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TOP 10 IPAD APPS FOR LESSON PLANNING

Lesson Planning - $3.99

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- Create, edit & delete folders for organizing your lesson plans.
- Browse folders and view lesson plans.
- Create, duplicate, adapt, and view lesson plans.
- Choose from common section headings including Title, Duration, Overview, Curriculum, Previous Knowledge, Learning Outcomes, Resources, Activity Starter, Activity Main, Activity Plenary, Differentiation Support, Differentiation Extension, Assessment, Homework, TA Notes, Teacher Notes, Additional Notes


iTunes U - Free

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If you have iTunes blocked in your school, this is a great argument to have it opened! iTunes U is the best way to create and experience courses on iPad.  The iTunes U app gives you access to complete courses from leading universities and other schools — plus the world’s largest digital catalog of free education content — right on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch. Whether you’re majoring in molecular biology at a university, taking Spanish in high school, or just interested in European history, you now have a valuable tool to help you learn anytime, anywhere.

iLesson Plans - $3.99

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iLesson Plans not only allows you to create detailed Lesson Plans whilst on the move you can also:
• Keep a daily planner of which lesson are for which period
• Keep track of Classes
• Keep track of each Pupil
• Export your Lesson in PDF or Word Format
• Save your lesson plans to iTunes
• Save your Lesson Plans to Dropbox
• Send your Lesson Plans Via Email

Teacher Planner - Free

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This app has been designed to replace the paper based planners or diaries used by teachers.Begin by setting up your timetable. Then add lesson notes, homework etc.
Easy viewing of all lessons and plans on any mobile device.
This lite version of Teacher Planner is limited to 50 entries.
Key Features
- Designed by teachers for teachers
- Easy one-time set up
- View by daily plan, or group plans by class
- Two week timetable support
- Share daily plans to external apps (e.g. GMail)


Classroom Ideas to Go! - .99
By Scholastic

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Nice app by Scholastic. Perfect for the busy teachers. The app offers more than 1,200 hands-on ideas to use in your lessons. Browse by grade level, subject, and activity type (from group work to crafts to games) to instantly find hundreds of ideas from Instructor, Scholastic’s magazine for K–8 teachers.


Paperless Teacher $9.99

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Paperless Teacher allows teachers at all levels of education to reduce their paperwork burden while increasing their speed in grading and productivity in giving feedback. Attendance, participation, homework, tests, and assignments can all be created, managed, and graded, and results can be sent to students with the tap of a button.

Teacher Clicker - Socrative - Free

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Socrative brings smart clickers, student response and ease of use to a whole new level. Engage the entire classroom with educational exercises and games while capturing student results in real-time. 

Blooms Taxonomy - $1.99

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The best planning resource and reference tool for teachers! This app breaks down cognitive levels, providing lesson activities, question stems, and action verbs for each step of the learning process. Tailored around the Common Core, this app was made by a teacher for teachers. Take your students to higher levels of thinking without extra planning time on your part.

My Class Rules - $2.99

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My Classroom Rules is a ‘first of its kind’ app that helps teachers to keep noise in their classroom to a minimum! 
The app uses positive behavior principles to empower students to take ownership of their behavior through engaging and competitive gameplay. With this revolutionary game, classrooms can play independently or challenge each other and compete in a battle for the title of ultimate classroom. 
The game works by monitoring the noise level (decibels dB) in the classroom as the students perform their work. Students are challenged to work cooperatively and as calmly as possible. The less noise they make, the more points they earn and the quicker their score will climb. T

Too Noisy! - Free

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The "Too Noisy App" has been designed to assist a teacher keep control of general noise levels in a classroom using a visual stimulus.

As the noise level in a classroom increases beyond an acceptable level the noise level meter dynamically indicates the level of noise, and the background graphics within the app change to reflect the noise levels.


Educreations Interactive Whiteboard - Free

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Educreations turns your iPad into a recordable whiteboard. Creating a great video tutorial is as simple as touching, tapping and talking. Explain a math formula... Create an animated lesson... Add commentary to your photos... Diagram a sports play...
With voice recording, realistic digital ink, photos and text, and simple sharing through email, Facebook or Twitter, now you can broadcast your ideas from anywhere.

FEATURES
• Record and replay your voice, handwriting and drawings
• Draw in 10 colors of incredibly realistic digital ink
• Add text to any page
• Add photos from the iPad camera, Photo Albums, Dropbox or the Web
• Animate images by dragging them around while recording
• Create multiple whiteboard pages
• Scroll pages up or down when you need extra space
• Easily erase drawing mistakes
• Unlimited undo and redo
• Pause/resume or start over recording anytime
• Create a free account on educreations.com and choose who can view your lessons
• Share your lessons via email, Facebook and Twitter
• Embed your lessons on your blog or website

GroupMaker -  Free

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GroupMaker is the best app for quickly creating diverse groups. Organize groups based on gender, performance level, or ethnicity. You can also just randomly mix everyone up into groups of 1-20 depending on your needs.

You can organize students by ethnicity, gender, or misc. The misc category can be used to sort by mastery, partial mastery, or non-mastery of contents, or anything else along those lines. The misc category is intended be flexible and opaque in the event it is seen by students.

GroupMaker is a tool to help teachers organize their classes into diverse heterogenous groups. We'd like to thank Krissie Littman, Julie Wray, and Jonathan Wray for contributing to its development.

Easy-to-Use-Steps
To get started in GroupMaker follow these quick steps:

1. Tap on New Class to create a class.
2. Select the Class from the grid.
3. Tap on Show Settings + in the upper right hand corner of the screen.
4. Tap Add Member + from the settings view.
5. Select a Member to change their settings.
6. Tap Add Groups + from the settings view.
7. Select a Group to change its settings.

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