Free iPad Apps for Kids

Today I downloaded Hopscotch, a free iPad coding app, for the K - 3rd grade students to help develop coding skills.  They have been using Kodable and the lite version of Tynker.   All three apps can be found under education apps in the iPad App Store .

Benson's Tech Coordinator had suggested both Kodable and Tynker.  At a later time he also mentioned Hopscotch. During a discovery trip through the App Store at my iPads class yesterday, I spotted Hopscotch.

Free apps would seem like an easy find and are; but my first priority is to find apps that are safe, educational and entertaining.

A search for free iPad apps for kids through Google did find these three articles with great recommendations.

https://www.commonsensemedia.org/lists/free-apps-for-kids#
Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media is a non-profit based in San Francisco, CA.  Their mission is to provide information and tools needed for parents to make certain their children have a positive experience with technology.

http://fun.familyeducation.com/mobile-apps/online-games/69665.html
Family Education  is part of Family Education Network (an "online consumer network of the world's best learning and information resources").


http://childrensmd.org/uncategorized/top-15-apps-web-sites-kids-2015-edition/
Most of these apps are free and if they aren't they have free trials or lite versions
The Childrens Mom Docs are pediatricians with St. Louis Children’s Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine.