31 Free iPad Apps for Science Teachers

This year, our science department was lucky enough to receive an iPad cart for their department, so of course I have been on the lookout for any free apps they could use in the classroom. Hope you find some you too can use. Free is always good.

3D Cell

3D Sun

Bill Nye the Science Guy- you watched him as a kid

Dinosaurs 360

Essential Skeleton- covers the anatomy of the skeleton

Explorium-Oceans for Kids

Explorium-Space for Kids- information on the solar system, including games, encyclopedia

Frog Dissection- virtual lab

goREACT- be a virtual chemist with this app

Happy Little Farmer Lite

iCelsius

KidQuest- interactive crafts, experiments, games

LeafSnap- identify tree species

MarcoPolo Weather

Max and Ruby! Science Educational Games for Kids in Preschool and Kindergarten

Molecules

Moon Atlas- 3D globe of the moon

National Parks by National Geographic

Peterson Backyard Birds: A Field Guide to Birds of North America

Quick Periodic Table of Elements

Science 360- news and images from the National Science Foundation

Science Bear- basic concepts of middle school science

Science Glossary

Science Heroes: Digestive System for Kids

SkyORB- " 3D star map, 3D planetarium, ephemeris with notifications, search engine, sun clock, point to sky, weather"

Smithsonian Channel

Solve the Outbreak- students are the "disease detectives"

Thinkrolls

VideoScience- 80 hands-on science lessons

Virtual Heart- real-time views of the human heart

WWF Together- World Wildlife Fund

41 Great Blogs to Follow By Subject Area

There are hundreds of thousands of education blogs out there on the web.  If you are not following anyone on Twitter in your subject area, how do you get your information? Are you registered on a wiki? Did you join any social networks like NING? Maybe some of you are even asking, "what's a wiki?" Here's a great place to start: read blogs in your area of study. Subscribe to them in a reader (RSS= really simple syndication) or via e-mail, whatever you find easier. This information should be available on the blog. Want to add any blogs to this list? Feel free to post a comment.

ART

Art of Apex High School 

The Art Teacher's Guide to the Internet 

The Teaching Palette

EARLY CHILDHOOD
A Place Called Kindergarten-teacher Jonelle Bell
Preschool Daze- preschool teacher and director Kristen Neufeld Epp
Teacher Tom

EDUCATION POLICY
Change Agency- Stephanie Sandifer blogs about education 
Practical Theory- Chris Lehman, principal of the Science Leadership Academy

Schools Matter-explores issues in public education policy

ENGLISH

The Scholastic Scribe- journalism and AP English teacher

Shakespeare Teacher 

SpeechTechie- interactive technologies you can use in language lessons and interventions.

ESL

Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day- a treasure-trove of sites from this ESL/ELL teacher

Teacher Reboot Camp- Shelley Terrell's blog covers language education, training (she gives webinars) and something for every teacher

GUIDANCE COUNSELORS

School Counseling Matters: The Professional Weblog of Rick Scheibner

HISTORY

Teaching the Civil War with Technology

U.S. History Teachers' Blog 

MATH 

The Exponential Curve- written by math teacher Dan Wekselgreene, this blog seeks to "generate and share ideas for teaching high school math concepts to students whose skills are below grade level".

I Speak Math- shows how to integrate technology and mathematics; written by Julie Reulbach

Math in the Middle - written by a middle school algebra teacher

Math Teacher Mambo- Ms. Cookie posts ideas for the classroom, including lesson plans

The Number Warrior-written by Algebra I, College Algebra, and Pre-Calculus teacher Jason Dryer

SCIENCE
Action-Reaction- physics teacher Frank Noschese
Always Formative- middle school science teacher Jason Buell

Educational Technology Guy

Quantum Progress- 9th grade physics teacher's award-winning blog
Teaching Chemistry: Building a 21st Century Chemistry Classroom - high school chemistry teacher Ellena Bethea

TEACHER-LIBRARIANS

100 Best Blogs for School Librarians

AASL Blog- The American Association of School Librarians

Neverending Search- Joyce Valenza's blog for School Library Journal

Top 50 School Library Blogs

TECHNOLOGY  INTEGRATION

Free Technology For Teachers - Richard Byrne's wonderful blog with technology resources

Kathy Schrock's Kaffeeklatsch- Kathy's resources can also be found on Discovery Education's

NCS-Tech- K-8 Ed-Tech resources

Thuman Resources- Lisa Thuman's "21st Century ideas to help facilitate good teaching and learning."

WORLD LANGUAGES

Blog Italiano- Italian

CT for Language Teachers

eTools for Language Teachers- written by a French teacher from Canada

French Teacher

Learn French

Los Bloguitos- Spanish

Spanish Plans- lessons and resources for Spanish teachers