6th - 8th Grade

Brainfeed App for the iPad

App: Brainfeed

Cost of App: FREE with limited videos

Paid In App available for more videos $6.99/year

Difficulty Level: Easy 1st-8th grade

Device: iPad

Need:  Connectivity to Wifi

This is a great alternative to youtube for children that want to explore videos.  This app has several categories to choose from including science, tech and design, english, arts & music, and many more.  I love this app because it has a handful of free videos offered for each category and if you want more you can pay for the "locked" videos $6.99 for the year.  I would so much rather give my children this to explore and play with than have them exploring the scary territory of youtube.   Many, many valuable videos to learn from on this app.  Highly recommended!

GOOGLE Newspaper Search

Website:  https://news.google.com/newspapersCost:Free

Rating by Jules: 5 star

Difficulty Level: All

Device: All

Rated:  Everyone

I love this site.  It is a great way to search old newspapers online for historical information.   There are hundreds of resources and the search gives the user real scanned copies of original prints of newspapers when the story was printed.  I was even able to look up my high school career athletic highlights from my local paper!  Give it a try - you won't be disappointed.

Green Screen App By Do Ink!

App:  Green Screen by Do Ink

Cost of App: $2.99  (available at Volume Store 1/2 off for 20+)

Rating by Jules: 5 star

Difficulty Level: Easy

Device: iPad

Super sweet app for our Jr. High Students- High School Students.  It is very user friendly and the price is  very reasonable.  Are you concerned that you can't use this because you don't have a green screen?  No worries, use a curtain, construction paper or anything green to hang in the background.  Years ago, I had to have a special software to create green screen news casts for our school. This app makes it oh so easy.  Load pictures and or video into the background of the videos.  Very profession looking results!

Kahoot!

App:  Kahoot
Difficulty:  Easy
Device:  iPad/Smart Phone

Very cool website for teachers to gain quick access for understanding of material.  I love this website because Teachers can access the kahoot via the cloud.  That means they can create quizzes and/or surveys in the cloud no matter where they are located.  This website is a online Game Based Response system (comparable to Socrative).  It can be easily accessed by phones, tablets or pcs- all of which the student so badly want to use.  Once the quizzes/surveys are created the kids will receive instant feeback to the questions they answer.  They receive points for questions answered and more points for the student that answers with the correct answer the quickest.  Logging in is very simple, they can access the quizzes with a pin by visiting https://kahoot.it/#/ and/or they can also get a login to track their results. Check it out and let me know what you think!