Apps

Here is a list of mostly free educational apps. Some are available on either Android or iOS and some are available on both.

3D Brain

Use your touch screen to rotate and zoom around 29 interactive structures. Discover how each brain region functions, what happens when it is injured, and how it is involved in mental illness.
iOS poke here.     Android poke here.

ABRSM Aural Trainer Grades 1-5

Interactive challenges to help develop your music aural skills (listening skills). Anyone can use it, but it is designed around ABRSM’s aural tests for Grades 1 to 5. Train here.

Apollo’s Moon Shot AR

Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Moon Landing with an immersive AR app that places you right in the action of NASA’s daring space missions of the 1960s. The perfect companion to Smithsonian Channel’s landmark six-part series, the “Apollo’s Moon Shot AR” app gives you an out-of-this-world close-up of some of the landmark events that defined the start of the Space Age.
iOS land here.    Android land here.

Bebras A Perfect Day

Bebras challenges are enjoyed by over 1.6 million students in 50 countries around the world. Enjoy a gentle stroll through Bebravia’s glorious countryside while solving 100 computational thinking challenges! Play here.

Chop Chop Cooking Club

Learn essential recipes every kid should master, including step-by-step instructions, videos and more. Earn badges for completing each recipe. Cook here.

Civilisations AR (BBC)

Bring realistic, to-scale artefacts from History into your own home using cutting edge Augmented Reality technology. Move, scale and rotate the collection, allowing you to become the explorer. Explore here.

Color Uncovered

Explore the surprising side of color with Color Uncovered, an interactive book that features fascinating illusions, articles, and videos developed by the Exploratorium. Color here.

Dragonbox

So beautifully visual that they won’t even know it’s maths! Try the chess app too. Dragonbox make some of the few paid apps worth the price tag. Link here.

Geoboard

A tool for exploring a variety of mathematical topics introduced in the elementary and middle grades. Learners stretch bands around the pegs to form line segments and polygons and make discoveries about perimeter, area, angles, congruence, fractions, and more. Link here.

How many Saturdays?

What if you were to measure the time of your life in other, very different units? Does life feel shorter? Longer? More absurd? More precious? Link here.

Millie Marotta’s Coloring Adventures

Blend, shade, layer and change colours to your heart’s content in my colouring app Millie Marotta’s Colouring Adventures. Colour here.

NGAkids Art Zone

Eight interactive activities inspired by works in the collection of the National Gallery of Art, plus a sketchbook for freehand drawing and a personal exhibition space where users can save and display art created with the program. Paint here.

Merck PTE (Digital Periodic Table)

The periodic table in digital form, interactive and at a glance – entirely free of charge.
iOS here    Android here

Moon Globe

Satellite imagery and topographic laser altimeter data are combined to render the Moon with realistic lighting in realtime 3D. Learn about the different spacecraft that have landed at various sites. There is an HD version at a little extra cost. iOS here.

Physics Studio

A virtual lab to learn school physics. Link here

Pokémon Go

While on the surface an augmented reality game where you battle (often cute looking) monsters, Pokémon Go requires children to walk around in their environment, encouraging exercise. This involves visiting PokeStops that are generally at local landmarks and features, providing players with engagement in their community and its history. This game is also often a great talking point amongst children. We do advise that players are mindful of traffic and the potential for device theft while using this app.
iOS here.     Android here.

School of Dragons

Fly fast, train hard, and learn well to become the Ultimate Dragon Trainer! Join Chief Hiccup and Toothless and embark on the thrilling adventures of DreamWorks Animation’s ‘How to Train Your Dragon’. Train here.

Science Journal

Use the sensors in your phone to measure and graph phenomena such as light, sound and motion, or connect to external sensors via Bluetooth to conduct experiments on the world around you. Journal here.

Sound Forest

SoundForest is a mini music maker that allows you to instantly compose a song using a collection of musical creatures. Compose a loop by tapping animal instruments and mix them into a hypnotic tune. Make a musical ecosystem with SoundForest. Make here.

Sound Rebound

An offbeat experience of color and sound that invites you to create ricochets, bounces, or bumps to investigate seeing and hearing. Rebound here.

Sound Uncovered

Explore the surprising side of sound with Sound Uncovered, an interactive book featuring auditory illusions, acoustic phenomena, and other things that go bump, beep, boom, and vroom. Boom here.

Space Now

Space Now is an educational application that targets all space enthusiasts. Using the application you can access a gallery of images, glossary and information about space, news about Hubble, ESA, NASA but also the list of rocket launches. Link here.

Spacecraft AR

Created by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, this stunning educational app uses native mobile augmented reality to bring spacecraft explorers from across the solar system to whatever space you’re in. Explore here.

Swift Playgrounds

Swift Playgrounds is a revolutionary app that makes it fun to learn and experiment with code. You solve interactive puzzles in the guided “Learn to Code” lessons to master the basics of coding, or experiment with a wide range of challenges that let you explore many unique coding experiences. Code here.

TED Talks

Watch TED talks wherever you are. Link here.

The Elementals

A fun periodic table where the elements have personality. Discover the melting and boiling points of each of the elements or the configuration of the electrons. Poke here.

Total Solar Eclipse

This app allows you to view three simultaneous video streams: 1) LIVE coverage hosted by Exploratorium educators and NASA scientists, 2) LIVE coverage in Spanish hosted by Exploratorium educators, and 3) a non-narrated, two and a half hour live telescope view of the full eclipse. Eclipse here.

WWF Free Rivers

WWF Free Rivers puts an entire landscape in your hands. Through this immersive, augmented reality experience, you’ll discover a river that flows through the lives of people and wildlife, and how their homes depend on those flows. Link here.

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