There’s an App For that

1. There’s an App For that Michael Bacchus Medaille College Edu: 571 Technology for the Elementary Classroom U28 Professor Matt Rydelek

2. Toontastic • App Price: $0.00 to $19.99 • Subject Area: English and Language Arts • Rationale for Curriculum Use: Toontastic would be excellent for the classroom as it teaches story structures . Students create stories using carton characters with their own voice-overs. Students use a format to fill in introduction, conflict, climax, and resolution. Students practice writing , planning and implementing. • NYS: Common core for grade 4 key ideas: Describe in debt character setting, or event in a story or drama drawing on specific detail • NYS Standard: Develop a personal voice that enable the reader to get to know the writer • Ontario: 2.2 Demonstrate understanding appropriate speaking behavior in a variety of different situations- organizing texts in reading.

3. Fraction Attraction • App Price $1.99 • Subject Area: Math • Rationale for Curriculum use: This game is excellent for children to assists them in learning fractions. The student will have to virtually shuffle tile pieces around until they match them up correctly and they disappear. The objective is to be the first one to clear the board. • NYS Common Core Grade 3: Develop understanding of fractions as numbers. • 1. Understand a fraction 1/b as the quantity formed by 1 part when a whole is partitioned into b equal parts; understand a fraction a/b as the quantity formed by a parts of size 1/b. • NYS Standard Grade 3: Students will recognize reasoning and proof as fundamental aspects of mathematics. 3.R; P.1 Use representations to support mathematical ideas • Ontario Curriculum Grade 4: Compare and order fractions (i.e., halves, thirds, fourths, fifths, tenths) by considering the size and the number of fractional

4. ABC Magic Reading • App Price: $0.00 • Subject Area: Reading • Rationale for Curriculum: Magic reader teaches kids phonetic awareness while having fun cool stories and games reinforcing reading comprehension. • NYS Common Core Grade 1: 1dentify the main topic and retell key details of a text NYS Standards: Grade 1: Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. • Ontario Curriculum 1:demonstrate understanding of a text by retelling the story or restating information from the text, including the main idea

5. Social Studies Q and A • App Price: $2.99 • Subject Area: Social Studies • Rationale for Curriculum: This App provides a pre-quiz and pre-test for social studies. It has a ride range of categories and levels. • NYS common Core Grade 4: By the end of the year students will describe the relationship between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text, using language that pertains to time, sequence, and cause/effect. • NYS Standard grade 4: By the end of the year students will know the roots of American culture, its development from many different traditions, and the ways many people from a variety of groups and backgrounds played a role in creating it. • Ontario Curriculum grade 2: use a variety of resources and tools to gather, process, and communicate geographic information about the countries studied

6. Health Puzzle • App price $0.00 • Subject Area: Health/Physical Education • Rational for curriculum: This app is perfect to help kids test their health knowledge a s it offers trivia games, crosswords, and word searches . • NYS Common Core elementary: Students will have the necessary knowledge and skills to establish and maintain physical fitness, participate in physical activity, and maintain personal health. • NYS Standard elementary: students will know how basic body systems work and interrelate informal patterns of growth and development • Ontario Curriculum grade 5: Students will know and demonstrate an understanding of factors that contribute to healthy development;

7. Science Journal • App price: $1.99 • Subject Area: Science • Rationale for Curriculum: This app allows students to see the daily science around them from gardening to playing game on the computer and this app allows the students to learn the science behind daily activities. • NYS Common Core Grade 6: Students will develop written plans for exploring phenomena or for evaluating explanations guided by questions or proposed • NYS Standard Grade 6: Students will understand and apply scientific concepts, principles, and theories pertaining to the physical setting and living environment and recognize the historical development of ideas in science.

8. Music Learning Lab • App price: $0.00 Subject area: Music Rationale for Curriculum: This game teaches children fundamental musical skills such as rhythm in a fun interactive way and basic notation. • NYS Common Core :Students will be knowledgeable about and make use of the materials and resources available for participation in the arts in various roles • NYS Standard: students will read simple standard notation in performance, and follow vocal or keyboard scores in listening and performing ensembles, read very easy/easy music • Ontario Curriculum grade 2: By the end of grade 2 students will use symbols to represent musical symbolsand sounds

9. A Jazzy Day • App price: $4.99 • Subject Area : Music • Rationale for Curriculum: This app is a fun interactive story which teach children about all the different types of instruments in a big band and basic musical notation used in a band. • NYS Common Core : Students will be knowledgeable about and make use of the materials and resources available for participation in the arts in various roles • NYS Standard: students will read simple standard notation in performance, and follow vocal or keyboard scores in listening and performing ensembles, read very easy/easy music • Ontario Curriculum grade 2: By the end of grade 2 students will use symbols to represent musical symbolsand sounds

10. Discovery Art History • App Price: $2.99 • Subject Area: Visual Arts • Rationale for Curriculum: This app is a virtual art gallery teaching students art history in a fun and interactive way. • NYS Common Core : Students will be knowledgeable about and make use of the materials and resources available for participation in the arts in various roles • NYS Standards: Students will develop an understanding of the personal and cultural forces that shape artistic communication and how the arts in turn shape the diverse cultures of past and present society. • Ontario Curriculum Grade 5: describe how forms and styles of visual and media arts represent various messages and contexts in the past and present

11. IDiary For Kids • App Price: $1.99 • Subject Area: Writing • Rationale for Curriculum: This is a virtual diary which allows the students to write their personal reflections about a field trip or instruction day. It gives student to be creative with pictures and text. • Common Core grade 2: Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. Distinguish long and short vowels when reading regularly spelled one-syllable words • NYS Standards: By the end of grade 2 students will State a main idea and support it with facts, with assistance • Ontario Curriculum: By the end of Grade 2 students will spell unfamiliar words using a variety of strategies that involve understanding sound-symbol relationships, word structures, word meanings, and generalizations about spelling