App Information

Book Creator

Age: All

Book Creator is a simple tool for creating awesome digital books. (One book is free but to make more than one book you will need to pay to upgrade.)

Age: All

With Toontastic 3D you can draw, animate, and narrate your own cartoons. It’s as easy as play. Just move your characters around onscreen, tell your story, and Toontastic records your voice and animations and stores it on your device as a 3D video.

Age: Grades K-6

Digital library for kids, where kids can explore their interests and learn with instant, unlimited access to 40,000 high-quality ebooks, audiobooks, learning videos, and quizzes for kids.

Age: All

Borrow ebooks and audiobooks from your school’s library with Sora. Setup is simple – just find your school and sign in. Then download or stream your assignments and favorite books to your device.

Age: All

A simple way to complete any school worksheet on your iPad or Tablet. (SnapType is free but you may choose to pay  to upgrade to SnapType Pro.)

Age: All

A powerful keyboard replacement that works in every app. Supporting reading, writing, comprehension and vocabulary development, Read&Write provides a rich set of features which extend accessibility and provide a range of tools to help with literacy

Age: Grades K-3

ScratchJr is an introductory programming language Scratch Junior that enables young children (ages 5-7) to create their own interactive stories and games.

Age: Grades 2-7

This free, fun app has an easy drag & drop interface that kids of all ages can use to animate Daisy and make her dance on their screen. Kids will intuitively grasp the basics of objects, sequencing, loops and events by solving this app’s challenges.

Age: Grade 3+

With Scratch, you can program your own interactive stories, games, and animations . Scratch helps young people learn to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively — essential skills for life in the 21st century.

Age: Grades K-4

Students can draw using a wide range of drawing tools and stickers. Can also record movies and use stencils.

Age: All

Grab your camera and make your pictures talk. Great to show your writing skills and share facts.

Ages: All

Kids can show what they know by easily creating movies and movie trailers.

Age: 9+

With it’s easy to use interface Stop Motion Studio lets you create beautiful movies like Wallace and Gromit or those groovy Lego shorts on YouTube. (Basic app is free and upgrades cost money.)

Age: K+

Popplet is the simplest tool to capture and organize your ideas. With Popplet you can quick jot down your ideas and sort them visually into a mind-map. (This app costs money.)

Age: K+

PicCollage EDU is the SAFEST and most user-friendly collage app available. With no account required to use the app and no social sharing features, it’s perfect for young children and for classroom use. (This app costs money.)

Age: All

A simple way to complete any school worksheet on your iPad or Tablet. (SnapType is free but you may choose to pay  to upgrade to SnapType Pro.)

Age: K+

PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, Sway, Forms and more.

Age: All

Choice Works Learning tool for helping children complete daily routines (morning, day, & night), understand & control their feelings and improve their waiting skills (taking turns and not interrupting). This app is designed to provide clear and consistent support to foster a child’s independence, positive behavior, and emotional regulation at home, in school and in the community. (This app costs money.)

Age: All

Picture-based learning tool that helps children learn what is happening day-to-day throughout each month. By presenting the abstract concept of time in a structured, visual format, Choiceworks Calendar helps children organize their lives as well as understand sequence and time. (This app costs money.)

Age: All but mostly used by teacher

Online widgets and tools to support classroom interactions and activities

Age: All

The 360  Timer is an instructional timer app specifically designed for supporting students’ executive function skill development. It is based on the innovative clinical model of executive functioning skills known as 360 Thinking™. By using the app, students will have the opportunity to nurture their situational awareness, develop forethought of an end result, and organize resource materials, time and actions to complete a future task. (This app costs money.)

Age: All

You can use this for all of life’s to-dos, including shopping lists, projects at work or anything else you want to track.

Ages: All

This program is available online and there is also an app for it.  It brings you meditation, sleep stories, calming music, classes  and more. The premium edition of Calm costs money but they are currently allowing teachers free access to use with their classes.

Age: All

This app, created by  Anxiety Canada,  helps you learn to relax and be mindful.  It contains activities to help you tackle problems like worry, panic, perfectionism and more.  This app is more geared for individuals rather than a whole class but the activities in it can help you with students who are suffering these problems.  It is also a great app to recommend to parents of children suffering anxiety and other issues.

Age: All

A powerful keyboard replacement that works in every app. Supporting reading, writing, comprehension and vocabulary development, Read&Write provides a rich set of features which extend accessibility and provide a range of tools to help with literacy

Age: All

Office Lens trims, enhances and makes pictures of whiteboards and documents readable. Office Lens can convert images to editable Word and PowerPoint files too. Office Lens is like having a scanner in your pocket.

Age: All

Seeing AI is a free app that narrates the world around you. Designed for the blind and low vision community, this ongoing research project harnesses the power of AI to open up the visual world and describe nearby people, text and objects.

Age: All

A comprehensively featured calculator. Designed for a wide range of users, this calculator has large colourful buttons, optional high contrast, full VoiceOver support, and unique to this calculator; the option to use speech for answers, button names and formulas! (This app costs money.)

Age: Grades 3-12

EText Reader with Text to Speech, Font and style options. Can add bookmarks, highlighters and notes. Supports 27 languages. Can use downloaded ARCBC books. (This app costs money.)

Age: All

ClaroPDF Pro is an accessible, reading and study PDF tool for all. Annotate, mark up, listen to and save PDF files which are then still fully compatible with other popular PDF apps. Have accessible text PDF files spoken back to you with human quality voice & synchronized highlighting. (This app costs money.)

Age: All

The Kwak’wala app is a media‐rich bilingual dictionary and phrase collection comprised of words and phrases
archived at the online Aboriginal language database

Age: All

The Sliammon app is a media-rich bilingual dictionary and phrase collection comprised of words and phrases archived at the online Aboriginal language database FirstVoices.com. Word and phrase definitions are illustrated with audio recordings, images and videos.

Age: All

One of the world’s most popular nature apps, iNaturalist helps you identify the plants and animals around you. Get connected with a community of over 400,000 scientists and naturalists who can help you learn more about nature! What’s more, by recording and sharing your observations, you’ll create research quality data for scientists working to better understand and protect nature. iNaturalist is a joint initiative by the California Academy of Sciences and the National Geographic Society

Age: All

Instantly identify plants of all kinds: flowers, trees, succulents, mushrooms, cacti and more! PlantSnap is the revolutionary plant identification app from Earth.com built to help you identify plants in a snap.