Cool, Creative,
and Fun Apps for
Your Classroom
Are you looking for fun, creative,
and engaging apps to use with
your students? Educators from
across the nation shared with us
some of their favorite apps and
free websites to make learning
engaging, interactive, and
challenging.
FUN TRIVIA
With this app you
can post, curate,
and collaborate all in
one visual place. Popplet is
excellent for group projects,
and it is a great way to make
homework fun.
http://popplet.com
SKITCH
From Sudoku, to chess, to
the image quiz, this free
website has it all. If you are
looking for a game to exercise
some grey cells, check them out.
www.gamesforthebrain.com
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MOLECULES
Great for science geeks, this
free app allows you to view
three-dimensional renderings of
molecules and manipulate
them using your fingers.
www.sunsetlakesoft
ware.com/molecules
This app gives students the
ability to bring their writing
to life in the form of cartoons.
Students can create a quick, 5minute cartoon complete with
music, pre-made or creatable
backgrounds, and characters.
www.nea.org/tools/tips/toontasticipad-app.html
POPPLET
Are you smarter than a fifth grader?
Find out using this simple website
that has all kinds of subjects, from
math to geography. It includes 1.5
million questions in 2,000
categories, 110,000 quizzes, and
the ability to create your own
trivia. www.funtrivia.com
GAMES FOR
THE BRAIN
TOONTASTIC
This app lets you
upload a photo and
write all over it. It also
functions like a whiteboard
app. You can connect it to the
LCD projector via adapter and
work out problems, or correct
sentences with your students.
http://skitch.com
BACKGROUND ART: LIVIU IONUT PANTELIMON AND ATTITUDE
GO ANIMATE
FOR SCHOOLS
This animated video
site allows you to make
videos quickly and easily
without having to know any complicated
code. The educational version creates a private
and secure environment where you can
interact with your students, and they can
upload their own creations.
http://goanimate4schools.com
FACEJACK
STORYKIT
Students create their
own books and record
themselves reading them.
It is too cool! The app includes four
public domain children’s books that you
can rewrite and rearrange into a new
story with your students.
http://itunes.apple.com/
us/app/storykit/id329374595?mt=8
ROCKET MATH
This free app makes math fun! You can create
rockets and fly different math missions.
A realistic physics engine powers the
rocket simulator, and there are
three levels of math.
http://itunes.apple.com/
us/app/rocket-mathfree/id408770902?mt=8
If Geronimo and Shakespeare were in
the same room, what would they talk
about? Have your students create
their own conversations between
historical figures or about
current events. Facejack can
do that and much more.
http://facejackapp.com
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