Group 3 App Presentation

There’s An App For That Group Project

By Group 3- Evan Burgess, Ashley Rosenbaum, and Hallie Rowell

Content Area: Apps That WillWork With All Grades

Math Tutor Pro

• Grade Level and Content Area: All grades can use this math app because the problems get progressively harder.

• Specific Uses in the Classroom: This app teaches and reinforces math skills. It includes a progress tracker and provides a test mode for students to see what grade level they are on.

• Does it Provide Student Feedback?: Yes, this app gives immediate student feedback for correct and incorrect answers and includes a progress tracker.

• What Kind of Higher Learning Thinking Skills Does the App Encourage?: The higher learning thinking skills this app encourages are memorization and analyzing of problems.

• Ease of Use? Is it Intuitive?: This app is very easy to use. It is designed for elementary students to dive

right into the app and progress from there.

• What Kind of Privacy Does it Offer?: This app does not collect any information on people, so it does not invade people’s privacy.

• Are the Skills Reinforced Connected to your Curriculum Standards/Student Outcomes?: Yes, this app teaches multiplication, addition, division, and subtraction with different difficulty levels, which is connected to the Common Core standards.

• Does the App Provide Easy to Follow and Comprehensive Instructions?: Yes, if the student knows how to do the problems.

• Would You Recommend This App? Why or WhyNot?: Yes, I would recommend this app because it starts off as simple math. For example, it starts off with (2+2) to more difficult (2+345×583-312).

Found by:Evan Burgess

Google Earth

• Grade Level and Content Area: All grades can use this geography app.

• Specific Uses in the Classroom: Teachers can use this app to show students features of the world such as rivers, pyramids, etc. It is like a virtual field trip.

• Does it Provide Student Feedback?: No, this app does not provide student feedback.

• What Kind of Higher Learning Thinking Skills Does the App Encourage?: The higher learning thinking skills this app encourages are imagination, thinking, and exploration.

• Ease of Use? Is it Intuitive?: This app is very easy to use. You just type what you want to see in the

search box and the app takes you there.

• What Kind of Privacy Does it Offer?: This app does track the location of where it is being used.

• Are the Skills Reinforced Connected to your Curriculum Standards/Student Outcomes?: Yes, this would be a great app to teach geography features with.

• Does the App Provide Easy to Follow and Comprehensive Instructions?: Yes, the instructions are easy to follow.

• Would You Recommend This App? Why or WhyNot?: Yes, I would recommend this app. I have actually spent countless hours exploring cities and mountains on this app.


Content Area: Apps for Elementary Students

Murky Reef

• Grade Level and Content Area: This is a kindergarten foundational reading skills app and goes with Common Core standard RF.K.2.A.

• Specific Uses in the Classroom: This app can be used in centers for students to work on individual skills and as a whole group on a Smart Board.

• Does it Provide Student Feedback?: Yes, this app allows you to click on reports for each individual student and view the percentage correct for each section in the app such rhyming words and spell the word. The average performance percentage for each skill is given as well. Teachers can use this information to make sure the app is adjusted to fit each student’s needs, which improves student performance.

• What Kind of Higher Learning Thinking Skills Does the App Encourage?: The higher learning thinking skills this app encourages are that it requires them to create a sentence and creating is part of Bloom’s Taxonomy.

• Ease of Use? Is it Intuitive?: Yes, this app is easy to navigate and understand, which makes it intuitive. It is also easy to launch. There are clear buttons and a voice to read aloud

directions to the student if needed.

• What Kind of Privacy Does it Offer?: The privacy this app offers is that scores are kept private. Also, personal data can be deleted and is only viewable by the teacher.

• Are the Skills Reinforced Connected to your Curriculum Standards/Student Outcomes?: Yes, the skills reinforced are connected to Common Core standard RF.K.2.A, which says students should be able to recognize and produce rhyming words and subtract and add phonemes.

• Does the App Provide Easy to Follow and Comprehensive Instructions?: Yes, this app provides instructions that are helpful and within the student’s reading level and tell you exactly what to do. The design is also simple and exciting enough to motivate students to use the app often.

• Would You Recommend this App? Why or Why Not?: Yes, I would recommend this app because it is well designed and students have fun with it but are learning at the same time. I love the feedback that this app gives teachers and that the feedback allows them to differentiate instruction. I also like that the students enjoy using the app.

Found by:Ashley Rosenbaum

Jungle Time

• Grade Level and Content Area: This is a 1st grade Mathematics app and goes with Common Core standard MD.B.3.

• Specific Uses in the Classroom: This app can be used in the classroom during morning carpet time as a class. It could be used to teach telling time by broadcasting it on the Smart Board and teaching a lesson. For individualized instruction, students could use this during centers and free time.

• Does it Provide Student Feedback?: Yes, this app shows the questions the students got correct and incorrect and which questions those were. The app tells you what the specific answer was, the time spent answering the question, and the number of attempts it took to get the answer correct. Based on the student feedback, teachers can adjust settings to fit the student’s skill level. This results in improved student performance.

• What Kind of Higher Learning Thinking Skills Does the App Encourage?: The higher learning thinking skills this app encourages is that they have to apply their knowledge to set the elapsed time on a clock. Applying knowledge is part of Bloom’s Taxonomy.

• Ease of Use? Is it Intuitive?: Yes, this app is easy to navigate and launch. It is easy to understand, which makes it intuitive, because of

the simple and fun layout. Students love the fun layout and want to use this app as much as they can.

• What Kind of Privacy Does it Offer?: The privacy offered by this app is that each student has their own profile and this way, the scores received by the student can only be seen by them and the teacher. It does not share data.

• Are the Skills Reinforced Connected to your Curriculum Standards/Student Outcomes?: Yes, the skills reinforced are connected to Common Core standard MD.B.3, which says students need to be able to tell and write time in hours and half-hours using clocks. These are skills practiced in this app.

• Does the App Provide Easy to Follow and Comprehensive Instructions?: Yes, the instructions provided help the student progress through the app and the questions are to the point and helpful. The instructions are also on the student’s reading level. They are easy to follow and comprehensive.

• Would You Recommend This App? Why or Why Not?:Yes, I would recommend this app because it teaches students and helps them practice the vital skill of telling time. It challenges them and helps them use higher learning thinking skills. Students are also motivated to use this app because it is fun to use. It is great to watch the students have fun learning.


WH Questions

• Grade Level and Content Area: This reading and literature app can be used in 2nd grade and goes with Common Core standard RL.2.1.

• Specific Uses in the Classroom: This app can be used right before reading a story to help students learn or refresh their skills on how to identify the who, what, when, where, why, and how in a story. Another way to use this app is having it as a center so students can work on this skill constantly.

• Does it Provide Student Feedback?: Yes, if a student gets a question wrong, the app will tell them the correct answer. The app will allow students and teachers to look at the individual questions answered correctly and incorrectly in the test summary section. This can result in teachers adjusting settings in the app to make it fits the student’s skill set. This will result in student improvement.

• What Kind of Higher Learning Thinking Skills Does the App Encourage?: This app encourages higher learning thinking skills such as students applying what they have learned, which is part of Bloom’s Taxonomy. Students will have to apply what they have learned when they answer questions such as who, what, when, where, why, and how about a selected text.

• Ease of Use? Is it Intuitive?: This app is very easy to use and understand, which makes it intuitive. The buttons are clearly labeled, which makes it easy to launch and navigate. The design is simple and interesting. So, students are not confused and can

navigate the app easily and are more motivated to select this app. The app is also tailored to student’s specific needs because teachers can choose the format the questions are presented in. The fun design of the app will also motivate the students to use it.

• What Kind of Privacy Does it Offer?: The privacy offered is that each student has their own account and so only the student and teacher can view their progress and scores. Any information that is sent via email is sent over a secure connection.

• Are the Skills Reinforced Connected to Your Curriculum Standards/Student Outcomes?: Yes, the skills reinforced do connect to my curriculum because my standard, RL.2.1, specifically talks about identifying the who, what, when, where, why, and how in this app or a given text. These are the skills practiced in this app.

• Does the App Provide Easy to Follow and Comprehensive Instructions?: Yes, the instructions are clear and helpful. They are at the student’s reading level. When you enter the app, you click on the “i” button and it gives you all the details about using the app. The directions are easy to follow as well.

• Would you Recommend This App? Why or Why Not?: Yes, I believe this app fits in well with Common Core and will allow students to improve skills that will allow them to be successful in many different aspects of their educational careers. I also like this app because students are excited to use it.


Tense Builder• Grade Level and Content Area: This language app can be used in 2nd

grade and goes with Common Core standards L.2.1 and L.2.1.D.

• Specific Uses in the Classroom: Tense Builder can be used as a whole class for a lesson on using a certain tense for a verb and constructing sentences with that verb. However, this app is most useful when used individually because of its ability to fit student’s specific needs. So, it would work best in centers or during individual work because students could work towards having their needs met.

• Does it Provide Student Feedback?: Yes, when a student completes a language exercise, they are given feedback on their work. They will be told how many questions they got right on each attempt. They will see what kinds of sentences they missed. If they get a question wrong, they will be told how to do it right. Progress reports are also available for students and teachers by pressing the stats button. Teachers can use those progress reports to adjust settings on the app to help meet student’s specific needs. This will result in student improvement.

• What Kind of Higher Learning Thinking Skills Does the App Encourage?: This app encourages higher learning thinking skills by having students create sentences based on the information they learned in class and in the app on verbs in past and present tense. In this situation, they have to apply their knowledge, which is part of Bloom’s Taxonomy.

• Ease of Use? Is it Intuitive?: This app is very easy to use and understand, which makes it intuitive. Students will be able to launch and navigate this app independently because it is easy to use. You just launch the app and at the bottom is a play button and when you press it, a video begins. During the interactive video, there are questions to answer and after the video there is a sentence to construct. The app flows well and is simple to navigate.

• What Kind of Privacy Does it Offer?: The privacy this app offers is that each student has an individual account that allows their scores to be private. Only teachers have access to this information. These statistics will not be given to any third parties. The statistics collected from student’s progress can be deleted.

• Are the Skills Reinforced Connected to Your Curriculum Standards/Student Outcomes?: The skills reinforced are connected to my curriculum because they connect with two different Common Core standards, L.2.1 and L.2.1.D. Standard L.2.1 says students should demonstrate command of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. Standard L.2.1.D says students should form and use the past tense of frequently occurring irregular verbs. Both of these standards are a part of the app and students have to apply these skills frequently.

• Does the App Provide Easy to Follow and Comprehensive Instructions?: Yes, the instructions are helpful and are on the correct reading level for the students. They are comprehensive as well. To view instructions, you can watch the video tutorial when you first enter the app and it explains how to use the app very thoroughly. I would show the video to the whole class before the students begin to use the app individually. I would also have them watch it again independently. Due to the ease, creativity, and fun this app provides, students are motivated to use the app. The animated videos also grab the student’s attention and that makes them want to use the app often as well.

• Would You Recommend This App? Why or Why Not?: Yes, I would recommend this app because it not only teaches students new skills but allows them to use part of Bloom’s Taxonomy by creating their own sentence and recording it so the teacher can hear it and use that information to help the student be successful.


Bongo’s Spelling Packs

• Grade Level and Content Area: This English and language arts app can be used in kindergarten through 5th grade.

• Specific Uses in the Classroom: Teachers can use this app for students needing extra help individually with vocabulary and comprehension. It’s great because it can be accommodated to many different kinds of students.

• Does it Provide Student Feedback?: Yes, this app provides student feedback on every activity. It keeps track of each student’s progress as well.

• What Kind of Higher Learning Thinking Skills Does the App Encourage?: There are different levels of complexity; the most complex involving higher order thinking skills. For example, students can build on phonemes to create, recognize, and improve word structure for spelling.

• Ease of Use? Is it Intuitive?: Bongo’s Spelling Packs Pro is a very high quality app. All of the features operate smoothly and intuitively. The artwork is colorful and detailed and the animations are eye-catching and amusing. This app includes a number of features that make it very useful.

• What Kind of Privacy Does it Offer?: This app contains no in-app purchases, no outside advertising, and no social media links. The section with links to other apps by the same developer, the email feature, and the settings are protected by a security gate. Children can access user creation or deletion. Parents and teachers can approve the collection of performance data for private review and reporting only. The app will not sell or distribute personal information to any third party.

• Are the Skills Reinforced Connected to Your Curriculum Standards/Student Outcomes?: Yes, this app reinforced the Common Core standard RF.3.3, which says students should know and apply grade level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. Among other things, this app allows students to understand phonemes and how to build words.

• Does the App Provide Easy to Follow and Comprehensive Instructions?: Yes, once you know where to start, all directions and instructions are easy to understand and follow.

• Would You Recommend This App?: Why or Why Not?: Yes, I would recommend this app. I like how it’s individualized and teachers can use it for assessment and practice.

Found by: Hallie Rowell

Number Hero: Multiplication

• Grade Level and Content Area: This mathematics app can be used with 3rd through 5th graders.

• Specific Uses in the Classroom: This app could be used in math class to aid in the memorization of multiplication. This app provides timed games to assess multiplication. This could be used in place of assessment or for extra practice.

• Does it Provide Student Feedback?: Yes, after each game, the student’s score is shown with the incorrect problems.

• What Kind of Higher Learning Thinking Skills Does the App Encourage?: This app encourages recall and memorization of multiplication facts. It also requires students to understand the facts because they have to work backwards and know the factors to solve the problems.

• Ease of Use? Is it Intuitive?: Yes, kids will find the app easy to navigate but parents may wish for a more complex parental block. Those who can complete the level of multiplication problems the game covers can also read when the screen asks them to swipe with two fingers to access more games from the developer. This can cause them to gain access to games without parent’s permission.

• What Kind of Privacy Does it Offer?: This app collects and stores personal data. This app can also get your Facebook data. You can opt out of this company giving your information to third parties.

• Are the Skills Reinforced Connected to Your Curriculum Standards/Student Outcomes?: This app can reinforce the Common Core standard 3.0A.A.3, which talks about how students need to know how to represent and solve problems involving multiplication and division.

• Does the App Provide Easy to Follow and Comprehensive Instructions?: The app has a simple design to accompany the simple concept of the game. Each of the two modes are labeled 1-20 and 1-81 on the main screen. However, kids might not understand those labels until they click on the question mark which gives them an overview of the game. Once they’ve chosen a level, kids get clear instructions on how to play.

• Would You Recommend This App? Why or Why Not?: This is an okay app. It is simple and straightforward and allows students to have fun learning multiplication. There are too many pop-ups and the game could be differentiated more.


World Creativity Kit

• Grade Level and Content Area: This English app can be used with grades 3rd through 6th grade.

• Specific Uses in the Classroom: This app would be used in an English or Language Arts class or an ESL/Literacy intervention class. This app helps students become familiar with new words and lets them be creative in forming ideas into sentences and stories. I think one of the big uses this offers is its help with poetry. It lets students be creative without the frustration of the process. It can also be used to help with grammar by working with parts of speech.

• Does it Provide Student Feedback? Yes, it does assist in providing students with feedback by allowing students to share their stories with other users, who can provide feedback.

• What Kind of Higher Learning Thinking Skills Does the App Encourage?: This app allows students to be creative and use new words to create poems, stories, and narratives.

• Ease of Use? Is it Intuitive?: Designers have incorporated clear directions about the app’s features, accessible from the home screen or the main book page by tapping the question

mark. A menu of the app’s functions appears , and when each item is pressed, there is a short animated screen shot showing exactly how to use the feature.

• What Kind of Privacy Does it Offer?: This app doesn’t collect or sell other companies your personal information. You create your own account, which saves your progress.

• Are the Skills Reinforced Connected to your Curriculum Standards/Student Outcomes?: Yes, this app connects to Common Core standard W.4.3, which calls for students to write real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive detail, and clear sequences.

• Does the App Provide Easy to Follow and Comprehensive Instructions?: Yes, this app provides good directions. An easy selection of reminders is available under the “?” section of the screen where your student can watch a video on how to do things inside the app, like save work or clear a page.

• Would You Recommend this App?: Why or Why Not?: Yes, I would recommend this app. It is a creative way for students to practice vocabulary and writing. It lets the students use their imagination in an educational way.


Content Area: Apps for Junior High and High School Students

• Grade Level and Content Area: This math app can be used in the 6th, 7th, and 8th grades.

• Specific Uses in the Classroom: This app is enabled for SmartBoards so teachers can use this app with the entire class. I can also be used individually for students because it tracks student’s mastery of problems.

• Does it Provide Student Feedback?: Yes, this app provides students with immediate feedback. It not only shows and tracks student progress, but it lets students retry problems. If the student gets a math problem wrong, the app shows you the correct way to solve it with another chance to solve it correctly.

• What Kind of Higher Learning Thinking Skills Does the App Encourage?: This app encourages understanding and application most often. This app desires student mastery of concepts and the ability to apply knowledge in a variety of different examples. This app isn't just multiple choice; it is interactive and promotes deeper thinking.

• Ease of Use? Is it Intuitive?: This app is very easy to use. Everything is very straight forward and easy to understand.

• What Kind of Privacy Does it Offer?: The school or teachers pay for a certain amount of activation codes to be used by the students. It can’t be accessed by anyone else. Teachers can log and track student's progress.

• Are the Skills Reinforced Connected to your Curriculum Standards/Student Outcomes?: All of the math problems featured in this app are aligned with the Common Core standards.

• Does the App Provide Easy to Follow and Comprehensive Instructions?: Yes, this app is simple to use. The teacher can provide students with chosen activities to complete. All problems have directions that are easy to understand.

• Would You Recommend this App?: Why or Why Not?: Yes, I would definitely recommend this app! I love how easily adapted into the curriculum this app is. It is completely aligned with Common Core and can work with a SmartBoard. It is interactive and encourages deeper thinking to help students improve their math skills.

Buzz MathFound by: Hallie Rowell

• Grade Level and Content Area: This app can be used with all content levels and would work with all grade levels. However, it works best with Junior high and high school.

• Specific Uses in the Classroom: The specific uses in the classroom are that it can be used for virtual flashcards to help students study in and out of the classroom.

• Does it Provide Student Feedback?: Yes, this app tracks the questions students answered correctly

and tells when the student’s answers are incorrect.

• What Kind of Higher Learning Thinking Skills Does

the App Encourage?: The higher learning thinking skills encouraged by this app are memorization

and understanding of ideas.

• Ease of Use? Is it Intuitive?: This app is easy to use

for both students and teachers.

• What Kind of Privacy Does it Offer?: The teacher is

the only one who can see who is struggling with ideas. Other students cannot see any information. This is done because the teacher has access to create the flashcards and that prevents other students from seeing the results.

• Are the Skills Reinforced Connected to your Curriculum Standards/Student Outcomes?: Yes, if the teacher chooses to set the flashcards up that way.

• Does the App Provide Easy to Follow and Comprehensive Instructions?: Yes, the app is easy to use. The teacher sets up the flashcards with the question and the correct answer. The students then try to learn the material by tapping on the flashcards to see the answer, or the back of the card.

• Would You Recommend this App. Why or Why Not?: Yes, I would recommend this app to any student who needs help with studying.

FlashcardsFound by:Evan Burgess

Classroom by Google

• Grade Level and Content Area: This app, that applies to any content level, is good for junior high and high school.

• Specific Uses in the Classroom: This app is designed to help teachers create and collect assignments through a paperless method, including time saving features like the ability to automatically make a copy of a Google document for each assignment and for each student. It creates drive folders for each assignment and for each student to help keep everyone organized and on track for what is due.

• Does it Provide Student Feedback?: Yes, teachers can provide direct, real-time feedback, and grades right in the app.

• What Kind of Higher Learning Thinking Skills Does the App Encourage?: The higher learning thinking skills encouraged by this app are organization and communication.

• Ease of Use? Is it Intuitive?: Yes, this app is very easy

to use. Students and teachers only need access toGoogle Classroom and a Google account.

• What Kind of Privacy Does it Offer?: This app is ad free. Google is a very private company and this app reflects that.

• Are the Skills Reinforced Connected to your Curriculum Standards/Student Outcomes?: Yes, the assignments based in the app are connected to what teachers are teaching and Common Core standards.

• Does the App Provide Easy to Follow and Comprehensive Instructions?: Yes, it is easy to use. The app also provides instructions for administrators.

• Would You Recommend this App? Why or Why Not?: I would recommend this app to my local administrators. It eliminates paperwork and gives students a way to turn in assignments and not lose them. It is also by a great company who is trusted in the computer industry.


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Group 3 App Presentation