Reading Apps

• Fitzroy Readers Series (1-10) | Phonetic approach to reading. The app can sound out words and can read pages. Teaches basic vowel sounds a,e,i,o,u and some special words like I, have, to, go, for etc.

• Fitzroy Readers Series (1x-10x) | Phonetic approach to reading. The app can sound out words and can read pages. Extension work that builds on from the sounds established in readers 1-10.

• Fitzroy Readers Series (11-20) | Phonetic approach to reading. The app can sound out words and can read pages. Teaches new digraphs (sh and er) and introduces three letter digraphs.

• Fitzroy Readers Series (21-30) | Phonetic approach to reading. The app can sound out words and can read pages. Introduces newer digraphs such as ch.

• Fitzroy Readers Series (41-40) | Phonetic approach to reading. The app can sound out words and can read pages. Introduces long vowels a_e (cake, bake, rake).

Grammar & Punctuation Apps

• Parts of Speech in English Grammar- this app gives you all of easyLearn's grammar apps. Purchase this one instead of the individual apps.

• Punctuation - finally an app that does punctuation well. This app has some great quizzes to really test your punctuation skills.

Writing Apps

• Visual Poetry - type your poems into this app and select one of the background templates. This app then 'moulds' your words to fit around a shape such as a snowflake, star or flower.

Rhyming Apps

• iSort Words - a brilliant app for learning about rhyming words. Highly recommended for early primary school students.

• B-Rhymes Dictionary Pro - stuck with rhyming words? Then use this great app to come up with additional rhyming words in no time.

Reference Materials

• Dictionary.com - one of the best dictionary apps available on the app store.

Mind Mapping Apps

• MindNode - one of our favourite mind mapping programs. No monthly fee or annual fee unlike some OTHER mind mapping apps.

Five Minute Fillers

• Scrabble HD - a great app for a quick 'five minute filler' in your classroom.

• Riddle Me That - another great app for a quick 'five minute filler'.

Reading

• Endless Wordplay - a set up in difficulty from Endless Reader. Great for pre-primary students.

• Endless Reader - one of the best reading apps for young children. This app teaches important sight words in an entertaining and creative manner. Highly recommended!

• Endless Alphabet - another app from the team that brought you Endless Reader. This app in their series focuses on vocabulary building.

Letter Formation Apps

• Letter School - one of the best letter formation apps. This app will definitely hold your students interest!

• Intro to Letters - a good letter formation app for kindergarten and pre-primary students.

• iWrite Words - another decent letter formation app for kindergarten and pre-primary students.

Early Mathematical Skills

• Quick Maths Junior - a great app for years K-1. This app helps teach the early maths concepts of: counting, skip counting, subitising, ordering numbers, addition & subtraction.

• Endless 123 - Endless 123 uses the same winning formula as Endless Reader & Endless Alphabet. This app helps reinforce: number order, counting, addition along with other concepts.

For Learning Foreign Languages

• Duolingo (Spanish, Italian, German, Portuguese & French) - the best language app on the market!

• RIDBS Auslan Tutor: Key Signs - learn the key hand signals & movements of Auslan.

For Translating Foreign Languages

• Google Translate - instantly translate another language from a smart phone camera, text or your voice.

Periodic Table Apps

• The Elements by Touch Press - one of the best visual representations of the periodic table! Contains many examples of real life applications for each element. Very informative and beautifully presented.

• K12 Periodic Table (k12 Inc.) - a quick reference guide for the periodic table. Very useful for when you need to find the atomic number or atomic mass of an element.

Chemistry Reference Apps

• Molecules by Touch Press - learn all about the different combinations of atoms that are possible. App beautifully displays 3D representations of various molecules.

• Molecules - see 3D visual representations of molecules. An excellent resource for studying the atomic compositions of molecules.

• Wolfram Alpha - the best reference guide for high school science students. This app also contains information about history, economics, physics, music, engineering and many other topics.

Chemistry Apps for Studying

• Elements Quiz (Tap to Learn) - test your knowledge of the periodic table. Great for year seven and year eight students who need to learn the symbols of the periodic table.

Encyclopaedias

• Encyclopaedia Britannica (Aztecs) - an excellent educational resource about the Aztecs.

• Encyclopaedia Britannica (Rainforest) - an excellent educational resource about the Rain-forest.

• Encyclopaedia Britannica (Dinosaurs) - an excellent educational resource about the Dinosaurs.

• Encyclopaedia Britannica (Snakes) - an excellent educational resource about Snakes.

• Encyclopaedia Britannica (Knights & Castles) - an excellent educational resource about Knights & Castles.

• Encyclopaedia Britannica (Ancient Egypt) - an excellent educational resource about Ancient Egypt.

• Encyclopaedia Britannica (Volcanoes) - an excellent educational resource about Volcanoes.

• Encyclopaedia Britannica (Solar System) - an excellent educational resource about the solar system.

• Encyclopaedia Britannica (Ancient Rome) - an excellent educational resource about Ancient Rome.

• CIA Factbook - a comprehensive encyclopaedia of information about every country.

Political & Legal 

• The Australian Constitution (Ben Kramer) - a great reference guide for political and legal students.

Solar System Apps

• Solar System (Touch Press) - a beautifully designed app that explores our solar system. A lot of work has gone into this outstanding app.

• Solar Walk (Vito Technology) - brilliant for viewing the orbits and rotations of planets. You can explore all of our solar system's planets, their moons along with other things.

• Moon Phase - learn the phases of the moon with this excellent app. One of the better apps that teaches about the phases of the moon.

Stars & Deep Space Concepts 

• Star Walk 2 - an updated version of Star Walk. Absolutely gorgeous graphics. You can use your iPad as guide to the constellations. The best tour guide to the heavens that money can buy.

• Hubble Top 100 (European Space Agency) - explore some of the best space photos ever taken. A truly amazing app.

Mathematical Operations Apps

• PhotoMath - use your iPhone to work out problems and equations!

• MutliFlow - the best multiplication app available on the App Store! Multiflow contains lots of games which are highly customisable.

• DivisionFlow - a great division app.

• FlowPlus - a great addition/subtraction app.

• Math Board - a highly configurable app for addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

• Quick Maths - a great app for the learning the four operations.

• Division (Horizon Business) - an easy step by step demonstration of long division.

• Multiplication (HorizonBusiness) - an easy step by step demonstration of the traditional multiplication algorithm.

Geometry and Measurement Apps

• Shapes - easily the best geometry-based app available on the app store. Shapes beautifully displays 3D: prisms, pyramids and plutonic solids and is perfect for teaching about: vertices, edges, faces and different net combinations of objects.

• Jungle Geometry - once again, one of the best measurement apps available on the app store. Jungle Geometry has games for: measuring the length of a ruler, measuring the degrees of an angle, quizzes on the different types of angles plus many other games/quizzes.

Calculator Apps

• Calculator for iPad - the best calculator on the iPad. This app contains every function that you would normally expect to find in a scientific calculator.

• My Script Calculator - write complex equations with your finger instead of typing. Working out the area of a circle has never been easier.

Money Apps

• Jungle Coins - excellent for learning about comparisons of money and receiving change.

Early Childhood Maths Concepts

• MathDoodles - a Maths app made with passion. MathsDoodles has lots of games which are highly customisable. Great for learning about partitioning.

Addictive Maths Games

• 2048 - an addictive number based game about doubling. More fun based than educational.

Equivalent Fractions, Decimals & Percentages Apps

• NumberLine 2 (Todd Bowden) - a challenging fraction number line app. Watch your smartest students crumble under the difficulty of this app!

• Converting Fractions, Decimals and Percentages - another great app that covers equivalent fractions, decimals and percentages.

Fractional Number Lines Apps

• Fractions on a Number Line - a simple app for a very important fractions concept.

Symmetry Apps

• Symmetry Shuffle - one of the best symmetry apps on the App Store! Excellent for teaching about translations, flips and rotations of 2D objects.

Time Apps

• Jungle Time - one of the best time apps on the market! More orientated towards younger children.

Shapes Apps

• Shapes - the best app for demonstrating about 3D shapes such as: pyramids, prisms and other objects. This app helps show: the different net combinations, faces, edges and vertices of each 3D shape.

• LetsTan Tangrams - 100's of tangram puzzles.

Human Biology & Biology Apps

• iCell - explore 3D models of animal, fungi and plant cells. Excellent for students studying Biology.

• My Incredible Body - shows excellent 3D animations of the human body. One of the best apps for teaching about the human body.

Physical Sciences Apps

• Simple Machines (easyLearn) - a great resource for learning about simple machines.

• Magnets (easyLearn) - a great resource for learning about magnets.

Reference Materials

• Art Authority - an outstanding reference guide to all of the major styles of art.

Paper Based Apps

• How to Make Origami - get this app running on a projector and get your whole class making origami. A very addictive app that is also easy to follow.

• Papercrafts (Minecraft nets) - make fascinating Minecrafts nets.

Teaching Profession Based Apps

• AITSL - The Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership. Great for assisting in creating your teaching portfolio.

• The Australian Curriculum - Mobile Edition.

• Tax Buddy - a brilliant app for all those tax deductions. Highly recommended!

Classroom Apps

• ShowMe - turn your iPad into your own interactive whiteboard. App also allows you to record lessons.

• Noise Down - Need your students to be quiet during silent reading? With Noise Down you can set a noise level threshold limit. If the noise threshold limit is broken then the alarm goes off. Great for assisting in creating a quiet classroom environment.