K-12 Resources for Elementary and High School Students: Educational Apps

Free “…bring all your photos, docs, and videos anywhere and share them easily. Access any file you save to your Dropbox from all your computers, iPhone, iPad and even the Dropbox website.”

Free Store and save files

Free "Best way to access, sync, and share your documents, photos, videos, music, and more — from any computer or mobile device."

"...host, attend, present, and completely drive collaboration in Adobe® Connect™ meetings or training - anywhere, anytime."

Use the BlackBoard Mobile app to access all your BlackBoard courses and communities in an optimized format for tablets

Free "Bring your conversations to life with photos, emoji, and video calls"

Free Courses from other universities and a digital catalog of free education content

Free “…a student response system that also allows students to take notes linked with the slides and videos presented in class, answer instructor generated questions and pose questions to the instructor.”

Free “…connects you to classmates, enables classroom discussions, and helps create online study groups”

Free "... provides a top tier voice, video, and instant messaging experience"

Free "...smart student response system that empowers teachers to engage their classrooms through a series of educational exercises and games via smartphones, laptops, and tablets"

Free iOS "Create your own flashcards and study sets or choose from millions created by other students — it’s up to you."

Free iOS "...create and share a plethora of mobile flashcards, study guides, and quizzes, or choose from an extensive collection of student-authored flashcards and flashcard decks."

Free "Study flashcards in your downtime. Make flashcards with text, sound, and images, or download pre-made ones."

Free but limited unless upgraded "Brainscape's online flashcards app applies decades of cognitive science research to make studying as efficient as humanly possible"

Be able to use the Library database Ebsco for SOLAR, CINAHL, Business Source Complete, Education Full Text and more. This is designed for smart phones, but it can be used on tablets. To be able to use it, you must first create an authorization key by clicking on the EBSCOhost iPhone and Android Applications link on the bottom of any Ebsco database web page.

$9.99 First download EndNote from CSS Library (see link below) and create an EndNote Web account. "Collect and sort all your research references and full text articles in an EndNote library, then link to Word documents to create properly-formatted documents and bibliographies."

See this page for more information from EndNote.

Free Take your to-do list anywhere with this feature packed app

Free iOS simple, design to-do service. This iPhone app provides the ability to work offline and sync. It requires a TeuxDeux account.

$2.99 Powerful task and note manager, you can use Toodledo as a standalone application, or you can synchronize with Toodledo.com, one of the most popular online task managers.

Free "easiest way to manage and share your daily to-do lists"

Free iOS "native software on iPhone for reading, showing and modifying the FreeMind files"

Free iOS "Capturing and sharing your inner most creative genius has never been easier", allows for hand writing

Free Create and share mind maps easily

Free Graphic organizer, mind mapper, syncs with mac, can be exported as tiff, PDF, PNG, rtf outline

Free iOS "Capture your ideas, sort them visually, and collaborate with others in realtime."

Free iOS "Mind mapping tool that turns your iPad into a brainstorming, idea collection and thought structuring device."

Free Android "Take notes even when you don't feel like typing! Just speak your note, and it will be saved as text. This notepad app was designed to quickly jot down your ideas, with minimal hassle. And it makes it easy to keep those ideas organized."

Free iOS "Capture your thoughts, discoveries, and ideas and simplify overwhelming planning moments in your life with your very own digital notebook."

Free Android "A note (notepad) application where you can create text-, voice- and paint-notes. Your notes can be organized in folders. You can create shortcuts on home, send notes, use live folders & much more! Allows for handwriting."

$4.99 iOS Captures handwriting, allows a zoom to accommodate larger stylus, exports as PDF and can be emailed, can be organized into folders

Free iOS Makes sketching so much easier! Variety of pen styles and colors, color wash from light to dark, ability to share through email, tumblir, facebook, and twitter

Free "digital note taking tool for the iPad that is transforming the way people create and share information. Now you can combine documents, web content, audio, typed text as well as hand written notes into a single document that you can easily organize and share with anyone."

Free “handwriting app for iPad to take notes, keep sketches, etc.

Free "turns your iPad into a recordable whiteboard. Creating a great video tutorial is as simple as touching, tapping and talking"

Free New version of Google slides, click on create in Google Drive to start a new presentation

Free iOS "simple and fun new way to create stunning presentations – whether you’re pitching an idea, teaching a lesson, telling a story, or igniting a movement"

$9.99 Presentation app designed for the iPad

Free "It can be used to share slides and drawings in online meetings directly from your tablet."

Free iOS "Get started by choosing one of our stunning templates then add your text and images. Pinch to zoom on topics, retouch your prezis and adjust your presentations on the move."

Free iOS View and share PowerPoint presentations

Free iOS The official app for Basecamp, the world's #1 project management app.

Free Android "Camper features complete offline browsing and editing capabilities with quick updates to your favorite projects and to-dos."

Free iOS "project management 4 humans"

Free Monitor your projects’ progress, react to the changes instantly, and stay connected with your project team wherever you are.

Best way to read Adobe® Content Server protected eBooks such as those from the CSS Library.

Free “…lets you take notes, capture photos, create to-do lists, record voice reminders, and makes these notes completely searchable.”

$4.99 PDF reader which helps the iPad read virtually anything; only works on iOS.

Free Download and read books

$3.99 “Save long web pages to read later on your iPhone or iPad, even without an internet connection.”

$1.99 iOS "Read and annotate PDF documents with drawings, highlighting text, text notes, photos and stamps"

Free “…turns any web page into a clean view for reading now or later on your computer, smartphone, or tablet.”

Explore the interconnectedness of wellness, illness, and cultural life for Native Americans, Alaska natives, and Native Hawaiians.

Access National Library of Medicine's transcribed and fully searchable historical biomedical books and videos.

More than just another interactive periodic table, this Periodic Table app from the Royal Society of Chemistry incorporates everything from podcasts to videos to help you learn about the elements.

Free iOS "provides easy access to engaging science and engineering images and video from around the globe and a news feed featuring breaking news from NSF-funded institutions"

Game that supports middle school science concepts about environment and health.

Virtually flip through rare books and manuscripts and learn more about them through historian and curator annotations.

$9.99 Spreadsheets app designed for the iPad

$19.99 "...office editing suite for iPad. Create and edit ALL Microsoft® Office document, spreadsheet, and presentation formats, as well as view PDF files, on the go."

Free (Lite version) "simplest way to create the most beautiful videos online"

$4.99 iOS "fast and fun moviemaking app that puts everything you need to tell your story at your fingertips"

Free iOS "Create your own unique shows with animation and audio in real time"

Free Choose a background to animate, record and then share

Free iOS "...record voice-over whiteboard tutorials and share them online"

$4.99 Ability to edit Google docs, spreadsheets, etc. on mobile devices

$1.99 “…integrates handwriting, PDF annotation, typing, recording, and organizing”; only works on iOS

Free Open Source alternative to Microsoft office suite

$9.99 Word processing app designed for the iPad

Free Scan documents with your tablet's camera

Free "...an easy-to-use voice recognition application...that allows you to easily speak and instantly see your text or email messages."

Free iOS "...full-featured recording app with a streamlined and intuitive user interface"

Free "instantly arrange your photos into frames - or get creative with freeform collages, cutouts, filters, borders, stickers, and text"

Free "create live polls in your presentation. Insert polls, navigate between polls, and create a beautiful, engaging experience for your audience."

Free "...scans both QR codes and barcodes. Fast and effective. App opens instantly in real-time scanning mode." Designed for smart phones, but it does work on tablets.

$0.99 iOS "...features 25 different graphic organizers for students to use to organize their thinking while reading or preparing to write"

Free Android Can send data as attached file via Gmail, timer recording, search feature

Monthly Fee "Participate using your voice, video or text. Use a screen reader or caption your videos. Use any computer, device, or internet connection"