Apps to Support the Common Core UPDATED!!!

 

Rocket Math
This game based math learning app is high-interest and skills based learning. Students love it and learn rapidly.  It has scaffolding and rigor that is helpful in facts practice, buttressed with the high-interest game and money earning format, it allows for increased student learning and increased test scores through skill mastery.

Grammar Jammers Primary
This app teaches about the language arts subjects of adjectives, contractions, nouns, pronouns, punctuation, sentences and verbs in a game-based format. It is a fun, high-interest way to get students focused on these important grammar concepts. There are also elementary and middle school editions available.

Science 360 for iPad by National Science Foundation Science educators and multiple subject teachers will love this new free app! It was created by the National Science Foundation and has some AMAZING graphics that will fascinate your students. It is a large, globally focused application that has a great deal of content on many subjects related to the topic of science.

World Book's World of Animals
This is a great application all about animals! It was just released by the makers of World Book Encyclopedia. This application has a huge amount of research information on many different animals. Some animals in this application are very unusual and rare. This application would be perfect for student-created research and writing projects on topics relating to animals, adaptations and biology.

SkySafari 3 Southern Stars
This is a great new version of a constellation locating application for the iOS! This app allows you to locate stars, nebula, planets and galaxies that are visible in the night sky. It uses GPS technology show you what is currently visible in your area, and through Sky and Telescope Magazine, helps you know what is coming to the night sky in the future. This application is excellent for getting students focused on astronomy. Homework based discussions can be initiated on astronomical topics in class and written research and observations can be recorded to support key K-5 Common Core State Standards of ELA, social science and science topics. Depending how you use this app, it can incorporate many of the key K-5 Common Core State Standards, but the Common Core Science Standards are in development, and seem to be currently focused on ELA skills that support reading complex text. This app can be a great spring board for generating student research and writing on astronomical science topics.