Engineered to Create!, 2nd ed.

Title: Engineered to Create!, 2nd ed.
Subtitle: Build & Create - Ages 8+
Release Date: 08/15/24
Type: Launchpad Pack
Brand: Smithsonian
Type: Subject-Based
Audience: 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade

Launchpad Description: Kids will have fun discovering the way so many thing work as they construct worlds, build bridges, experiment with design, and strengthen their understanding of all things science and math.

- Learn about elements
- Solve physics-based problems
- Discover the physical properties of different objects
- Master multiplication
This Launchpad contains the following apps:

Alchemy Jam (App)
Imagine you've been given the chance to start everything over again, create your own planet, and fill it with living creatures, forests, rivers... Build roads and entire cities! Invent electricity and the internet! Think up music and the oatmeal cookie! Here you'll find the dream constructor for any true Creator. Start with the basic elements — water, air, earth and fire — and create the world of your dreams! © 2017 JoyBits. All Rights Reserved.

Blox 3D World (App)
"Blox 3D World Creator lets kids create beautiful worlds with simple taps, from giant windmills to craggy castles and desert islands teeming with life. Add animals, humans and birds which walk around and interact to watch your world come alive! *Designed to develop children's creativity with hours of world building fun. *The worlds can be as simple as a deserted island or a teeming city...sky's the limit. *Control the lighting to change time of day or setting with night,day and water environments. *No sounds, scoring or virtual currency....just pure creative fun. *Animated animals ,windmills and people walking around and interacting makes an amazing miniature world. Based on the bestselling apps Blox 3D Junior and Blox 3D which have collectively been downloaded more than 200k + times since last year. This is the latest iteration in a series which has been featured on Google Play in 17 different countries."

Bridge Constructor Playground (App)
Bridge Constructor Playground offers people of all ages an introduction to the topic of “bridge building”. This game gives you the freedom to let your creative side run riot – nothing is impossible. Across 30 innovative levels you have to build bridges over deep valleys, canals or rivers. Following this your bridges will be subjected to a stress test to see whether they can support the weight of the cars and/or trucks which drive across them. In comparison to the #1 hit Bridge Constructor, Bridge Constructor Playground offers an even easier entry to the game incl. an extensive tutorial, a free-build mode and each level offering five challenges to master instead of just two. Tackle each level without constraints and freely build your bridges to move on to the next level. If you want to enter the next island however you have to win a certain number of badges that can be earned in the levels. The badges belong to different categories that offer different challenges: safety badges dema

Cut the Rope 2 (app)
SWEET! Cut the Rope 2 has arrived! Cut the Rope 2 brings fresh challenges and unanticipated obstacles to the candy crunching, physics-based phenomenon that has delighted millions of players around the world! If you like Cut the Rope, you’ll love Cut the Rope 2! With new characters, fresh gameplay elements, and, of course, Om Nom, candy collecting has never been so fun! Complete tricky missions to earn medals, advance in the game and access special levels. In his unexpected adventure, Om Nom breaks out of his box and travels through lush forests, busy cities, junkyards and underground tunnels, all in pursuit of one goal – CANDY! Along the way, he encounters the Nommies, the cutest candy collecting helpers a little green monster could wish for! ALL NEW LOCATIONS TO EXPLORE! Travel through an interactive map to discover new locations filled with candy collecting, rope cutting action. ALL NEW CHARACTERS TO MEET! Find 6 new characters, the Nommies, to help you on your unex

High Burger (App)
Build the tallest imaginable burgers in the world, go into space, reach the Moon and get stellar tips! You start off easy, making simple sandwiches for mere cents, but as you progress, you get more and more demanding orders. Beware, as the sky hides many threats to your masterpieces – from crazy seagulls, to wacky aliens. Keep playing to your heart's content for hours on end and build your empire from scratch to become the best burger maker the world has ever seen. Features: Goals system that will test your burger building skills Cash tips multiplier Unique and challenging gameplay Increasing game difficulty Beautiful cartoon graphics and original soundtrack

Mosaic Gems (App)
If you are a puzzle games fan here is something for you - easy & brain-teasing. An online learning game Glassez! is out. You have to make a complete stained-glass picture of variously shaped glass pieces. Rotate the pieces of different form and color by clicking on them and put them into an appropriate part of the pattern. Play and discover new pattern every level. Use Trash Box to get rid of useless pieces but be aware of loosing points this way. Compete with others in a multiplayer mode! Use your art skills, create your own levels and have people all over the world playing them.

Qixel Animate (App)
Make stylish animated pixel art loops in 2 or 3 frames! Choose from 3 frame speeds, add music and create your own designs and characters while watching them come to life with animation!

Spiral mixer (App)
Make an unlimited number of spiral designs changing the shape, color, and thickness of lines to help create your own special gallery!

Times Table Adventure (App)
You can set the stage for math learning success with this delightfully interactive educational app. An entire series of animated adventures to enjoy, what begins as a game will place a child on the path of discovery leading to a lifetime of confident learning. A fully interactive world where children answer multiplication tables to earn gold, purchase tools and help Digit build the Kingdom.

Use Recycled Paper to Make a Model of Earth Craft Activity (app)
It's Craft Time with Air and Space! Join museum educator Ann Caspari as she demonstrates how to create a model of the Earth out of recycled paper and then use the model as a fun ball to play catch.