Think About That!

Title: Think About That!
Subtitle: STEAM - Ages 8-10, Grades 3-5
Release Date: 08/01/19
Type: Launchpad Pack
Brand: FarFaria
Type: Subject-Based
Audience: Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade

Launchpad Description: Kids will learn how to think about the world in new ways with these challenges and stories centered around science, technology, engineering, art, and math.

- Learn about the human body
- Develop knowledge of music
- Discover volcanoes
- Improve math skills
This Launchpad contains the following apps:

Dr. Girder's Bones (App)
Dr. Girder’s Bones is a quiz game for medical students, professionals or anyone who wants to learn about the human skeletal system. The user may get three answers incorrect before their play session is ended. While playing, the user may utilize lifelines to help with the questions. There are flash cards, which allow the user to quickly study bones before entering the game or a test. The local high scores allow the user to save their top 25 scores to show their improvement over time.

Ear Cat (App)
Ear Cat is a fun game created to develop your musical ear, with 80 levels that get progressively more challenging. An intuitive approach to recognising intervals. Improve your solfege and learn to identify pitches in relation to a tonal center. Helpful and entertaining – for beginners and skilled musicians alike, and developed in collaboration with professional musicians and educators.

Know It Alls: Volcanoes (App)
Learn all about volcanoes in this digital, illustrated book from FarFaria.

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

Math Slash (App)
This educational arcade game is fun and addicting. The slashing gameplay style, turns learning upside down through the flawless integration of educational content. Swipe through flying candy equations as they arc across the screen. Sounds pretty simple right? The fun surprise with Math Slash is that the game gives the players the answer first. Candies of different equations pop up on the screen; the player will have to slash through the correct equations for which the given answer solves. Players will be able to select their grade level (1st - 6th grade), each of which is aligned to Common Core Standards established by Department of Education. Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division must be used to seek out and slice up the equations. What are you waiting for? Ditch the calculator, use your math skills and do your best to set the next high score in CelleC Games’ Math Slash! Features: · Fun and addiction arcade style gameplay · Intuitive and responsive touch screen c

MiniChess by Kasparov (App)
Get the kids to learn how to play chess with a colourful, fun and easy-to-play game that legendary Grandmaster Garry Kasparov has endorsed. Take Cheddar the Mouse on a fun journey of discovery as he meets new friends and uncovers the mysteries of the wonderful game. On his travels, Cheddar has to solve exciting puzzles that help him learn the basics of chess. The brave little mouse provides an ideal introduction to the basics of the game for younger children - even kids as young as five can enjoy playing with Cheddar. The little hero makes learning so much fun and so easy - every lesson is a colourful cartoon game that keeps the youngest players' interest. Over time, the little wanderer can improve his game and become a true Grandmaster, ready to play a game of chess with the King himself! And who knows - Cheddar could introduce chess to the next Kasparov!

Shiny The Firefly (App)
This adorable game, set in the middle of a picturesque garden, has you helping Shiny, the cute little firefly, to find his babies. You’ll have to fly, run, hide and defend yourself against a legion of enemies. Stubborn mosquitoes, hungry toads, mischievous plants, sneaky wasps, endlessly long centipedes and lots of other little, dangerous garden dwellers are going to get in your way and make your life difficult. Your reflexes will be tested, as well as your wit and intellect as you navigate through this beautiful, colorful world helping Shiny in his search. All kinds of different animations let you know how Shiny’s feeling. So you’ll always know if he’s feeling happy, concerned, tired or angry. That will help you solve the trickiest situations in the game. Use your ability to shine skillfully: the babies can only follow Shiny when he is lit up, but that also makes him visible to his enemies… Can you reunite Shiny with his family? FEATURES: • Great, high-quality graphics

ThinkRolls (App)
Kids will have a blast navigating their Thinkrolls through a series of obstacles in brightly patterned mazes. Each chapter introduces a new object with unique physical properties which kids discover through hands-on manipulation. Little players encounter and use to their advantage force, acceleration, buoyancy, heat, elasticity and gravity to get their Thinkrolls where they need to go.

Tiki Beach Battle - Environmental Responsibility (App)
The Tikis knew that they had to take action to find the culprits who were destroying the environment, and hurting so much marine life. As they investigate, they find the source of the trash being dumped into the ocean. It’s a mysterious masked man in a boat dumping all the trash. Its important to take care of our planet and beautiful resources.

Yatzy (App)
Roll the dice and collect your scores. You can re-roll up to two times and hold any dice you want to keep. When done, choose your score box to enter your points or place a zero, if you don’t have a match. If the sum of the upper section is 63 or more, you receive 50 bonus points. Collect dice with all the same numbers to win Yatzy!