Saved by Smarts!

Title: Saved by Smarts!
Subtitle: STEAM - Ages 8-10, Grades 3-5
Release Date: 08/01/19
Type: Launchpad Pack
Brand: Highlights
Type: Subject-Based
Audience: 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade

Launchpad Description: Kids learn about the world through a scientific lens with these award-winning stories, challenges, and games that encourage them to explore science, technology, engineering, art, and math. This pack includes apps that have won industry awards including Academic's Choice Award, Best Mobile App Award - Children and Toddlers, Digital Ehon Award, Parents' Choice Award, and more!

- Improve critical thinking skills
- Learn about extinction and ecology
- Build math skills
- Develop scientific literacy
This Launchpad contains the following apps:

Hidden Pictures (App)
New from Highlights - discover Hidden Pictures™ puzzle solving fun. Classic Highlights Hidden Pictures® scenes have been reimagined for a whole new generation by Highlights for Children, the #1 children’s magazine in the United States. Both kids and grownups will find something fun in our new Hidden Pictures® Puzzles App!

How Do You Know? (App)
General Information Objective: How do you know? app uses over 500 pictures and questions to engage students in critical thinking skills. Children will build and strengthen their language and inferential skills by identifying and labeling visual clues and key details to explain how they know the answer! Teacher certified and linked to core curriculum standards in the US and UK. How Do You Know targets the following language goals • Question comprehension: who, what, where, when & how • Verbal reasoning strategies to make inferences • Critical thinking skills to distinguish key details • Build Vocabulary and semantic knowledge • Use pictures to build concept imagery • Recognize and label associated vocabulary • Practice reading comprehension at sentence level • Verbal Reasoning Skills Teachers, Parents & Therapists Favorite Features! • Lots of content; Over 10 categories: Places, Activities, Weather, Emotions, Conditions & State of Being, People & Occupations, Animals,

Lost on Infinity (Part Four) (App)
Welcome to Part 4 of this award-winning, spellbinding, thought provoking, 21st Century audiobook adventure! Far away in the Sea of Tranquility is the Island of Infinity, home to the world’s lost creatures. Infinity has a secret for the world but Moog, a boy from Battersea in London, and Rockford his dog, are the only one who can deliver its message. Travelling to Infinity, Moog and Rockford are drawn into an adventure that threatens the entire human race. At its heart, Lost on Infinity by Rockford’s Rock Opera is a tale about extinction and ecology. But it’s a hopeful story that shows that the smallest creatures, and humans, can make the biggest difference. GREAT for ALL AGES – children and adults.

Lost on Infinity (Part One) (App)
Far away in the Sea of Tranquility is the Island of Infinity, home to the world’s lost creatures. Infinity has a secret for the world but Moog, a boy from Battersea in London, and Rockford his dog, are the only one who can deliver its message. Travelling to Infinity, Moog and Rockford are drawn into an adventure that threatens the entire human race. At its heart, Lost on Infinity by Rockford’s Rock Opera – Lost on Infinity – is a tale about extinction and ecology. But it’s a hopeful story that shows that the smallest creatures, and humans, can make the biggest difference. An award winning, spell-binding, thought provoking 21st Century dramatized audiobook adventure! GREAT for ALL AGES – children and adults.

Lost on Infinity (Part Three) (App)
Welcome to Part 3 of this award-winning, spellbinding, thought provoking, 21st Century audiobook adventure! Far away in the Sea of Tranquility is the Island of Infinity, home to the world’s lost creatures. Infinity has a secret for the world but Moog, a boy from Battersea in London, and Rockford his dog, are the only one who can deliver its message. Travelling to Infinity, Moog and Rockford are drawn into an adventure that threatens the entire human race. At its heart, Lost on Infinity by Rockford’s Rock Opera is a tale about extinction and ecology. But it’s a hopeful story that shows that the smallest creatures, and humans, can make the biggest difference. GREAT for ALL AGES – children and adults.

Lost on Infinity (Part Two) (App)
Welcome to Part 2 of this award-winning, spellbinding, thought provoking, 21st Century audiobook adventure! Far away in the Sea of Tranquility is the Island of Infinity, home to the world’s lost creatures. Infinity has a secret for the world but Moog, a boy from Battersea in London, and Rockford his dog, are the only one who can deliver its message. Travelling to Infinity, Moog and Rockford are drawn into an adventure that threatens the entire human race. At its heart, Lost on Infinity by Rockford’s Rock Opera is a tale about extinction and ecology. But it’s a hopeful story that shows that the smallest creatures, and humans, can make the biggest difference. GREAT for ALL AGES – children and adults.

Math Bakery 3- Multiply/Divide (App)
Math Bakery Multiply/Divide is based on the same pedagogical principles as the other games in the award-winning Math Baker series. It provides your child with: • Better understanding which increases motivation. Tasks are visualized through elegant attractive graphics showing an environment easily recognized by children. Dad the Baker demonstrates, using cookies on a baking tray, how to multiply and divide. The principle is used for example such computations as 5 x 6, 56/8 or ?36. Suddenly math becomes real and intuitive. • Help and Advice Whenever it gets hard or goes wrong, help is available towards the correct answer. The child need never therefore feel failure – and will therefore succeed! • Repetition Whenever a task requires help, it is repeated immediately until the child is at last able to manage alone. A great way to absorb knowledge. • Reward system A kind reward system encourages practice, leading to ability: collect cookie jars and build a super gi

Sputnik Eyes (App)
Sputnik Eyes is a puzzle game that will take you on a journey across space. Help the little Eyes to scan and explore each planet on the way. The objective is clear, the paths to reach it entwined. Use your logical thinking and help each of your robotic companions to reach its right-colored position – only then you can analyize a planet. But the positions are only reachable by a few paths..... Sputnik Eyes is a classic puzzle: entertaining but a real brainteaser. Think sharp, explore all the planets and help your robotic companions! FEATURES ? Over 60 handmade levels to explore ? And even more randomly generated levels ? Fantastic landscapes and cute robots ? Space, planets, robots, what could you want more? WHAT THE PRESS SAYS "Sputnik Eyes is definitely a gem for all puzzle game fans" - AppAdvice "[...]the most satisfying $2 I have spent in a while" - 8.8 / 10 - GameMob www.sputnikeyes.com Handmade by Shelly Alon ?

Toc and Roll (App)
Get your children to learn music while playing, quick and easy. In minutes they will be singing real hits created by themselves, and you could share it online. Toc And Roll has no ads or in-app purchases. No extra charges. This powerful educational tool has been designed to help children start composing songs and cultivate their creativity in a funny and easy way. It contains real instruments sounds to write, in a very easy way, songs of different styles like Rock, Rock and Roll, Pop, Blues, etc. Like a portable studio, Toc And Roll gives children the chance to mix different instruments on a virtual multitrack. They can add effects, record their voices, and then share the results with the world. Toc And Roll has received praise from the press. It is used in schools in different countries, and has received awards like the Digital Ehon Award, from Japan. KEY FEATURES No In-App purchases. No extra costs. No ads. Interface and compelling graphics. Over 1000 differents sounds

Zap Zap Math (App)
Zap Zap Math delivers a set of higher order thinking games that cover comprehensive math subjects from kindergarten through 6th grade. Games focus on counting, addition/subtraction, fractions, ratios and geometry. These help build a strong math foundation while training critical thinking, logic, and problem solving.