Puzzle Power!

Title: Puzzle Power!
Subtitle: Critical Thinking - Ages 10+
Release Date: 01/01/25
Type: Launchpad Pack
Brand: Smithsonian
Type: Subject-Based
Audience: 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade, 10sth Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade

Launchpad Description: Stay sharp all summer long through interactive activities, storybooks, and games that will developing basic reading skills, teach phonics, improve logic and critical thinking, build fundamental math skills, and much more!


This Launchpad contains the following apps:

Ball Sort Puzzle (app)
If you like riddles and puzzles, then this game will definitely appeal to you. These balls look and sound like real glass. Train your brain and sort the glass balls so that each tube contains only balls of the same color. There is one important rule: balls can only be moved to an empty tube, or to balls of the same color. Many exciting levels are waiting for you and in order to complete them all, you’ll need to work hard.

Faraway Escape Puzzle (app)
Escape the ancient temples in Faraway: Puzzle Escape that are full of challenges and mysterious puzzles. This room escape game will surely challenge your puzzle escaping ability! CAPTIVATING STORY You're walking in the footsteps of your father. He was a collector of unusual artifacts who went missing ten years ago. Your journey will take you from deserts and oasis to old crumbling ruins of a mysterious civilization. They had constructed devices and puzzles to see if you're worthy of knowing their secrets. Observe the environment, collect items, manipulate devices and solve perplexing puzzles to escape temple labyrinths. COMPELLING PUZZLES Explore 18 grand temples packed with escape puzzles. Turn, explore, think and truly open your eyes, if you want to experience the best in this excellent combination of escape games and 3D relaxing puzzle games. IMMERSIVE WORLD Easy to navigate 3D world which holds more secrets than it appears on the surface. One of the most mesmerizi

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! 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.

Good Thinking! Why Right Brained is Wrong…Brained (app)
Why Right Brained is Wrong…Brained — explains that the popular differentiation between “left” and “right brained” people discredits the complexity of the human brain. Science — just like history, art, math, or literature — requires both sides of the brain.

Mahjong 2: Hidden Tiles (App)
Mahjong has never been so creative and challenging! Make an incredible discovery of fun-packed puzzles and experience innovative online mode. Become a famous mahjong master as you enter the incredible world of a puzzle game Mahjong 2: Hidden Tiles! Try the best 400 levels created by dedicated mahjong fans worldwide and beat your opponents online! Experience an epic tile-matching journey to unlock ancient wisdom. Features: - Online mode - Over 400 boards - Helpful hints - Experience an epic tile-matching journey Sharpen your matching skills solving more than 400 creative layouts. The rules are so easy - match identical tiles to clear the play field. You won't be tired of this game knowing that useful tips can always help you out. The gameplay is greatly enriched by the online mode, which allows you to compete with live people in real time. A simple yet captivating puzzle concept will grant you hours upon hours of unforgettable mahjong fun!

Sudoku Glow (app)
Our Sudoku Glow has an intuitive interface, easy controls, clear layout and well balanced difficulty levels for beginners and advanced players. You won’t be looking for a paper puzzle ever again! Take your favorite game with you wherever you go. Classic Sudoku Glow is a logic-based number puzzle game and the goal is to place 1 to 9 digit numbers into each grid cell so that each number can only appear once in each row, each column and each mini-grid. With our Sudoku Glow, you can not only enjoy Sudoku games anytime anywhere, but also learn Sudoku techniques from it. What is more, you do not have to worry about not finishing a Sudoku. If you are in a hurry, just hit back or leave the app in any other way and the app takes care of saving your progress seamlessly. You can also do roughs and there is also auto correction feature for roughs. Whether you'd like to relax or keep your mind busy, jump into the new Sudoku gameplay, solve tons of new challenging puzzles, and train your b

Tangram Master (app)
Form a given shape without overlapping the pieces! Collect stars and unlock achievements! Complete this logic puzzle and become the Tangram Master! - 400+ different levels. - 21 achievements to unlock. - Automatic tile rotation. - Challenging logic puzzle. - Both Chinese Tangram and European Tangram. - Six beautiful relaxing themes to choose from. - Master mode without full size shape. - Relaxing logic puzzles that challenge your mind. - HD graphics that look great on tablets.

Totemo (App)
Totemo is a puzzle game designed to create meditative, mind-soothing atmosphere around challenging logic puzzles. Each puzzle area consists of a totem and a number of round-shaped spirits scattered around the screen. The player has to clear the area by connecting rows and columns of spirits, thus "binding them" with the totem and making them disappear. Totem serves as an indicator of how many spirits need to be connected to create a match.

Untangled Brain Teaser (App)
THE CHALLENGE The big dots look simple, but they are tangled. Untangle all the dots and release them free. Untangle is a challenging, tactical game with a unique strategy of its own. It is a game with a new perspective and challenge that will jangle your mind and will make your mind agile. Test your logics in the labyrinths of strings and dots! THE GAME ? The game concept is very tricky and fun to crack. ? Different dots are connected via nodes and paths to create a tangled challenge ? Place the nodes in such a way that no line crosses or overlaps each other ? Everytime the levels gets tougher as you proceed further ? Repeat attempts are always different in the game play unlike the other games ? You have to tactfully reorganize the jumbled lines in this challenging game to make your way to victory GAME FEATURES: • Smooth user-friendly interface • Time and Moves are restricted depending on the complexity The dots are untangled, but not your sense..! Get a copy now!