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Rationale: Kids ages 8 and under dive into a fun learning adventure to solve the Case of the
Loose Shark Tooth.
Discovery Kids Puterbugs is an expert at creating educational products designed to get kids
school-ready as they learn to use technology as a tool to create a better world. Our lessons are
designed to teach young children today's important S.T.E.M skills (Science, Technology,
Engineering, and Math) in a fun and age appropriate way! All of our missions are literacy-based
and follow a creative, original story that gives kids a purpose for learning. Our lessons are also
designed to meet the Common Core State Standards for ELA (English Language Arts) and Math.
Kids join the Puterbugs on a fun filled mission, completing a series of activities that work on
different skill areas in order to solve "The Case of the Loose Shark Tooth". They build
keyboarding and technology skills along with letters, numbers, colors, and shapes! Full of
learning, fun, and creativity, this is a great educational app for kids Pre K - grade 2.
SKILLS ADDRESSED IN THIS MISSION:
**STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math)
**Early Literacy - Reading and Writing
**Keyboarding and Technology (GPS, Email, XRay, Webcam)
**Phonics and Letter Sounds
**Matching and Puzzle Games
**Color Words and Shapes
**Math Skills
**Creative Expression
New York State P-12 Common Core Standards
Standard Strand: Writing Standards K5
Grade: 2
Topic: Text Types and Purposes
Item number and statement: 1. Write opinion pieces in which they introduce the topic
or book they are writing about, state an opinion, supply reasons that support the
opinion, use linking words (e.g., because, and, also) to connect opinion and
reasons, and provide a concluding statement or section.
Ontario Curriculum Expectations
Overall Expectation: By the end of Grade 2, students will:
1. generate, gather, and organize ideas and information to write for an intended purpose and
audience;
Specific Expectation: Developing Ideas 1.2 generate ideas about a potential topic, using a
variety of strategies and resources (e.g., formulate and ask questions such as the five Ws
[who, what, when, where, why] to identify personal experiences, prior knowledge, and
information needs; brainstorm ideas with a partner)
larger groups d. Seek to understand and communicate with individuals from different
cultural backgrounds.
Rationale: kids game to learn spelling, language and vocabulary such as verbs, especially in slp
and special education like autism and speech therapy
New York State P-12 Common Core Standards
Standard Strand: Reading Standards: Foundational Skills (K5
Grade: 2
Rationale: Splash Math makes math fun and engaging for kids. The app reinforces key math
skills with an interactive, self-paced and adaptive math program. With 30 minutes, 4 times a
week - you can sharpen your childs math skills at every grade and skill level.
Standards:
Easy-to-understand explanations
Objects named when touched
Standards:
New York State P-12 Common Core Standards
Standard Strand: STANDARD 4: The Physical Settin
Grade: 2
Topic: The Earth and celestial phenomena can be described by principles of
relative motion and perspective.
Item number and statement: 1.1c The Sun and other stars appear to move in a
recognizable pattern both daily and seasonally.
Ontario Curriculum Expectations
UNDERSTANDING EARTH AND SPACE SYSTEMS AIR AND WATER IN THE
ENVIRONMENT
By the end of Grade 2, students will: 3.1 identify air as a gaseous substance that surrounds
us and whose movement we feel as wind
Offers engaging challenges
Standards:
New York State P-12 Common Core Standards
Standard Strand: Mathematics
Grade: 2
Topic: Geometry 2.G
Item number and statement: Reason with shapes and their attributes. 1. Recognize
and draw shapes having specified attributes, such as a given number of angles or
a given number of equal faces.1 Identify triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons,
hexagons, and cubes. 2. Partition a rectangle into rows and columns of same-size
squares and count to find the total number of them. 3. Partition circles and
rectangles into two, three, or four equal shares, describe the shares using the
words halves, thirds, half of, a third of, etc., and describe the whole as two
halves, three thirds, four fourths. Recognize that equal shares of identical wholes
need not have the same shape.