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Educational iPad Applications

After the iPad was released, it didn’t take a long time for the parents and teachers to realize that this tablet can be helpful in the educations of the little ones. These apps aren’t free (most of them) but the thing is that they’re not expensive either. It’s true that these applications aren’t as popular ar leisure or game apps are. There are still some applications that can be handy when we are talking about education.




Magic Piano by Smule is an extraordinary virtual piano application that was made specially for the iPad. You can learn piano songs (popular ones) by just tapping your screen. Unfortunately, the application can teach you to play the piano, but it’s fun and it creates you a big sense for rhythm and dexterity. You can play at a spiral keyboard or at a keyboard in shape of a circle. You can also chose how many keys you want to have and the spiral keyboard can be quite a challenge.

Beautiful Planet HD: an application that will let your students to visit different places on Earth by just using their fingers. There are 570 image from 160 countries and you can easily see hot it’s like to live in France or India. The photos that come with the app are of high quality and were taken by a famous photographer, Peter Guttman.

If you want to teach younger kids the alphabet, then the Alphabet Fun application is the perfect one for this. Its’ easy for all the preschool kids to learn colors, numbers and letter whey they are using this application. The app has a great feature: a voice that will tell a child what’s the name of the letter he picked. If there are any mistakes, these can be easily deleted; the only thing you have to do is to shake gentle the iPad.

One of the most interesting educational iPad applications is The Elements. This app has lots of interesting things to offer for the classroom. Practically, this app is an interactive periodic table. Children can learn the periodic table in interesting ways. You can watch videos, you can zoom in and out, you can read about properties. Let’s not forget that you will surely be amazed by the clarity and the detail you can get from this application.

Weather HD is an interactive app that will show you the weather from outside. You just have to set up the city you want, and there they are: tolling clouds, golden sunset, moving glass. It’s everything you need to see and more. You can view the weather for the next 4 days, you can see the wind speed, the humidity and of course, the temperature.

These are not all the educational iPad applications that you can use. There are many more and there are some educative apps made for children (different ages) and some are made for teachers. This happens because the iPad is now in everybody’s lips. There are new iPods everyday sold to people and this technology is starting to be a part of our loves. So why shouldn’t we let the iPad help us?

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