Mobile Apps

What mobile apps are available for your subject area? List and describe at least 4 apps that could be used on a smartphone, iPod, or iPad in the classroom.

Some of my third graders favorite apps are listed below.

SparkleFish is a modern version of Mad Libs. Students are asked to record nouns, verbs, and adjectives. Their voices are then used in an animated story. It always brings plenty of laughs while learning the parts of speech.

Strip Designed (POW) is a great app to use while teaching sequence of events. Students use the camera to take pictures and turn themselves into a comic strip. It comes complete with speech bubbles and special effects.

All my students, especially the boys love Rocket Math. Students complete math problems to earn money to design a rocket. The more they get correct the better rocket they can build. The goal is for the rocket to reach outer space.

I know this is one that everyone has heard of, but my students love Stack the States. I am so glad because at the beginning of the school year many of my students didn't even know what state they live in. I'm not joking! This app has students answer geography/history related questions about states. It has a multiple choice answer section. If the students answer correctly the state is dropped and the students move it around to stack it. If they stack it to the goal line they earn a state to help complete their map. The goal is to completely fill a US map. They have to be careful though because the states can fall if they are stacked off balance.