Norwood’s Recommended Educational Apps and Websites

Apple Apps:

Name/Logo Description

Common Core Standards

A great reference for students, parents, and teachers to easily read and understand the core standards. Quickly find standards by subject, grade, and subject category (domain/cluster). This app includes Math standards K-12 and Language Arts standards K-12. Math standards include both traditional and integrated pathways (as outlined in Appendix A of the common core) and synthesizes Language Arts standards with the Corresponding College and Career Readiness Standards (CCR's).

Next Generation Science Standards

View the Next Generation Science Standards in one convenient FREE app! A great reference for teachers, parents, and students to easily read and understand the standards. Quickly find standards by various topic arrangements or keyword search.

eStandards eStandards is designed to provide easy and quick access to the California State Standards. This app includes the K-12 Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for English Language Arts (ELA) & Literacy and Mathematics. The CCSS are organized by content area, grade, strand/domain, and standard. Also included are the newly adopted English Language Development (ELD) standards. The ELD standards are organized by grade, part, and proficiency level.

Book Wizard The Book Wizard Mobile application (School Edition) is a mobile extension of the Book Wizard which provides easy access to Scholastic’s database of more than 50,000 children's books. Hundreds of thousands of teachers already use Book Wizard at http://www.scholastic.com/bookwizard. Book Wizard Mobile will save you even more time.

EPIC Epic! is the leading all-you-can-read eBook library for kids 12 and under offering unlimited access to over 20,000 high-quality children’s books, now including thousands of read-to-me, Audio books, and educational videos.

Khan Academy Khan Academy allows you to learn almost anything for free.

Tiny Tap TinyTap empowers you to create your own interactive educational activity and share it on the TinyTap marketplace for others to play and learn from.

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Explore the world's biggest teacher created library of interactive activities!

Newsela Newsela is the best way for students to master nonfiction in any subject. By combining real-time assessments with leveled content from premier daily news sources and eminent nonfiction publishers, Newsela makes reading-to-learn relevant, interesting, and effective regardless of interest or ability.

Reading for fun is back. Articles span topics from science and technology, to history and politics, to sports and the arts. So every student can find something something he or she will love to read. With every article published at five different reading levels — and most available in English and Spanish — even the most hesitant readers can find joy in reading.

News-O-Matic News-O-Matic covers relevant news of the day in an engaging way, exploring its many facets through images, maps, videos, and games. Whether your interest is sports, science, world news, or wacky events, News-O-Matic delivers what’s making the news! It offers a window to the world and beyond helping readers become global citizens!

Skitch See something that sparks an idea? Use Skitch to snap it, mark it up with simple tools, and send it on in an instant. Your bold ideas stand out even brighter with Skitch. Students can annotate documents.

Book CreatorAge 8+Book Creator is a bookmaking tool. Users pick images, place text, and choose background colors for assembling their books in a variety of formats, including comic strips. You can include images from your device's camera roll, and images can be resized and repositioned, text attributes can be changed, and books can have as many pages as needed.

BrainPop Jr. Movie of the Week

Age 6+BrainPOP Jr. Movie of the Week offers videos featuring familiar character Annie and her robot buddy Moby who sweetly and patiently explain and explore a wide variety of topics from health to reading and writing. Kids also can take simple retention quizzes and keep track of their scores.

Doodle Buddy Age 8+Doodle Buddy is a free drawing app that offers kids a lot of ways to get creative with paints, stamps, and backgrounds. The app also entices kids to download other apps so as to earn "Doodle Bucks" to use within the game. Parents can turn off the ability to download other

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apps from within the "Settings" section of your iPad.

Quizlet

Age 10+is the companion mobile app for the website, http://quizlet.com/. With the Quizlet app, tweens and teens can search an online database of more than 13 million user-created flashcard sets. Some sets are less educational than others and may contain inappropriate language and mature content. This app is free, and the content varies from highly useful to useless. The app is only for reviewing flashcards; teens must use the Quizlet website to create their own sets.

Scratch Junior Age 6+ScratchJr follows in the footsteps of Scratch, an online programming tool for kids, but is designed as an even earlier introduction to computer programming and multimedia creation. With a little up-front adult explanation, ScratchJr can provide hours of fun for kids, as the possibilities for creating scripts are almost endless.

Tynker Tynker is the easiest way for kids to learn programming. Play fun puzzles to learn the basics and then create your own amazing games using over 100 step-by-step coding tutorials. Great for Hour of Code!

Cargo-Bot The puzzle game that challenges your brain and helps you learn programming concepts.

Fizzy’s Lunch Lab Fresh Pick

Ages 6-8Professor Fizzy, star of the PBS KIDS web series, "Fizzy's Lunch Lab," is holding a competition to see who has what it take to be the next Lunch Labber! Think it's going to be easy cheesy? Well think again! Take on 8 exciting challenges that will put your math and problem solving skills to the test. If you can navigate your way through the grocery store, come up with right amount of change in the check-out line, and successfully serve food to a room full of hungry customers, you may just have what it takes to become the next member of the Lunch Lab!

Shadow Puppet EDU

Age 7+Shadow Puppet Edu is a slide-show creation tool designed to help kids create presentations. All the resources they might want are included and accessible from within the app, such as images from museums, Flickr, and their own camera rolls. The image searches are well filtered to keep them appropriate, but the system could potentially still let some objectionable material through. Kids also can share their creations by email or message as well as through apps connected on the device, such as YouTube and Twitter.

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Paper When inspiration happens, put it on Paper. Paper is the best way to capture and connect your notes, photos, and sketches. Create checklists, spotlight details in photos, and sketch diagrams with unbeatable speed and ease — Paper is like a wall of sticky notes for everything that inspires you.

Spelling City

Age 5+VocabularySpellingCity is game-based learning tool with a school-home connection! Students of VocabularySpellingCity Premium Members can log into their accounts and access their teachers' lists and assignments from virtually any device - desktop computers, laptop/notebook computers, tablets, iPads, and iPhones - at school, at home and on the go!

Sushi MonsterAge 7+Sushi Monster is an entertaining and challenging math app to practice addition and multiplication skills by feeding the monster numbered plates of sushi, creating a number sentence to arrive at the monster's requested number. Correct answers earn kids points, stars, and trophies; choose the wrong sushi, and the monster throws a temper tantrum.

Math4Kids

This is a free an fun math app that generate thousands of adding and subtracting math problems on your iPhone. It is easy to use and fun for kids to add and subtract pictures, add and subtract numbers.

Players will have the opportunity to add or subtract farm animals, ocean animals, jungle animals, toys, Christmas trees, Santa, food, dinosaurs, cars, and other fun images. This app can also serve a great source for any after school programs or extra home works to help young students understand and practice basic math skills.

Math

Age 10+Get the exact math help you need with your own personal math teacher!

Browse or search YourTeacher's complete library of over 50 courses for elementary, middle, and high school math; community college and college math; and standardized test prep.

Each course contains over 100 lessons, and each lesson features video examples, interactive practice, multiple-choice self-tests, a worksheet of extra problems, and more!

Starfall

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ABCya

Word Monsters Introducing The Word Monsters, a new and innovative series of interactive, decodable readers! Join Tag and his friends on their adventures while developing reading skills in a visually rich, highly engaging environment.

This carefully structured program combines standard phonics-based instruction with engaging interactive stories to make learning to read fun! Each book also contains three activities that build on the skills addressed in each book.

Rocket Speller Rocket Speller is a fun and engaging spelling app for 3-7 year olds.

Sight Words Learning Games &

Reading Flash Cards

The app is designed to help children learn and practice reading the most common sight words.

Go Noodle GoNoodle Kids is the only app that gets kids MOVING along with crazy cool songs like Kitty High Five, Pop See Ko, Don’t Read Like a Robot, and so many more GoNoodle favs! Plus, GoNoodle Kids has simple mindfulness and yoga activities to help kids chill out, dude.

Friendzy Age 5+Choose your child’s grade level.This app also offers over 16 million learning resources (videos and webpages) to help you or your child with every school subject such as math, Science, Social Studies, Languages Arts, Arts & Humanities, Tech and Engineering and many more.

Android Apps:

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Name/Logo Description

FriendzyAge 5+Choose your child’s grade level.This app also offers over 16 million learning resources (videos and webpages) to help you or your child with every school subject such as math, Science, Social Studies, Languages Arts, Arts & Humanities, Tech and Engineering and many more.

Websites:

Name/Logo Description

code.org

typingclub.com

Pbskids.com

Starfall.com

Abcya.com

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Scholastic.com

Math4kids.com

Gonoodle.com

Abcmouse.com

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