Welcome to Mrs. Tindle's Technology Toolbox. This blog is designed to give teachers a "toolbox" of technology tips. Integrating technology into the curriculum is vital in today's classroom. Student engagement can be at its highest levels when students use technology to meet objectives. When students are allowed the opportunity to use technology in their classroom, they many times become completely engaged. Often times when students are using technology, they are creating something. When students are creating, they are using higher order thinking skills. This means student engagement is at its highest.To gather new ideas for your classroom, just click on a curriculum topic to the left. There you will hopefully find new ways to integrate technology into your curriculum and classroom.

iPads in the Classroom


Here is a list of apps that can be used by students.  Many of these apps can be used in workstations/centers.  All of these apps are free or were free at one time.  Some of these are the lite version so full access  to the app would require purchase.
 
Everyday Student Apps:
·         Educations – Interactive Whiteboard
·         Popplet Lite – Concept Mapping
·         Rover – Use Flashplayer
·         Dictionary.com or Merriam-Webster Dictionary
·         Edmodo (if you set up your class)
·         Sock Puppet – retell, summarize, exit slip, etc.
·         SpellingCity

 
Workstations/Centers:

Reading Apps:

All Grades
Grades K-2
Grades 3+
Accelerated Reading
Lakeshore Phonics Tic-Tac-Toe
Arrow Words - Crossword Puzzle
K12 Timed Reading
Sight Words
Best Books for Tweens
Quick Voice - Records Voice
BB Magic Lite – Bob books
Build a Word Express (2+)
Word Mover - Poetry
Sight Words Lite 1-5
Idioms (4+)
Popplet Lite - Concept Mapping
Picture Dictionary
Prof Garfield Fact and Opinion
Recorder Plus
Sight Words
Prof Garfield Forms of Media
Sock Puppets
Word Family
Aesop

 Grammar Apps:
All Grades
Grades K-2
Grades 3+
Dragon Dictation
ABC Tracer
Bluster (2-4) Affixes, Rhyming Words, etc.
Idea Sketch - Brainstorming/Planning
Grammar Jammers
ABC Grammar Monster
 
 
Grammar Dragon
 
 
Grammar Fun Free - Parts of Speech
 
 
Grammar Hit Free
 
 
Grammar Tenses LE
 
 
iTooch English Gr 5
 
 
Sparklefish - (Mad Libs) Parts of Speech
 
 
ABC Cursive
 
 
Verb Power Lite
 
 
Grammaropolis

Spelling Apps:

All Grades
Grades K-2
Grades 3+
Spelling City
Word Warp Xtreme
3D Words - Finding Words/Spelling
Spelling Free
Word Zombies
Chicktionary - Finding Words/Spelling
 
ScrambleWord
Spelling Practice 2 Free (2+)
 
Spelling Magic-1
Word Ball Free - Finding Words/Spelling
 
Spelling Magic-2
PopWords! – like boggle
 
Spelling Magic-3
Spelling Mastery-Free - Commonly Misspelled Words

 Math Apps:
All Grades
Grades K-2
Grades 3+
Top-It  - Place Value
Counting Coins K12
Baseball 1-6 Facts - Multiplication
Top-It (Addition)
Splash Math Grade 2
Beat the Computer - Multiplication
Photo Touch Telling Time Game - Lakeshore
Splash Math Grade 1
Divisibility Dash - Division
Feel Clock
Math Stripes
Factor Samurai - Prime Factorization (Hard)
ClockMaster iPhone App
Kids Fun Math – (K)
Play 19 x 19 - Multiplication
Little Matchups Tell Time
 
Multiplication Table
Concentration Illuminations
 
Division !! 
Math Ninja Free
 
Tric-Trac - Place Value
Ace Mathland
 
Name that Number (2+) Finding a Target Number
Kids Math
 
Tangram HD Free
Math Snacks HD
 
TanZen Lite
Flash to Pass - Calculations
 
Counting Money
My Math App - Operations
 
Grade 3 Math Splash Math
 
 
Tribbs Lite - Algebraic Thinking
 
 
Hot Potato - Algebra is Free
 
 
Sudoku - Problem Solving
 
 
Symbols - Vocabulary
 
 
Tribbs Lite

Science Apps:  Tinker Box, Video Science, Xperica HD, Language Central for Science, NASA, Science 360, Simulator

Social Studies Apps:  Constitution, Declaration of Independence, GeoPlay, Gravity HD, How Stuff Works HD, My Congress, Stack the Continents Lite, Stack the States Lite, The Presidency
Teacher Apps: 
  • Splashtop - Interactive Whiteboard
  • Pinterest
  • Class Dojo – Behavior Management System
  • CommonCore – Curricular Support
  • Dramatic Music App – Sounds for Transitions
  •  i Luv Mozart - Music for Reading/Working
  • LiveBinders - Online Storage of Materials and Links
  • Appsfire Deals - App Search
  • Evernote

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