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EISD K-5 Apps in Self-Service

Access My Library®

Category: Reference
Grade Levels: K-5
Rating: 4+
Free

In this easy-to-use free app you can find directions to every participating library – public, school, university, and more – in your community, and access outstanding resources online.

Access My Library provides you with Gale reference resources. Depending on the specific library’s holdings, you may enjoy instant unlimited access to databases and eBooks covering:
• Academics and homework; Health and wellness ; Biographies and reviews; Directories and encyclopedias; Car repair ; Career and business ; Hobbies and entertainment, etc.

Adobe Photoshop Sketch

Category: Creativity
Grade Levels: K-12
Rating: 4+
Free - Requires free Adobe account

Draw with pencils, pens, markers, erasers, thick acrylic, ink brush, soft pastel* and watercolor* paint brushes to create artwork that can be sent as layered PSD files to Adobe Photoshop CC or Adobe Illustrator CC.

Animator Free

Category: Creativity
Grade Levels: K-12
Rating: 4+
Free

Easy flipbook and stop-motion app for iOS! With the use of a little imagination, there are endless possibilities for making hilarious flipbooks!
Animator enables you to create animations of any kind and provides all the tools that you need to bring your imaginations to life!
Once you have created your masterpiece, share it on Twitter or Facebook, email it, save it as a video to your photo library, or nominate it for the Animator Hall of Fame!

Audible – audio books,original series & podcasts

Category: Personalized Learning
Grade Levels: K-5
Rating: 4+
Free
Subscription needed

Amazon Prime and Audible members also have access to Audible Channels, offering unlimited listening to original series and handcrafted playlists for every interest. Turn any time into storytime: listen to your favorite stories anywhere, on your iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad.

Book Creator

Category: Essential
Grade Levels: K-12
Rating: 4+
$4.99

Book Creator is the simple way to make your own beautiful ebooks, right on your iPad. With over 25 million ebooks created so far, Book Creator is ideal for making all kinds of books, including children's picture books, comic books, photo books, journals, textbooks and more. And when you're done, easily share your book, or even publish to the iBooks Store!

BrainPOP Jr. Movie of the Week

Category: Personalized Learning
Grade Levels: K-3
Rating: 4+
Free

Learn More With Annie and Moby ... Every Week!

Bring learning to your fingertips™ with the BrainPOP Jr.® Movie of the Week app for the iPad®, iPhone®, and iPod touch®. Get a different animated movie every week and check out related quizzes and educational activities - free! BrainPOP Jr. site subscribers can log in and access all BrainPOP Jr. content directly from the app.

Ideal for kids in Kindergarten through grade 3, the BrainPOP Jr. Movie of the Week app spans subjects within Science, Social Studies, Reading, Writing, Math, Health, Arts and Technology. The gentle, humorous, and relatable characters Annie and Moby serve as guides through each topic, empowering kids to form their own ideas. BrainPOP Jr. content is designed to cultivate critical thinking skills and encourage children to ask questions and make connections. The app is easily navigable by kids ages 5-9.

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Canva

Canva

Category: Creativity
Grade Levels: K-12
Rating: 4+
Free
Requires Google Login

Edit photos, create beautiful designs and professional graphics with Canva. Get started in seconds with more than hundreds of professional templates and tweak them to suit your need. Use your own photos or choose from more than one million layouts, stock photographs and illustrations. Search for the best fonts, photo filters, graphics, stickers and shapes, then use Canva’s simple drag and drop tool to create a design. Share your design to your favourite social media, email or text.

Cargo-Bot

Category: Coding
Grade Levels: K-5
Rating: 4+
Free

Cargo-Bot is a puzzle game where you teach a robot how to move crates.
• Beautiful graphics
• Fiendish puzzles
• A game about programming, programmed entirely on iPad
• Record your solutions and share them on YouTube

ChatterPix Kids

Category: Creativity
Grade Levels: K-12
Rating: 4+
Free

Grab your camera! Let’s ChatterPix! Chatterpix Kids can make anything talk -- pets, friends, doodles, and more.

Simply take any photo, draw a line to make a mouth, and record your voice. Then share your Pix with friends and family as silly greetings, playful messages, creative cards, or even fancy book reports. And best of all, it’s FREE!

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Chirp

Chirp

Category: Essential, Utilities
Grade Levels: K-5
Rating: 4+
Free

Chirp lets you send information over the air to anyone running the app near you. Use Chirp to send or receive pictures or video clips from your phone. Chirp is the super-simple, totally free way to share that everyone's talking about. Download it now! Note: You need to run Chirp to receive chirps. Sharing requires a network connection.

ClassDojo

Category: Instruction & Assessment
Grade Levels: K-5
Rating: 4+
Free

Ready to build an amazing classroom community? ClassDojo is a beautiful, safe, and simple communication app for teachers, parents, and students. ClassDojo helps teachers build a positive classroom culture by encouraging students and communicating with parents.

Classkick

Category: Instruction & Assessment
Grade Levels: K-12
Rating: 4+
Free

Classkick is a free app that students work on and get help instantly from their teacher and peers. Students work on assignments with their Chromebooks, laptops, or iPads, while getting help from teachers and peers instantly. Teachers create assignments, see all their students’ work in real-time, and give LOTS of student feedback. Best of all, students can help each other anonymously.

Destiny Discover

Category: Reference
Grade Levels: K-5
Rating: 4+
Free
Follett’s Destiny Discover app allows you to browse, search and access your school’s library resources with ease. Search your library’s Destiny catalog or Follett eBook and audiobook collection in a single, familiar and easy to use environment. Easily configured; ask your librarian for your username and password. Next select your location (state), enter your school name, username and password in the configuration screen in the app, and your app will be linked to your library.

Destiny Quest

Category: Reference
Grade Levels: K-5
Rating: 4+
Free
Using the Destiny Quest app, students can browse their library's Follett eBook collection, check out a Follett eBook using the free Follett Digital Reader app and read their Follett eBook -- anytime, anywhere -- from a tablet device.

Your access to these features will be set up by your librarian. Contact your librarian if you have any questions. To learn more about the features in the Destiny Quest Mobile app visit

Duolingo - Learn Languages for Free

Category: Reference
Grade Levels: K-5
Rating: 4+
Free

With Duolingo, you learn a language completely for free. You have fun while you learn, leveling up and competing with friends.
Learn Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Irish, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, and English. Totally fun. Totally free.

Eanes ISD

Category: Reference
Grade Levels: K-5
Rating: 4+
Free

With the Eanes ISD mobile app, your school district comes alive with the touch of a button. Easily connect to its learning and ParentPortal or navigate through current news and events. Check out the latest updates with social media, quickly retrieve contact information, and more! It's your school district available at your fingertips.

Elements 4D by DAQRI

Category: Science
Grade Levels: K-12
Rating: 4+
Free

Part educational story and part game, the Elements 4D app offers a new, fun way to experience augmented reality and learn about real-life chemistry. Paired with either paper or wood blocks that are inscribed with the symbols of 36 elements from the periodic table, this app will instantly transform a simple, inanimate object into dynamic, dimensional, 4D representations of each element.

Encyclopædia Britannica

Category: Reference
Grade Levels: K-5
Rating: 4+
Free

The complete Encyclopaedia Britannica - a reference source with over 65,000 free articles (some ads) on everything from A-Rod to Zebras. Contributors include over 100 Nobel Laureates plus subject gurus like Bill Clinton, Tony Hawk, and Desmond Tutu. Includes photographs, diagrams, charts, quizzes, 'link-maps.'

Epic! - Unlimited Books for Kids

Category: Reference
Grade Levels: K-5
Rating: 4+
Free

The Epic! library contains everything from picture books to chapter books, early readers, audiobooks, “read to me” audio books, comic books, graphic novels, non-fiction titles, educational books, and junior novels. Audiobooks and “read-to-me” books with over 15,000 great titles (& more added weekly), individual customized child profiles at no additional cost; personalized book recommendations for each child; online and offline reading (take Epic! in the car, on a plane, or camping); detailed reading log to track reading progress available in the app.

Evernote Scannable

Category: Productivity
Grade Levels: 3-5
Rating: 4+
Free

Scannable moves paper forward. Scan contracts, receipts, business cards, and any paper that comes your way. Save or share documents instantly and move on.

Explain Everything™ Classic

Category: Essential
Grade Levels: 2-12
Rating: 4+
$5.99

"If you cannot do it with Explain Everything, it probably can't be done!"

This is the original “classic” version of Explain Everything, used by over 3 million people all over the world who are creating videos and classroom projects with this leading unique interactive screencasting whiteboard!

Flashcards [⁛]

Category: Personalized Learning
Grade Levels: K-5
Rating: 4+
Free

Flashcards by NKO is an engaging educational mobile solution for students and teachers worldwide.

Looking for a powerful and easy-to-use flashcards app to help you study? This app allows you to create rich text formatted flashcards with pictures and download millions of flashcards on hundreds of subjects created by both experts and novices.

Matching, True/False, Memory, Spelling, Q-Battle, Word Search, Flow, Flappy Dog, Dig It Up, 2048, Ninja, Bingo, Q-Battle LMP, Blocks, and Letters games add more fun to your studying. Don't be surprised to find yourself playing games, getting badges and beating highscores of your friends or classmates rather than simply flipping cards... :) Not enough? Loci will turn your cards into a 3D Memory Palace that exploits an memory technique of ancient Greeks and memory champions.

Flowpaper

Category: Creativity
Grade Levels: K-12
Rating: 4+
$0.99

"Flowpaper is an amazing physics-based art app that is capable of creating gorgeous works of art"
-app Safari

Flowpaper is an interactive drawing tool that lets you make beautiful flowing paintings using your finger tip. Perfect for making a personal background for your device or for sharing with a friend.

Features
• Draw with physics
• Playful waves of colour
• Share images with friends through Facebook and Twitter
• Load images from your gallery in IOS4 and above
• Export hi resolution images to your device, up to 1536 X 2048 *
• Restore accidentally deleted flowpapers by pressing undo
• Eraser tool

GarageBand

Category: Creativity
Grade Levels: K-12
Rating: 4+
Free with New iPad

GarageBand turns your iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch into a collection of Touch Instruments and a full-featured recording studio — so you can make music anywhere you go. And now Live Loops makes it easy for anyone to have fun creating music like a DJ, by triggering loops and audio effects in real time. Use Multi-Touch gestures to play a piano, organ, guitar, and drums. They sound and play like their counterparts, but let you do things you could never do on a real instrument.

Glow Draw!

Category: Creativity
Grade Levels: K-12
Rating: 4+
Free

Do you like drawing? Do you like glowing? Waaaaaah!- Try Glow Draw!!!