Health and PE -
Health Ed Buddy - The Health Ed Buddy App is designed to enhance the awareness and knowledge of healthy lifestyle choices for all people. The six adolescent risk behaviors (tobacco use, dietary patterns that contribute to disease, sedentary lifestyles, behaviors, alcohol and drug use, and behaviors that result in intentional and unintentional injury) are presented in this app through lessons, interactive quizzes, videos, flash cards and daily news feeds by health topic.
Sports Rules for PE Teachers and Coaches - Sports Rules is the perfect app for PE Teachers, Coaches, Athletes or anyone interested in swift easy reference of popular sports and their associated rules. The app contains 18 of the most common sports played in Physical Education classrooms with the fundamental rules and other important information required to play a game. Teachers can confidently and quickly review rules in preparation for their classes or share the app with students to involve them in the umpiring role.
Stats of the Union - This is a great visual for teaching students about the health of their country. When you open the app, you see the United States with various colors. Select "Risk Factors" and then select "Diabetes" and the map shows you where the highest concentration of diabetic people live. Other filters you can select include smoking, overweight, high blood pressure, and no exercise. Explore the nation's vital signs―from life expectancy to access to medical care―and make your own conclusions about America's health. See a stat you'd like to share? Save it as a snapshot.
Teen Sphere - TeenSphere is a pediatrician-reviewed application for all Apple 3G and 4G devices (iPhone, iTouch, iPad) that privately answers teens questions and provides tools and resources about mental health issues, relationships and substance use. TeenSphere isn't a dating, fashion or entertainment app. It is the most comprehensive app available to answer many of the real, complicated issues teens face every day in their lives.
Fitness Buddy Free - This is the FREE version of the Fitness Buddy app. It contains over 300+ exercises with detailed descriptions, animations and an assortment of workouts. The paid version has over 1700+ unique exercises at your disposal.
G.A.P.S. - Download the Tacklesport G.A.P.S. (Games, Activities, Practices, Skills) app and gain access to over 2000 exciting, animated games, activities, practices and skills, perfect for creating enjoyable and interesting coaching sessions and PE lessons on the move. New to coaching a sport and in need of ideas to make sessions enjoyable and fun? – perfect for non-specialists and professionals alike.
Burst Mode - Burst mode is an excellent app that allows you to capture the perfect image in a fast moving activity. Simply set the amount of frames to be captured and the timing of these frames and hit the record button to capture a burst of pictures. The user can then go through the frames one by one to review the execution of a specific skill or movement pattern. Great for coaches or students interested in improving their performance.
Jog.fm - This app which matches the speed of your running/walking with songs in your music library. It does this by scanning your music library to determine the BPM of your songs, it then picks a song that matches the speed you are moving. Run faster and you can expect an up tempo song to get you moving, slow down and it will match something that suits.
PE Geek Website - This is a website that combines physical education with technology. There is an eBook available for download that outlines the comprehensive listing of great apps for PE and health teachers.
Foreign Languages -
USpeak HD - uSpeak is an effective and engaging application to learn Spanish on the iPad. Grow Spanish vocabulary by playing thought-provoking games that adapt to and evolve with you as you learn. The application provides language learners with: Games: increase your competence in Spanish by playing our selection of 6 games uniquely designed to get you thinking in the language. Words: discover a totally new way of interacting with the words that you are learning, in an intuitive, rich and meaningful way.
French Free 24/7 Language Learning - 24/7 Tutor French goes beyond the simple talking phrasebook or flashcard programs, providing a set of engaging, interactive study tools that help you really learn the language. FREE French Tutor lite edition is a fully functional version containing a useful subset of vocabulary and phrases drawn from several of the learning modules in the 24/7 French series. Includes: NATIVE SPEAKER audio for all words; Priority based optimization system; Entertaining puzzle game; Manual & automatic flash card method
Mango - Ready to start a conversation? With Mango Languages’ Library Edition App you can get free access to over 40 foreign language courses and 15 English courses taught in the user’s native language. You must have an account with a library that subscribes to Mango Languages to use this app. Every lesson incorporates the four conversational components that are critical to effective communication in a foreign language: vocabulary, pronunciation, grammar and culture.
fotopedia: Paris - fotopedia Paris is packed with visual surprises. With more than 4,000 spectacular photos, it makes it easy to find your way through the beauty of Paris, deepen your exploration and quickly find whatever interests you. Whether it is art, architecture, cafes, castles, fashion, history, shopping or street life… everything is at your fingertips. Thousands of photographers contributed the best photos of their favorites places and topics. As a result, you are getting the best of the city. In addition, your guide to Paris is always fresh, as new photos are continually added.
Math -
Math Flyer - This is a breakthrough application that brings mathematics to life in a visually stunning way. Apple's powerful, intuitive touch interface makes it possible to see and interact with mathematics. Math Flyer is so much more than "yet another graphing tool." For teachers, this is the right way to present graphs of functions so that students truly understand them. For students, this is the best tool to use to really understand the meaning of the parts of a mathematical expression.
TI-Nspire - Texas Instruments, the No. 1 recommended brand in graphing calculators, now offers its most powerful handheld technology in an all-in-one iPad app that makes teaching and learning math more engaging, meaningful and … fun! By supporting a hands-on, powerfully visual approach to learning, the TI-Nspire App for iPad changes the way students experience math and helps them master deep conceptual understanding. The unique interactive keyboard features equation templates so students can enter values and see proper math notation just as it is printed in textbooks and on the board. http://education.ti.com/en/us/products/apps/ti-nspire-app-for-ipad
Art -
Dash of Color - Dash of Color FREE lets you give an extra boost of color to any photo that could benefit from that "something extra". Giving each shot its own special artistic "kick" and individual feel, this simple and fun to use app brings back the joy of finger painting as you transform black and white pics into dramatic works of art. Choose an image and Dash of Color will transform it into a classic black and white shot. Consider this a canvas upon which you will create your masterpiece. Just paint with your finger to add dashes of color in all the right places.
ArtSite - ArtSite combines a teaching Museum with a student Gallery and Portfolio to inspire curiosity, creativity, and a global view of history and civilization. Log in from your desktop computer, laptop, tablet, or iPad. Students only see the pages created by their own teacher and classmates.In the Gallery, students become curators of your own art collections. They explore the ArtSite Museum, choose a work of art, and then write their own description or they can create Gallery pages beginning with a new work of art. In the Portfolio, students display their studio art and writing. Students can upload their own art images or teachers can start pages for them. Students can link their Portfolios from different classes, making it easy to see them all at once.
Paper by Fifty-Three - Paper is where ideas begin. It’s the easiest and most beautiful way to create on iPad. Capture your ideas as sketches, diagrams, illustrations, notes or drawings and share them across the web. Try it free—buy additional tools from the in-App Store. No fussy buttons, settings or other distractions. Paper works the way you think, like a familiar notebook or journal. Productivity meets beauty. No settings. Always beautiful—like great tools should be. Just pick up a tool and instantly begin to Sketch, Write, Draw, Outline and Color. Draw comes free with Paper.
Auryn Ink - Auryn Ink is a revolutionary application that creates the authentic simulation of watercolor painting intuitively and easily. Auryn Ink's features provide everything a watercolorist needs to create, export and share beautiful works of art on the iPad. Now you can generate complete paintings with the touch of a finger (or brush or stylus!) anytime, anywhere.
Type Drawing - TypeDrawing Using your finger or stylus to draw using words is an exciting premise for a wide variety of vocabulary building activities or labeling tasks. You can change words, text, color, etc at anytime so you can build up very complicated and intricate work. It’s amazing how expressive the lines can become when you learn to control the app features. This app is perfect for mixing art and writing skills to produce shape poems or design more complex visual presentations of prose. The example on the left is actually made of words.
Word Foto - WordFoto allows you to recreate photographs using words. Simply enter the words or sentence you would like to use, adjust the fonts, colors and a host of other design elements…the app does the rest. These are great visual ways of presenting key vocabulary words, creating posters or the images can be used as starting points for other projects and imported into other apps.
iPad Art Room - This is a website that aides art educators and artists with their journey in introducing and utilizing technology and iPads into the art room. "While there has been a lot of discussion and debate around the use of technology in some areas of the curriculum, the Arts have been a bit slow to adapt in many ways. Perhaps it is due to a belief that all those techniques, traditions and the ‘hands on approach’ of the art room are at odds with the integration of computers, iPads and the like…but not so! The personal mobile devices we see in the hands of our students are profoundly liberating – mistakes can be erased, experiments are easily undertaken, exploration is exciting, learning is student-centred and confidence reigns supreme. It’s not about getting rid of the great things we’ve always done in the art room – the iPad and other technology can be valuable additions to your teaching tool kit. The art room really is a place where paint and pixels can work together to enhance creativity!"
Music -
Play by Ear - Ear Training - Play By Ear is a call-and-response ear training application that helps you develop the ability to hear pitches and play them back on your instrument by ear. Unlike other applications which force you to press buttons to indicate the notes you've heard, Play By Ear uses pitch recognition so you can play the notes back on your instrument (piano, guitar, trumpet, etc). Using your instrument to play the notes allows you to practice ear training in a method that most closely matches how you'll actually play music.
Sheet Music Direct - The premier sheet music and guitar tab viewer and score library, providing access to over 100,000 high-quality scores via the World's Largest In-App Sheet Music Store! Import scanned sheet music PDFs from your personal library via iTunes, Email and Dropbox. This app is loaded with incredible interactive features including: score playback, multi-track mixing, key transposition, a transposable melody line, set lists, social media sharing tools and more! Bonus tools include a metronome and tuner!
Finale Songbook - Imagine bringing ALL of your music to every practice, rehearsal, and performance—in one hand. Imagine hearing sheet music play back. Imagine printing copies and parts. Finale SongBook™ transforms your iPad into an interactive music folder, so you can view, play, and print music scores created by the entire family of Finale products. Finale is the world standard in music notation creation, and Finale SongBook™ brings this standard to the iPad.
AnyTune - AnyTune™ is the ultimate music practice app for singers, dancers and musicians of all kinds. Artists worldwide use Anytune to learn to play, transcribe and practice songs by slowing down the tempo, adjusting the pitch, repeating loops, and sharing comments using their favorite tracks. Plug in and play along with the band using LiveMix and shape the sound with the FineTouch EQ. Slow Downer Music Practice Perfected.
NPR Music - With the NPR Music app for iPad, simply tap and swipe to browse music and multimedia in a stunning magazine layout, stream your favorite stations, even attend live concerts. Our new app for iPad delivers all the exclusive content you expect from NPR Music—music of all genres, articles and reviews, programs, videos, etc. Visually browse and filter your way through the app.
Sound Uncovered - An interactive book-style app that explains interesting facts about sound. Includes auditory illusions, experiments and more. How do you make a saxophone growl? Are there secret messages in music played backward? Can you talk and listen at the same time? Why does the sound of gum chewing drive some people mad? Listen up and find answers to these questions and more as you take an auditory trip to the place where sound gets truly interesting: the space between your ears.
Singing Fingers - Singing Fingers lets you fingerpaint with sound. Just touch the screen while you make a sound, and colorful paint appears. Touch the paint to play back the sound again! You can paint your own musical instrument and play it, play with your voice, experiment with sounds, or create whatever else you can imagine. Singing Fingers comes with help screens to get you started, examples to inspire you, and the ability to save and load your creations.