Great iPad Apps for Juvenile & Teen Programs
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Great iPad Apps for Juvenile & Teen Programs
- 1. Apps for Juvenile & Teen Programs Using iPads in Library Programs
- 2. Stop Motion Animation Apps Apps that help you create stop motion movies
- 6. Creative Writing Apps Apps that will get kids writing
- 8. Haiku Poem
- 9. Story Dice
- 10. Rube Goldberg Machine Apps Apps that explore engineering in fun ways
- 11. Crazy Machines Golden Gears
- 12. Inventioneers
- 14. STEM Apps Apps that explore Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math
- 16. BiomeViewer
- 17. Geoboard
- 18. iBiome LITE
- 19. Symmetry Lab
- 20. Coding Apps Apps that teach computer coding skills
- 21. A.L.E.X.
- 22. Box Island
- 23. Cargo-Bot
- 24. Lightbot
- 25. Scratch Jr.
- 26. Younger Looking Coding Apps
- 27. Photography Apps that allow you to manipulate pictures and take time-lapse photographs
- 28. Aviary
- 29. BeFunky
- 30. Brushstroke
- 31. Candy Camera
- 32. FotoRus
- 34. Skyflow
- 35. Avatar Creation Apps that let you create a mini-me, mini-you, mini-everyone
- 36. Emoji Me
- 37. SuperMii
- 38. Reader’s Advisory Apps that help you recommend books for your patrons
- 39. GoodReads
- 40. WNDB OurStory
- 41. YALSA’s Teen Book Finder
Editor's Notes
- There are a lot of different stop motion animation apps. The ones I’m going to talk about have kid appeal because of the background. Each of these has a free and a paid version.
- This app allows you to create stop motion videos with Minecraft backgrounds. The app includes editing tools, visual filters, original music tracks, and other sound effects from the game. Movies can be saved.
- This app has editing tools and is easy to use. There are a lot of extra things you can buy, but they aren’t necessary to make movies.
- LEGO Movie Maker—I include this one because it’s great and if you’ve already downloaded it for a program previously, Yay! Unfortunately, it’s currently discontinued, so if you haven’t downloaded it, Boo! I’m hopeful that they are modifying it or some such and will rerelease it.
- These apps could be used for writing programs. One in particular looks young, but you could always sell it as a snark option.
- With the free version of the app, you can pick on fairytale. The app then provides characters and settings that go along with the fairytale. After that, it’s up to you how the story goes. You can retell the story in the traditional style, turn it into a fractured fairytale, or tell a completely new story set in the fairytale world. The app lets you record narration for your story.
- This app teaches users about haiku poetry and then helps them brainstorm and write their own haiku. Users can also upload their own images to be the background for their finished poems.
- The Story Dice app is just like using real story dice. There are images on each side of every dice. You roll the dice (or in this case, shake the iPad) and let the dice fall. Whichever images land facing up are the elements you have to work into your story. The app lets you change how many dice are rolled.
- Rube Goldberg Machines are cool, but very time consuming to create. These apps give you a short cut. Each of the machines progresses in intricacy, and some are really challenging to figure out.
- In this app, you create wacky contraptions to accomplish simple tasks. The items needed to accomplish the task are provided in a tool bar, but you have to figure out where they should go and what they will do. There is a paid version that has more puzzles.
- Similar to Golden Gears, this app lets you build crazy machines to accomplish set tasks. The equipment needed is provided in the tool bar. The illustrations for this game are adorable.
- There are multiple Pettson’s apps, and none of them are currently free or lite. Like the other apps I’ve mentioned, these have crazy machines and tasks. You can purchase them in a bundle of 4 apps for $8.99.
- These apps address very different aspects of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math.
- Introducing users to the architecture of Frank Gehry, this app allows users to explore Gehry buildings and create their own structures using everyday objects as inspiration. The app also has a “find Frank” game and a game that allows you to operate a crane to complete a building.
- Allows you to explore different biomes on earth. This app includes descriptions of every major biome on each continent, biodiverse data for more than 16,000 animals, gridded historical climate data, global precipitation and temperature maps, and maps of human alteration of ecosystems over the last 300 years.
- Lets users explore a variety of mathematical topics by stretching bands to form line segments and polygons. The app provides information about perimeter, area, angles, congruence, fractions, and more.
- This lite version focuses on the wetland biome and allows users to explore wetland habitats and species, build marshes and swamps from scratch, and learn what makes plants and animals flourish in this biome. There is an iBiome Ocean lite as well as paid iBiome-Wetlands and iBiome-Ocean apps.
- Although this is an art app, it can be used to learn about symmetry.
- Coding apps are perfect for Hour of Code programs, but are also fun for other events. These range in appearance from ones that look like they are for older kids to those that are very young looking.
- The premise of this app is that you are training a new robot. Users are given a simple task for ALEX to accomplish and have to code the correct sequence of commands for ALEX to finish the task. The free version includes 25 levels and you can create your own puzzles.
- Just like in Bee-Bot, in this app, there are simple “mazes” that users create code to help the avatar successfully complete. This app includes loops and conditionals and each level gets more difficult. The animation is particularly cute.
- This app seems simple. Users are just moving the boxes and stacking them in the correct order. Don’t be fooled! This gets hard quickly. The app includes loops and conditionals as well as spatial reasoning and sequential logic.
- This is the Hour of Code version of Lightbot. I’m not sure what’s different about it, except this one is free. Presumably the paid version has more levels. The app lets users program a sequence of commands that accomplish progressively more difficult tasks for the cute robot. The app teaches users about procedures, loops, and conditionals.
- Built on the Scratch programming language created by MIT, this app allows users to create characters and settings that they can use in a coding environment. Using a block type programming code, users can make their characters do different things in the settings they’ve created. This app allows users to create their own games instead of coding for preset challenges.
- These 3 coding apps do most of the same things as the others I’ve shared. They look younger, so I’m not going to demonstrate them. They are all free.
- The photography apps could be used with the NCKLS Photo Booth makerspace kits, or on their own.
- Allows you to edit photos, create collages, add frames, overlays, stickers, and airbrush images. This app also allows you to create memes and draw on your photos. You can create an online profile to share photos, but you don’t have to. This app doesn’t take photos, it just lets you edit those you’ve taken with the iPad camera.
- Allows you to edit photos taken with the iPad camera and add filters, frames, and pre-created effects. This app doesn’t have any of the “beautification” options. For whatever reason, the beFunky app for the iPhone has more options than the iPad app, and it seems to work well on the iPad.
- Lets you change photos to look like paintings. You can select from many artist styles, types of paint, and tones.
- In addition to adding subtle filters, stickers, and collages, you can make alterations to photos such as narrowing your nose, lengthening your legs, and making your waist smaller.
- Allows you to add stickers to photos and create collages and posters. It also has special beauty features, from basic editing and airbrushing to face sliming, leg lengthening, and blemish removal, as well as adding filters and changing colors.
- Let’s you use your iPad to capture time lapse, slow motion, and slow shutter speed effects. It also has editing and filter options.
- Allows you to film using time laps and zoom in features. This app has many resolution, motion blur, and light trail effects, as well as HDR, zoom and pan.
- Creating your own mini-me is a fun way to try out different styles and just be goofy.
- Lets you create moving emojis that look like you and your friends. You can add text to the emojis and use them in social media.
- Lets you create your own “cartoon” character avatars based on pre-created facial features and accessories.
- Reader’s Advisory apps make it easier for you to help children and teens find new books to read. Or, lets be honest, find books you want to read!
- As well as being a place to connect to other readers and track the books you’ve been reading, GoodReads has recommended lists. For personal users, these recommendations are created based on the books a reader has ranked highly, but as a librarian, you could create lists based on certain genres or type and use these lists to receive recommendations for similar books to share with patrons. You can also search for keywords and phrases and will receive lists of related titles with rankings based on the reviews other readers have shared.
- From the We Need Diverse Books movement, this app allows you to search for books with diverse content and by content creators from marginalized communities. This app is not yet available as an iPad app, but it can be opened in your iPad browser. The app asks you 5 questions and then creates a recommended list based on your answers. There are different apps for children, teens, and adults. The basic app is free, but there are paid versions that have more options.
- Lets you search by title, author, genre, publication year, book award, and recommended book list. The app also shares popular titles through a Hot Picks screen. Once you’ve found a book you’re interested in, the app has a Find It feature that will search your local libraries and show you where it is available. This is an iPhone app (when you are searching for it), but it works on the iPad too.