Assemble Pack, 2nd ed.

Title: Assemble Pack, 2nd ed.
Subtitle: Engineering & Design Module - Ages 5+
Release Date: 10/15/24
Type: STEAM Academy
Brand: HOMER,Highlights,Sesame Street,Smithsonian,Transformers Rescue Bots
Type: Subject-Based
Audience: Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade

Launchpad Description: The goal of the Engineering & Design Module is to teach kids to recognize challenges, turn them into opportunities, and identify scalable solutions to solve them. Topics in this module include puzzles, invention, construction, machines, architecture, curiosity.

STEAM Academy offers an interdisciplinary approach that weaves together the science, technology, engineering, art, and math skills learned in the classroom and connects them to things kids see every day.
This Launchpad contains the following apps:

Backhoe (App)
He's like a loader, and a digger and grader, too. There aren't many jobs that this truck can't do!

Bessie and James Take Flight (App)
Celebrate black history month with James Banning and Bessie Coleman! They were the first African American man and woman to get their pilot’s license in the United States. It wasn’t easy. Some people thought they shouldn’t learn to fly because of the color of their skin, but they did it anyway! Watch and learn more about their journeys.

Concrete Boom Pump (App)
Working early in the morning, starting out at day’s first light. He’s got a lot of work to do, yeah, and he works with all of his might. Concrete Pump, Boo-oo-oom, Concrete Boom Pump.

CotBot City (App)
In CotBot City you can explore the city on a virtual car play mat. You can select buildings for the city yourself, and pick a vehicle of your choice such as fire truck, ice cream truck, garbage truck, school bus or an ordinary car. There are several mini games and fun events to explore as you drive along.

Front End Loader (App)
Because there isn't any on the road as good at loading heavy loads, Front End Loader, you're as good as gold!

How to Build a Blanket Fort - Bea Unicorn (App)
Sarah wants her own special space like Bea's unicorner so Bea helps Sarah make her own special blanket fort! Try making one for yourself at home!

Pettson's Inventions 1 (App)
Help Pettson and Findus build their inventions! In this tricky game you should help building these clever inventions. You need to figure out which ones of the objects should be included and where to put them in the machinery. Drag and drop the objects to their right spot and watch the invention start. For every invention finished there will be a reward of a cogwheel. When you have finished all the inventions a special invention will be unlocked where you will help Findus fly out to space! Pettson's Inventions is a pedagogic app that practices logic and stimulates creativity for preschoolers. - All-in-all there are 27 inventions, some easier, some a bit harder! - Choose to play with or without fake objects to adjust the difficulty level

Rescue Ready (App)
Children will explore rescue vehicles including a fire truck, ambulance, police car, helicopter, and more with this colorful book featuring real photographs and sounds. Studies show that young learners find it easier to associate real-life vehicles to photographs than to illustrations. From a fire truck to a Coast Guard boat, this helpful book will have children rescue ready!

Spaceport on the Moon (app)
Gather your little ones for another original Three Friends Adventure read by Museum educator Ann Caspari. Our three friends talk about plans to build a spaceport on the Moon. Then they build a habitat for Ruth's new pet hamster, Rocket, that has everything she needs, just like a Moon spaceport would. After the story join Ann Caspari to build a rocket out of a cardboard tube.

Storybook Animations: Bert and Beth Go Flying (App)
Beth takes Bert and Grandfather on a plane ride right in their backyard.

Super Jigsaw Puzzles (App)
If your kids like jigsaw puzzles, they will LOVE this puzzle filled game with cute cartoon pictures and cool rewards!

Transformers Rescue Bots: Need for Speed (App)
GRIFFIN ROCK RESCUE bands together with a few new teammates to track down a mysterious Mini-Con whose arrival in Griffin Rock sparks a thrilling race throughout the town. This interactive storybook app puts you side-by-side with CODY and the RESCUE BOTS team—even BUMBLEBEE is here to help—as they track down this devious visitor. This adventure sparks team spirit, burns a lot of rubber, and raises important questions for, BLURR, our newest RESCUE BOT recruit: What’s more important? The rescue mission or a ‘need for speed?’ • Take control by picking the Bot YOU want leading each mission! • Hunt for clues across Griffin Rock! • Race your fellow Bots to hunt down the rogue Cybertronian! Feel like a member of the team as CODY guides you and GRIFFIN ROCK RESCUE around town, broadcasting updates as you power through seven different activities, racing from one side of the island to the other, dodging laughing gas, matching suspects, and gobbling up Energon cubes! Designed for young RE