STEAM-Powered!, 3rd ed.

Title: STEAM-Powered!, 3rd ed.
Subtitle: STEAM - Ages 5+
Release Date: 03/15/25
Type: Launchpad Pack
Brand: HOMER,Smithsonian,Studio Pango
Type: Subject-Based
Audience: Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade

Launchpad Description: Innovation and creativity come together to help kids learn about coding, build new things, and explore the world around them.


This Launchpad contains the following apps:

Arty Mouse Numbers (App)
Arty Mouse loves to get stuck into fun creative activities, which is why he is always smiling! He is the perfect enthusiastic mentor for young children just getting to grips with early learning concepts. In Arty Mouse Numbers, Arty Mouse and his colourful friends engage, enthuse and empower little learners, helping to fast-track them in key early learning number skills. This fun animated app for boys and girls aged 3 to 6 has 12 exciting interactive number activities to choose from, with mini play-again games to discover within each one. Covering a selection of number and maths-related skills including counting, matching, adding up and sorting, this app also helps to develop important motor skills for learning to write. Part of the award-winning Arty Mouse Early Learning Through Art product family. 1, 2, 3 go with Arty Mouse and learn to count! Over 1 million Arty Mouse books sold worldwide. KEY FEATURES • Animation • Available in 7 languages: English, Spanish, Frenc

Dentist Bird (App)
"The "Mission of Mercy" game ... offers fast-paced fun that will certainly keep children coming back for more."- School Library Journal "A must-have app for teaching compassion, empathy, and diversity." - Teachers with Apps "Unique for its cultural content, quality illustrations, support for emerging readers and additional learning content." - Beanstack "Great content, beautifully illustrated" - Children's Technology Review " Strong suits of this app include a “Learning” page with additional interactive content to engage young readers on facts about Liberia and rainforest animals, as well as a “Grownups” folder with links to detailed lesson plans and printables." - School Library Journal Discover an interactive folktale, rich with gameplay! Enter Liberia’s rainforest and help one clever bird cure a crocodile of his terrible toothache! With guides to read, play, and learn at home and in the classroom. Dentist Bird is the first installment in Literary Safari’s series of intera

Fox Factory (App)
Discover programming with Fox and his magic truck. A terrible storm has destroyed everything! Help Fox rebuild it all. ASSEMBLE simple instruction blocks: CUT, ROTATE, PAINT, PASTE... CREATE production lines to make the tangram parts needed for repairs. Set in the colorful world of Pango, Fox Factory teaches the basics of coding and logic in a fun way. The goal is simple and the difficulty level adapts and increases to help you learn at your own pace. Use your IMAGINATION with PANGO! Find out more at: http://www.studio-pango.com FEATURES - Learn programming logic. - Over 70 entertaining challenges - 4 universes - For ages 7 and up - Increasing difficulty for learning at your own pace - No stress, no time limit, no competition - A simple, effective app - Internal parental controls - No in-game purchases and no invasive advertising

Fun with Drones (app)
In this original story from the National Air and Space Museum, three friends watch a drone obstacle course competition and learn about how fun drones can be. After reading "Buzzing Fun with Drones," museum educator Ann Caspari will help us make drawings of what we imagine our house looks like from above.

Money Addition (App)
This game monitors your child’s progress and paces the complexity of the problem according to their performance. Games start with simple whole number currency subtraction problems to currency addition involving different units (dollars, cents) and then moves to decimal addition problems.

Pango Kaboom (App)
With Pango Kaboom, place and stack colored cubes to build incredible structures. A fortified castle, a tall skyscraper, a gigantic aqueduct or a brick house, anything is possible: just let your imagination run wild! • Create new blocks by putting together two cubes of the same color. • Set off incredible explosions and fireworks with explosive blocks. • Perform magnificent chain reactions to knock everything down in the end: "KABOOM"! • And to have even more fun, use the character cubes of Pango and his friends: they are full of emotions that you can share! Pango Kaboom is a simple and really fun game that develops creativity and imagination. The game introduces physics and the laws of balance to its players in an intuitive fashion. It also develops fine motor skills and helps players recognize shapes and colors. It's a perfect game for the little ones. FEATURES - BUILD great structures - STACK and ASSEMBLE cubes to create new blocks - DESTROY your buildings in mag

Puzzlink (app)
If you like our Links Puzzle game, this fun and challenging Puzzlink puzzle game is everything you have ever wanted: a unique, simple, minimalist and smart game to spend your free time, challenge your friends and increase your IQ. Puzzlink is an easy to learn puzzle game, but hard to beat. The dynamics of the game is a complete challenge for those who like logic games. Puzzlink also causes an effect similar to the Tetris Effect, so it increases our brain activity the more you play.

Sid the Science Kid: The Rolie Polies (App)
Sid the Science Kid wants to find out how rolie polies move! 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!

Subtraction Flash Card Quiz and Match Games (App)
Building math skills and learning to subtract has never been more fun and intuitive! With "Show Me" and "Peek" features, play comes easy even for young learners. This app adheres to Common Core Standards for math and was designed by parents and teachers. LEARNING TO SUBTRACT: • Match equations to their answers • Choose the best number range for your skill level • "Show Me" option keeps cards face up for easier play BUILDING MATH SKILLS: • Match equations with the same answer • Hear the numbers and equations as you touch them • Players are rewarded with balloon popping and positive encouragement ADDITIONAL FEATURES: • Items, numbers and instructions are professionally narrated • Hints and options allow you to customize difficulty • Discover new card designs and layouts as you play • Parental controls: Turn off sounds, music, purchases and links to our other apps • We do not collect personal information from our users. COMMON CORE STANDARDS: • CCSS.Math

Tommy the Turtle Learn to Code (App)
Learn the basics of coding with Tommy the Turtle! Tommy the Turtle - Learn to Code is another fun, interactive, educational game to help young children learn the basics of coding. With an accessible interface, kids of all ages and abilities can use commands, sequences, and loops to make Tommy the Turtle move, dance, and sing on screen. In challenge mode, children can test their coding abilities by solving the Tommy the Turtle challenges with his friends. Learning to code from an early age helps children develop problem solving skills and prepares them for the future. Key Features of Tommy the Turtle - Learn to Code app 1. Learn the basics of coding with simple commands, sequences, and loops. 2. Combines audio, visual, and touch inputs to enhance multi-sensory learning 3. One-touch input for help in improving hand-eye coordination and fine motor skills for children 4. Switch-accessible for children with motor limitations who use an external switch (connected through a Bluetoo