App Assignment

EDU 571: Technology for the Classroom

Melanie Sander

Medaille College

Mary Beth Scumaci

August 7, 2017
 App Title: National Geographic Weird But True!
App Price: Free
Subject Area: ELA Reading App
Rationale for Curriculum Use: Wacky facts and trivia for kids!
This is a terrific app for engaging kids imagination and creativity.
Kids are fascinated by things like Ripleys Believe it or Not and the
Guinness Book of Records. Weird But True is the app format
appropriate for school age kids. I would use this for an option for
Reading Response journal. Have the students discover their most
interesting weird fact, and then write about their thoughts and
feelings about it. They can do further research about the subject as well.

ISTE Teacher:
6 Facilitator - Educators facilitate learning with technology to support student achievement of
the ISTE Standards for Students. Educators:
6d - Model and nurture creativity and creative expression to communicate ideas, knowledge or
connections.

ISTE: Student:
6 - Creative Communicator - Students communicate clearly and express themselves creatively
for a variety of purposes using the platforms, tools, styles, formats and digital media appropriate
to their goals.
6c - Students communicate complex ideas clearly and effectively by creating or using a variety
of digital objects such as visualizations, models or simulations.

NYS P-12 Standard: RL.6.1 Reading: Literature Key Ideas & Details. Cite textual evidence to
support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

Ontario Curriculum Standard: Reading: 1. Read and demonstrate an understanding of a

variety of literary, graphic, and informational texts, using a range of strategies to construct
meaning; Demonstrations Understanding 1.4 demonstrate understanding of increasingly complex
texts by summarizing and explaining important ideas and citing relevant supporting details.

App Title: Air Wings Pangea Software

App Price: Free
Subject Area: Science
Rationale for Curriculum Use: This is paper airplane building
coming to computer screen. The students can build and battle each
other on the iPads. This reinforces our lessons in Grade 6 science on
Air & Aerodynamics and is a fun, entertaining way to encourage
students to finish up their work and get some free time on the computers.

ISTE Teacher:
6 - Analyst: Educators understand and use data to drive their instruction and support students in
achieving their learning goals.
Educators: 7a - Provide alternative ways for students to demonstrate competency and reflect on
their learning using technology.

ISTE: Student:
1 - Empowered Learner: Students leverage technology to take an active role in choosing,
achieving and demonstrating competency in their learning goals, informed by the learning
sciences.
1a - Students articulate and set personal learning goals, develop strategies leveraging technology
to achieve them and reflect on the learning process itself to improve learning outcomes.

NYS P-12 Standard: Standard #4 The Physical Setting - Key Idea: #3 - Expectation: #3.1h
Density can be described as the amount of matter that is in a given amount of space. If two
objects have equal volume, but one has more mass, the one with more mass is denser.

Ontario Curriculum Standard: Grade 6 - Understanding Structures & MechanismsFlight 2)

Key Idea: Understanding Basic Concepts 3.1 Expectations: 3.1 Identify the properties of air that
make flight possible (e.g. air takes up space, has mass, expands, can exert a force when
compressed)

App Title: Khan Academy

App Price: Free
Subject Area: Math
Rationale for Curriculum Use: This is an excellent app for
flipping the classroom and allows students to work through things
at their own pace. Myself, I would like the students to use it
specifically to re-teach math lessons, and let them move through the
lesson and review the lesson as they need to until they learn the
material.
I
STE Teacher -
Facilitator- Educators facilitate learning with technology to support student achievement of
the ISTE Standards for Students. Educators:
6a - Foster a culture where students take ownership of their learning goals and outcomes in
both independent and group settings.

ISTE: Student:
1: Empowered Learner
Students leverage technology to take an active role in choosing, achieving and demonstrating
competency in their learning goals, informed by the learning sciences.
1c Students use technology to seek feedback that informs and improves their practice and
to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways.

NYS P-12 Standard: 6.RP.1 Ratios & Proportional Relationships Understand ratio concepts &
use ratio reasoning to solve problems. Understand the concept of a ratio and use ratio language
to describe a ratio relationship between two quantities.

Ontario Curriculum Standard: Grade 6 Number Sense & Numeration demonstrate an

understanding of relationships involving percent, ratio & unit rate. Proportional Relationship
represent ratios found in real life contexts, using concrete materials, drawings, and standard
fractional notation.

App Title: NASA Be a Martian

App Price: Free
Subject Area: ScienceSpace
Rationale for Curriculum Use: The NASA Be a Martian app
lets users experience Mars as if they were actually there. The
students will take part in discovery as it happens, and join a
community of worldwide explorers. Students get to see the latest
mission images, learn about Mars, ask questions, get behind the
scene videos. This app will be used during our science unit and they
will be doing an assignment where they are an alien new to a place and all the challenges they
may encounter. This will be a lengthy written assignment.

ISTE Teacher:
6 - Facilitator - Educators facilitate learning with technology to support student achievement of
the ISTE Standards for Students. Educators:
6d - Model and nurture creativity and creative expression to communicate ideas, knowledge or
connections.

ISTE: Student:
3 - Knowledge Constructor - Students critically curate a variety of resources using digital tools to
construct knowledge, produce creative artifacts and make meaningful learning experiences for
themselves and others.
3a - Students plan and employ effective research strategies to locate information and other
resources for their intellectual or creative pursuits.

NYS P-12 Standard: ELA Writing: W.6.7 Research to Build and Present Knowledge.
Conduct short research projects to answer a question, drawing on several sources and refocusing
the inquiry when appropriate.
Ontario Curriculum Standard: Writing: generate, gather, and organize ideas and information
to write for an intended purpose and audience. Developing ideas - 1.2 generate ideas about a
potential topic and identify those most appropriate for the purpose.

App Title: National Geographic Kids

App Price: Free
Subject Area: Social Studies
Rationale for Curriculum Use: This app is a terrific combination
of science and geography. Cross curriculum learning will take place
as the students explore bio-diversity and what it looks like in
different regions of the world. There are games and activities and
badges to be earned.

ISTE Teacher:
6 Facilitator - Educators facilitate learning with technology to support student achievement of
the ISTE Standards for Students.
Educators: 6c - Create learning opportunities that challenge students to use a design
process and computational thinking to innovate and solve problems.

ISTE: Student:
1 - Empowered Learner - Students leverage technology to take an active role in choosing,
achieving and demonstrating competency in their learning goals, informed by the learning
sciences.
1b - Students build networks and customize their learning environments in ways that support the
learning process.

NYS P-12 Standard: Social Studies 6.2.7 Concept 2 Geography of Eastern Hemisphere
nations. Objective 7. Geographic features and climatic conditions in the Eastern Hemisphere
influence land use.

Ontario Curriculum Standard: B. People and Environments: Canadas Interactions with the
Global Community. B2. Inquiry: use the social studies inquiry process to investigate some global
issues of political, social, economic, and/or environmental importance, their impact on the global
community, and responses to the issues. B2.2 gather & organize information of global issues of
political, social, economic, and/or environmental importance.
 App Title: Class Dojo
App Price: Free
Subject Area: Classroom Management Music
Rationale for Curriculum Use: This is a terrific app to use for
students with disabilities to encourage positive behavior. It is a safe
and simple way to communicate classroom expectations with
students and parents. You can positively reinforce good behavior in
students and ensure that everyone is working together and
promoting team work.

ISTE Teacher:
6 Facilitator - Educators facilitate learning with technology to support student achievement of
the ISTE Standards for Students. Educators:
6a - Foster a culture where students take ownership of their learning goals and outcomes in
both independent and group settings.

ISTE: Student:
6 - Creative Communicator: Students communicate clearly and express themselves creatively for
a variety of purposes using the platforms, tools, styles, formats and digital media appropriate to
their goals.
6a - Students choose the appropriate platforms and tools for meeting the desired objectives of
their creation or communication.

NYS P-12 Standard: The Arts Standards Standard 1 Creating, performing and participating
in the Arts. Music Key Idea: Students will compose original music and perform music written
by others. They will understand and use the basic elements of music in their performances and
compositions. Students will engage in individual and group musical and music-related tasks, and
will describe the various roles and means of creating, performing, recording and producing
music.

Ontario Curriculum Standard: Music C1. Creating and Performing: apply the creative
process to create and perform music for a variety of purposes, using the elements and techniques
of music. C1.3 create musical compositions for specific purposes and audiences.

App Title: Tumble Books

App Price: Free
Subject Area: ELA ELL learners
Rationale for Curriculum Use: This is a simple to use app that
allows students to research and read books in English as well as
other languages. This would allow our ELL learners to re-read some
books in their native language to ensure their comprehension level
was getting stronger.
ISTE Teacher:
6 Facilitator - Educators facilitate learning with technology to support student achievement of
the ISTE Standards for Students. Educators:
6d - Model and nurture creativity and creative expression to communicate ideas, knowledge or
connections.

ISTE: Student:
1 - Empowered Learner - Students leverage technology to take an active role in choosing,
achieving and demonstrating competency in their learning goals, informed by the learning
sciences.
1a - Students articulate and set personal learning goals, develop strategies leveraging technology
to achieve them and reflect on the learning process itself to improve learning outcomes.

NYS P-12 Standard: ELA Reading Standard L.6.4 Language. Vocabulary Acquisition and Use.
Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on
grade 6 reading and content, choosing flexibility from a range of strategies. C. Consult reference
materials both print and digital to dint the pronunciation of a word or determine or clarify its
precise meaning or its part of speech.

Ontario Curriculum Standard: Grade 6 Overall Expectations 3. Use knowledge of words

and cuing systems to read fluently. Reading Familiar Words 3.1 Automatically read and
understand most words in a range of reading contexts.

App Title: Terra Genesis

App Price: $2.99
Subject Area: Science: Space & Biodiversity
Rationale for Curriculum Use: Rooted in real science, this app
allows students to create and colonize new planets with a variety of
bio-spheres. Students will learn more about eco systems and the
organisms that live in them if they can create their own.

ISTE Teacher:
2 Leader - Educators seek out opportunities for leadership to support student empowerment
and success and to improve teaching and learning. Educators:
2a - Shape, advance and accelerate a shared vision for empowered learning with technology
by engaging with education stakeholders.
ISTE: Student:
1 - Empowered Learner - Students leverage technology to take an active role in choosing,
achieving and demonstrating competency in their learning goals, informed by the learning
sciences.
1c - Students use technology to seek feedback that informs and improves their practice and
to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways.

NYS P-12 Standard: Science Living Environment LE.S1.1 Analysis, Inquiry, and Design.
Students will use mathematical analysis, scientific inquiry, and engineering design, as
appropriate, to pose questions, seek answers, and develop solutions.

Ontario Curriculum Standard: Understanding earth and space systems. 2. Developing

Investigation and communication skills. 2.3 Use scientific inquiry/research skills to investigate
scientific and technological advances that allow humans to adapt to life in space.