KTuberling

Subject Area: Visual Arts, Literacy

Recommended Grade Levels: 1 – 6

Figure 3: KTuberling Screenshot

Ktuberling is a simple constructor game suitable for children and adults alike. The idea of the game is based on a once popular doll making concept, but the program has extended to include other settings such as a Christmas setting, Ancient Egypt, Pizzeria, Train Valley, and The moon! Students can save the image and print it out as well!

Ontario Elementary Curriculum Expectations for Arts (2009), Grades 1 - 8

Visual Arts D1 - apply the creative process to produce art works in a variety of traditional two- and three-dimensional forms, as well as multimedia art works, that communicate feelings, ideas, and understandings, using elements, principles, and techniques of visual arts as well as current media technologies.

For more information: http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/curriculum/elementary/arts18b09curr.pdf

Ontario Elementary Curriculum Expectations for Language (2006), Grades 1 – 8

Writing: draft and revise their writing, using a variety of informational, literary, and graphic forms and stylistic elements appropriate for the purpose and audience.

For more information: http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/curriculum/elementary/language18currb.pdf

How can KTuberling help?

KTuberling is an activity that inspires creativity, where students can use their imagination to create a character as the protagonist of their story. Allowing students to illustrate their own scenes of a story using software displays their feelings, ideas, and understandings as well as introduces them to basic art software. Afterwards, students can use their artistic creation to draft a story and revise it, creating a work that incorporates both the graphic and written element.