<p>The Solar System activity is a tool to encourage children to learn more about the planets and their moons (natural satellites). It is the author's hope that this tool serves as a practical and interactve way to explore astronomy.</p>

Solar System

Picasso? Van Gogh? You can be any of them! Just let the artist inside you free. Transform images in your mind to beautiful paintings.

Paint

This activity display a piano keyboard in the screen and can be used to play music selecting sounds from different instruments. In devices with touch screen, can be used touching the screen, in devices without one, the laptop keyboard can be used.

Music Keyboard

“All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians” – Monk“Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.” ~ LeibnizMusic Blocks is a programming language and collection of manipulative tools for exploring musical and mathematical concepts in an integrative and fun way.

Music Blocks

A collection of tools for exploring fundamental musical concepts in a fun way.

Good at finding your way out of hard situations? Let's see! Try to make your way through an increasingly difficult path.

Maze

Decode the world and help the world decode you. Use this translator for access and learn about many different languages!

Words

Speak is a talking face.  Anything you type will be spoken aloud using a speech synthesizer.  You can adjust the accent, rate and pitch of the voice as well as the shape of the eyes and mouth.  This is a great way to experiment with a speech synthesizer, learn to type or just have fun making a funny face.

Speak

An animated face that speaks whatever you type

Measure is a tool that turns the computer into an oscilloscope. You can easily visualize your voice or even a musical instrument. It provides an interface for the kids to connect with the physical world and an opportunity to view and understand through a visual and statistical representations.

Measure

Oscilloscope program for visualizing microphone input

Sugar Chess is a front end to the gnuchess program. It features varying levels of difficulty, undo, PGN output, customization of graphics, et al.

Sugar Chess

Abacus lets the learner explore different representations of numbers using different mechanical counting systems developed by the ancient Romans and Chinese. There are several different variants available for exploration.

Abacus

A tool for simple arithmetic calculations

Want to wisely manage money? Learn financial planning basics and track your family's finance, make your own budget and learn how to make every penny count!

Finance

Pippy allows the student to examine, execute, and modify simple Python programs. It's possible to write Python statements to play sounds, calculate expressions, or make simple text based interactive games. It also includes PyGame examples and a tutorial for GTK basics.

Pippy

Prove Sir Isaac Newton correct. Create real-life simulations using different shapes and see them come to life with forces.

Physics

Read ETexts lets you read all the free e-texts from Project Gutenberg, or use Text to Speech to have them read to you. The built in offline catalog search lets you browse through and download over 30,000 great titles.

Read ETexts

Chart lets you do graphical representation of simple tabular data. It can draw Horizontal/Vertical bar charts, line charts and pie charts.

Chart

FotoToon allows you to create everything from a simple “comic” strip to a long elaborate illustrated document. You will be able to import many kinds of images into the panes of your project and add text bubbles to help tell the story.

FotoToon

The slide rule also known colloquially as a slipstick, is a mechanical analog computer. Sliderule implements a basic slide rule with C, D, A, and L scales and can be used for multiplication, division, roots, addition and subtraction, and more.

Sliderule

Story prompts the learner to tell a story by displaying images at random. The learner should try to tell a story that ties the images together into a comprehensive narrative.

Story

Color Deducto is a learning activity to help children learn the art of inductive logic through pattern recognition.

ColorDeducto

FractionBounce is a game to nudge a bouncing ball to land at an estimate of a given fraction. For example, if 2/3 is displayed on the ball, then the ball must land 2/3 the distance along the bottom.

FractionBounce

Implode is a logic game based on the "falling block" model of Tetris. The game starts with a grid partially filled with blocks. The player makes a move by removing adjacent blocks of the same color in groups of three or more.

Implode

Implode blocks of the same colour until they are all gone

Memorize is about finding matching pairs. A pair can be images, sounds and text and this could be extended to animations or movie snippets as well. Which pairs match is up to the creator of the game. Memorize is more than a predefined game you can play, it allows you to create new games yourself as well.

Memorize

A high energy and up-beat action program, Swift Feet encourages children to be active. 20 different exercises and 10 different dances set to music take users through high, moderate and low impact movements. This activity was designed for OLPC Canada in collaboration with ParticipACTION Canada and Ophea.

Swift Feet

Dimensions is a pattern-matching game. The object of the game is to find sets of three cards where each attribute—color, shape, texture, and number of elements—are either the same or different.

Dimensions

Pukllanapac is a sliding-puzzle game. The objective is to rearrange tiles so that all of the circles (and semicircles) are composed of sectors of the same color. There are three different patterns: circles, triangles, and hexagons. Drag tiles to swap their positions. Click on tiles to rotate them.

Pukllanapac

A strategy game. The goal is to surround the turtle before it runs off the screen. You can load your own strategy for the turtle by importing Python code.

Turtle in a Pond

Surround the turtle before it runs of the screen

Solar System

Learn about the planets

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