My 5th graders did a unit on the book Twenty and Ten and created VoiceThreads about topics of interest from that time period (airplanes, games and entertainment, fashion, grocery prices, etc.). We went outside and tried out Leafsnap, but the app doesn't work in the field - each plant you want to identify has to be placed on a white background. Some students used iMovie to create a weather report for the assignment desk at CNN's iReport, then uploaded it to iReport and our Vimeo channel. My 9th grader played around with Algebra Touch - which is a great way to visually explain the foundations of algebra and gives the students the ability to take apart the problems and put them back together or rearrange them. During math, I could walk around and help students who needed it, using the White Board app on my iPad. When they were finished with their assignment, the could play a math game on their iPad (I downloaded games to each student's iPad specific for the areas they needed help in). The kids accessed IXL from the iMacs and the iPads (through Safari - there is no app for IXL yet). We used in our classroom, which is an incredible site for kids to use and saves lots of time - especially for multigrade teachers! IXL offers a self-paced math website that teachers can align with state standards and individualize each student's learning experience. Practice or take the memory verse test by making an audio recording using Audio Memos (the student could then email me and/or their parents the recording from the app). Younger students and students with a visual learning style would read the stories in Action Bible (a Bible with illustrations and short sentences like a comic book). Reinforce Bible lesson by watching a short Bible video (Bible.is). Highlight our weekly Bible verse to memorize and read or listen to it (Olive Tree or Bible.is). Look up verses to find answers to questions and/or to read together (Olive Tree Bible Reader). Here is how we used iPads throughout our day: I placed time slots that didn't use the iPad or computer at intervals throughout the day to give the kids' eyes a break (reading workshop, recess/lunch, read aloud). 
I modified our daily schedule when we started using the iPads so the students would have a break between screen times.
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