1.99)
- Learn Spanish & English with Lingo Cat (normally $1.99)
Games/Entertainment
- Brain Game 1 (normally $3.99)
- Crazy Hair Studio (take a photo and give them different hair; very fun; normally $1.99)
- Cut the Rope HD (fun game; normally $3.99)
- Geared 2 (normally $1.99)
- Geared for iPad (great puzzle game; normally $1.99)
- Round the Block (interesting drawing game; normally $1.99)
- Wee Kids Sudoku (normally $1.99)
- Wuzzit Trouble (good problem solving game for kids; normally $1.99)
Health/PE/Sports
- BeRecruited for High School Athletes
- Concussion Recognition and Response: Coach and Parents (normally $0.99)
- Healthy Heroes 1 - Nutrition for Kids (normally $2.99)
- Multi_Timer (normally $2.99)
- Nutrition Guru for iPad (normally $1.99)
- Runner's Log (normally $2.99)
- To the Dentist (normally $0.99)
Interactive Books
- Aladdin - The Arabian Nights (normally $0.99)
- Ali Baba & the Forty Thieves (normally $0.99)
- The Amazing Adventures of Eco Boy, Volume 2 (normally $0.99)
- The Artist Mortimer (normally $1.99)
- Baby Elephant Adventure (normally $0.99)
- Bean Bag Kids Present Little Red Riding Hood (normally $4.99)
- Beauty and the Beast - Interactive Bedtime Storybook (normally $3.99)
- Blighty: Cinderella (normally $0.99)
- The Boy Who Cried Wolf (normally $0.99)
- Brer Rabbit and the Prickly Patch (normally $0.99)
- Brer Rabbit Earns a Dollar a Minute (normally $0.99)
- Busy Bee (normally $0.99)
- Buzz and Whiz (normally $0.99)
- The Children of Lir (wonderful Irish folk tale; normally $2.99)
- Chippers Rainy Day Adventure (normally $0.99)
- Danny Dimple Dares to Dream - Soccer for iPad (normally $2.99)
- The Dream of Cornelius Elmore Addison (normally $1.99)
- The Emperor's New Clothes - A Fairy Tale (normally $0.99)
- The Family - Rusty's Adventures (normally $1.99)
- Flight of the Pamplemousse (beautiful story and illustrations; normally $1.99)
- Frankie: The Untold Story of an Itsy-Bitsy Spider (normally $3.99)
- The Glass Mountain (normally $0.99)
- Giggli Builds a Spaceship (normally $1.99)
- The Global Game Changers (normally $0.99)
- The Gluttonous Kid (normally $1.99)
- Goodnight Safari (normally $2.99)
- One Dead Fish(great book for learning about food webs and the recycling of nutrients; normally $2.99)
- Sinbad the Sailor - Arabian Nights (normally $0.99)
- Sleeping Beauty - A Fairy Story (normally $0.99)
- The Sleeping Beauty: HelloStory (normally $1.99)
- The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen (normally $0.99)
- Sock n Boots (normally $0.99)
- Solar System AR Book HD (normally $2.99)
- The Hampshires (complete the rhyme book; normally $1.99)
- Hansel and Gretel - Grimm's Fairy Tales (normally $0.99)
- Happy Camper Books (includes six books; normally $1.99)
- How Animals See Me (normally $0.99)
- Jack and the Beanstalk - an Interactive Children's Storybook (normally $1.99)
- Jack and the Beanstalk by Mindshapes (normally $1.99)
- James & Mac (cute book; normally $2.99)
- Just Joking (from National Geographic; includes 25 jokes free; others available with in-app purchase)
- Just Me and My Mom - Little Critter (normally $1.99)
- Kicks and Stomps: Mission Impawsible (normally $2.99)
- Kung Fu Robot (cute interactive comic book)
- Lazy Larry Lizard (great interactive book; normally $3.99)
- The Leaping Match (normally $0.99)
- Let's Go Murray (normally $1.99)
- Little Mamee Monster and the Missing Egg (normally $1.99)
- The Little Match Girl - Andersen - Full Version (normally $1.99)
- Little Red Riding Hood Interactive Retro Book Series HD (normally $0.99)
- Loopy Lost His Lettuce HD (normally $1.99)
- Marga the Cat - App (normally $0.99)
- Molly Moccasins - Orchestra (interactive book; normally $3.99)
- Moogie the Messy Beastie - Educational Stories for Kids in Preschool and Kindergarten (normally $1.99)
- Mrs. Doe the Local Crow (normally $1.99)
- Nutcracker - Ballet School Stories (normally $0.99)
- Oink! Did I Just Say Oink? (normally $1.99)
- OK to Be a Boy (normally $2.99)
- Owney: Tales from the Rails (wonderful book series; normally $2.99)
- PH Summer Reading (normally $1.99)
- Plays Ball (cute book for baseball fans; normally $1.99)
- Poems for Little Children (normally $2.99)
- The Princess and the Pea - A Fairy Tale (normally $0.99)
- Princess and the Pea - an Interactive Children's Storybook (normally $1.99)
- The Prodigal Elephant - Bible for Children (normally $1.99)
- Robots for iPad (great book; normally $0.99)
- Rumplestiltskin (normally $0.99)
- Shout Science (great science interactive book; normally $3.99)
- Sparky's Birthday Surprise (great book about fire safety)
- Starfruit for Gold (normally $1.99)
- The Story of the Dog and His Reflection (normally $0.99)
- The Story of the Little Red Hen (normally $0.99)
- The Tale of Cinderella (normally $0.99)
- This Book Is About to Explode (normally $1.99)
- Three Billy Goats Gruff - an Interactive Children's Storybook (normally $1.99)
- Three_Little_Pigs (normally $1.99)
- Three Little Pigs - Book for Kids
- Thumbelina - A Fairy Tale (normally $0.99)
- The Tortoise and the Hare (normally $0.99)
- Tortoise&Rabbit (normally $1.99)
- The Ugly Duckling - A Fairy Tale (normally $0.99)
- The Watermelon Vendor (normally $2.99)
- Will & Kate (I love this interactive royal fairy tale about the prince of England; normally $3.99)
- Wizard of Oz Books (one app with all of the Oz books in it; normally $2.99)
Math
- 3D Shapes and Nets (normally $0.99)
- AKW BEDMAS (normally $0.99)
- AKW Factor Tree (normally $0.99)
- Alan's World 2: Math Games for 1st Grade (great app; normally $2.99)
- Algebra Equation Builder (normally $1.99)
- Animals Math Balance for Kids (normally $0.99)
- AnimalWatch (good app for word problems; normally $3.99)
- Arithmemouse Addition Subtraction Game (normally $0.99)
- Arithmetic Invaders: Grade 1 Math Facts (normally $1.99)
- Bugsy's Math Quest (wonderful app; normally $2.99)
- BuzzMath Middle School (great app; normally $2.99)
- Capture Math (normally $0.99)
- CA-VI-R & P (sixth grade math app; normally $0.99)
- CA VII RP (seventh grade math app; normally $0.99)
- Co-ordinate Geometry - Core 1 - A-Level Mathematics
- Cosmic Counters (normally $0.99)
- Dare to Share Fairly (cute division game; normally $2.99)
- Easy A Math Solver (every formula you'll ever need; normally $1.99)
- Easy Learning - Math for Children (normally $4.99)
- Ezy Triangle (normally $1.99)
- Fractionator (normally $1.99)
- Fraction Circles (normally $0.99)
- Fraction Poker (normally $1.99)
- Montessori Math: Add & Subtract Large Numbers (normally $4.99)
- Thinking Blocks Addition (great modeling app; normally $1.99)
- Thinking Blocks Fractions (great app; normally $1.99)
- Thinking Blocks Multiplication (great app; normally $1.99)
- Thinking Blocks Ratios (great app; normally $1.99)
- Grade 5 Math (great app; normally $2.99)
- Hickory Dickory Dock (normally $1.99)
- Hooda Math Defense (great app for fractions, decimals, and percents; normally $1.99)
- IATP2 Addition: Black (normally $1.99)
- IATP2 Multiplication: Black (normally $1.99)
- ID-123 (good app for discovering numbers; normally $2.99)
- Inequality Kick-Off (normally $0.99)
- Integer Trainer (normally $0.99)
- K12 Equivalence Tiles (normally $1.99)
- Kids Calculator (normally $1.99)
- Logarithm Trainer (normally $1.99)
- Madagascar Math Ops (normally $2.99; additional gold available with in-app purchase)
- Martian Match (normally $0.99)
- Math Basic (normally $0.99)
- Math Is Easy - Prime Factorization and Equation Solver (normally $0.99)
- Mathlon (normally $0.99)
- Math Robot (normally $0.99)
- Math vs Zombies - Educational Games for Kids (normally $2.99)
- Measure Length - Tiny Chicken (normally $1.99)
- Mermaid Waters HD: A Story-Based Preschool Math Game (normally $1.99)
- Meteor Math (normally $1.99)
- Montessori Numberland HD (good app; normally $3.99)
- Multiplication Game (normally $2.99)
- Multiplying by 10, 100, and 1000 (normally $1.99)
- My Graphing Calculator (normally $1.99)
- Pirate Ph.D. Full Edition (normally $2.99)
- Polar Sweep (normally $1.99)
- Princess Ph.D. Full Edition (normally $2.99)
- Professor Bacon (normally $0.99)
- Race in the Outback (normally $1.99)
- Ratios (normally $0.99)
- Red Dragonfly Mathematics Challenge Booklet (normally $0.99)
- Shuttle Mission Math (normally $1.99)
- Skip Math: Skip Counting Games (normally $0.99)
- Slate Math for Kids - Kindergarten and 1st Grade Games (very good app; normally $1.99)
- Sort the Fractions (normally $1.99)
- Times Tables with Beluga (normally $1.99)
- Todo K-2 Math Practice (normally $1.99)
- Touch 'N Slide Calculator (neat app; normally $1.99)
- TrendLine (normally $0.99)
- Trig Trainer (normally $1.99)
- Visual Algebra Puzzles (great app; normally $1.99)
- Wild Sheep - The Math Challenge (normally $0.99)
Music
- Music Maker Pro (normally $1.99)
- Music Quest (wonderful app to get students to practice their music; normally $1.99)
- TuneTopica! (normally $0.99)
Primary/Preschool/Toddlers
- ABC Adventure HD: Front Yard Defense - Let Kids Love Learning Letters with Super Jay (normally $1.99)
- ABC Jungle Pre-school Learning (normally $1.99)
- ABC: Kid's First Words (normally $1.99)
- ABC Write Listen Learn (normally $1.99)
- ABCs Jungle Writing Pre-School Learning (normally $1.99)
- Alphabet Words and Sounds
- Art ABC (normally $2.99)
- Staedtler Schreiblern-App (handwriting for young children; normally $2.99)
- Avokiddo Emotions - Playful Learning for Kids (normally $1.99)
- AZnimal (normally $1.99)
- Bamba Burger (normally $0.99)
- Build a Plane with Kate and Harry (normally $1.99)
- Colory Caterpillar (normally $1.99)
- Farm Toonz (normally $1.99)
- Fit Brains for Kids - Sparky's Adventures (good app; additional features available with in-app purchase)
- Hickory Dickory Dock (normally $1.99)
- Hide & Seek Animals (normally $1.99)
- Jellytoons Birthday Countdown (normally $1.99)
- Jellytoons Toddler Skills: Bobo's Birthday Challenge (normally $1.99)
- Kids Animals (normally $1.99)
- Kids Shape Match (normally $1.99)
- Kids Sticker World (normally $0.99)
- Learn Left Right (normally $0.99)
- Learn with Homer (additional features available with in-app purchase; normally $1.99)
- Leo's Gyro Racing (app that teaches impulse control through a fun game)
- Lingo Zoo (normally $1.99)
- My Alphabets
- My First 3D Puzzle: Animals (more than 70 puzzles; normally $1.99)
- Oliver's ABC (normally $1.99)
- Our Story for iPad (create and read your own stories; normally $1.99)
- Patterns by EdNinja (normally $3.99)
- Penguin First Grade: Math, Reading, Time & Geometry Learning Game (normally $1.99)
- Pixopop Coloring Book (normally $2.99)
- Sea Animals Puzzle: Preschool and Kindergarten Learning Games (normally $1.99)
- Social Stories Creator and Library for Preschool, Autism, and Special Needs (additional features available with in-app purchase)
- Sort and Stack - Play Smart and Learn (normally $1.99)
- SoundMatch by EdNinja (normally $1.99)
- Step by Step Getting Dressed with the Wonkidos (normally $3.99)
- Sticker Factory (normally $1.99)
- Toca Kitchen Monsters (normally $0.99; great for primary students)
- Toca Tailor Fairy Tales (normally $0.99)
- To the Dentist (normally $0.99)
- Uncle Sarah (normally $1.99)
- What Is My Job for iPad (normally $0.99)
- WiguPuzzle (when I grow up; normally $2.99)
- Zachy the Robot: The Leaning Tower of Robocity (great STEM app; normally $1.99)
- Zeli's World (normally $2.99)
Productivity
- InFocus Pro (normally $9.99)
- PopBoardz (normally $4.99; additional features available with in-app purchase)
- Sticky Board 2: Sticky Notes Mindmap Tool (normally $4.99)
- Video Downloader and Player (great for the flipped classroom; normally $2.99)
Religious Studies
- Bible Activities - New Testament (normally $1.99)
- Bible Activities - Old Testament (normally $1.99)
- Bible Stories for Me (normally $1.99)
- Childrens Jewish Torah Bible Stories (normally $0.99)
- Dot to Dot Bible Stories (normally $1.99)
- I Love Quiet Books The Creation (normally $0.99)
Science
- Amazing Space Journey - 3D Solar System (normally $2.99)
- Cells by KIDS Discover (great app; normally $2.99)
- Chemistry by Design: Learning by Using the Graphical Language of Organic Chemistry (normally $1.99)
- Click and Learn (great biology app with lots of videos; normally $1.99)
- Connectorium (a great game about systems; normally $2.99)
- One Dead Fish (great book for learning about food webs and the recycling of nutrients; normally $2.99)
- Periodic Table of the Elements: Names & Symbols Quiz (normally $0.99)
- Anatomy & Physiology (respiratory unit is included free; others available with in-app purchase)
- Atomium: Periodic Table (normally $0.99)
- Audubon Owls - A Field Guide to North American Owls (normally $0.99)
- Biology Flashcards for Life: The Science of Biology
- Biology Flashcards for Principles of Life
- Dino Walk: Continental Drift (normally $2.99)
- Earthlapse (normally $1.99)
- Earth Viewer (normally $1.99)
- Galaxies by KIDS Discover (great app; normally $2.99)
- Gene Tutor
- HHMI Bulletin (free quarterly science magazine)
- Life of a Monarch Butterfly (great app by a teacher)
- MoonWalking (interesting AR app; normally $1.99)
- Periodic Table Quiz Yourself (normally $2.99)
- Physics Pro (normally $19.99)
- Quizee Fun for Science Trivia (normally $2.99)
- Sci Quiz TEKS 6 iPad Edition (with 240 questions; normally $2.99)
- Shout Science (great science interactive book; normally $3.99)
- The Solar System: Explore Your Backyard (normally $0.99)
- Star Chart (normally $2.99)
- Step2Step Physics - Mechanics (normally $4.99)
- The Virtual Bacterial ID Lab
Social Studies
- Ancient Greece by KIDS Discover (great app; normally $2.99)
- Basher's Presidents (normally $1.99)
- Colonie (game about the first French colony in North America; normally $1.99)
- Constitution by KIDS Discover (great app; normally $2.99)
- De Gaulle - History (good interactive app; normally $1.99)
- Gettysburg 1863 (normally $1.99)
- History Hero (wonderful interactive adventures for onsite exploration in Washington, DC, New York, London, Paris, and Rome; normally $3.99)
- History: Maps of the World (good for older students; normally $1.99)
- iLearn Geography (normally $2.99)
- Puzzle Me Countries (crossword puzzles about countries and states; normally $1.99)
- The Roman Forum - Walkthrough (normally $0.99)
- State Puzzles (normally $0.99)
- Texas 1836 (wonderful on and off-site virtual tour of Washington-on-the-Brazos; normally $2.99)
- U.S. Geography (normally $1.99)
Special Needs
- ADHD Treatment (normally $9.99)
- Autism EducateMe (normally $1.99)
- Sensory Speak Up (normally $0.99)
- Talking Larry the Bird for iPad (normally $2.99)
- Dot to Dot (Low Vision). Other apps by Ebenezer Schools for low vision students are also free.
- Expressions for Autism (normally $3.99)
- I Went Potty (normally $0.99)
- Klaudia the Kangaroo - Look, See, Learn (normally $2.99)
- Leo's Gyro Racing (app that teaches impulse control through a fun game)
- Social Stories Creator and Library for Preschool, Autism, and Special Needs (additional features available with in-app purchase)
- Speech4Good (great app; normally $7.99)
- Step by Step Getting Dressed with the Wonkidos (normally $3.99)
- Therapy Report Center (normally $1.99)
Teacher
- The BookSearch (great app; normally $29.99)
- Kids Timer App (normally $0.99)
- Noise Down - Sound Manager Alarm App (normally $0.99)
- Teaching the AvatarGeneration (fabulous tech and teaching magazine app that is free and will download to your Newsstand; then you can download one free issue in the Library section for July 2013, normally $4.99; additional issues are available with in-app purchase)
Miscellaneous
- The Clock that Writes Time (normally $1.99)
- Concentration Music Radio (normally $0.99)
- My Choices - LaTrobe University (personality profile; normally $1.99)
- Omni Study (good planner app for students; normally $1.99)
- Orchids Guide! (normally $1.99)
- QuickMetric (converter; normally $1.99)
- Schulheld - The Timetable (normally $1.99)
- Smart Allowance (normally $0.99)
- Talking Larry the Bird for iPad (normally $2.99)
- Tidy Kids - Family Fun and Agility! (normally $2.99)
- Traditional Furniture (beautiful app about building traditional Chinese furniture; normally $3.99)