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There’s An App for That
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App Title: Snap Junior
App Price: $1.99
Subject Area: Reading
Rationale for Curriculum Use: Has more than 150 leveled e-books that are paired with fully scripted lesson plans and related activities.
NYS P-12 Common Core/NYS Standard:Rf. 4.4 – Reading: Foundational Skills - Fluency
Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehensiona. Read grade level text with purpose and understanding
Ontario Curriculum Expectations: Overall Expectation Grade 4 – Reading:
1. Read and demonstrate an understanding of a variety of literary, graphic, and informational texts, using a range of strategies to construct meaning.
1.4 – Demonstrate understanding of a variety of texts by summarizing important ideas and citing supporting details
App Title: Story Builder
App Price: $5.99
Subject Area: Writing
Rationale for Curriculum Use: With a library of sound recordings and the ability to record their own voice, this app will allow students to get the creativity flowing to be a storyteller.
NYS P-12 Common Core/NYS Standard:W.4.6 Grade 4 Writing – Production and Distribution of Writing
6. With some guidance and support from adults, use technology, including the internet, to produce and publish writing as well as to interact and collaborate with others; demonstrate sufficient command of keyboarding skills to type a minimum of one page in a single sitting.
Ontario Curriculum Expectations: Overall Expectation Grade 4 – Writing
2. Draft and revise their writing, using a variety of informational, literary, and graphic forms and stylistic elements appropriate for the purpose and audience
2.8 - Produce revised, draft pieces of writing to meet identified criteria based on the expectations related to content, organization, style, and use of conventions.
App Title: FactorMan
App Price: Free
Subject Area: Math
Rationale for Curriculum Use: Math game – earn points by choosing numbers between 1 and 100. Practice your arithmetic skills to win the game.
NYS P-12 Common Core/NYS Standard: 4.OA.B.4 Operations and Algebraic Thinking - Gain familiarity with factors and multiples
4. Find all factor pairs for a whole number in the range 1-100. Recognize that a whole number is a multiple of each of its factors. Determine whether a given whole number in the range of 1-100 is a multiple of a given one-digit number. Determine whether a given whole number in the range 1-100 is prime or composite.
Ontario Curriculum Expectations: Grade 4 Number Sense and Numeration Overall Expectation:
- Solve problems involving the addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division or single- and multi- digit whole numbers, and involving the addition and subtraction of decimal numbers to the tenths and money amounts, using a variety of strategies.
o Counting - Solve problems involving the multiplication of one-digit whole numbers, using a variety of mental strategies
App Title: Simple Machines Grades 3-8
App Price: $0.99
Subject Area: Science
Rationale for Curriculum Use: Contains 7 chapters, printables, crossword and memory match game for simple machines.
NYS P-12 Common Core/NYS Standard:Key Idea 5: Energy and matter interact through forces that result in changes in motion
5.1F – Mechanical energy may cause change in motion through the application of force and through the use of simple machines such as pulleys, levers, and inclined planes
Ontario Curriculum Expectations: Overall Expectations – Grade 4 Pulleys and Gears:
3. Demonstrate an understanding of the basic principles and functions of pulley systems and gear systems
3.1. Describe the purposes of pulley systems and gear systems (i.e. To facilitate changes in direction, speed, or force)
App Title: TapQuiz Maps World Edition
App Price: Free
Subject Area: Social Studies/Geography
Rationale for Curriculum Use: Quick, easy, and fun way to master world geography – countries and cities.
NYS P-12 Common Core/NYS Standard:3. Geography:
Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of the geography of the interdependent world in which we live – local, national, and global – including the distribution of people, places, and environments over the Earth’s surfaces.
Key Idea 2: Geography requires the development and application of the skills of asking and answering geographic questions; analyzing theories of geography; and acquiring, organizing, and analyzing geographic information.
Performance Indicator: Gather and organize geographic information from a variety of sources and display in a number of ways.
Ontario Curriculum Expectations:
Overall Expectations for Heritage and Identity: Early SocietiesA2. Use the social studies inquiry process to investigate ways of life and relationships with the environment in two or more early societies, with an emphasis on aspects of the interrelationship between the environment and life in those societies.
Specific Expectations on Inquiry: Ways of Life and Relationships with the EnvironmentA2.3 Analyse and construct print and/or digital maps, including thematic maps, as part of their investigations into interrelationships between the environment and life in early societies.
App Title: Workout Trainer
App Price: Free
Subject Area: Physical Education
Rationale for Curriculum Use: Hundreds of workouts that require little to no equipment. There is audio and video explanation of every exercise and a timer countdown letting you know how long to perform the desired exercise before moving onto the next one
NYS P-12 Common Core/NYS Standard:1. Personal Health and Fitness – Students will have the necessary knowledge and
skills to establish and maintain physical fitness, participate in physical activity, and maintain personal health.
Key Idea A: Students will perform basic motor and manipulative skills. They will attain competency in a variety of physical activities and proficiency in a few select complex motor and sports activities.
Performance Indicator: Students will understand the effects of activity on the body, the risks associated with inactivity, and the basic components of health related fitness (cardio-vascular, muscle strength, muscle endurance, flexibility, and body composition).
Ontario Curriculum Expectations: Overall Expectations Grade 4: Active LivingA1. Participate actively and regularly in a wide variety of physical activities, and demonstrate an understanding of the factors that encourage life-long participation in physical activity.
A1.1 Actively participate in a wide variety of program activities according to their capabilities, while applying behaviors that enhance their readiness and ability to take part.
App Title: Flea Symphony
App Price: $0.99
Subject Area: Music
Rationale for Curriculum Use: Allows child to experience various instrument sounds to create a symphony.
NYS P-12 Common Core/NYS Standard:Standard 2: Knowing and Using Arts Materials and Resources
Performance Indicator 2A: Use classroom and non-traditional instruments in performing and creating music
Ontario Curriculum Expectations: Overall Expectations Grade 4 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.
C1.2 Apply the elements of music when singing and/or playing, composing, and arranging music to create a specific effect
App Title: EyePaint Monsters
App Price: Free
Subject Area: Art
Rationale for Curriculum Use: Allows students to create amazing images alongside world-renowned artists by completing their images and making them their own.
NYS P-12 Common Core/NYS Standard:1. Creating, Performing, and Participating in the Arts
1. Students will make works of art that explore different kinds of subject matter, topics, themes, and metaphors. Students will understand and use sensory elements, organizational principles, and expressive images to communicate their own ideas in works of art. Students will use a variety of materials, processes, mediums, and techniques, and use appropriate technologies for creating and exhibiting visual artworks.
Performance Indicator A: Students will experiment and create artwork in a variety of mediums (drawing, painting, sculpture, ceramics, print making, video, and computer graphics), based on a range of individual and collective experiences.
Ontario Curriculum Expectations: Overall Expectations Grade 4 Visual Arts:D1. Creating and presenting: Apply the creative process to produce a variety of two and three dimensional artworks, using elements, principles, and techniques of visual arts to communicate feelings, ideas, and understandings.
D1.1 Create a two and three-dimensional works of art that express feelings and ideas inspired by their interests and experiences.
App Title: Tangram Free
App Price: Free
Subject Area: Math
Rationale for Curriculum Use: Use knowledge of lines, shapes, and angles to create shapes using tans and foster learning of special relationships.
NYS P-12 Common Core/NYS Standard:4.G.A.2 Geometry – Draw and Identify lines and angles, and classify shapes by properties by their lines and angles
2. Classify two-dimensional figures based on the presence or absence of parallel or perpendicular lines, or the presence or absence of angles of a specified size. Recognize right triangles as a category, and identify right triangles.
Ontario Curriculum Expectations: Overall Expectations Grade 4 Geometry and Spatial Sense:Identify quadrilaterals and three-dimensional figures and classify them by their geometric properties, and compare various angels to benchmarks
- Identify and compare different quadrilaterals and sort and classify them by their geometric properties.
App Title: Ruzzle
App Price: Free
Subject Area: Language
Rationale for Curriculum Use: Fast paced game to help students think quickly and compose words.
NYS P-12 Common Core/NYS Standard:RF.4.3 Reading: Foundational Skills – Phonics and Words Recognition
3. Know and apply grade phonics and word analysis skills in decoding wordsA. Use combined knowledge of letter-sound correspondences, syllabication patterns, and morphology to read accurately unfamiliar multi-syllabic words in context and out of context
Ontario Curriculum Expectations: Overall Expectations Grade 4 Reading:
3. Use knowledge of words and cueing systems to read fluently.3.2 Predict the meaning of and rapidly solve unfamiliar words using different types of cues including semantic cues, syntactic cues, graphophonic cues