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Tools for teachers and students from Google Play for Education

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Contents

• Section 1: Overview of this resource…………...……...………..……..….....Slides 3-5

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• Section 2: Overview of Google Play for Education…………………….……Slides 6-11

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• Section 3: Student tools……………………...…………………………….…..Slides 12-70
• Study and reference
• Student productivity & organization
• Creation tools
• Science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) tools

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• Section 4: Teacher tools……...………………..………………………….…...Slides 71-84
• Instructional planning, delivery, and assessment
• Classroom management and communication

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• Section 5: Language and literacy apps…………………...……………..…...Slides 85-93

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Overview of Apps for Your Class

This slide deck highlights apps that are useful tools for education in and out of the classroom. All apps in this deck can be found in Google Play and in Google Play for Education.

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On Google Play anyone can choose from over 1 million apps and games, and browse the world's largest eBookstore.

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Google Play for Education is a special view of Google Play designed just for schools. In addition to the over 1 million apps in Google Play, educators whose schools purchase tablets with Google Play for Education will find it easy to discover, purchase, and deploy teacher-approved apps and educational videos. Learn more in section 2 of this document.

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Where can you find these tools and apps?

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Google Play

• All of the apps in this presentation can be found in Google Play.

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• Google Play can be accessed by any individual, anytime at play.google.com.
• Schools who purchase tablets from Google receive access Google Play for Education, which allows users to browse apps approved for teachers by teacher, complete bulk purchase and deploy apps instantly to a class.

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• Chrome Web Store

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• Many apps in this presentation are also available in the Chrome Web Store.

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• The Chrome Web Store has web-based apps for anyone using the Chrome browser.

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• Schools in the Chromebooks for Education program have the additional ability to deploy Chrome web apps instantly to groups of students

Click the icons at the top right of each page to access the app in Google Play or Chrome.

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Which apps and tools do you want?

Questions:

• Do you have an app that you love to use, but you don’t see it in Google Play?
• Are you looking for apps for a certain tool or curriculum area, but can’t find any?

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• Submit your request to our team by completing the form at goo.gl/YjcO6h

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We’ll do our best to reach out to developers to meet your needs.

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Overview of Google Play for Education

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Hillsborough Township Public Schools share their experiences with Google Play for Education

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Designed for learning, made for the classroom

With tablets and Google Play for Education, teachers can discover, purchase, and share educational apps, videos, and a selection of top classic books. Schools can learn more about and purchase this program at google.com/edu/tablets.

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Google Play for Education allows educators to browse apps approved for teachers by teachers, viewing content by grade, subject, and standard including Common Core. This gives teachers more power to customize learning for individual students. And with cloud deployment, educators can share content across a school or entire district with just a few clicks.

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These 4 videos provide an overview of Google Play for Education

Browse EDU-approved apps by grade, subject, and standard

Identify apps approved for teachers by teachers

Use POs where payment is required, and deploy apps instantly

Discover a range of content in Google Play for Education

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Understand badges in Google Play for Education

Once you find an app, click on it to read the detail. Inside you’ll find screenshots of the apps and up to three yellow badges:

• EDU signifies that this app was approved by educators who reviewed the app for quality
• IN APP FREE means that the app does not allow in-app purchases
• AD FREE shows that the app does not contain advertisements

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Student tools�

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Purchase a set of apps with a PO and deploy to tablets instantly

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Study and Reference

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Quizlet

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Create quizzes and access over �21 million study sets and flashcards.

• Increase student engagement with quiz competitions
• Help students learn at their own pace
• Provide visual aids and flashcards
• Help students study anywhere, with or without internet access

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StudyBlue School Edition

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How teachers can use this app:

StudyBlue is an interactive, digital study tool where students learn classroom materials with custom flashcards, class notes and practice quizzes.

• Quickly create study materials
• Easily monitor individual and group study routines
• Quickly adapt your instruction to focus on tough areas

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Google Maps

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How teachers can �use this app:

Explore new places and navigate your world with Google Maps.

• Teach geography by letting students explore and navigate the world

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Google Earth

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How teachers can �use this app:

• Teach geography by letting students explore and navigate the world
• Discover the architecture of ancient and modern landmarks with 3D views

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Explore the world in 3D and at street level with Google Earth.

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Wikipedia

Learn from the worlds most comprehensive, community built, free encyclopedia with over 20 million articles in 280 languages.

• Encourage classes to augment their knowledge using Wikipedia
• Develop students’ ability to source reference materials
• Help students learn in different languages

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Dictionary.com

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How teachers can use this app:

An English dictionary app with over 2 million definitions and synonyms from Dictionary.com and Thesaurus.com.

• Encourage students to learn new words and develop their vocabulary with or without internet access
• Incorporate “Word of the Day” from Dictionary.com into daily routine

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Pleco Chinese Dictionary

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Pleco is the ultimate Chinese learning companion—an integrated Chinese English dictionary and learning app

• Translate content easily with the built-in camera or one-tap lookup
• Use customizable flashcards to speed understanding
• Import your own vocabulary lists for students to practice
• Use audio pronunciation from a native-speaker to improve accuracy

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KhAndroid

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How students can use this app:

KhAndroid is a fully accessible Android application that enables its users to view Khan Academy's library of more than 2,200 micro lectures via video tutorials.

• Watch video lectures that reinforce classroom lessons
• Download multiple videos on a specific subject to watch offline

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Springpad

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How students can use this app:

Save anything from anywhere. Springpad enhances anything you save with useful details and relevant suggestions.

• Bookmark sites for reading later—never forget an important article or book
• Follow trusted experts and others to be on top of trends and useful tips
• Build personal to-do lists with reminder alerts
• Collaborate with others on a project with notes, videos, links and tasks

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Google Keep

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How students can �use this app:

• Take notes in class or while reading, including adding photos
• Set reminders associated with notes, such as homework due dates

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Quickly create, access and organize notes, lists and photos. All your notes are automatically stored in Drive.

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Evernote

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How students can use this app:

Evernote lets you take notes, capture photos, create to-do lists, record voice reminders

• Take notes and organize them �by class or subject
• Sync your notes across devices and computers for studying anywhere
• Share notes with classmates and collaborate through the app

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Diigo Power Note

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How students can use this app:

• Read more effectively with highlighters and sticky notes
• Build your library in the cloud for access on any device
• Capture and mark pages to provide feedback to the group

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Organize and annotate links, pages, notes and pictures for better reading, researching and sharing.

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Google Drive

How students can �use this app:

• Take notes or do writing projects in a word processor
• Create forms, lists, and graphs with a spreadsheet
• Collaborate with classmates on group projects in real-time
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Create and share work online and access your documents from anywhere. Manage documents, spreadsheets, presentations, surveys, and more all in one place.

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Box

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How students can use this app:

• Store all class notes, files and homework in one place
• Improve collaboration with shared folders
• Access anytime from any device

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Box makes it easy to access and edit your files, share content and stay connected with students and teachers from anywhere on any device.

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Wunderlist for Education

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Wunderlist for Education is the easiest way to manage and share your daily to-do lists with colleagues.

• Create to-do lists and assign them to study group members
• Add comments and start a conversation amongst the group
• Assign to-do’s to ensure the class project is completed on time

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Any.do

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How students can use this app:

Any.do is a powerful and flexible task manager with easy to use speech recognition.

• Organize tasks into folders for specific classes or subjects
• Never miss a deadline with alerts and home screen widgets
• Auto-suggest and voice dictation allows you to study more and type less

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myHomework Student Planner

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How students can use this app:

• Access from any device - never lose your planner
• Home screen widgets and notifications to remind you
• Get your syllabus and schedule automatically from Teachers.io

A digital replacement for paper student planners, school diaries, or academic agendas.

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Skitch

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How students can use this app:

• Take notes directly on existing documents or articles
• Search notes and handwritten text to find items quickly

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Use Skitch to annotate photos and PDFs, or start from scratch with a blank canvas.

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Repligo

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An easy way to view, mark-up, and print PDF files.

• Open PDF files and take notes directly on the documents
• Print edited and noted PDF files to local printers wirelessly
• Use your own style with highlights, cross outs, underlines, sticky notes, freehand drawings and more

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iAnnotate

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How students can use this app:

• Add your own notes directly within any PDF document
• Reference personal notes and documents at the same time with tabbed PDF viewing
• Share using the Box app

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View and annotate PDF files easily. Tabs make it easy to manage multiple files.

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Connected Mind

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How students can use this app:

Brainstorm with the group and recall faster with this mind mapping tool

• Visualize projects, ideas,�and essays to structure �ideas in advance
• Share and access colorful maps from anywhere

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MindPlan

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How students can use this app:

• Build structure to your ideas to develop outlines and plans more quickly

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Draft and work through ideas easily with this outline-based interface. Add text, images, and drawings to your outline easily.

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SimpleMind Mind Mapping

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How students can use this app:

SimpleMind is a mindmapping tool that makes brainstorming and thought- �structuring easy.

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• Speed the project by organizing ideas by group or color
• Share via email or Dropbox

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Mindomo

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“Mindomo has increased student engagement and definitely saved the reams of paper we used to use to have students create the same thing on paper. Now, students can get to the content of their thinking more quickly, instead of having to spend time drawing the bubbles they once drew for paper and pen mind maps.”

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Elizabeth Calhoon, Academic Technology Specialist, San Jose, CA

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Create mind maps and turn them into presentations easily, with easy cloud syncing.

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Creation Tools

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Magisto

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How students can use this app:

Edit your video files and turn them into movies, complete with sound, graphics, and other effects.

• Magisto automatically splices the best parts of your video
• Add sound and graphics while editing videos to create polished projects

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WeVideo

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Capture and edit videos on your device and share them easily.

“The ease of use and to have a full featured video editing tool...that is FREE is unbelievable. Plus to have it fully integrated in Google Drive is a game changer since now students don't have to remember multiple logins.”

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Brian Scheibach, Director of Digital Learning, Portage, WI

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Vidtrim

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A powerful video editing tool that includes trimming, audio extraction, and file conversion.

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• Edit and trim videos to use in classroom projects
• Remove excess sound from video clips
• Grab video stills to highlight important parts or save for other projects

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Movenote

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How students can use this app:

• Show what you know by presenting our documents with video
• More quickly save, share and access from anywhere with Gmail and Google Drive
• Follow viewer statistics

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Record video to �play alongside your �own content.

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Comic Strip It!

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How students can �use this app:

Turn your images into compelling comic strips and storyboards.

• Get creative with photos by creating their own stories

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Diptic

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Easily create beautiful photo collages and share with colleagues and teachers.

• Create collages from photos on your camera roll, Facebook or Flickr
• Showcase your school photo projects

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SketchBook

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A paint and drawing application with extensive, sophisticated brushes and pencils.

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• Create artwork directly from a touchscreen with a variety of different brushes
• Showcase your talent to teachers and fellow students

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Scrap! Photo Book Maker

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Add frames, text, and other graphics to your photos to easily make photo books.

• Showcase your photo project with easy to use custom photo book tools

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Creative Book Builder

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An easy way for anyone to create, edit, and publish their own e-books.

• Create professional looking e-books from your classroom writing
• Add and edit chapters to organize your story

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NearPod

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How students can use this app:

Nearpod combines presentation, collaboration, and real-time assessment tools into one integrated solution.

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• View multimedia content provided by your teacher
• Get immediate feedback on your assignments

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SyncSpace

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How students can �use this app:

• Work with a teacher on subject coaching

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SyncSpace creates a zoomable drawing space that can be shared in real time over the net, a sort of shared whiteboard.

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Explain Everything

How students can use this app:

An interactive screencasting and whiteboard app �loaded with customization features.

• annotate, animate, narrate, import and export almost any content
• View recorded lessons later

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STEM Tools

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GeoGebra

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How students can use this app:

• Visualize abstract mathematical concepts across a variety of math concepts
• Engage with the GeoGebra community for assistance

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GeoGebra is dynamic mathematics software for all levels of education that brings together geometry, algebra, spreadsheets, graphing, statistics and calculus in one easy-to-use package.

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WolframAlpha

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Access WolframAlpha’s computational engine to get answers and generate reports on a variety of subjects.

• Use as a graphing calculator to answer virtually any math-intensive question
• Check answers on homework or classwork

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MathStudio

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Handle anything from basic calculations to college calculus with this incredibly comprehensive math app.

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• Use as a graphing calculator
• Create matrices

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MyScript Calculator

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How students can �use this app:

Perform mathematical applications naturally using your handwriting.

• Write in their own math problems and watch the app solve them

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Algeo

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Create graphs, draw functions, and find intersections with this easy-to-use app.

• Use as a graphing calculator

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Smart Tools

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A package of apps that include a ruler, compass, sound meter, and flashlight.

• Learn measurement units hands-on
• Understand how sound waves work with personal experiments

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PocketCode

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Create, edit, and execute Catrobat programs with PocketCode.

• Learn the basics of programming in a visual way

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NASA

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How students can �use this app:

• Learn about the solar system
• Engage with current NASA projects
• Get notified when the International Space Station is in sight

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See images, videos, and interactive features from the US’s space agency.

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StarChart

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How students can use this app:

• Point your device at the sky to get nearby constellation information
• View what any part of the world can see

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Create a virtual planetarium in your pocket to understand the universe around you.

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Audubon Science Apps

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A collection of scientific reference apps, with detailed, in-depth descriptions of birds, animals, trees, and more.

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• Get more information about subjects being studied in science class
• Learn about birds, trees, mammals, butterflies and more
• Learn about where insects

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SimpleRockets

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Learn physics by designing rocket ships and blasting into space.

• Test concepts learned in physics class and put them to practical use
• Have fun learning by building rocket ships

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Chemist

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How students can use this app:

• Play with combinations �of compounds that �wouldn’t be available for hands on experiments

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Create a virtual chemistry lab on your device, without the danger of �real experiments.

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Frog Dissection

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How students can�use this app:

• Study anatomy without dealing with physical dissection
• “Cut” without fear of making mistakes

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Study how a frog’s body works on your device.

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SimplePhysics

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How students can use this app:

• Apply physics lessons to real world examples in a game setting
• Build tree houses, ferris wheels and more
• Build for strength and cost savings

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Design complex structures and then animate it with a sophisticated physics engine.

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D. Bones – Learn the Skeleton

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An educational app designed to help kids reinforce and practice human anatomy lessons

• Solve puzzles to place bones in their correct location on the body

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Math Ref

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Powerful tool to help with math, physics, chemistry and more.

• Browse over 1,400 formulas, figures, and examples
• Consolidate math notes and reference sheets
• Perform common calculations with unit converter, quadratic solver, and triangle solver and more

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Motion Math: Fractions

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Make fractions more visual and fun with arcade game style

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• Quickly estimate four forms of fractions: numerator over denominator (1/2), percents (50%), decimals (.5), and pie charts.
• View your progress and get rewards for solving problems

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Math Bingo

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Make learning math fun by playing Bingo while you study

• learn addition, subtraction, multiplication and division
• Compete with friends on the scoreboard
• Unlock bonus games

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Net Texts

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How teachers can �use this app:

• Use or customize many types of courses with videos, PDFs, and more for download and offline learning

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Net Texts helps students learn from multimedia courses customized by their own teachers.

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Edmodo

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Interact with students easily with Edmodo. Have discussions, view assignments, and track gradebooks with ease.

• Manage class curriculum and make assignments �accessible to students from anywhere
• Stay in touch with the class anytime

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GoClass

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How teachers can use this app:

More accurately provide and gauge learning with live lesson interaction.

• Broadcast lessons, test knowledge, validate engagement and track student performance in real-time.

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Teacher Aide Pro

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How teachers can use this app:

• Notify parents about grades, attendance and assignments
• Text or email students in bulk
• Manage gradebook categories, weighting and grading style

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Manage attendance, track assignment completion, create progress reports and more.

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Socrative Student

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Engage with students in real-time with educational games and exercises, while getting student results instantly.

• Engage student teams with race games.
• Get a quick paper-free pulse check before students leave.
• Save on quiz building time by importing questions from Excel.
• Save on grading time with automatic result reporting.

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eduTecher – Backpack

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A curated list of the educational �websites and resources.

How teachers can use this app:

• Save time finding the best tools and lesson plans
• Search by subject and grade level
• Share links, notes, messages and more

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Splashtop Whiteboard

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How teachers can use this app:

Turn your device into an interactive whiteboard, with synced content across teacher and student devices.

• Project text, sound, or video
• Control mobile, PC or interactive whiteboard content
• Access current student work for instant assessment

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Piazza

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Save teacher and student time with a safe and secure platform for students to answer each other’s questions

• Attach or download files to improve understanding
• Create real-time polls to check the pulse of the class
• Review participation statistics

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Blogger

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Teachers and students can use this to:

• Create class or individual blogs
• Control whether comments and post are teacher-approved before they are posted

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Blogger is Google’s platform for blogging.

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Edublogs

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Increase parent and student awareness with a safe and secure blog platform dedicated to education

• Replace your paper newsletter to increase readership
• Get your students blogging
• Create class publications or post videos and documents

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ClassDojo

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Keep students alert and on-task with real-time feedback on their behavior.

• Improve behavior with positive or negative reinforcement
• Save time with one-click behavior recording
• Share accomplishments and behavior with students and parents in real-time

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“It is very easy to instantly keep track of how students are doing in class. The teacher can customize those behaviors (s)he wants to target for positive reinforcement or negative redirection.”

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Curriculum apps

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Kids ABC Phonics

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How students can�use this app:

• Make learning words and pronunciation a fun, interactive game

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A child-friendly app to learn alphabet letter sounds easily.

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Booksy: Learn to Read Platform

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How students can use this app:

• Read multiple books through this fun interface
• Tap on words to hear how it sounds
• Take quizzes and view progress

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Booksy is a learning-to- read platform for young kids to help them practice and develop their �reading skills.

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Dr. Seuss

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How students can use this app:

• Read classic stories
• Have new words read aloud to them by in-app narration

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A collection of Dr. Seuss’s popular books, made highly interactive and optimized for touch screen interfaces.

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Duolingo

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How students can use this app:

• Practice language learning and play language games with classmates
• Learn Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, German, or English

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Learn a new language for free.

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Shake-a-Phrase

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A fun language app for creative �writing prompts, vocabulary, and �parts of speech practice.

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• Quiz themselves on understanding new vocabulary
• Use Story Starter feature as a classroom writing prompt to complete a story

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iStorybooks

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How students can use this app:

• Have books read aloud to kids
• Practice reading by themselves

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Interactive storybooks with pictures, text�and audio.

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VocabularySpellingCity

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“VocabularySpellingCity takes the drudgery out of practicing spelling words. Students enjoy spelling homework assignments much more since they are interactive, and parents are freed from quizzing student spelling. For the teacher, it is easy to monitor student completion of the assignment. Student spelling scores have gone up since there is homework accountability.”

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MaryFran Lynch, 3rd Grade Teacher, �Los Gatos, CA

Learn spelling and vocabulary words by playing engaging learning games using any word list.

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