Astronaut Pack

Title: Astronaut Pack
Subtitle: Technology & Space Module - Ages 5+
Release Date: 07/01/24
Type: STEAM Academy
Brand: FarFaria,HOMER,Smithsonian
Type: Subject-Based
Audience: Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade

Launchpad Description: The goal of the Technology & Space Module is to build kids’ fascination with the solutions of tomorrow and get them excited to look beyond the world they see today. Topics in this module include mechanics, astronomy, robotics, coding, communication.

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:

Asteroids, Meteors, and Comets (app)
Gather your little ones for story time with the National Air and Space Museum. Museum educator Ann Caspari will read the original story "Asteroids, Meteors, and Comets." The solar system has smaller objects like asteroids, meteors and comets that make a big impact. In this story we learn more about these small but interesting objects. After the story we will use a cardboard tube to make a play telescope.

Build Your Own Model Space Station Craft Activity (app)
It's Craft Time with Air and Space! Join museum educator Ann Caspari as she demonstrates how to create a mini space station using recycled materials and tape.

Building Our Home Among the Stars (app)
Gather your little ones for story time with the National Air and Space Museum. Museum educator Ann Caspari will read the original story "Building Our Home Among the Stars," which follows the Three Friends as they celebrate the 20th anniversary of the International Space Station and build their own space station.

Chloe's Closet - Magic Stars (App)
Come and discover the space with Chloe's Closet. Help her to travel the biggest distance and collect as many stars as possible before she needs oxygen. Magic stars wil improve the dexterity and accuracy of your children because of its gameplay based on the gyroscope.

Choo Choo Space (App)
Choo Choo Space is about inspiring creativity and encouraging discovery among kids. It starts with a familiar black and white scene of a typical household and every child can make the scene come to life by colouring all the different elements and characters. Play with different space objects, touch the stars, propel the rocket ship and more! COLOR & CREATE Create an exciting space adventure by colouring all the different objects. Add or remove objects using the object rack and colour the scene using the crayon rack. SHAPE PUZZLES Teach your child basic shape recognition by letting them play the shape matching activity. Let them discover what happens when you tap each of the shape! CHARACTER DRESS UP Kids these days love experimenting with colour combinations and different shapes so we included a basic dress-up-your-own-character activity too! TRACE & LEARN Your kids can practice tracing the different shapes to improve their hand control. This activity also allows t

International Space Station (app)
What can we learn when we slow down to look closely at objects? Join in as we look closely at pictures to explore what life is like for the astronauts living and working on the International Space Station! After watching the video, make sure to watch Flights of Fancy Story Time: “Building Our Home Among the Stars” to hear a story and do a craft!

Landers and Rovers on Mars (app)
What can we learn when we slow down to look closely at objects? Join in as we look closely at landers and rovers built by engineers to help us better understand Mars! After watching the video, make sure to watch Flights of Fancy Story Time: “Mission to Mars” to hear a story and do a craft!

Mission to Mars (app)
Gather your little ones for story time with the National Air and Space Museum. Museum educator Ann Caspari will read the original story "Mission to Mars. We have sent landers and rovers to Mars, but we never have sent humans to explore the Red Planet. We return to our three friends as they imagine what it would be like to plan a trip, build a rocket, and travel on a mission to Mars.

My Terrific Spaceship (App)
Five, four, three, two, one, BLASTOFF! Come along on a stellar adventure to space in this nonfiction story and see what makes space so terrific. After launching into orbit, suit up for a space walk—IF you can. Even suiting up can be challenging in space where everything floooaaaaats without gravity. Check out how the view from orbit is much different than the view of space from Earth, then head out on a space walk to fix a broken satellite. Wondering about life on Mars is pretty terrific too. What do you think makes space so terrific? Why?

Robot in Space (App)
Robot is looking for his robot friend, Melody. Her spaceship broke down somewhere in space, and he doesn’t know where to find her! Will you help?  Think carefully in this interactive story, and your choices will help as Robot travels from one place to the other until he finds Melody.

Rockets and Rovers (app)
In this original story from the National Air and Space Museum, a group of friends talk about rovers and buggies on the Moon and Mars. One of the friends has an electric golf cart or mini-car and they decorate it to make it look like a space vehicle. They pretend that they travel to all of the terrestrial planets (Mercury, Venus, and Mars) and use their rover buggies to explore all the different terrain. After the story, Museum educator Ann Caspari leads us in a craft!

Space Captain Diana (App)
Have an out of this world adventure with Space Captain Diana! FarFaria's "Space Captain Diana" is designed to provide children with a perfect story time experience. Like every FarFaria ebook, this title includes professional audio narration with word highlighting and the Common Core Reading Level, independently measured using the Lexile Framework.