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Apps For P.E.

Class Management
Team Shake
Team Shake is the technological and environmentally friendly way to choose
teams. Instead of a hat and scraps of paper, the user enters his friends names in
his iPhone and gives it a shake. The screen will then display a random set of
color-coded teams. These teams can immediately be used for game play or
saved via email. Team Shake is great for making teams for board games and
sporting events. Its also a very useful tool for teachers who need to create
groups for projects! Cost: $0.99
Teachers Assistant
Teachers can keep track of student actions, behavior, infractions, and
achievements in the classroom. This improves communicate quickly and easily
with parents and administrators by documenting student classroom habits and
behaviors and sending reports via email or making a call right from an iPhone.
Cost: Lite Edition Free, Pro Edition $7.99
Teachers Roll Call
Teachers Roll Call helps classroom instructors at any level track student
attendance. The app is designed to make data entry and management quick and
efficient so you have more time to focus on actual teaching. Cost: $0.99
Class Cards
After entering the names of your students this app will display a randomly
generated list of students. The list will not only show you the name of the
student to call upon but will also show the names of the next four students to call
upon. Cost: $4.99

Bracket Maker
This is a great portable program to help create bracket for tournaments, friendly
competitions, small leagues, and more. Its easy to use and it does the hard part of
figuring out who goes where. Cost: $0.99

Bracketmaker
This is a great portable program to help you create brackets for tournaments.
Able to customize team names for up to 32 teams. Cost: $0.99

Visuals/ Resources
Educreations
Educreations turns your iPad into a recordable whiteboard. Diagram a sports plays
through voice recording, realistic digital ink, photo imports, and simple sharing
through email, Facebook or Twitter. Cost: FREE
Giant Scoreboard
A generic scoreboard, featuring: Timer/Countdown (editable); Team names
(editable); Giant digits, visible from 50ft; Fits any sport; Simple, accurate and
reliable. Cost $0.99

Giant Timer (iPad only)


This iPad app has crystal clear numbers that can be seen from across the gym. It has great
sounds and users can make custom timer done messages. It can serve as a timer and a
stopwatch. Cost: FREE

Group Games
The perfect app for teachers looking for a quick and easy reference guide to over 50 games designed to
actively engage a group of participants. Games promote teamwork, leadership, and trust. They can be
used with groups of varying sizes and maturity levels. Cost: $0.99
iFitness HD
An exercise companion app. provides over 330 exercise images and full text
descriptions. Allows tracking of progress for multiple users. Users create customized workouts.
Cost: $1.99
Image Spinner
Choose up to 10 photos and record 10 pieces of audio to create your own spinner. Press of shake the
spinner and it will randomly land on one of the photos. Create a workout game using Image Spinner.
Cost: $0.99

Make Dice

Create dice on you iPad or iPhone. Use phrases and numbers on the dice and utilize it for a game in your
PE classes. Cost: Lite FREE, Standard: $2.99

PE Activities
A comprehensive list of games from a variety of activity and sporting categories. Games
may be used for students age 4+. Cost: FREE

PE Plus
This app contains over 100 games that will improve your student/player skill level,
enjoyment and fulfillment. Games are categorized in 10 areas: chasing, reaction, relay, cooperative, and
many more. Cost: $2.99
Pocket Body
A fully searchable interactive atlas of the human body. Cost $19.99

Tag Games
Tag Games includes games and activities designed to keep students of all ages captivated and on the
move. Provides an environment that is conducive to the way children learn the principles
of pursuit & evade. Cost: $0.99
The PE Shake
Made up of 100 PE warm-up games that are easy to set up with minimal equipment. Just shake the
phone and a new random game appears. All games are suited to both primary and secondary school
students. Cost: $0.99
The PE Geek
The PE Geek app is the one stop shop for teachers interested in utilizing emerging
technologies within Physical Education. The app provides users with access to the PE
Geek Blog, social media sources, and conference materials & handouts. Cost: FREE
Timer Tools

You get a suite of timers that are super easy to use. Timers include: Countdown, Stop Watch,
Turn Timer, Seconds Up, Seconds Down, and Interval Timer. Access and set any timer with just
a few clicks. Cost $2.99

Assessment/ Feedback
Coachs Eye
Record or upload videos of your students or athletes, then, play it back in slow-mo, backward, or
frame by frame. You can draw on the screen to help focus on certain aspects of
skill. A really great app for skill assessment allowing instant feedback for students.
Cost: $4.99
Coach My Video
Record or upload a video to analyze. Two videos can be put side by side to examine and compare. Users
have the ability to draw on the video to highlight certain aspects of skills. Cost: FREE
Easy Assessment
Easy Assessment is the app teachers, trainers and coaches have been waiting for. A simple way to
capture and assess performance in any context or situation. Experience a new level of efficiency.
Cost: $1.99
Intro Designer
A great way to make introductions to videos. App allows users to type and save to phones camera roll.
Cost: Lite edition FREE, Normal edition - $2.99

Pinnacle Studio
Use this app to make movies. It is very user friendly and provides video training. Cost:
FREE
SloPro
Shoot video at a high speed then play it back in slow motion and the speed of your choice. Cost: $2.99
Snap Guide

Snap Guide is a simple way to share and view step-by-step how to guides. Students can show
skill progression or demonstrate the rules of a game by creating their own guides and share
through email, Twitter, Facebook and more. Cost: FREE

Interactive Apps for Lessons


7 Minute Workout
This app is a circuit training workout that requires no equipment. The workout consists of
twelve scientifically selected exercised each done for 30 seconds with a 10 second rest in
between. Also has the option to play workout music during the circuit. Plug it into a projector and the
whole class can work out together. Cost: $1.99
Active Education
This app has a physical education section that includes warm-up exercises and group
games. It also has an outdoor education section. Cost: FREE

Balance It
Balance It is task card resource for PE Teachers. A simple and powerful way to provide
students with visual prompts and cues designed to help them develop gymnastic skills. It includes over
60 hand drawn balances that progressively build up in difficulty, allowing students to develop their static
balance and team work skills. Cost: $1.99
Basketball PE
This app includes tools that are valuable for physical education teachers. It provides games
and activities for all ages that are categorized by skill. Each game and activity includes a list of
equipment, rules, variations/progressions, verbal cues and diagrams. Cost: $0.99
Brain Break
This app provides ideas for activities such as Movement Exercises, Thinking Exercises,
Megabreak exercises, and Relaxation Exercises. The Movement Exercises are great for Physical
Education classes and are split into subcategories of Balance & Coordination, Controlled
Activities, Movements and Posture. Cost: $0.99
Cardio Exercise
This app gives a variety of cardio exercise ideas along with demonstrations and step-bystep instructions. Cost: FREE
Cardiograph

Cardiograph is an application, which measures your heart rate. You can save your results for
future reference, and even keep track of multiple people with individual profiles.
Cost: $1.99
C-Fit Dance Classroom Fitness
The app includes 4 ten-min dance videos of different genres. Each dance is broken down into several
lesson plans. Dance moves are taught step-by-step with demonstrations and picture
examples. Great for a physical education classroom! Cost: $0.99
FitnessHD
This app provides tools for teachers and students to improve their health by
tracking their progress through the calorie counter and body tracker as well as
view diagrams and videos of exercises and workouts. Cost: $3.99
Leg Exercise
This app is very similar to Cardio Exercises. Cost: FREE

Music Workout
A unique interval timer that utilizes your music to inform you when its time to
rest and time to work. Perfect for teachers, coaches, trainers and those looking to improve their
fitness. Simply set the work and rest duration, along with the number of sets to begin your
workout. Cost: $0.99
Play Picker
This application offers over 140 games. It also gives suggestions bases on the number of
players, type of field available and equipment. Users may choose to design their own games, as well.
Cost: FREE
Pedometer
Pedometer will work as you walk, run, jog or do your treadmill. The special algorithm
the same as used in hardware pedometers is implemented in the application. Cost: FREE
Pocket Heart
Interactive educational App to show how the human heart works in 3D. A great learning
tool for cardiac anatomy and physiology. Cost: $9.99

TGFU (Teaching Games for Understanding)

This app was developed to help PE professionals incorporate fun in lessons aimed in keeping children
active. Games are categorized into 5 sections: Pursuit/Evade, Invasion/Territorial,
Net/Wall, Striking/Fielding, and Target/Misc. Cost: $1.99
Whats My Heart Rate
This app helps you to measure your heart rate and breath rate through your iPhones or iPads camera.
Cost: FREE
Workout Producer (iPad only)
Users can create their own exercise routine from a wide variety of exercises. One work
out consists of 15 exercises. Music tracks can be selected to add to the new workout video. The video
can be shown to a PE class for a fun workout! Cost: $1.99
Zumba Dance
An app with full Zumba routines using chart topping hits. Initial purchase includes a 20-minute workout.
Buying the advanced edition gives the user 3 pre-programmed 60-minute classes. Another option is to
create a playlist of previously purchased routines with the custom class feature. Cost: $4.99
Remind 101
Remind101 provides a safe way for teachers to text message students and stay in touch
with parents. It is 100% free and is used by over 500,000 teachers, students and parents to
send millions of messages every month. Cost: FREE
Ubersense
Record. Analyze. Improve. Athletes and coaches in over 30 sports use Ubersense to
improve through slow motion video analysis. You too can use your iPhone, iTouch or
iPad camera to record and breakdown your sporting technique to get instant slow motion.
Cost: FREE
Sworkit
Sworkit takes you through 5-60 minute circuit training workouts requiring no equipment.
Just choose what part of the body to workout and for how long. Options include strength
training, cardio, stretching. Cost: FREE
Stopwatch
The app
finished, it is

shows time on a digital display and a clock face. After the timing has
most convenient to read the precise time from the digital display. The
stopwatch will count the time even when interrupted by other programs.
Cost: FREE

Top Nutrition Tips


This amazing app gives you hundreds of interesting and useful nutrition tips, diet &
weight loss tips, and nutritional health facts! Referenced from Nutrition.gov,
USDA.gov, and the Food and Nutrition Information Center, some of the most prominent
leaders in food & human nutrition information! Find a wealth of useful & practical
nutritional tips and information for a safe and healthy diet. Cost: FREE
Class Dojo
Ready to build an amazing classroom community? ClassDojo is a beautiful, safe, and
simple communication app for teachers, parents, and students. Cost: FREE
Three Ring
Easy way to capture qualitative data of student learning. Allows students,
teachers, and administrators to document anything, organize it in
seconds, and have it available at school and home. Cost: FREE
iMuscle2
Everything you need to plan and track your fitness program. Cost: $2.99

Dartfish Easy Tag


Start the timer at the beginning of the game then a fully customizable
tagging panel is used to time-stamp the key performance indicators of
your sport and display instant statistics of their frequencies. Cost: $4.99

CoachNote
A powerful and useful tool for creating real sports drills, strategies and tactics.
CoachNote is great for coaches, players, fans and sports enthusiasts looking to strategize
and share their sports plays. You can create, save and share complex sports tactics that
translate effortlessly into real-life sports plays. Cost: $4.99

iYoga
iYogas captures the delicate movements, correct posture and positioning for over 190
different poses. Our unique model allows you to see muscles in action as each pose is
demonstrated. The app also features a distinctive view which highlights muscles relevant
to each pose as they contract and expand. Cost: $1.99
Jump It. HD (Jump Rope Task Cards)
Provides students with visual prompts and cues designed to help them develop Jump
Rope skills. Featuring over 50 hand drawn jump activities that progressively build up in
difficulty, allowing students to develop their skills in a self paced manner. Cost: $.99

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