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Title: Go Noodle App Price: Free

Subject Area: Physical Education Choice #1

Rationale for Curriculum Use: Go noodle is a free app that requires login
information. It has This app is designed for both students and teachers. It is for
an iPhone and iPad or can be used through a website. Go noodle is a great way for students to
move around and be active. Students can pick what they wish to participate in. They can sing and
dance, play different sports, active trivia or guided yoga and meditation. It is a great way for
students to have more resources to keep students engaged.

ISTE Teacher: Designer- Educators design authentic, learner-driven activities and

environments that recognize and accommodate learner variability. Educators:

5a- Use technology to create, adapt and personalize learning experiences that foster independent
learning and accommodate learner differences and needs.

ISTE Student: 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.

6d- Students publish or present content that customizes the message and medium for their
intended audiences.

NYS P-12 Common Core/NYS Standard: Standard 1- Students will have the necessary
knowledge and skills to establish and maintain physical fitness, participate in physical activity,
and maintain personal health

a. Key Ideas- a- 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.

Ontario Curriculum Expectations:

Overall Expectation Grade 2: Movement Strategies B1. perform movement skills,

demonstrating awareness of the basic requirements of the skills and applying movement concepts
as appropriate, as they engage in a variety of physical activities;

Specific expectations B2.1 Demonstrate an understanding that different physical activities have
different components
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Title: Super Duper Story Maker App Price: 4.99

Subject Area: ELA Writing

Rationale for Curriculum Use: Although this app cost money students, can create all the picture and photo
stories. Students can even make up their own photo albums, his app helps students practice learning skills, such as
reading, sequencing, vocabulary and sentence building, following directions, grammar, storytelling and retelling,
interacting with others, and more. This app will help students to recognize objects, vocabulary, sentence making,
reading, spelling, sentence completion, grammar, articulation, story building, retell and social skills. Teachers can use
this app to create worksheets and parents can use this at home to practice skills and keeping children engaged.

Standards

ISTE Teacher: Facilitator Educators facilitate learning with technology to support student
achievement of the ISTE Standards for Students.

6c- Create learning opportunities that challenge students to use a design

process and computational thinking to innovate and solve problems.

ISTE Student: 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 Common Core/NYS Standard:

Grade: 2
Topic: Writing (Text types and purposes)
Item Number and statement: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.2.3 Write narratives in which they
recount a well-elaborated event or short sequence of events, include details to describe actions,
thoughts, and feelings, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide a sense of closure.

Ontario Curriculum Expectations:

Overall Expectation Grade 2: 2. Draft and revise their writing, using a variety of informational,
literary, and graphic forms and stylistic elements of appropriate for the purpose of the audience.

Specific expectations: Form - 2.1 write short texts using several simple forms.
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Title: Splash Math Grade 2 App Price: 9.99

Subject Area: Math- Content Area 1

Rationale for Curriculum Use This app is fantastic for parents and teachers not only is it an
exciting aquarium theme it covers the complete grade 2 curriculum with 13 chapters. It comes with
a virtual aquarium where the kid can earn fishes and play mini-games. This math app turns your
iPad or iPhone. It includes topics on time, number sense, data, graphing, money, measurement,
geometry and more.

Standards

ISTE Teacher: Analyst- Educators understand and use data to drive their instruction and
support students in achieving their learning goals.

6a- Foster a culture where students take ownership of their learning goals and outcomes in
both independent and group settings.

ISTE Student: Global Collaborator- Students use digital tools to broaden their perspectives
and enrich their learning by collaborating with others and working effectively in teams locally
and globally.

7a- Students use digital tools to connect with learners from a variety of backgrounds and
cultures, engaging with them in ways that broaden mutual understanding and learning

NYS P-12 Common Core/NYS Standard:

Grade: 2
Module 3: Place Value, Counting, and Comparison of Numbers to 1,000
Item Number and Statement: 2.NBT. Understand that the three digits of a three-digit number
represent amounts of hundreds, tens,

Ontario Curriculum Expectations

Overall Expectation Grade 2

locate whole numbers to 100 on a number line and on a partial number line (e.g., locate 37 on a
partial number line that goes from 34 to 4.
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Specific expectations demonstrate an understanding of magnitude by counting forward to 200

and backwards from 50, using multiples of various numbers.

Title: Social Stories Creator and Library App Price: Free

Subject Area: Special Education

Rationale for Curriculum Use: This app is free and is a great app for students with a variety of
disabilities. This is very easy for creating, sharing and printing educational social stories, and
visual schedules. This app will help parents, teachers, and educational assistance. The colors are
vibrating and provide a variety of pictures.

Standards

ISTE Teacher: Facilitate and inspire student learning and creativity. Teachers use their
knowledge of subject matter, teaching and learning, and technology to facilitate experiences that
advance student learning, creativity, and innovation in both face-to-face and virtual
environments.

a. Promote, support, and model creative and innovative thinking and inventiveness

ISTE Student: Digital Citizenship - Students recognize the rights, responsibilities and
opportunities of living, learning and working in an interconnected digital world, and they act and
model in ways that are safe, legal and ethical

2b- Students engage in positive, safe, legal and ethical behavior when using technology,
including social interactions online or when using networked devices.

NYS P-12 Common Core/NYS Standard:

Grade: 2
Topic: Special Ed-ELA- Reading (Phonics and work recognition)
Item Number and statement: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.2.3 Know and apply grade-level
phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.

Ontario Curriculum Expectations

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Overall Expectation Grade 2: 3- use knowledge of words and cueing systems to read fluently.

Specific expectations: 3.1 automatically read and understand many high-frequency words, some
words with common spelling patterns, and words of personal interest or significance, in a variety
of reading contexts

Title: Studycat Limited App Price: Free

Subject Area: English Language Learners

Rationale for Curriculum Use: In this free app students can learn to listen, speak, read, spell
and sing in English. This app enables students and parents the ability can play together. There are
83 games all together that will help students learn over 300 words. This app is divided into
lessons. Each English lesson teaches core vocabulary and presents words in several contexts to
assist learning and retention. It includes both male and female voices with both American and
English accents. Students will learn numbers, the body, fruits, food, clothes, vehicles, houses, sea
animals, school bag lessons, actions and more.

Standards

ISTE Teacher: Citizen- Educators inspire students to positively contribute to and responsibly
participate in the digital world.

3a- Create experiences for learners to make positive, socially responsible

contributions and exhibit empathetic behavior online that build relationships and community.

ISTE Student: 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 Common Core/NYS Standard:

Grade: 2
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Topic: ELA- ELL- Presentation and Knowledge Ideas

Item Number and statement: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.2.6 Produce complete sentences
when appropriate to task and situation in order to provide requested detail or clarification.

Ontario Curriculum Expectations:

Overall Expectation Grade 2: 4- Reflect on and identify their strengths as writers, areas of
improvement and the strategies they found most helpful at different stage in the writing process.

Specific Expectations: 3.5 use parts of speech appropriately to communicate their meaning
clearly, with a focus on the use of: proper nouns for local, provincial, and national place names
and for holidays; the personal object pronouns me, you, him, her, us, them; adjectives to describe
a noun; verbs in the simple present and past tenses; joining words

Title: Read Me Stories Childrens Books App Price: Free

Subject Area: ELA Reading

Rationale for Curriculum Use: This app is free and provides services to over 4 million users.
Students can take advantage of this app as they can read a new book everyday. This app offers
the ability for the students to touch the characters, text highlights as they read and it is the top
app for kids in the education category. This app provides reading and speaking skills. Not only
is this app educational but the graphics are beautiful and provide lots of detail and color.

Standards

ISTE Teacher: Learner- Educators continually improve their practice by learning from and
with others and exploring proven and promising practices that leverage technology to improve
student learning.
1a- Set professional learning goals to explore and apply pedagogical approaches made possible
by technology and reflect on their effectiveness.

ISTE Student: 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.
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2c- Students demonstrate an understanding of and respect for the rights and obligations of using
and sharing intellectual property.

NYS P-12 Common Core/NYS Standard:

Grade: 2
Item Number and statement: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.2.4- Read with sufficient accuracy
and fluency to support comprehension.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.2.4.A- Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.2.4.B- Read grade-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate,
and expression on successive readings.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.2.4.C- Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and
understanding, rereading as necessary.

Ontario Curriculum Expectations:

Overall Expectation Grade 2: read and demonstrate and understanding of a variety of literary,
graphic, and informational texts, using a range of strategies to construct meaning.

Specific Expectations: 3.1 automatically read and understand many high-frequency words,
some words with common spelling patterns, and words of personal interest or significance, in a
variety of reading contexts.

Title: Sids Science Fair App Price: 1.39

Subject Area: Science Content #2

Rationale for Curriculum Use: This app is 1.39 and is the editors choice award winner from
Childrens Technology Review. This app incorporates stem into its activates and makes a great
fun way for students ages 3 to 6 to learn about science. Students can learn and partake in
experiential learning with core science and math concepts. They will lean to identify patterns to
charting and sequencing. This app was developed by PBS kids and based off a television show. It
is a great way to encourage all students to be interested in science

Standards

ISTE Teacher: Leader- Educators seek out opportunities for leadership to support student
empowerment and success and to improve teaching and learning.
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2b- Advocate for equitable access to educational technology, digital content and learning
opportunities to meet the diverse needs of all students.

ISTE Student: 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 Common Core Science Standards Grade 2

Performance Indicator (3.1 and 4.1)
3.1 Describe how the structures of plants and animals complement the environment of the plant
or animal.
Major Understandings:
3.1a Each animal has different structures that serve different functions in growth, survival, and
reproduction.
Performance Indicator
4.1e Each generation of animals goes through changes in form from young to adult. This
completed sequence of changes in form is called a life cycle. Some insects change from egg to
larva to pupa to adult.
4.1f Each kind of animal goes through its own stages of growth and development during its life
span.

Ontario Curriculum Expectations:

Overall Expectation Grade 2: Demonstrate an understanding that animals grow and have
distinct characteristics.

Specific Expectations: 2.3 Investigate the life cycle of a variety of animals (e.g., butterflies,
frogs, chickens), using a variety of methods and resources

Title: Art Kive App Price: Free

Subject Area: Art- Choice #2
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Rationale for Curriculum Use: This free technological art app is an amazing way to allow
students to make beautiful pieces of art and boost confidence. This app has been featured on
The Today Show, and Good Morning America. You can share and print your childs
artwork or even school work. You can turn your childs work into phone cases, hard cover books
pillows or coasters. Children create the work and it can get made into different objects. It is so
exciting and can be used for a variety of ages.

Standards

ISTE Teacher: Collaborator- Educators dedicate time to collaborate with both colleagues and
students to improve practice, discover and share resources and ideas, and solve problems
4b- Collaborate and co-learn with students to discover and use new digital resources
and diagnose and troubleshoot technology issues.

ISTE Student: 1. Creativity and innovation- Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct
knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes using technology.

a. Apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or processes

NYS P-12 Common Core/NYS Standard: 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 art materials, processes, mediums, and
techniques, and use appropriate technologies for creating and exhibiting visual art works.

Ontario Curriculum Expectations:

Overall Expectation Grade 2: D1. Creating and Presenting: apply the creative process (see
pages 1922) to produce a variety of two- and three-dimensional art works, using elements,
principles, and techniques of visual arts to communicate feelings, ideas, and understandings;

Specific Expectations: D1.3 use elements of design in art works to communicate ideas,
messages, and understandings