Title: Body Basics!
Subtitle: Anatomy - Ages 8+
Release Date: 07/01/24
Type: Launchpad Pack
Brand: Operation,Smithsonian,Wikids
Type: Subject-Based
Audience: 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade
Launchpad Description: Learn all about the human body with entertaining games, fascinating facts, engaging activities, and much more that will introduce young minds to the world of human anatomy and biology!
This Launchpad contains the following apps:
Doctor Justabout (App)A fun and eduational experience for children and young adults. Doctor Justabout teaches how the systems and organs of the body work, with lots of interesting facts and fun animations. Start to discover the human body as a machine by exploring and understanding how various systems work. Help Doctor Justabout at his clinic by playing games to cure his patients.
Dr. Girder's Bones (App)Dr. Girder’s Bones is a quiz game for medical students, professionals or anyone who wants to learn about the human skeletal system. The user may get three answers incorrect before their play session is ended. While playing, the user may utilize lifelines to help with the questions. There are flash cards, which allow the user to quickly study bones before entering the game or a test. The local high scores allow the user to save their top 25 scores to show their improvement over time.
Five False "Facts" About the Human Body (app)Five myths about the human body.
How Do Taste Buds Work? (app)The sweet science behind our sense of taste.
My Dentist Game (app)Transform yourself into a dental expert: orthodontist, oral hygienist or dentist. Practice your skills in the new doctor’s office and give your patients a brand new smile!
- Orthodontist:
Misaligned bite and crooked teeth can be fixed! Take an x-ray picture to find irregularities, then apply glue and brackets, connect the wires and attach colorful rubber bands to get a perfect brace.
- Oral hygienist:
Improve patient’s oral health with dental floss, a toothbrush, tongue scraper and mouthwash. Don’t forget to make the toothpaste using only healthy ingredients, like carrots, mint, aloe vera and many others.
- Dentist:
Eating sweets damages the teeth! Heal toothaches and use a dental drill, tongs, tooth whitener and other medical tools. Pull rotten teeth out, fill the cavities, whiten the teeth and remove the tartar. Patients will be grateful for your help!
- Mini-games:
Have fun playing 3 popular mini-games: bowl with apples, make fruity bubbles in the company of bees
Operation: Hasbro's Classic Board Game (App)"Hey Doc, Cavity Sam needs your help! Make him better or get the buzzer!
If you grew up with Hasbro’s classic OPERATION board game or have kids who are working the tweezers as we speak, this engrossing app brings a childhood favorite to life! Just like the board game, the app tests kids’ hand-eye coordination and fine motor skills but also unveils twelve entertaining short tales!
Transformed into an exciting tactile app experience, the OPERATION App delivers everything you remember and more including the classic ailments and the nail biting ‘tweezer’ tension! Remember carefully trying to remove Sam’s ailments? Now you can try with a set of virtual tweezers! If you touch the side, Sam’s nose lights up. You hear the familiar buzzer and feel your device vibrate in this beautiful tactile experience.
Kids learn what each ailment means as Cavity Sam gets personal and ‘spills his guts’ on all twelve of the classic ailments. A fun rhyming narrative introduces the user to Cavity Sa
What's the Point of Earwax? (app)The science of earwax in under a minute.
Why Do We Get Goosebumps? (app)Saber toothed cats, temperature and things that go bump in the night, Eric Schulze explains.
Why Do We Get Prune Fingers? (app)Why are we equipped with this curious modification? Find out in this one-minute video, where Ask Smithsonian host Eric Schulze gives us the info on our wrinkled digits.
Wikids: Space, the Body and More (App)Designed for independent discovery, Wikids gives kids the freedom to “look up” what interests them. Did you know that Pluto isn't a planet anymore? That hair and nails are actually made from the same stuff? Your kids may learn these and many more fascinating facts about amazing animals, beautiful places, and intriguing cultures.