1.

English New Language Learner App

Subject Area: ENL

App Title Duolingo

App Price: Free (Offers In-App Purchases)

Languages: over 30 languages English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Chinese, Japanese,
Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Irish, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Turkish, Norwegian, Polish,
Hebrew, Esperanto, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Welsh, Greek, Hungarian, Romanian, and Swahili.

Rationale for Curriculum use: Over 30 languages to choose from in a fun and easy way to
improve language skills. Students can improve on their English skills in a way that feels like a
game. This app is rated #2 in the apple store of educational apps

Standards:

ISTE Standards for teachers:

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

ISTE Standards for students

1c. Empowered Learner- Students use technology to seek feedback that informs and
improves their practice and to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways.

New York State P-12 Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.1.1
Demonstrate command of the conventions of Standard English grammar and usage
when writing or speaking.

Ontario Curriculum Expectations:

1. read and demonstrate an understanding of a variety of literary, graphic, and informational
texts, using a range of strategies to construct meaning.
 2. Content Area App

Subject Area: Math

App Title 1st Grade Splash Math

App Price: Free Trial Period than $9.99/month, $29.99/quarter or

$59.99/year

Languages: English, Spanish

Rationale for Curriculum use: Over 20 million kids use Splash Math program to boost
confidence, and get ahead in math. This app reinforces math concepts and aligns with
standards. The students work atr their own pace and is made for them at their level. This app
has won many awards such as Winner of “Gold Stevie Award in 2013 in the Education and
Reference category. Topics covered range from addition and subtraction to money and time.

Standards:

ISTE Standards for teachers:

6b Facilitator- Manage the use of technology and student learning strategies in digital
platforms, virtual environments, hands-on makerspaces or in the field.

ISTE Standards for students

1c. Empowered Learner- Students use technology to seek feedback that informs and
improves their practice and to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways.

New York State P-12 Common Core Standards:

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.OA.A.1
Use addition and subtraction within 20 to solve word problems involving situations of
adding to, taking from, putting together, taking apart, and comparing, with unknowns
in all positions, e.g., by using objects, drawings, and equations with a symbol for the
unknown number to represent the problem.1

Ontario Curriculum Expectations:

Apply developing problem-solving strategies as they pose and solve problems and conduct
investigations, to help deepen their mathematical understanding;
 3. Choice App

Subject Area: Music

App Title Mussila

App Price: Free

Languages: English

Rationale for Curriculum use: A fun game like app where student learn the principles of
music. The information in the app is based on curriculum and allows students to work with
different instruments and create melodies, At the end students will be able to create their own
music. Research shows a significant difference in the understanding of music between groups
that have used Mussila and those who have not.

Standards:

ISTE Standards for Teachers

5b- Designer- Design authentic learning activities that align with content area standards
and use digital tools and resources to maximize active, deep learning.

ISTE Standards for Students

6a Creative Communicator- Students choose the appropriate platforms and tools for
meeting the desired objectives of their creation or communication.

New York State P-12 Common Core Standards:

Cr2.1 Musicians’ creative choices are influenced by their expertise, context, and expressive
intent

Ontario Curriculum Expectations:

C1. Creating and Performing: apply the creative process (see pages 19–22) to create and
perform music for a variety of purposes, using the elements and techniques of music;
 4. SWD App: Stop, Breathe and Think
Subject Area: Students with Disabilities/Communication

App Title: Verbally

App Price: Free (with offers in-app purchases)

Languages: English

Rationale for Curriculum use: Help gain mindfulness at times when you feel out of sorts.
With use of this app, SWD can help calm themselves by stopping what they are doing and
determining their emotion. Once they realize how they are feeling, they can practice
mindful breathing techniques and take time to feel their inner peace.

Standards:
ISTE Standards for teachers: Facilitator
6 (a) Educators facilitate learning with technology to support student achievement of the
ISTE Standards for Students.

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

ISTE Standards for students: 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.

1 (a) 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.

New York State P-12 Common Core Standards:

Grade: 1
Topic: Learning Standards for Health, Physical Education, and Family and Consumer Sciences
at Three Levels
Standard 2: A Safe and Healthy Environment. Students will acquire the knowledge and ability
necessary to create and maintain a safe and healthy environment.
Ontario Standards
Grade: 1
Personal Skills

1.1 use self-awareness and self-monitoring skills to help them understand their strengths and
needs, take responsibility for their actions, recognize sources of stress, and monitor their own
progress, as they participate in physical activities, develop movement competence, and acquire
knowledge and skills related to healthy living
 5. Social Studies App: ArtStories Cities

Subject Area: Social Studies

App Title: Verbally

App Price: $1.99

Languages: English

Rationale for Curriculum use: Travel the world in a cartoon designed app. Students will
love to visit different cities and discover the different cultures within world.

Standards:
ISTE Standards for teachers: Facilitator
4. Facilitate and inspire student learning and creativity
c. promote student reflection using collaborative tools to reveal and clarify students’
conceptual understanding and thinking, planning, and creative processes

ISTE Standards for students: 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.
3d Students build knowledge by actively exploring real-world issues and problems,
developing ideas and theories and pursuing answers and solutions

New York State P-12 Common Core Standards:

Grade: 1
Topic: Social Studies
1.5a Maps and map tools, such as legends and cardinal directions, can help us navigate from
one place to the next, provide directions, or trace important routes.
1.5b Maps are used to locate important places in the community, state, and nation, such as
capitals, monuments, hospitals, museums, schools, and cultural centers.
1.5c Symbols are used to represent physical features and manmade structures on maps and
globes

The Ontario Curriculum

Grade: 1
Topic: Social Studies
Overall Expectations
A1. Application: describe some of the ways in which people’s roles, relationships, and
responsibilities relate to who they are and what their situation is, and how and why changes in
circumstances might affect people’s roles, relationships, and responsibilities as well as their
sense of self
Specific Expectation
A2.3 analyse and construct simple maps as part of their investigations into places that are
significant to them or to their family (e.g., construct a map that includes a title, legend, and
directions to show the route from their home to their best friend’s home or to school; find the
school entrance, playground, and their classroom on a map of their school)
 6. Homework App: HomeWork
Subject Area: All subjects
App Title: Verbally
App Price: free
Languages: English

Rationale for Curriculum use: This app allows Students to gain

necessary organizational skills by imputing their homework in to the app

Standards:
ISTE Standards for teachers: Facilitator
Facilitate and inspire student learning and creativity
4c. promote student reflection using collaborative tools to reveal and clarify students’
conceptual understanding and thinking, planning, and creative processes

ISTE Standards for students: 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.
3b Students evaluate the accuracy, perspective, credibility and relevance of information,
media, data or other resources.

New York State P-12 Common Core Standards:

Grade: 1
Topic: ELA
RL.1.1
Reading: Literature
Key ideas and Details
1. Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.

The Ontario Curriculum

Grade: 1
Topic: Social Studies
Overall Expectations
1. listen in order to understand and respond appropriately in a variety of situations for a variety
of purposes;
Specific Expectation
Purpose 1.1 identify purposes for listening in a few different situations, formal and informal (e.g.,
to hear the sounds of language in songs, chants, and poems; to interact socially with
classmates; to enjoy and understand a story read aloud by the teacher; to follow simple
directions in large- and small-group settings; to exchange ideas with a peer in a paired sharing
or small group)
 7. ELA Reading App (Read and Spell)
Subject Area: English Language Arts: Reading
App Title: Read & Spell First Grade
App Price: Free
Languages: English
Rationale for Curriculum use: This app is designed for students in the
first grade. This app focuses on the Dolch word list. This app helps
children learn to spell words for first grade. It has guess word activities,
read sentences and fill in the sentences. It is an interactive game that
engages children in the interactive activity.
ISTE Standards for teachers:
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 Standards for students:

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.

New York State P-12 Common Core Standards:

Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.1.10
With prompting and support, read informational texts appropriately complex for grade 1.

Ontario Curriculum Expectations:

Grade 1 Reading
3. Use knowledge of words and cueing systems to read fluently.
 9. ELA Writing App

Subject Area: English Language Arts: Writing

App Title: ABC Dots Lowercase Letters
App Price: 99 cents
Languages: English
Rationale for Curriculum use: All the students in the classroom should be
able to write. Students should be able to write legibly by grade one.
However, all students are different and they are at their own individual
writing level. This app shows students how to write the alphabet letters with the correct
formation. Also, this becomes a self-learning method once it is explained by the teacher. The
students can take their time writing at their own pace. The app is interactive and encourages the
children to be independent.

Standards:
ISTE Standards for teachers:
Designer
Educators design authentic, learner-driven activities and environments that recognize and
accommodate learner variability.
5a) Use technology to create, adapt and personalize learning experiences that foster independent
learning and accommodate learner differences and needs.
ISTE Standards for students:
Digital Citizen
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.
New York State P-12 Common Core Standards:
Production and Distribution of Writing:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.1.6
With guidance and support from adults, use a variety of digital tools to produce and publish
writing, including in collaboration with peers.
Ontario Curriculum Expectations:
Grade 1 : Writing
3. Use editing, proofreading, and publishing skills and strategies, and knowledge of language
conventions, to correct errors, refine expression, and present their work effectively