Mission Accepted!, 2nd ed.

Title: Mission Accepted!, 2nd ed.
Subtitle: STEAM - Ages 5-7, Grades K-2
Release Date: 11/15/18
Type: Launchpad Pack
Brand: Highlights
Type: Subject-Based
Audience: Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade

Launchpad Description: Kids will dig, fly and drive through science, technology, engineering, art, and math games that teach them about animals, natural resources, environmental issues, and more.

- Learn about natural resources
- Play with different animals
- Discover force, acceleration, buoyancy, heat, and elasticity
- Explore natural energy sources
This Launchpad contains the following apps:

Addition Blocks for Education (App)
Play the Game. Build your Brain. Addition Blocks is an award-winning, fast-paced, addictive puzzler that will test your addition speed and skills. Simply tap on connected digit blocks to sum to the falling target block. Add quickly, or the target blocks will stack up! Can you earn enough medals to unlock the hidden level? Addition Blocks is a true puzzle game that forces students to add quickly and accurately; that is, build mathematical fluency in adding single digit numbers-- creating neural pathways in the brain that lead to instant recall. Simple in design and play, the game can be used with single players or multiple students at one time as a warm up or in stations. Features: * Multiple speed settings * Multiple difficulty levels * Five Game Modes - Normal, Timed, Practice, Challenge, and Continuous * Over 25 achievements * Unlockable Special Blocks * Hidden levels Common Core Standards: CCSS.1.NBT.C.4; CCSS.1.OA.C.6; CCSS.2.NBT.B.5; CCSS.2.OA.B.2; CCSS.3.NBT.

All About Amusement Parks (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 enjoy games, mazes and hidden pictures with an Amusement Park theme in this App.

Cheetahs (App)
Did you know that a cheetah can run as fast as a car drives on the freeway? Learn more fun facts about cheetahs. FarFaria's "Cheetahs" is designed to provide children with a perfect story time experience. Like every FarFaria ebook, this title includes professional audio narration with word highlighting and the Common Core Reading Level, independently measured using the Lexile Framework.

Duckie Deck Bird Houses (App)
Chirp, chirp! Give your feathered friends something to sing about by applying your design and decoration skills. Duckie Deck Bird Houses lets youngsters create fabulous, personalized shelters for a fluffy songbird in need of a home. This not only develops creativity, but also empathy and responsibility towards wildlife. Bird Houses is a virtual workshop in which children can build, customize and decorate a cozy home for a grateful bird. With a large selection of materials, paint colors and decor, kids can mix and match until they find their perfect style. Bird Houses provides an opportunity for group play and collaboration, and can also inspire a real-life construction project. Your winged neighbors will be singing your praises in no time! With colorful graphics, dynamic elements and fun sound effects, our app is sure to capture a child's imagination. The simple user interface makes it easy for kids to play independently, or together with a friend or family member. Our goal is

Get Water! (App)
A fun and challenging story-driven endless runner where you learn about clean water through the adventures of Maya! "This is a really fun, simple yet addicting endless runner app with a message (...) I would highly recommend downloading it today!" - The iMum "Fun and challenging game" - Fun Educational Apps Have fun helping Maya and charity: water bring clean water to developing countries through playing this story-driven endless runner! THE STORY OF MAYA *Travel with a girl named Maya on her quest for clean water! *Outwit mischievous monkeys, dodge flying turtles, and battle pesky peacocks! *Maya loves going to school, but she keeps getting pulled out of class to collect clean water because the water pump is always broken! FEATURES *Novel, intuitive touch-based gameplay! *Unlock chapters in Maya's story by collecting water! *Activate your boomerang with a tap! *Three exciting, treacherous foes! *Acquire amazing skills from school to get more water!

Puzzingo Planes (App)
Kids love Puzzingo Airplane puzzles and games! They are full of interactivity, animations, and fun for repeated learning. Unlike jigsaw puzzles, every Puzzingo puzzle piece is named, so children will build vocabulary while playing.

ThinkRolls (App)
Kids will have a blast navigating their Thinkrolls through a series of obstacles in brightly patterned mazes. Each chapter introduces a new object with unique physical properties which kids discover through hands-on manipulation. Little players encounter and use to their advantage force, acceleration, buoyancy, heat, elasticity and gravity to get their Thinkrolls where they need to go.

Ting and Chi Grow a Garden (App)
Celebrate Earth Day with Ting and Chi.

Traffic Safety for Kids (App)
Presented in an entertaining and informative way, this animated interactive traffic education app for your tablet and phone offers a wealth of information on different traffic dangers. It is an application full of games and tests. The figures of Zebra Crossing and Traffic Line, whose voices are dubbed by native speakers, will keep you company throughout as many as 12 modules telling you everything about crossing the road, behaving in a car, seeing and being seen in heavy traffic, riding a bike, traveling by train, dangers lurking on the railroad and much more. WE WOULD LIKE TO REMIND USERS THAT THIS PARTICULAR APPLICATION IS DESIGNED ONLY FOR COUNTRIES WITH RIGHT-HAND DRIVING. By purchasing this product you will also support the development and production of other excellent educational applications known as "Animated First Aid" and "Young Rescuer". Full version offers more than 90 minutes packed with original animations and commentaries and almost 20 educational games. 1. WALKING ON TH

Wonder Bunny & Animal Friends (App)
Wonder Bunny & Animal Friends is a fun learning game about animals and nature.