Apple+in+Hour+Hands

Anne Abbitt ilearn Project

App Review

App Name: Apples in Hour hands Developer: Games lab at RU website Cost: Free

Application Description: This application is designed to help students learn to tell time and identify clocks. The students will pick apples off the tree that show the correct time. They will try to catch the apples in the basket as they fall by tilting the ipod left and right. This application allows you to differentiate with your students by choosing what grade level you would like for them to work on.

How Application will be used within a lesson: Two of the skills in our K math curriculum are learning to tell time to the hour and identifying both analog and digital clocks. When I introduce the students to clocks and telling time, we will use the judy clocks. Each student will have a judy clock to practice telling time to the hour. I explain that the hour hand is the short hand and the hand you read first. We discuss that the minute hand is the long hand and it is on the twelve when telling time to the hour. I will have the students set their clocks to the times I have asked. For example, I ask the students to show me what 2:00 looks like using their judy clock. I walk around the room and observe the students placing the hour hand on the two and the minute hand on the twelve. After students have grasped this task, I will introduce Apples in Hour Hand on the ipods. The students can start by clicking on the application and choosing the Kindergarten level. Students can then look at the analog clock displayed on the ipod and correctly choose the apple that shows the correct digital time. This allows for students to review concepts learned in class. I will differentiate with this application by having students who are ready move to the first grade level and practice telling time to the half hour. This allows each student to work at their own ability level.