Learning Tots Animals Free – Learning Tots will help teach your children many different animals using flash cards, shapes, and colouring activities. Check out the Learning Tots Animals DX paid version for more colors, animals and functionality.

Speech with Milo: Sequencing – Speech with Milo: Sequencing was created by a licensed Speech-Language Pathologist to help children develop sequencing and storytelling skills. The adorable mouse Milo is the main character in 35 sequencing exercises that utilize animation to help keep your child engaged. This app is part of a larger family of programs and apps that include a focus on articulation, verbs, prepositions, and adjectives.

Bugs and Buttons – Bugs and Buttons is a graphically and musically rich app that includes 18 skill-based games taking place in the wonderful world of bugs. Some of those skills include interactive counting, fast paced sorting, tracking, problem solving with path finding, fine motor skills like pinching, and lots more! This app is part of a family of apps all focused on basic learning skills.

Mad Libs – The classic word game has entered the digital world. Mad Libs allow students to create silly stories while reviewing vocabulary and parts of speech. This app features the ability to save or share your stories via social networking sites or email, as well as add images or pictures to the story. The basic app comes with the original Mad Lib book with 20 stories, and over 30 additional books are available as an in app purchase.

Stack the States – Stack the States makes learning about the 50 states fun in this colorful and dynamic game! As you learn state capitals, shapes, and geographic locations, you can actually touch, move and drop the animated states anywhere on the screen. Carefully build a stack of states that reaches the checkered line to win each level. This developer created a similar app called Stack the Countries that should not be missed during your Apps Exploration!

Professor Garfield Online Safety – Teaching digital citizenship and safety is a priority for teachers. Professor Garfield takes kids through basic Internet safety rules through the use of story and interactive question and answering sections. This app is part of the Professor Garfield's Infinite Learning Lab Apps, which are part of the Infinite Learning Lab, a new standards-based resource currently being developed by the Virginia Department of Education and the Professor Garfield Foundation.

Math Dictionary for Kids – Sometimes math seems to have its own language and being able to decode that language is the key to success. Math Dictionary for Kids is a digital version of the best-selling book. While this app might not have all the bells and whistles of an interactive game, it is a great go to resource for kids as they work on their homework.

Britannica Kids: Solar System – Learn and play at the same time through a variety of games like Memory Match, Jigsaw Puzzles, and the Magic Square among others. In addition to covering the 8 major planets, this app also includes information on the sun, moon, asteroids, comets, gravity and space exploration. Explore the solar system through numerous amazing images, videos and informative articles.

Star Rover HD – Star Rover HD turns your iPad into a planetarium. Just hold up your iPad and Star Rover HD will tell you exactly what you are pointing at. Star Rover HD calculates all sky objects in real time. This means that the objects on the screen including moon phases, planets positions, and stars are exactly the same as the real ones.

Strip Designer – Strip Designer enables you to create your own comic strip using photos from your own album, the in device camera or even social media sites. This program includes a number of templates to help you get started on your journey as a comic strip author. This program includes a number of ways that you can edit both your images and text to create a truly one of a kind product. Once you have a finished strip you can save it to your photo album, email it to your friends, or upload it to a number of social media sites.

Dictionary.com – The Dictionary.com app puts all the content from the Internet site onto your mobile device. Students have access to both the dictionary and thesaurus along with word pronunciations and usage. This app does not require an Internet connection to work.

Geo Master Plus HD – Geo Master Plus’ goal is to teach important concepts about geography in a fun way. This app’s 13 games include information on world and United States geography. Interactive Maps include information on demographics, currency, GDP, head of the state, economy and much more.

Fitness Class – Fitness Class gives you access to exercise videos instantly. The videos can be selected based on goal or the amount of time you have to exercise.  Favorite classes can even be saved in your My Classes section. While this app does provide access to a large number of free videos, there is an option for an in app purchase to provide access to over 400 additional videos.

The Elements: A Visual Exploration – The Elements: A Visual Exploration is not your basic reference app, it is an interactive exploration of the elements found on the periodic table that build and create the world we live in. This app not only explains the basic information about each element, but also includes real world examples and over 500 images. Each image can be freely rotated and examined from every angle. This app is not one to miss for Chemistry enthusiasts.

Notation – Notation is an easy to use music creation tool designed for the iPad. Notation gives you the ability to compose, edit, and playback scores using real audio samples performed by the London Symphony Orchestra recorded at Abbey Road Studios.

TED – The TED app provides access to move then 1,100 TedTalk Videos. These talks are presented by some of the world’s most fascinating people, educational radicals, technology geniuses, medical mavericks, business gurus and music legends. These talks cover a wide range of topics and ideas and are a great way to start a conversation in any classroom.

Learn Spanish with busuu! – Busuu is a collection of language learning apps that not only review basic vocabulary, but also cover day-to-day topics and uses audio from native speakers. The first 20 lessons come with the free version and additional extension packs are available through an in app purchase.

Keynote – Keynote is part of the Apple iWorks family of productivity programs. This program and app makes it easy to create, deliver, and share presentations on your iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch. Keynote also allows you to share your presentations across platforms by allowing you to save your file in Keynote, or change it to a PDF or a Power Point Presentation.  

Things – Things is an easy to use task manager that has all the power when you need it. Some of the features allow you to organize your to do list by projects, include tags for easy groupings, record repeating tasks and most importantly Things Cloud keeps your to-dos updated across all of your devices.

Dragon Dictation – Dragon Dictation is a voice recognition application that translates your speech into text on your mobile device. Recorded content can be used in everything from email messages, to blog posts. It allows you to speak and instantly see your text content ready for use!

OverDrive Media Console – OverDrive Media Console provides access to many public, school and college library’s digital collections. Within the app you can see if your local libraries utilize this program and start checking out books right away.

Dropbox – The Dropbox app gives you all the functionality of Dropbox from your mobile device. This app lets you bring all your photos, docs, and videos anywhere and share them easily and securely.

The Guardian Eyewitness – The Guardian Eyewitness app provides you with access to hundreds of stunning photos from events around the globe. These images can be saved or shared via social networking sites and are updated often.

Serenity – Find your personal Serenity and tap into 30 beautiful, relaxing video and audio destinations. This app includes visual and audio destinations like peaceful fields, soft rain, underwater worlds, thunderstorms over sleepy towns, brightly colored clouds of incense, fantastic vortexes and piles of sleeping kittens await. Serenity can be used as calming white noise or even as a story starter for a creative writing assignment.

Etch a Sketch HD – Etch a Sketch HD recreates the classic drawing toy from the past. It includes a multi-touch feature, the original knobs, and the tactile experience of shaking the Etch a Sketch to erase it when you are finished. You can even share your creations through a number of social networking sites.

Next Issue – Next Issue is a subscription service that organizes most popular magazines into one location. Your monthly subscription gives you access to magazines like Time, Entertainment Weekly, Parents, People and even Sports Illustrated Kids. The benefit of an app like this is the ability to access a wide range of content in one location.

Pinterest – Pinterest is a social visual bookmarking app that allows you to create and organize information that has peeked your interest. The app lets you follow friends as well as have general access to popular pins to help users find new and exciting ideas.