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What apps are available for 4th graders?
All apps on the list below have been requested for 4th-grade classroom use by a NRCA staff member and approved by NRCA Administration. Click or tap on the name of the app to see more information about the app from the Apple App Store.
4th Grade Math Kids Education
Bible App for Kids
The Bible App for Kids is the newest member of the YouVersion family of apps. Available now for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, the Bible App for Kids is always completely free! Through interactive adventures and beautiful animations, kids explore the big stories of the Bible.
Book Creator
Book Creator is the simple way to make your own beautiful ebooks, right on your iPad. With over 100 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. (This is a paid app purchased by the school for 4th-grade students to use on their school device.)
BrainPOP
Help kids understand their world with the BrainPOP Featured Movie app. Our animated movies engage via narrative, humor, and characters who speak in a voice kids can relate to, encouraging self-directed learning and further exploration of the world around them, and the world within them.
Cargo-Bot
Over one million people have enjoyed Cargo-Bot! The puzzle game that challenges your brain and helps you learn programming concepts.
ChatterPix Kids
Let’s ChatterPix! Chatterpix Kids can make anything talk -- pets, books, doodles, and more. Simply take a photo, draw a line to make a mouth, and record your voice. Create ChatterPix with friends and family as silly greetings, playful messages, creative cards, or even fancy book reports.
CK-Auth
Provides Internet Filtering for iOS devices that are monitored by a ContentKeeper appliance. The ContentKeeper CK-AUTH App provides users with a protected Internet browsing experience in conjunctions with the ContentKeeper Secure Internet Gateway (CK-SIG) system. The App provides for highly granular users-identity based reporting along with single sign-on support. User access to Internet resources are controlled by a sophisticated policy-based filtering engine.
Dictionary.com for iPad
Download the most essential and comprehensive dictionary app for dependable definitions at your fingertips. Dictionary.com is the leading free English dictionary app for iPad– with over 2,000,000 trusted definitions and synonyms.
Division Games for Kids
A fantastic app for kids to learn and practice long division on their own. This app teaches kids simple division and long division with remainders. There are unlimited problems for children to practice and solve. This app is just perfect for kids who are learning division and also wish to test their knowledge of times tables up to 20 by solving division problems.
Earthlapse
Turn your iPad or iPhone into a window aboard the International Space Station. Experience stunning views of Earth captured by NASA astronauts. Turn your iPad or iPhone into a window aboard the International Space Station. Experience stunning views of Earth captured by NASA astronauts. Touch the views and control the planet with your finger. A truly amazing one-of-a-kind experience.
Educreations Whiteboard
Educreations is a unique interactive whiteboard and screencasting tool that's simple, powerful, and fun to use. Annotate, animate, and narrate nearly any type of content as you explain any concept. Teachers can create short instructional videos and share them instantly with students, or ask students to show what they know and help friends learn something new.
Epic - Kids' Books & Reading
Epic is the leading digital reading platform for kids 12 and under! Our fun, kid-safe, interactive reading app fuels curiosity and reading confidence by letting kids freely explore their interests, with instant, anytime access to a library of thousands of books, audiobooks, learning videos and more.
Explain EDU
Explain Everything Basics is an iPad- and iPhone-only version of Explain Everything where creations are saved locally on the device. Explain Everything Basics was designed for schools with iOS-only deployments. It is also intended for those who may need to exclusively purchase it via Apple's Volume Purchase Program (VPP), those with internet access challenges, or both. (This is a paid app purchased by the school for 4th-grade students to use on their school device.)
FlashToPass - Math Flash Cards
Are you looking for fun and exciting ways to learn math facts? Would you like to master math facts and amaze family and friends with your elite math prowess? If your answer is yes, this Math Flashcard learning tutor is the perfect pick for you. With this amazing math learning app for students, you can not only reinforce your concepts but also learn complex math with ease!
Fourth Grade Learning Games
21 fun and educational games to help your child learn 4th Grade lessons! Teach Fourth Grade lessons like multiplication, division, grammar, geometry, vowels, science, STEM, spelling, fractions, reading, remainders, and more. Whether they are just starting fourth Grade, or need to review and master the subjects, this is a perfect learning tool for kids aged 8-11.
Fractions - Math app
Fractions is an interactive app for kids to learn about halves, thirds, fourths and equals. It is one of the best free educational application which is designed to help students learn math fractions. This app is for kids in the age group of 5 -7 years and is optimized for use in both phones and tablets. Fractions math app is kid friendly and easy to use.
Fun Math - 24 Game Maths Cards
Make the answer equal to 24 using 4 numbers anyway you can. Supports single and multiplayer with friends and family. Do you have what it takes?
Gameshow Buzz Button
Want everyone to know that you've got the right answer! Then Buzz in with "Gameshow Buzz Button" AKA "Buzz Button". Now you can play along with your favorite game show or have your friends download it too and play your own game!
GarageBand
GarageBand turns your iPad, and iPhone into a collection of Touch Instruments and a full-featured recording studio — so you can make music anywhere you go. And with Live Loops, it makes it easy for anyone to have fun creating music like a DJ. Use Multi-Touch gestures to play keyboards, guitars, and create beats that make you sound like a pro — even if you’ve never played a note before.
Geoboard, by MLC
Geoboard is 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. This virtual version of the manipulative is an open-ended educational tool, ideal for elementary classrooms and other learning environments.
Geography Drive Arcade
Think you know your U.S. geography? Find out fast in the fun quiz game based of one of our best-selling games! From the Flagstaff State Flag Game to the State Shape Challenge, Geography Drive Arcade includes four fun mini-games designed to help you learn the shape, spelling, flag and capital of every state in America. (This is a paid app purchased by the school for 4th-grade students to use on their school device.)
Geography Duel
Geography Duel is a world trivia game where two players can compete against each other on the same iPad! Play through States or Countries, or input your own lists from an iPad. Change settings for each player to level the playing field. New single player mode is great for geography practice! Big test coming up? Create a list with all the locations and use Geography Duel to make studying fun! (This is a paid app purchased by the school for 4th-grade students to use on their school device.)
GeoKids USA for Kids
With GeoKids USA, learning Geography is fun. Your Kids will master all Geography of USA after playing with this game. Capitals, Flags, Seals, Population and area sizes, Main big cities location, Lakes, Rivers, Parks, Deserts, Mountains, everything is here!
Google Earth
Explore the whole world from above with satellite imagery, 3D terrain of the entire globe, and 3D buildings in hundreds of cities around the world. Zoom to your house or anywhere else then dive in for a 360° perspective with Street View. See the world from a new point of view with Voyager, a collection of guided tours from BBC Earth, NASA, National Geographic, and more. And now, visualize the immersive maps and stories you've created with Google Earth on web on your mobile device.
GoSkyWatch Planetarium iPad
Easily and quickly identify and locate stars, planets, constellations, galaxies and more by simply pointing to the sky. Your personal telescope to the wonders in the night sky. Go outside and explore the night sky.
Guess the Code HD
The computer mastermind has chosen a secret code. Can you crack the code before you run out of guesses? Guess the Code Free HD is the best codebreaker game for the iPad. Your iPad chooses a sequence of colors and you must try to guess the sequence within a specific number of guesses.
Haiku Deck
Featured on iTunes' “New and Noteworthy” and “What’s Hot” lists, Haiku Deck is the fast & easy way to create beautiful presentations for sharing online or in person. Whether you’re pitching an idea, teaching a lesson, telling a story, or igniting a movement, use Haiku Deck to create beautiful presentations that wow your audience.
iMovie
With a streamlined design and intuitive Multi-Touch gestures, iMovie lets you create Hollywood-style trailers and beautiful movies like never before.
Incident IQ
Incident IQ users can now enjoy the power of Incident IQ on the go. Teachers can submit help tickets with ease. IT support staff can efficiently work tickets for quick resolution as well as check in and out assets by scanning devices using Incident IQ Mobile’s new asset management feature.
IXL - Math, English, & More
IXL is personalized learning! Trusted by over 390,000 schools and 300,000 parents, IXL is proven to accelerate student achievement. And with the award-winning IXL app, students can master skills anytime, anywhere! See how IXL meets the unique needs of over 11 million learners (and counting!).
JAMF Self Service
Jamf Self Service empowers you to be more productive, successful, and self-sufficient with your iOS or iPadOS device. Using the intuitive interface, you can browse and install trusted apps and books from your organization, update configurations, and receive real-time notifications for available services without having to contact IT.
Keynote
Keynote is the most powerful presentation app ever designed for a mobile device. Start with an Apple-designed theme and add text, images, charts, tables, and shapes with just a few taps. Draw and write with Apple Pencil on iPad, or use your finger. Bring it all to life with cinematic animations and transitions that look as though they were created by your own special effects team. Add live video to your slideshow and appear right on your slides. Confidently present to your audience from anywhere, in person or virtually, and take turns controlling a presentation in multi-presenter slideshows.
Kids A-Z
King of Math 2
A mathematical journey! Here comes the sequel to the popular math game King of Math! You start on the countryside and set off on a journey packed with challenging math questions, puzzles and problems. Unlock new worlds and character levels along the road and get all the way to the throne to become king or queen!
Kodable
Kodable is an award-winning coding curriculum for kids ages 4-10. Trusted by over 50% of US Elementary Schools, it teaches your kids everything they need to know about computer science, from zero to JavaScript - no experience required! Watch as your child explores the universe of coding with their new friends - the fuzzFamily! Kodable lets your kids play and create their own games, and features content suitable for all age levels.
Math Champ (Client)
The Math Champ Client works as a game controller for this ground breaking quiz game designed for classrooms (grades 4 to 7). If you have an an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch, you can now compete head to head with your friends to become to the class Math Champ (everyone can play at the same time!) To play Math Champ you need this app (the CLIENT), 1 or more classmates to play against and the Math Champ HOST (or SERVER, which is a separate iPAD only application). If your math teacher doesn’t have it yet, you could ask them to download it for your class.
Math Magic Times and Division
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Mental Math Cards Games & Tips
Want to improve your math skills with out having to memorize a hundred tricks? Mental Math Cards is designed to help people of all ages and skill levels improve their arithmetic abilities through easy to remember (and use) tips, practice question sets, and an addictive game. Unlike many other math apps, advanced problems are also supported to keep things challenging as your skills improve.
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Excel, the spreadsheet app, lets you create, view, edit, and share your files quickly and easily. Manage spreadsheets, tables and workbooks attached to email messages from your phone with this powerful productivity app. Work in data analysis, accounting, auditing, or other fields confidently with anyone, anywhere. Quickly graph the most complex formulas, charts and tables with amazing features.
Microsoft OneDrive
Microsoft OneDrive keeps your photos, videos, and files backed up, protected, synced, and accessible on all your devices. The OneDrive app lets you view and share OneDrive files, photos, and videos with friends and family. You can use the app to automatically back up your phone's photos and videos.
Microsoft PowerPoint
The PowerPoint app gives you access to the familiar slideshow maker tool you already know. Create, edit, view, present, or share presentations quickly and easily from anywhere.
Microsoft Word
The trusted Word app lets you create, edit, view, and share your files with others quickly and easily. Send, view and edit Office docs attached to emails from your phone with this powerful word processing app from Microsoft.
NASA
Come explore with NASA and discover the latest images, videos, mission information, news, feature stories, tweets, NASA TV, podcasts and featured content with the NASA app. Features: Augmented reality feature with interactive 3D models, Augmented reality feature to find and view the International Space Station, other NASA missions in orbit around the Earth and the brightest stars in the sky. View over 20,000 images (and growing everyday), Watch live NASA TV, and more
Nearpod
Bring student engagement into every classroom with Nearpod. Nearpod is a student engagement platform built to make teaching with technology easy. It’s designed to work with any classroom technology, from iPads and iPhones to Macs and Chromebooks. With Nearpod you can control what your students see and get feedback in real-time.
News-O-Matic: Reading for Kids
News-O-Matic is the daily news app to inspire a love of nonfiction reading. 100+ new articles each month cover a range of high-interest topics for curious kids. Subjects include science, sports, world news, technology, arts, and entertainment. Reading current events empowers children to be critical thinkers, lifelong learners, and global citizens. Every story is written at multiple literacy levels for ages 6 to 14.
Notability
Welcome to Notability: powerful, yet wonderfully simple note-taking and PDF annotation. Apple Editors' Choice and top ranked app worldwide on App Store, regularly #1. Students, teachers, artists, and professionals use Notability daily to enrich their lives. Notes are just the beginning; find inspiration, capture ideas, and unleash your creativity with Notability. (This is a free app, but the school provides an annual subscription for unlimited note taking and premium content for 4th-grade students to use on their school device.)
Numbers
Numbers is the most innovative spreadsheet app ever designed for a mobile device. Get started with one of over 30 Apple-designed templates for your home budget, checklist, invoice, mortgage calculator, and more. Choose from over 250 powerful functions. Draw and write with Apple Pencil on supported devices, or use your finger. Tap to add tables, charts, text, and images anywhere on the free-form canvas. Animate your data with interactive column, bar, scatter, and bubble charts. Easily filter through large tables. Find patterns and trends using pivot tables.
OSnap! Pro • Lapse & Motion
Simple, intuitive, powerful time-lapse and stop motion photography. Create and share stunning videos with ease. Packed full of features, OSnap! is truly the ultimate time-lapse and stop motion app. Perfect for both casual and serious photographers. (This is a paid app purchased by the school for 4th-grade students to use on their school device.)
Pages
Pages is the most beautiful word processor you’ve ever seen on a mobile device. Start with an Apple-designed template to instantly create gorgeous reports, digital books, resumes, posters, and more. Or use a blank document and create your own design. Easily add images, movies, audio, tables, charts, and shapes. You can even draw and annotate using Apple Pencil on supported devices or your finger. Pages has been designed exclusively for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch.
PicCollage: Photo Video Editor
Browse 3000+ designs for summer weddings, birthdays, or any reason to celebrate! Then add a little magic to your photos with our easy editing tools! PicCollage helps you make anything to celebrate everything.
Popar Periodic Table
Light your Bunsen burner and prepare to discover Popar’s Interactive Periodic Table of Elements! You are about to embark on an interactive Augmented Reality learning experience that explores the science, origins, facts, stats, and various uses of all the elements! Dive even deeper with the compounds mode where users can mix and match the elements and learn 100’s of different formulas. Interactive 3D models showcase all the different elements including the metals, gases, liquids, and more!
PowerSchool Mobile
Built for convenient access to real-time student information like grades, assignments, and attendance, the PowerSchool Mobile App provides enhanced functionality for parents, guardians, and students. Get easy access to the most important student data with an updated user interface, dashboard, and improved app structure
Prodigy Math Game
Ready for an AWESOME math adventure? With Prodigy Math Game, players explore new worlds, embark on heroic quests and battle friends to collect prizes, pets and more — all while practicing math! Each player creates a character that represents them as they start their adventure. These characters, or wizards, embark on a unique journey, taking players from level 1 all the way up to level 100!
Quiver - 3D Coloring App
The Quiver App makes learning fun by combining physical coloring with cool augmented reality technology to create an engaging, educational and magical experience.
Quizizz: Play to Learn
Use the Quizizz app to learn anything, anywhere. You can study on your own or engage in group quizzes, assignments, and presentations—in person and remotely. Quizizz is used by more than 70 million people per month in schools, homes, and offices around the world.
Quizlet: AI-powered Flashcards
With new expert explanations, an AI Learning Assistant and our ever-effective flashcards, get a suite of science-backed study tools at your fingertips. Quizlet is the easiest way to study, practice and master whatever subject you’re learning. Download the app today and join over 60 million students owning their classes with Quizlet.
Robo Math Fractions Lite
Robo Math allows children to develop a strong sense of fractions whilst saving a whole planet! Planet Fracto is falling to pieces! We need the Math-Bots to use Fraction action to bolt it back together. Robo Math allows children to develop a strong sense of fractions whilst saving a whole planet!
Schoology
Get the award-winning app that extends Schoology’s powerful learning management solution to your iOS device. Manage your classroom, create and submit assignments, participate in interactive discussions, perform assessments, collaborate with your peers, and much more! With Schoology’s iOS mobile app, you can have rich and engaging academic experiences anytime, anywhere.
Socrative Student
Students share their understanding by answering formative assessment questions in a variety of formats: quizzes, quick question polls, exit tickets and space races. Once students launch the Socrative Student App, they'll be prompted to join the teacher's room via the teacher's unique code. No student accounts necessary!
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. Find a flat surface and view interactive 3D models right in front of you, scaled to table-top size or in their true-to-life proportions. Take pics with the spacecraft in your favorite environments, and explore detailed info about their fascinating missions.
SplashLearn: Kids Learning App
Practice Math & Master Reading While Playing With Adorable Characters. The Cute Characters Will Also Help Your Kid Develop Creativity & Social Emotional Skills! Enter the Splashverse! Inspire lifelong curiosity with this game-based PreK-5 learning experience loved by over 40 million children. SplashLearn is the perfect balance of learning and game-play that your little one needs to build math and reading confidence.
Star Walk 2: Stars and Planets
Star Walk 2 is an exquisite stargazing app enabling you to explore the night sky through the screen of your device. Make an effortless journey through thousands of stars, comets, constellations, and other celestial bodies. All you have to do is point your device to the sky! (This is a paid app purchased by the school for 4th-grade students to use on their school device.)
Superbook Kids Bible
Easy to understand kids Bible, fun Bible games and 39 FREE EPISODES from the Emmy Nominated Superbook series including David and Goliath and He Is Risen! This FREE Kid's Bible app brings the Bible to life for the entire family with a full Bible, videos, images and engaging interactive games. Featuring thirty nine (39) full-length, FREE EPISODES from the Emmy nominated Superbook series including David and Goliath, The Ten Commandments, Daniel and the Lions’ Den, The First Christmas and more Bible stories!
Sushi Monster
Meet Sushi Monster! A game to practice, reinforce, and extend math fact fluency is completely engaging and appropriately challenging. Strengthen reasoning strategies for whole number addition and multiplication by helping monsters make a target sum or product. Earn points with each correct answer… but watch out for distractions!
Voice Changer Plus
Change your voice in fun and amazing ways with Voice Changer Plus! Choose from dozens of fun voices and sound effects. It's not just for talking - try singing with Bad Melody or Bad Harmony! Even play your voice backwards!
WeDo 2.0 LEGO Education
WeDo 2.0 makes coding a reality for elementary students. Using LEGO bricks, easy-to-use software and engaging STEM projects, teachers have all they need to teach their students simple programming skills. This unique combination of building with LEGO bricks, and then using an easy-to-use classroom app to make WeDo 2.0 come to life through engaging lesson plans for science, technology, engineering and math classes, provides you with everything you need to teach programming in your classroom.
WWF Together
WWF Together brings you closer to amazing and endangered species than you ever could have imagined, letting you discover their lives and the work WWF does for them. Try out “tiger vision,” flap your wings like a migrating butterfly, and chop the panda’s bamboo. As part of each story, you’ll get to bring an animal into your world by taking a selfie with its origami or placing it in a scene.
Zoom Workplace
Zoom is #1 in customer satisfaction and the best unified communication experience on mobile. It's super easy! Install the free Zoom app, click on "New Meeting," and invite up to 100 people to join you on video! Connect with anyone on iPad, iPhone, other mobile devices, Windows, Mac, Zoom Rooms, H.323/SIP room systems, and telephones.
