- The App is called “Learning Child Abuse Prevention” The rights owner is “Siddharth Potential” It was published in August of 2017, So very recently! It is a free app, and the link to the Apple store in which it is located is as follows: Preventing Child Abuse App
- This is an app that is going to be easily accessed when students have downtime in the classroom. Whether it is something to do when they finish an assignment early, or just a designated assignment or all of the students to do, it is a great way to give students a good understanding as to what child abuse is, as well as a way to work on their reading comprehension. It can be accessed by tablets, that the students can check out individually, or the class can check out for a lesson from the school library.
- This app is all about teaching students what is, and what is not considered abuse. This is going to be important because it will help students that may be going through abuse have a source in finding out how to tell an adult, how to identify that what they are going through is not okay, or even to identify if a friend or loved one that they know is experiencing abuse. It is a colorful, warmly illustrated way to shed light on what is a rough subject for many. From what i have seen through doing the app myself, and reading up on it, it focusses on teaching students to learn what private parts are, what is appropriate Vs. not appropriate in physical touch, and sheds a light on physical abuse
- Unfortunately, this app was only released 2 months ago. So there are not any tutorial videos of it on facebook. However we (Erik and Haylee) personally downloaded it and used it for a fair amount of time, and would be able to demo for our students if they needed instruction or example.
- Core Integration:
- The linking to a core subject that we would use is reading and literacy comprehension. We would do this by creating a worksheet that would be able to ask students “what is considered child abuse” “What is a way you can avoid or report child abuse” “Name a couple of things that should be reported to trusted adults if they are witnessed by you.” We could not find a specific worksheet that would fit in well with what the app has to offer, so we would have to make our own with similar questions to these. Additionally, we would be sure to make every student fill out a chart of people that they feel they can turn to and trust in the event of child abuse. That worksheet is the documents of flags posted below.
Adults I can trust Work Sheet
