Intrigue Pack

Title: Intrigue Pack
Subtitle: Creation & Sound Module - Ages 10+
Release Date: 05/01/22
Type: STEAM Academy
Type: Subject-Based
Audience: 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade, 10sth Grade, 11th Grade, 12th 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:

Astraware Word Search, Music Vol. 2 (App)
Astraware Wordsearch (also known as Word Sleuth or Word Finder) is a quick and easy word game with lots of free puzzles for you to play - find all the words hidden in the puzzle! Play against the clock or take your time and just enjoy finding them all! You get free unlimited access to play two new Daily Wordsearch puzzles each day, and you can see how your time compares on the global leaderboard!. There's also a free Weekender puzzle available each week for everyone to play! There are 60 built-in and unlocked puzzles with a range of categories, so you can play offline and have fun right away. With over 20 categories, and more than 100 different word lists, there's lots of variety as you play through the free puzzles each day - and perhaps learn something new too. Many of the puzzles have a different theme, so you might see cute paw-prints on the cat breeds wordsearch, a cascade of leaves on the nature puzzles, a sparkle of stars on the space theme, and much more!

Ball Pen, Midi, Youtube, The Olympics, Computer Mouse, Augmented Reality, Reggae (App)
Ball Point Pen, Midi, YouTube, The Olympics, Computer Mouse, Augmented Reality, Reggae. Find out about the inner workings and origins of the things that pique your curiosity. Ball Point Pen: The first ball point pen was conceived around 1888 as patented by John Loud who initially designed a roller pen to use for marking leather. Midi: Midi stands for Musical Instrument Digital Interface. MIDI is the technical standard that allows a hardware instrument controller, such as a keyboard, to interface and connect with a computer. YouTube: YouTube was founded by three employees from PayPal, which was a site that managed payment systems. Their names were Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim. The Olympics: where all the world’s top athletes come together to compete in the most popular sporting event in the world, the Olympic Games. Computer Mouse: For years, the mouse has become a ubiquitous device for computers. You can imagine how hard it is to use a computer for office work, art or even games without your trusty mouse. Augmented Reality: It's literally an enhancement or augmentation on our view of reality, using computers, cameras and sensors, our view of reality is augmented by a new layer of information. Reggae: The reggae movement started as an offshoot of folk Jamaican and ska music in the 1960s. The genre itself is deeply rooted in the Rastafari movement which is a Jamaican religion that has folk Afro- Jamaican and Christian influences.

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.

Ear Cat (App)
Ear Cat is a fun game created to develop your musical ear, with 80 levels that get progressively more challenging. An intuitive approach to recognising intervals. Improve your solfege and learn to identify pitches in relation to a tonal center. Helpful and entertaining – for beginners and skilled musicians alike, and developed in collaboration with professional musicians and educators.

Flourish (App)
Practice the art of calligraphy lettering with Flourish - Lettering Craft. A digital calligraphy app for writing flourishing letters on Android phones and tablets. Practive your script-style handwriting with our 52 tracing letters (lower and upper case alphabet)|plus our original hand drawn 'Calligrams' and practice writing over the worksheets. Add flourishing cursive loops at the start and end of your words to give your handwritten letters an artful appearance. Then hide your tracing lines|choose a background paper texture and your calligraphy art is finished! Why not write your name in calligraphic style?

Piano Hero (Spoiled Milk)(App)
Have you ever dreamed of becoming a music maestro, playing Chopin's or Mozart's pieces on a grand piano? Now your dream can come true. Tapping only the black tiles in this high speed game is definitely not easy! So, do you have what it takes to get High Scores? This fast action music game is definitely more challenging than it seems. Try to improve your reaction speed and musical skill! Copyright (C) 2011-2016 Inlogic Software, All Rights Reserved

Pictosaurus (App)
How are your recognition skills? What about word finding? You'll need both in order to figure out the more than 200 picture riddles that are in Pictosaurus. You'll be presented with an image that is zoomed in on an object. You need to try and figure out what that riddle image is, from the hint of the image, and the 14 available letters. You have 3 kinds of helpers. A- will remove letters from the possible combinations guiding you toward the answer. A+ will give you a letter in one of the letters slots of the answer. Finally, the Zoom hint will zoom out a little more on the image giving you a better view of the riddle image. There's no time limit. So you can ponder the image as long as you like. You can even use Facebook and Twitter to take a snapshot of the screen and post it for your friends and family to see if they know what it is, and help you solve the riddle.

Printer, Touch Screen, Lenses, Social Media, Time, Digital Video, Hip Hop (App)
Printer, Touch Screen, Lenses, Social Media, Time, Digital Video, Hip Hop. Find out about the inner workings and origins of the things that pique your curiosity. Printer: A printer is a computer peripheral or accessory that is used to make graphical representations of text and other graphics to a physical medium such as paper. Touch Screen: Touch screens are input devices to the minicomputers that we have in our pockets. And it's not just in our phones, touch screens are also used in banks, hospitals, videogames, and even in election machines. Lenses: The term lens comes from the word lentil, the food grain. It was named because a lentil viewed from the side resembled a lens. Lenses are made from transparent materials like glass. Social Media: Social Media is a catch all term for an internet based digital multimedia. Time: Time is a concept. Time is the continuous progression of existence and events. Digital Video: Digital Camera recorders or camcorders came as a progression from the film cameras of yesterday. Hip Hop: Hip Hop can trace its roots to a subcultural movement from the 1970s African American and Latino street culture of New York.

Real Mandala - Coloring Book (App)
It’s said Mandala symbolizes the sphere of dwelling gods and is a map cosmos and a model of the universe. We offer you an incredibly beautiful refined dance geometric shapes, accessible for contemplation and coloring, which will help you to open imagination, expand shapes, accessible for contemplation and coloring, which will help you to open imagination, expand consciousness, relieve stress and just have a good time.

Science Kids - Eyes & Ears - From Optical Illusions to Doppler Effect (app)
Learn all about the human eyes and ears. What are the parts of the eyes and ears and the functions of each part? What is the role of the brain in processing sights and sounds? What is an optical illusion? What is the Doppler Effect? The answers to these questions and many more are covered with detailed graphics, diagrams and exciting video, as well as on-screen, multiple-choice reviews at the end of each segment that reinforce important concepts and make learning fun.

Sim card, Copyright, Animation, Optical media, Electric guitar, Clock, Cars (App)
Sim card, Copyright, Animation, Optical media, Electric guitar, Clock, Cars. Find out about the inner workings and origins of the things that pique your curiosity. Sim Card: A sim card is your phone’s personal identification. Copyright: Every Time someone makes an original piece of work like a song, a drawing, a poem, an article or even a video they are automatically copyright holders. Why? Because as the creator or author of your original work you. Animation: At its core animation is an illusion created when a sequence of still images are displayed rapidly thus giving the viewer the perception of movement. And it's not just cartoons it could be anything. Texts, graphics and even effects- it’s all animation. Optical Media: Laser discs, CDs, DVDs and even Blu-ray discs are all forms of optical media. Data in these discs are encoded and read by lasers hence the name optical media. Electric Guitar: For decades, the electric guitar has been one of the instruments that have been instrumental in creating the most popular genres of music in this century. From rock, pop, jazz and everything in between. Clock: It tells us time and how much of it has passed. Cars: The invention of the automobile or the car has helped people go the distance.

Treble Cat (App)
Treble 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.