Inspire Pack, 2nd ed.

Title: Inspire Pack, 2nd ed.
Subtitle: Creation & Sound Module - Ages 5+
Release Date: 03/15/25
Type: STEAM Academy
Brand: Highlights,Sesame Street
Type: Subject-Based
Audience: Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade

Launchpad Description: The goal of the Creation & Sound Module is to teach kids how creativity and self-expression apply to identifying and solving problems. Topics in this module include art, sound, color, tempo, rhyming, and literature.

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:

All About Music and Dance (App)
For more than 65 years, Highlights for Children has been helping kids become their best selves through Fun with a Purpose™ magazines, games, books, and digital products. Kids will kick up their heels with this music-themed app! Young puzzlers can search the band gazebo for hidden items, match up the groovy guitars and make their own instruments.

Bass Cat (App)
Bass Cat is a fun game designed to help students of all ages learn how to quickly identify notes in the treble clef. There are 80 entertaining levels that get progressively more challenging. This app has been created in collaboration with professional musicians and educators. A fun way for beginners to get past the most challenging and sometimes discouraging introduction to reading music.

BrainPlay: First Line of a Song (App)
Highlights presents kids with silly, open-ended questions that challenge kids to think outside the box and will give their brain a workout!

Bremen Town Musicians Story (App)
Embark on a fascinating journey to the town of Bremen with a new generation of books! Bremen Town Musicians Free is packed with exciting activities for preschoolers. The book covers auditory and visual styles of learning. One of the main book particularities is music. It accompanies you while you go from page to page and creates a unique atmosphere. Just with one touch of a finger your children can brighten up all the details like flowers, musical instruments, animals and buildings. Tap the screen to enjoy pleasant and melodious sounds. Every page of Bremen Town Musicians Free can be easily turned into fascinating match three puzzle. Help our cheerful characters to explore the world of fairy tales! The main characters of the book are four animals: a dog, a cat, a rooster and a donkey. Since they are all bored with farming, the characters decide to form a band and become famous musicians. Be a part of the story and visit Bremen with our friends. There are many colorful pages with easy-t

Colors (App)
Kids will love this lively, animated song video as they listen to “Colors” and follow along word-for-word. Rhyme and repetition add interest as little ones sing-along and learn colors and the plants, animals, and foods that are those colors too.

Make It: Sock Puppet (App)
Fun easy to make crafts, recipes, experiments, and skits all made by Highlights kids!

Music Games The Froggy Bands (App)
The Little musicians will enjoy interactive games like: “puzzle and sounds”, “play the drums”, “record a beatboxing”, “create a choir” and much more. It's time to learn to play with music through the interactive shows Froggy Bands have prepared for Nini! An excellent teaching resource for kids 5 to 8 that helps develop a musical sense designed both for classroom and home use. In the colorful land of The Froggy Bands you'll find 10 different musical bases with more than 40 instruments, sounds to learn and many games for children, which will introduce them to the magical world of music. TEACHING OBJECTIVES: - Learning to listen and identify different instruments based on their sound - Learning to classify instrument families (strings, brass and percussion) - Practically learning the characteristics of various musical genres such as those for a classical orchestra, batucada, jazz, flamenco, beatboxing... - Associate instruments' sound with their shape (auditory recognition

Musical Instrument - Moogaloops (App)
When Mooga gets a musical instrument after pressing the red button he ends up in a rock band!

Searching for Triangles - Miss Brushes' Art Academy (App)
A triangle has three sides and three angles! Help Miss Brushes and her class find all the triangles and then make them into art!

What Color Are You Wearing? (App)
“What Color Are You Wearing?” is an entertaining story/song combination perfect to teach young learners colors and color words. Bright photographs and adorable illustrations, coupled with an easy to follow “word-for-word” story, will entertain pre-readers and reinforce early literacy skills. Children and parents alike will enjoy reading and singing along to “What Color Are You Wearing?” over and over again!

World of Instruments (App)
This world is full of instruments and sounds you may have not known ever existed. Come discover the magical sounds created by different instruments. Ever wondered an instruments origin or the unique sounds they make? Like the Quijada, which is a percussion instrument made from a horses jawbone! Well now you can answer questions like these in World of Instruments. Help!!! Joko sort, name and locate all his father’s legendary collection of instruments, while unlocking trophies the rarer the trophy the more masterful you are. Play the sounds, see their unique design and read their origins to heighten your ethnomusicology and leave you bobbing you’re head.