The goal of the Engineering & Design Module is to teach kids to recognize challenges, turn them into opportunities, and identify scalable solutions to solve them. Topics in this module include puzzles, invention, construction, machines, architecture, curiosity.
STEAM Academy offers an interdisciplinary approach that weaves together the science, technology, engineering, art, and math skills learned in the classroom and connects them to things kids see every day.
All About Transportation
For more than 65 years, Highlights for Children has been helping kids become their best selves through Fun with a Purpose™ magazines, games, books, and digital products. Its all about Trains, Planes and Automobiles here. Read stories, solve puzzles, earn stickers,and play matching transportation games. Ready? Go!
Bridge Constructor Playground
Be creative! Be innovative! Build bridges across 30 different levels to cover valleys, canals, rivers and then take the ultimate test. Will it hold? Tackle each level and get your build on.
Color Transportation
In 'Color Transportation,' users can fill, scribble, and color to their heart's content from a selection of pictures depicting means of transportation! Kids can save their creations to their photo gallery to perserve their artwork, then start fresh on a new piece.
Dream Car
Celebrate creativity with Crayola! From self-driving cars to amphibian roadsters, vehicles are always changing to meet human needs. In this activity, you will use the IDEA design thinking steps to create innovative new vehicles.
Forces Make Things Move
Forces make things begin to move. Forces can also make things slow down. A special force called "friction" helps keep things from slipping and helps things slow down. When you're riding your bike, friction keeps the wheels from slipping when you go around a sharp curve. Kids will enjoy following along word-for-word with the lyrics to this song and stay engaged and entertained while learning. Learning with music is easy and fun and a proven way for children to learn basic skills.
Kids ABC Trains
ABC Trains is part of Kids Preschool Learning Series-helping children to learn and identify letters and their sounds using trains and railroads as their tools. Kids will learn to pronounce each letter, trace their shape, identify letters in context and match upper and lower case letters.
Levers, Pulleys & Simple Machines
Simple machines need a person to make it work. Examples of simple machines are: scissors, nutcrackers, bottle openers, and pliers. These simple machines help us do many jobs and make these jobs easier to do. Kids will enjoy following along word-for-word with the lyrics to this song and stay engaged and entertained while learning. Learning with music is easy and fun and a proven way for children to learn basic skills.
Power Rangers: Beast Morphers
Designed for early and emerging readers, POWER RANGERS BEAST MORPHERS delivers the kinetic action that all kids crave but at an action level appropriate for a younger audience It is an interactive adventure which will help kids practice literacy skills. It balances kinetic action sequences, puzzles and maze-like maneuvering with exciting battle sequences.
The Letters & Numbers Train
Good training is key to learning letters and numbers! Help Troy the Train and his friends move through beautiful animated landscapes by tracing letters and numbers. Use your finger, following the arrows, to create letters and numerals.
The Wright Brothers
Soar to new heights with the Wright Brothers. Read the story behind their first flight!
Things That Go
Things That Go introduces early learners to over 55 busy vehicles from around the world! Each page is introduced by a playful rhyme, while bright and colorful images pop up magically as each 3D scene opens. When your child taps a picture, they see and hear the associated word, making this a powerful tool for learning new words, as well as reinforcing those they already know.
Transportation Game
Celebrate creativity with Crayola! When we make the games we play, we connect ideas about people and places. In this activity, you will design a Transportation Game to learn how and why things move from place to place.
