Education and Games
A range of FREE educational software, for you to use and enjoy. Clicking on a link will take you to an external site where you can access support services, user manuals or download the most up-to-date version of the software.
GCompris is an educational software suite comprising of numerous activities for children aged 2 to 10. Some of the activities are game orientated, but nonetheless still educational. Below you can find a list of categories with some of the activities available in that category:
Solfege is free music education software. Use it to train your rhythm, interval, scale and chord skills. Solfege - Smarten your ears! Features:
Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope. It is being used in planetarium projectors. Just set your coordinates and go.
Tux Paint is a free, award-winning drawing program for children ages 3 to 12 (for example, preschool and K-6 in the US, key stages 1 & 2 in the UK). It combines an easy-to-use interface, fun sound effects, and an encouraging cartoon mascot who guides children as they use the program.
Kids are presented with a blank canvas and a variety of drawing tools to help them be creative.
Tux Typing is an educational typing tutor for children. It features several different types of gameplay, at a variety of difficulty levels.
GCompris is an educational software suite comprising of numerous activities for children aged 2 to 10. Some of the activities are game orientated, but nonetheless still educational. Below you can find a list of categories with some of the activities available in that category:
- Computer discovery: keyboard, mouse, different mouse gesture, …
- Algebra: table memory, enumeration, double entry table, mirror image, …
- Science: the canal lock, the water cycle, the submarine, electric simulation
- Geography: place the country on the map
- Games: chess, memory, connect 4, oware, sudoku … Reading: reading practice Other: learn to tell time, puzzle of famous paintings, vector drawing, cartoon making, ...
Solfege is free music education software. Use it to train your rhythm, interval, scale and chord skills. Solfege - Smarten your ears! Features:
- Recognise melodic and harmonic intervals
- Compare interval sizes
- Sing the intervals the computer asks for
- Identify chords
- Sing chords
- Scales
- Dictation
- Remembering rhythmic patterns
Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope. It is being used in planetarium projectors. Just set your coordinates and go.
Tux Paint is a free, award-winning drawing program for children ages 3 to 12 (for example, preschool and K-6 in the US, key stages 1 & 2 in the UK). It combines an easy-to-use interface, fun sound effects, and an encouraging cartoon mascot who guides children as they use the program.
Kids are presented with a blank canvas and a variety of drawing tools to help them be creative.
Tux Typing is an educational typing tutor for children. It features several different types of gameplay, at a variety of difficulty levels.
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