Exploration Nation!, 2nd ed.

Title: Exploration Nation!, 2nd ed.
Subtitle: Adventure - Ages 5+
Release Date: 04/15/23
Type: Launchpad Pack
Brand: Cupcake Digital,Discovery Kids,Power Rangers
Type: Theme-Based
Audience: Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade

Launchpad Description: Kids will discover the world with these apps, games and activities designed to challenge and engage kids between kindergarten and second grade.

- Develop critical thinking skills
- Explore foreign cultures and language
- Encourage creative thinking
- Reinforce addition, subtraction, equations and more
This Launchpad contains the following apps:

12 Huia Birds (App)
Do you know the story of the majestic vanished huia bird? The largest of the New Zealand forest birds, the huia were very special and their loss is one of the great tragedies of New Zealand conservation history. The story of this sacred bird with the curved beak and white-tipped tail feathers is one we can all learn from as we look to care for our environment today and in the years to come. Learn more about this special bird through the discovery of interactive elements on each page of the richly illustrated story. Through tapping and dragging, you can move the story along by yourself and see what happens with the arrival of strange creatures to the huia’s land of forest green. “12 Huia Birds” is filled with animation, music and sound on every page to bring the magical huia back to life. As told by George Henare, the story can be read in English or te reo M?ori. Or select the option to read the story for yourself. STORY HIGHLIGHTS • Uncover stuff to tap and swipe on every p

Ancient Rome for Kids (App)
Discover Rome's fascinating history! Specially designed for kids with voice-overs, fun facts and interactive games to help children build essential knowledge of history at home and school! Features: - The legend of Rome - The rise of the Roman empire - Great inventions of the Romans - Who were the Gladiators? - The Roman Army - Roman family and life at home - The roman senate - Romans Emperors - Can you write today's date using roman numerals ? - What is Latin? - The spread of Latin in the English language - Can you write your age using roman numeral using a stylus and wax tablet? - The fall of the roman empire

Animal Second Grade Math Games for Kids (App)
Join Emma in an all new adventure as she helps Oleg the Owl, Chloe the Fox, and all her animal friends to complete over 100 second grade math challenges and find their way through the forest! This app encourages the cultivation of second grade math skills and adheres to Common Core Standards for second grade math. SIGNS & OPERATIONS • Plus, minus, greater than, less than, equal to • Select which sign is missing from an equation • Choose the correct operation for a word problem • Even & odd numbers ALGEBRAIC THINKING • Number sequences & patterns • Equations & word problems within 100 • Determine the unknown number in an equation • True or false equations PLACE VALUE • Counting by 1s, 10s and 100s • Addition and subtraction by 1s, 10s and 100s • Find the missing number in a hundreds table • Greater than or less than within 1000 ADDITIONAL FEATURES • Professionally narrated instructions & feedback • Players are rewarded with positive encouragement • Parental

Balafon- Joko's World (App)
Joko’s Balafon is an app that celebrates beautiful wooden tune percussion. Featuring 3 instruments; the Balafon and Gyil of Sub-Saharan Africa and the Marimba, the national musical instrument of Guatemala. Through game based challenges you can learn to play songs that stretch across Mali, Guinea, Burkina Faso and Ghana and over to Guatemala. Retrace a musical journey across Africa and on to the Americas. The Balafon is one of the instruments of the Mande Jeli, otherwise known as Griots. Through our unique guidebook let us introduce you to the descendants of a tradition of bards dating back to the ancient advanced empires of Ghana, Mali and Songhay. These master artists record and recite histories and retell them through song.

Boulder Rush (TIV) (APP)
Hammer and pickax at the ready, and start digging! Pick your favorite dwarf with one of five special abilities and dig your way deep into the dark mine to save all the poor animals! On your way, you can collect coins for even more fun and cool items! Prove your skills with the pickax and save cute animals Owls, koala bears and dragons – animals from all over the world have gotten lost in the dark mine and are counting on your help. Grab your hammer and pickax and start digging so that they can live again in freedom. Tip: Use tricky combos when destroying the rocks to reach your destination! Rescue the animals, upgrade your dwarf and use handy items Unicorns, bunnies and sheep shouldn't be waiting forever, right? That's why you can collect coins while digging and use them to unlock more dwarves and items! See what happens when Eldur uses his dynamite, or when some rocks drop on Gunnar's head. Venture deeper into the mine but don't forget your lettuce! Since your Viking dwarv

Dentist Bird (App)
"The "Mission of Mercy" game ... offers fast-paced fun that will certainly keep children coming back for more."- School Library Journal "A must-have app for teaching compassion, empathy, and diversity." - Teachers with Apps "Unique for its cultural content, quality illustrations, support for emerging readers and additional learning content." - Beanstack "Great content, beautifully illustrated" - Children's Technology Review " Strong suits of this app include a “Learning” page with additional interactive content to engage young readers on facts about Liberia and rainforest animals, as well as a “Grownups” folder with links to detailed lesson plans and printables." - School Library Journal Discover an interactive folktale, rich with gameplay! Enter Liberia’s rainforest and help one clever bird cure a crocodile of his terrible toothache! With guides to read, play, and learn at home and in the classroom. Dentist Bird is the first installment in Literary Safari’s series of intera

Discovery Kids Dinosaur Adventure (App)
Take a journey back in time and play with 16 amazing jigsaw puzzles in Discovery Kids Dinosaur Adventure, perfect for the explorer in you! Learn fun facts and interact with vibrant, tappable scenes filled with the coolest dinosaurs, from the Triceratops, the popular herbivore to the voracious Tyrannosaurus Rex, plus so much more! Discovery Kids Dinosaur Adventure was developed by leading kid?s developer Cupcake Digital in partnership with Discovery Communications and Joester Loria Group. FEATURES ? 16 lush scenes featuring a variety of dinosaurs for hours of puzzle play fun ? Leveled puzzles (Easy, Medium & Hard) for kids of all ages ? Complete the puzzles to reveal exciting scenes ? Paint coloring pages filled with plenty of features and stickers too! Cupcakedigital.com provides free downloadable activities based on the story to further the educational value at home. Parents? and Teachers? Guides are also available with helpful tips for gettin

Power Rangers: Beast Morphers (App)
Designed for early and emerging readers, POWER RANGERS BEAST MORPHERS delivers the kinetic action that all kids crave but at an action level appropriate for a younger audience It is an interactive adventure which will help kids practice literacy skills. It balances kinetic action sequences, puzzles and maze-like maneuvering with exciting battle sequences.

Slice of Bread Goes to the Beach (App)
"This is another phenomenal book app from Jelly Biscuits, makers of Food Fight!..." digital-storytime.com Slice of Bread loves nothing more than hunting for treasure but his day on the beach does not turn out at all the way he'd planned. In a series of unfortunate mishaps, his day goes from bad to worse until he finds a treasure of a very different kind. Slice of Bread goes to the Beach has been specially written, illustrated and voiced by Glenn Melenhorst, and combined with Jellybiscuits has once again created an interactive experience to delight both young and old. From the author: - After the success of Food Fight, I thought it only natural to follow a sausage story with a bread story:) Actually, Slice of bread was a story I have wanted to tell for a number of years so I'm glad I finally found the time to create the illustrations. I was particularly focused on building interactive elements that were part of the story.' * Built for Tablets ✭ Studio recorded voice read

Xander Zulu Wardrobe (App)
Zulu Wardrobe is an educational app for young children that teaches the names (and pronunciation) of different body parts, clothing and weather, in Zulu. After consolidating the terminology it concludes with a fun game that provides hours of entertainment. The app is highly sensorial as it engages hearing, vision and touch. It further encourages the development of fine motor skills, language ability and critical reasoning. Learning is optimised through repetition and engagement with beautiful hand-drawn illustrations. Children will be able to name specific body parts and dress in weather-appropriate clothing. Children can also use the app to indicate discomfort in certain body parts or where they feel ill. This app is helpful in second language acquisition and can be supportive in the education of learners with cognitive disabilities (or recovering stroke patients). Patients can benefit from the repetition, patterns and clear pronunciation of words. Zulu Wardrobe consist of