Practical Pack

Title: Practical Pack
Subtitle: Dynamic Thinking Module - Ages 8+
Release Date: 04/01/25
Type: Life Skills Academy Pack
Brand: FarFaria,Smithsonian,eKidz.eu
Type: Subject-Based
Audience: 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade

Launchpad Description: The goal of the Dynamic Thinking Module is to teach kids about making choices and evaluating the benefits and consequences of their actions on an individual and global basis. Topics in this module include problem-solving, logic and reasoning, decision-making, and critical thinking.

Life Skills Academy is designed to help kids gain the knowledge and mindset to promote both personal and academic development. By working through each module kids will cultivate the necessary social and emotional skills to prepare them for whatever comes next.
This Launchpad contains the following apps:

Doctor Kids 2 (app)
Seize the opportunity to see what is like to be a multi-tasking doctor in this fun game. Check the respiratory system, fix sore throat problems, get rid of head lice, heal digestive problems, use a head MRI scan or fly an emergency helicopter. Use your medical skills and spread a bit of happiness to your sick little patients. This game offers 6 thematic minigames: • Lungs: Use a breathing machine, kill the bacteria in Archer minigame and choose an inhaler to open up the airways. • Throat: Take a swab with a medical stick and eliminate viruses in Bubble shooter minigame. Fresh ice cream is always a good solution for a sore throat! • Head lice: Find head lice with the help of a magnifying glass, get rid of them and choose a super shampoo for anti-lice treatment. • Stomach: Use CT scan to examine all organs in the body and find out which one needs healing, eliminate viruses and choose the right pill. • Neurology: Scan a head, solve a brain puzzle and choose one of the bandages.

Find the Difference (app)
Sit down, relax and enjoy roaming through countless colorful and interesting pictures, find all the differences in those pictures and progress through all the stages. Enjoy the calming music and the beautiful sceneries.

Good Thinking! Attack the Knack (app)
Attack the Knack — investigates student motivation in science, and explores how the types of feedback students receive can influence self-perception, effort, persistence and learning.

Good Thinking! Conceptual Change How New Ideas Take Root (app)
Conceptual Change: How New Ideas Take Root — explores the ways students learn and develop new conceptual understandings, and shows how student misconceptions can be uncovered and addressed as a part of effective learning.

Good Thinking! Sending Learning Styles Out of Style (app)
Sending "Learning Styles" Out of Style — explains how education research debunks the myth that teaching students in their preferred styles (e.g. “visual learners,” “auditory learners”) is an effective classroom practice.

Good Thinking! That's so Meta (Cognitive)! (app)
That’s so Meta (cognitive)! — investigates how explicitly teaching students metacognitive strategies helps them become more effective learners, able to integrate knowledge rather than just memorize isolated science facts and definitions.

Hero Rescue Puzzle (app)
We developed a game that millions of players around the world longed to play. Pull out sticks to open the way for lava-flow, treasures, water and for the hero as well. The wrong sequence will result in the hero’s quest ending while the correct sequence will bring you to wealth and sometimes to the princess. Needless to say, you've already seen how this is done a hundred times. It's time to give it a shot!

Liquiz (app)
Welcome to LiquiZ! Place the objects to guide the liquid. Make the water and other liquids flow into the glass container. Fill it completely and don’t spill any! Play this enjoyable physics game to relax. Enjoy hundreds of levels with many different challenges and obstacles! Got stuck? Use a hint! Customize your liquid and background to keep things fresh. FEATURES - 300 different levels and easy tutorials. - Different ways to solve each puzzle, your imagination is the limit. - New challenges and objects in advanced level packs. - Tips in every level, use it if you can’t solve it. - Customize the LiquiZ color and background of the game. - Colors and flat design to make you relax with the game. - Original soundtrack adapted to the game. Relax and have fun!

Mystery Numbers (app)
This hidden object game is a great mix of learning and entertaining. The task is to find all the numbers creatively hidden among objects. It's not as easy as it sounds! Mystery Numbers serves as an educational tool by helping users learn numbers and improve their number recognition skills. The game's focus on cleverly hidden numbers provides users with a stimulating and enjoyable way to enhance their cognitive skills while having fun. This game is not just an engaging pastime, as it cultivates persistence, enhances attention span and memory, improves concentration and visual acuity. Mystery Numbers will resonate with users seeking a unique and enriching hidden object experience.

Stone Sculptor, The (app)
Developing reader; a fable reinforcing the idiom that the grass is always greener on the other side - so appreciate what you have as it is not necessarily better anywhere else. Utilises simple present tense, simple and compound sentences as well as adverbial phrases. Uses complex vowel sounds and polysyllabic words. Punctuation incorporates direct speech, apostrophes of possession, colons, exclamation marks, parenthetic commas and of course full stops.

Why Do Songs Get Stuck in My Head? (app)
The science behind earworms and why they won’t leave us alone.

Wizard's Test (App)
A wizard took two students to a tower for a test. “Go to the top,” he told them both. “Move fast and do your best!” Like every FarFaria ebook, this title includes professional audio narration with word highlighting and a standards-aligned reading level, independently measured using the Lexile framework.