Machines Pack

Title: Machines Pack
Subtitle: Engineering & Design Module - Ages 5+
Release Date: 08/01/23
Type: STEAM Academy
Brand: Crayola,FarFaria,Highlights,Om Nom Stories,Power Rangers,StoryToys
Type: Subject-Based
Audience: Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade

Launchpad Description: The goal of the Engineering & Design Module is to teach kids to recognize challenges, turn them into opportunities, and identify scalable solutions to solve them. Topics in this module include puzzles, invention, construction, machines, architecture, curiosity.

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 Transportation (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. Its all about Trains, Planes and Automobiles here. Read stories, solve puzzles, earn stickers,and play matching transportation games. Ready? Go!

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

Forces Make Things Begin To Move (app)
Forces make things begin to move. Forces can also make things slow down. A special force called "friction" helps keep things from slipping and helps things slow down. When you're riding your bike, friction keeps the wheels from slipping when you go around a sharp curve. Kids will enjoy following along word-for-word with the lyrics to this song and stay engaged and entertained while learning. Learning with music is easy and fun and a proven way for children to learn basic skills.

Levers, Pulleys, And Simple Machines (app)
Simple machines need a person to make it work. Examples of simple machines are: scissors, nutcrackers, bottle openers, and pliers. These simple machines help us do many jobs and make these jobs easier to do. Kids will enjoy following along word-for-word with the lyrics to this song and stay engaged and entertained while learning. Learning with music is easy and fun and a proven way for children to learn basic skills.

Om Nom Stories: Dream job - Engineer (Episode 67) (app)
Om Nelle has always been dreaming about living in a beautiful house somewhere in the woods. So Om Nom decides to make this dream a reality and build the house himself! Let's see how he makes it!

Om Nom Stories: Super-Noms - Mechanic Rodeo (Episode 94) (app)
Professor Cheddar decided to gift Om Nom and Om Nelle a brand new car, however, our heroes don't have time to read the instructions! Will Noms be able to conquer both technological wonders: the car and the mechanical bull?

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.

Puzzlink (app)
If you like our Links Puzzle game, this fun and challenging Puzzlink puzzle game is everything you have ever wanted: a unique, simple, minimalist and smart game to spend your free time, challenge your friends and increase your IQ. Puzzlink is an easy to learn puzzle game, but hard to beat. The dynamics of the game is a complete challenge for those who like logic games. Puzzlink also causes an effect similar to the Tetris Effect, so it increases our brain activity the more you play.

STEAM for 21st Century Learners | Dream Car (app)
From self-driving cars to amphibian roadsters, vehicles are always changing to meet human needs. In this activity, you will use the IDEA design thinking steps to create innovative new vehicles.

STEAM for 21st Century Learners | Transportation Game (app)
When we make the games we play, we connect ideas about people and places. In this activity, you will design a Transportation Game to learn how and why things move from place to place.

Things That Go (App)
Touch, Look, Listen is a series of preschool learning apps for tablets and mobile phones that will delight and encourage young children as they learn their first words. Things That Go introduces early learners to over 55 busy vehicles from around the world. It's also the perfect app for parents and little ones to share, combining superb photographs, simple word labels and friendly narration. In addition, you can turn the app into a language-learning tool for students of all ages, simply by choosing a second language in the menu. Things That Go is just like a real book, so it's easy to find your way around. Each page is introduced by a playful rhyme, while bright and colorful images pop up magically as each 3D scene opens. When your child taps a picture, they see and hear the associated word, making this a powerful tool for learning new words, as well as reinforcing those they already know. With the second language option, they can explore other languages too, including Spanish, Chi

Wright Brothers, The (Farfari) (App)
The Wright Brothers, Orville and Wilber were the first to fly a motor operated plane.