Perform Pack, 2nd ed.

Title: Perform Pack, 2nd ed.
Subtitle: Creation & Sound Module - Ages 8+
Release Date: 03/15/25
Type: STEAM Academy
Brand: Crayola,DK,HOMER,Highlights,Studio Pango
Type: Subject-Based
Audience: 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th 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.

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.

Create to Learn Live Action | Let's Be Creative (app)
Art is a great way to share your thoughts and feelings with others – but how does someone be creative? By following four steps: create, present, respond, and connect!

Create to Learn Live Action | Let's Read Art (app)
Using SEEK questions helps us to discover and learn about the world – and see art in new ways!

Pango Paper Color (App)
Mix colors and bring a world of origami and cardboard to life with Pango Paper Color. Explore mixing colors while developing patience and concentration at the same time.

Qixel Animate (App)
Make stylish animated pixel art loops in 2 or 3 frames! Choose from 3 frame speeds, add music and create your own designs and characters while watching them come to life with animation!

Silly Billy Hair Salon (App)
This is real hairstyling fun: Style, cut, curl, wash, and dry - any way you want - with adorable funny characters. ? 4 funny characters, ? 14 exciting tools, ? 30 beautiful accessories, ? 2 great game modes and some really unique features: • Mini games: Our animals want particular hairstyles — try to make them happy. • Freestyle: Just style and dress any way you want. No right, no wrong - just fun! • You can even style their bodies: Check this out. • Dancing: Touch the radio and watch all the animals do funny dance moves to 4 different songs. This app gives you and your kids full control over creativity and fun. Use lots of different tools, create your own style, and then top it all off with glasses, hats, shoes, and tattoo stickers. Ideal family fun for all ages. ? WHAT’S INCLUDED ? • Create any style you want: punk, disco, casual, surfer, serious, crazy ... • 4 characters: Billy the Sheep, Leo the Lion, Peter the Panda, and Hanna the Horse. • Cut and trim their ha

STEAM for 21st Century Learners | Look Around (app)
Observing and describing what you see is important. In this activity, you will make in play a "what do I see?" game then create an opposites book.

The Secret Recipe (App)
Just what is in this secret recipe? Kids taste it and make some wild guesses. Speakaboos’ parent app, HOMER, is a proven early learning program that builds personalized learning plans for children ages 2-8 - complete with stories like this!

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (app)
This is a timeline of the life of composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart from 1756 to 1791. One of the most celebrated and influential composers in the history of music, Mozart began his musical journey as a young child. Despite his untimely death at the age of 35, he left behind a legacy of over 600 compositions, including some of the most renowned works in Classical music.

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.

Writing Art-Inspired Stories | Write an Adventure (app)
Our imaginations can take us anywhere. To a quiet setting or a busy city filled with sights and sounds. In this activity, you will create a travel journal from a personal perspective, or by pretending to be an imaginary character.