The document reviews and recommends several educational apps for students in grades 4-6, providing brief summaries of each app's purpose and key features. It highlights apps for math, language arts, reading, science, geography, writing, and research. Many apps use games and interactive activities to teach subjects in an engaging way, while also addressing common core standards. Feedback and progress tracking features are emphasized for student and teacher use. Data privacy is also discussed, with reassurances that user information will not be shared or sold.

1. There’s An App
For That
By: Kathryn Linch
Contessa Shew

2. 4th Grade Learning Games
● Teaches math and
language arts
● Uses games to
teach subjects
● Designed using 4th
grade curriculums
and Common Core
standards.

3. Why we recommend it
● Provides feedback to
students by giving
scores after games
● Easy to navigate
through games
● Provides higher
learning thinking skills
by teaching subjects
through playing
games.
● Addresses fractions,
word problems, angles
and geometry, graphs
and grids, patterns
missing vowels,
spelling, punctuation
and grammar,
synonyms and
antonyms,
homophones

4. Stack the States
● Geography for ages
9-11
● Encourages learning
state shapes, capital
abbreviation, flag,
and location
● Uses unique
questions for
problem solving

5. Why we recommend it
● Problem solving by
hundred of unique
questions in order to
learn the states, learn a
state for every
successfully completed
level.
● Applies to common core
standards
● Privacy: does not
include 3rd party links or
advertisement
● Privacy: does not
include 3rd party links or
advertisement
● Easy to use and
navigate
● Fast-paced games and
engaging visuals hold
kids' interest on a topic
that can get repetitious.

6. 4th Grade: Common Core
● Math, language arts,
and reading
● Fun and educational
games
● Allows students to
keep track and
manage progress
● Fun and easy for
students to navagate

7. Why we recommend it
● Has immediate feedback to let a student know if
they answered questions correctly or incorrectly.
● Parents, teachers, or students can review all study
sessions and see which questions students missed.
● School mode allows you to track up to 25 students.
● Promotes higher level thinking by having high quality
question content built specifically to Common Core
standards.

8. Science Quest- 4th Grade
● Provides higher
learning skills by
having 300 high
quality science
quizzes
● Students earn
marine animals by
passing quizzes
● Quizzes are used to
track performance

9. Why we recommend it
● Designed by
educators to allow
young learners to be
motivated in learning
and enjoy solving
science problems
● Themes, interactivity
and animation of the
quizzes aim to provide
a fun and engaging
learning environment
● Easy to follow and the
quizzes are fun and
engaging
● Level of difficulty can
be adjusted by the
adult or teacher to
cater to the varying
needs of students.

10. Mathmateer
● Math app for ages
9-11
● Answer questions
to keep rocket in
the air
● Easy to follow with
clear direction

11. Why we recommend it
● Missions cover such
topics as odd and even
numbers, money,
shapes, telling time, the
four operations,
fractions, decimals, and
square roots, at six
levels of difficulty, from
novice to genius.
● Applies to Common
Core standards
● In a shared-device
classroom, teachers
could offer Mathmateer
as a station activity for
math practice.
● The level of precision
students or teachers can
select from within each
level makes it really
customizable

12. BrainPOP
● Geared for all grades
● Covers numerous
subjects including
math, science, and
arts.
● Quizzes for students
and updates for
teachers.

13. Why we recommend it
● Easy to use and
navigate by anyone
● It provides quizzes for
students and updates
teacher with score.
● Content is carefully
mapped to the Common
Core, aligned to
academic standards,
and searchable with our
online Standards Tool.
● Privacy: does not
include 3rd party links or
advertisement
● The diversity of the app
covers a broad scope of
education including
subjects such as math,
science, social studies,
English, engineering,
Arts, health and music.

14. Toontastic
● Writer, actor, director:
Kids play all parts in
riveting storytelling too
● Students animate and
record their voices
while learning key
story elements
● Share video privately
or publish online

15. Why we recommend it
● It employs a "Story Arc"
that contains five
sequential scenes to
guide story structure
(Setup, Conflict,
Challenge, Climax, and
Resolution)
● Can be applied to other
story arts like writing,
moviemaking,
songwriting,
storyboarding, and
more.
● Creative learning
aligned with Common
Core
● There's excellent in-app
support for kids,
teachers, and parents.
● Teacher feedback is the
animation video itself.
Provides a way to
directly monitor
student’s progress.

16. World Atlas By National Geographic
● All ages can spin, pan,
and zoom in on the
world with our
interactive 3-D globe
● Get up-to-date
information on every
country and capital city
in the world, including
socio-economic data,
demographics, weather,
and currency.

17. Why we recommend it
● Impressive resolution and level of detail
captures student’s attention.
● Navigation is a breeze; simply pinch and
swipe to zoom and find places of interest, or
tap the home button to return the full globe
screen.
● Teachers with interactive whiteboards or
projectors in the classroom will find this atlas
particularly useful as part of a whole-class
discussion.

18. Rainbow Sentences
● An individualized sentence-building
app to help kids
with their grammar,
expressive language,
reading, and
comprehension.
● Students learn to
recognize the parts of
speech such as nouns,
verbs, and adjectives.
● Multisensory approach to
learning writing skills

19. Why we recommend it
● Sentences are saved
and emailed for
progress
● Impressive
accommodations
support kids with
learning difficulties.
● Teacher chooses levels
and the ability to record
audio and to color-code
sentences, among other
things.
● Can be used individually
or as a group through a
projector
● An extensive tutorial
guides for users
● Connect and aligns with
Common Core
Standards for multiple
grade levels

20. instaGrok
● Interactive search
engine for learners
● Kids can learn research
skills as well as detailed
information about the
subject of their choice.
● Teacher dashboard lets
you track students,
create assignments, and
add quizzes all within
the site.

21. Why we recommend it
● Auto-generated quizzes offer stimulating
active recall practice that reinforces
learning
● Built-in journals help develop research and
synthesis skills, and allow teachers to track
students' progress.
● Students can personalize the graph by
pinning artifacts to it

22. What about my personal
information?
● Some apps may collect phone information
● Used to report bugs, send updates
● Will never share or sell information to 3rd
parties
● Some may link to external sites (for
example, app developer’s homepage)