Free Educational Software In English (-)

The following learning software programs run in English.

 		   

Two-Two 2 + 2 - Math For Kids
2 + 2 is a free application that lets kids practice their maths. Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division are all covered. An encouraging human voice guides you through all exercises, and soothing music is played in the background. Read more... (01/16/2006)

Algebasics Algebasics.com - Learn Algebra
Algebasics.com is not an interactive piece of software, but rather like a kind of speaking, animated textbook where a teacher explains the mysteries of algrebra to you, over and over again if you like. Read more... (10/18/2006)

Arcademicskillbuilders Arcademicskillbuilders.com - Learn Math Playing Arcade Games
Arcademic Skill Builders is a website that hosts several fun online multiplayer arcade racing games that will teach you addition, multiplication and division. Read more... (02/06/2008)

Art-Rage ArtRage - Free Paint Simulation Software
ArtRage is a free painting package that provides a realistic and fun simulation of using paint on a canvas, along with pens, pencils, crayons, water and other tools. ArtRage is available for both Windows and Mac OS X. Read more... (11/25/2005)

Atlas-History Atlas of World History - Map Animation
This free map animation software is an interesting way to visualize history! Animated maps show empires growing and countries changing in Europe, Africa, and Asia over 4000 years (from 3000 BC up to to 1000 AD). Read more... (01/20/2006)

Babelfish Babelfish - Online Translations
An execellent automatic on-line translation tool. Read more... (10/31/2005)

Babysmash Babysmash - Computer Play For Toddlers
Baby Smash is a free "keyboard banger" game for very young kids (ages 1-3 years). It disables all system keys such as ctrl-esc, alt-tab and the Windows key, so that the kids do not exit the program accidentally or harm the computer. Read more... (08/03/2008)

Teletubbies BBC Teletubbies - Fun And Games For Toddlers
The BBC Teletubbies website provides a bunch of very simple but fun learning activities for toddlers, such as "Spot the rabbit", "Animal Sounds", "Shape Game", counting games and more. Read more... (01/11/2008)

Lego-Cad BlockCAD - Build Lego
Build Lego in your computer! Finally you have access to an unlimited number of bricks of any color! Freeware written by a Swedish programmer, Anders Isaksson. Read more... (10/10/2005)

Boohbah Boohbah.tv Zone - Cute Games For Toddlers
Boohbah.tv is a very cute website that offers lots of small and ingenious games and fun for young kids (2-5 years old). Most of the games simply let the children acquire basic computer skills such as using the mouse. Read more... (02/14/2008)

Bruce-Type Bruce's Unusual Typing Wizard
Bruce's Unusual Typing Wizard is a typing tutor to learn and practice typing. It is designed to accommodate both beginners and experienced typists who are looking to gain speed or accuracy. Read more... (02/14/2006)

Celestia Celestia - Free Space Simulation
Celestia is a free real-time space simulation that lets you experience our universe in three dimensions. Navigate through space and visit Saturn, Mars and the Sun! Read more... (11/25/2005)

Centennia Centennia - Napoleonic Edition
Similar to Atlas of World History, this free animated atlas covers Europe and the Middle East during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic period. Read more... (01/20/2006)

Childsplay Childs Play - Free Educational Games
Childsplay is a suite of educational games for young children (approximately between 3 and 10 years old). Just like Gcompris, it is both freeware and open source, and is available for Linux as well as for Windows. Read more... (08/19/2006)

Countusin Count Us In - Learn Basic Maths Concepts At abc.net
In this nice collection of math activities, there are 15 different games designed to help children understand basic concepts in mathematics. There are games to learn counting, sorting, time, height and volume. Read more... (01/30/2007)

Cyberstart Cyberstart - Freeware For The Very Young
Cyberstart by Larry Loveland is a great way to teach toddlers how to use a mouse, some basic shapes etc. This freeware program does not use the keyboard at all, and you do not need to be able to click the mouse to use it. You simply move the cursor over the screen, matching up colors and shapes. Read more... (01/24/2006)

Download-Com Download.com, Education
The Education section of the Download.com website is always a good place to look for educational software. Includes editoral reviews as well as user reviews. Read more... (11/02/2005)

Graph-Calculator e-Tutor - Online Graph Calculator
This simple and neat online graphing software draws graphs from mathematical equations. You can draw several graphs at once and see how they interact, and you can zoom in and out and move the origin. Read more... (08/20/2006)

Flash-Cards Flashcard Exchange
Flashcards are a great study tool. Flashcard Exchange, the world's largest flashcard library, lets users all over the world share their flashcards. At the time of writing, this amazing site includes 3,107,222 flashcards! Read more... (01/11/2006)

Food-Force Food Force - A Game To Fight Hunger
In the free educational game FoodForce, you get to join a team of UN experts and help them fight hunger on the fictional island of Sheylan in the Indian Ocean, which is suffering from both drought and civil war. Read more... (09/18/2007)

Gamesforthebrain Games For The Brain - Exercises For Mental Sharpness
On this website, you will find several small but quite difficult Java games and puzzles that gives your brain a bit of exercise - memorizing images, solving anagrams and answering trivia questions. Read more... (08/25/2006)

Gapminder Gapminder - Visualize World Development
Gapminder enables you to make sense of the world by having fun with animated diagrams that displays world development over the last 40 years. Analyze income, military budgets, Internet users per 1000 people and many more parameters. Read more... (08/28/2006)

Gcompris Gcompris - Educational Games For Linux and Windows
GCompris is an educational software package which offers different activities to kids from 2 to 10 years old. GCompris is part of the GNU project. It is available for both Windows and Linux. Read more... (01/15/2007)

Geogebra GeoGebra - Geometry, Algebra And Calculus Freeware
GeoGebra is a free and multi-platform dynamic mathematics software for schools that joins geometry, algebra and calculus. GeoGebra is written in Java. Read more... (12/29/2006)

Geosense Geosense - Online Geography Competition
Geosense is a one or two player geography based game. Compete against another online opponent to place a city on a world map as quickly and accurately as you can. Read more... (12/05/2006)

Google-Earth Google Earth - View The Earth From Space
Google Earth is an amazing piece of software displaying satellite images of the entire world. Highly recommended. Read more... (10/31/2005)

Sketchup Google Sketch Up - Model Your World
Google SketchUp (free) is an easy-to-learn 3D modeling program whose few simple tools enable you to create 3D models of houses, sheds, decks, home additions, woodworking projects – even space ships. Read more... (08/25/2006)

Graph Graph - Free Graph Plotting Software
This freeware draws graphs of mathematical functions in a coordinate system. Graphs may be plotted with different color and line styles. Both standard functions, parameter functions and polar functions are supported. Read more... (11/16/2005)

Hiyah Hiyah - Free Software For Special Needs Kids And Toddlers
Hiyah is a collection of nice and extremely simple software written by a mom with two young children who struggle with autism, ADHD, and speech delays. It is so easy to use, all you need to do is to press the spacebar! Read more... (08/23/2006)

Underdogs Home Of The Underdogs - Educational Abandonware
Abandonware is old software that was previously sold commercially, but is now "abandoned" by the publisher. The site "Home of the Underdogs" lets you download lots of old abandoned educational favourites. Read more... (05/04/2006)

Howstuffworks Howstuffworks.com - Learn How Everything Works
On the website howstuffworks.com, you will learn how computers, cars and cell phones actually work. Or learn something new about the human body, such as why you have two lungs but only one heart. Read more... (02/16/2007)

Chemistry-Lab IrYdium - Virtual Online Chemistry Lab
The amazing Virtual Laboratory IrYdium allows students to select from hundreds of standard reagents and manipulate them in a manner that resembles that of a real chemistry laboratory. It allows students to design and perform diverse experiments. Requires Java. Read more... (08/10/2006)

Keas-Coloring Kea Coloring Book - Free Coloring Software
The Kea Coloring Book is a fun and easy to use coloring book. Kids of all ages, will have fun mixing colors and coloring in the pictures. Read more... (11/21/2005)

Kerpoof Kerpoof.com - Drawings, Movies, Cards and Stories Online
The website www.kerpoof.com turns your kids into true cartoon artists. Doodle, create a movie, build your own greeting card or draw a comic strip using predesigned elements in this free multimedia software. Read more... (05/26/2008)

Kids-Freeware Kidsfreeware.com - Freeware Links
A regularly updated list of freeware for kids. Read more... (10/31/2005)

Knowledge-Bears Knowledge Bears - Free Interactive Online World
In the huge, free, aminated interactive online world of Knowledge Bears you can explore countries around the world, learn about aminals and dinosaurs, learn about the greenhuse effect and much more! Read more... (02/16/2006)

Vocabulary Learning Vocabulary Can Be Fun
On this educational web site, you will find several free online vocabulary building games such as Hangman, WordSearch, Crosswords, Quiz, Match Game and Jumble. Read more... (02/14/2006)

Lego-Digital Lego Digital Designer - Create Your Own Lego Models
With the free Lego Digital Designer 1.6, you can design your own virtual Lego model in 3D. Optionally, you can order the exact set of bricks over the Internet and build it in real life as well! Read more... (08/23/2006)

Literacy-Center Literacy Center Education Network
At www.literacycenter.net, you will find a good collection of online basic reading and counting activities that teach shapes, keyboard, letters etc. Read more... (11/02/2005)

Magnetic Magnetic Numbers
This is a simple but kind of cute Flash application that lets you place and move magnetic numbers, similar to the ones you can put on the fridge, on the screen. Read more... (08/03/2006)

Mathplayground Mathplayground.com - Math Games For Kids
On the website mathplayground.com, you will find lots of good flash games that teach kids math concepts such as fractions, percentage, money change, geometry and much more. Read more... (12/16/2007)

Minisebran Minisebran - Freeware For Toddlers
Minisebran contains alphabet exercises, number exercises and doodle activities. It is perfect for toddlers and kids up to 5 years old who are learning the basics of using a computer, keyboard and mouse. Read more... (01/29/2007)

Music-Theory Music Theory Online
This is a great site that teaches you all aspects of musical theory in a series of Flash-based lessons. Learn about notes, clefs, scales and much more. The web site and all exercises and lessons are created by Ricci Adams. (Thanks, Ricci!) Read more... (12/30/2005)

Myphysicslab My Physics Lab - Physics Simulation With Java
In this physics simulation you can try out different physical experiments online. The expriments include springs, pendulums, rigid body collisions, molecules and even a sumo wrestling game for two players! Read more... (07/25/2006)

NCS-Tech.org - An Online Educational Technology Blog
This blog is written by Kevin Jarret and is a very good and very frequently updated source of information about educational freeware and all kinds of other online teaching resources. Read more... (11/18/2005)

Nobelprize Nobelprize.org - Educational Games And Simulations
The nobelprize.org website hosts a large collection of high quality educational Flash games, on subjects related to the Nobel Prize. The productions are aimed at young people, who may know about the Nobel Prizes and the Nobel Laureates, but often lack a deeper understanding about the Nobel Prize-awarded works. Read more... (02/01/2008)

Ocw_Mit_Edu ocw.mit.edu - MIT Open Courseware Free Education
OCW is a web based publication of free course materials used at the Massachusetts Institute Of Technology (MIT). On this site you can download labs, lecture notes, exams and problem sets. You can also watch lecture videos and demonstrations covering a wide variety of subjects. Read more... (12/16/2006)

Pacwriter Pacwriter - Typing Game For Kids
PacWriter from Bertesh Studios is a free educational arcade-style typing game similar to the classic Pacman game. The game has fast-paced 3D cartoon-style graphics, nice music and sound effects. Read more... (01/20/2008)

Paint-Net Paint DotNet - Free Photoshop Clone
This excellent free Photoshop-look-alike lets you edit and manipulate photos, or create digital art. It supports layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools Read more... (01/09/2006)

Phun Phun - 2D Physics Simulations Sandbox
In Phun, you can create objects of different shapes and density, connect them with chain or springs, fixate them and then press the "play"-button and watch them interact. Read more... (03/19/2008)

Poisson-Rouge Poissonrouge.com - Games For Children
Poisson Rouge is an amazing site. It contains lots of free fun and educational games and activities for children (approx. 3-7 years old). It is also beautifully designed, and completely ad free! Highly recommended! Read more... (11/16/2006)

Purposegames Purposegames.com - Create Image Quizzes
Purposegames is a website with serveral very good geography games, where you can learn about countries, capitals, mountains and rivers all over the world. This site is also very much a web 2.0-site, since users can add their own image quizzes to the site. Read more... (08/28/2007)

Rainforest-Maths Rainforest Maths - Interactive Mathematics Activities K-6
This extraordinary online mathematics activities site contains a dazzling 200+ maths exercises for kindergarten and grades 1,2,3,4,5 and 6. All of them are very educational and also beautifully designed. Read more... (02/26/2006)

Robomind Robomind - Program A Robot
In Robomind you can learn basic programming concepts by programming a robot which moves around on a map. It is free for private use only. Read more... (05/23/2007)

Roxies Roxie's ABC Fish - Learn Letters While Playing Cards
In Roxies ABC Fish, kids learn the letters of the alphabet (uppercase or lowercase) and numbers up to 100 while playing "Go fish" with a friendly cat. Read more... (01/17/2007)

Sat-Preparation SAT Preparation - Free Quiz
This online flash quiz helps you build your English vocabulary in order to prepare for the SAT tests. The entire database can also be browsed and the words and definitions can be printed for off-line study. Read more... (03/22/2006)

Scratch scratch.mit.edu - Let Kids Program Their Own Games And Animations
Scratch is a programming environment for beginners, where kids can use a simple programming syntax to create their own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art, and share their creations on the web Read more... (06/06/2008)

Sebrans-Abc Sebran's ABC - Free ABC Games For Kids
Sebran's ABC is a freeware collection of 12 different activities for kids 4-9 years old. It includes counting games, a Hangman game, Memory games, typing games and much more. Read more... (08/26/2006)

Selingua Selingua - Learn Swedish, French, German and Spanish
Selingua is a vocabulary training program with extensive built-in dictionaries -- more than 2000 words in each of the following languages: English (both American and British), German, Spanish, French and Swedish. Read more... (08/21/2006)

Selingua-Columns Selingua Columns - Learn Languages
Play a Tetris-style game and learn French, German, Spanish or Swedish! Selingua Columns is similar to the Tetris-like game Columns, but uses words instead of colors. Pieces fall down from the top - you rotate the pieces and try to match words that mean the same thing. Three different skins are included. Read more... (12/01/2005)

Selingua-Java Selingua In Java - Learn Vocabulary Online
A Java applet that helps you learn 2000 words in French, German, Spanish or Swedish. Read more... (10/31/2005)

Semanda Semanda.com - Chinese Flashcards For Kids And Beginners
On Semanda.com, you can learn basic Mandarin vocabulary by using online illustrated flashcards. You can also test your knowledge by running a multiple chioce test. Read more... (11/30/2007)

Touch-Type Senselang.com - Free Touch Typing Practice
In this online typing exercise, you can either practice a text of your own choice, or choose between 15 different lessons. When you strike the wrong key, animation will show you where the key is and which finger to use. Read more... (02/15/2006)

Seterra Seterra Geography Tutor - Learn World Geography
A very nice, and free, geography teaching package. Covers all parts of the world. Includes quizzez, map exercises. Runs in several different languages. Each exercise has a high score list. Read more... (10/31/2005)

Chemistry-Exercises Sheppard Software - Free Online Chemistry Exercises
This excellent site contains several free games for learning the chemical elements and symbols of the periodic table. Read more... (11/23/2005)

Geography-Exercises Sheppard Software - Free Online Geography Exercises
Have fun learning the countries, capitals, and geography around the world with these free online exercises and games. Exercises for all parts of the world are available: Europe, Asia, Oceania, USA etc. Written in Flash and runs in full-screen mode. Read more... (11/23/2005)

Keyboard Simple Keyboard Game
This simple but neat flash-based keyboard game from Big Brown Bear Software displays a keyboard, and hightlights a key for you to press. If it is correct, you gain a point, and if you are wrong, you lose a point. Read more... (05/02/2006)

Solveelec Solve Elec - Electrical circuits analysis and resolution
With Solve Elec you can draw and analyze electrical circuits functioning in direct current, get literal formulas and values for current intensities and voltages defined in the circuit and verify circuit related equations. Read more... (03/05/2007)

Starfall Starfall.com - Online ABC Exercises
Starfall.com is a free on-line service to help children learn to read. It includes lots of ABC animations, animated interactive books and other reading exercises. There are also lots of downloadable materials such as handouts for classroom use. Perfect for home schooling. The site is completely ad-free. Read more... (01/14/2008)

Stellarium Stellarium - A Free Planetaruim
Stellarium is a free open source planetarium. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope. Read more... (08/25/2006)

Teach2000 Teach2000 - Learn Vocabulary
Teach 2000 is a vocabulary trainer that helps you memorize words in foreign languages, using multiple-chioce questions and flashcards. Images and speech can be associated with each word. Read more... (11/24/2006)

Thinking-Blocks Thinking Blocks - Model Your Maths Problems
In this online Flash program, students model the relationships within math word problems using brightly colored blocks while a virtual tutor leads students through the specific problem solving steps. Read more... (09/15/2006)

Timez-Attack Timez Attack - Learn Multiplication
Chase dangerous monsters, find your way through dark tunnels - and learn multiplication at the same time! Timz Attack is a first person shooter game where you do maths instead of shooting! Read more... (02/16/2006)

Tuxmathscrabble Tux Math Scrabble
Tux Math Scrabble is a free maths game for kids that is similar to the board game Scrabble, but uses numbers instead of letters. You compete against the animated penguin Tux. Read more... (11/15/2006)

Tux-Paint Tux Paint - Free Drawing Software For Kids
Tux Paint is a free drawing program for kids which can run both in full-screen mode and in a window. It has a configuration section with many options, and supports a variety of different languages. Read more... (11/04/2005)

Tux-Type Tux Typing - Typing For Children
Tux Typing provides an action-filled experience for kids who want to learn how to type. In the various exercises, letters or words come falling down from space, and you need to type them as fast as possible in order to gain the highest possible score. Read more... (01/12/2006)

Typing-Tutors Typing Tutors
This is a good list of links to the best shareware and freeware typing tutors. Read more... (12/30/2005)

Classtools www.classtools.net - Build Your Own Quiz Games
The website classtool.net lets you create fun quiz games using your own questions or word lists. Practice your skill in any subject playing Flash arcade games such as Manic, Miner and Word Shoot. Read more... (05/20/2008)

Dositey www.dositey.com - Math And English for K-8
On the Dositey educational website, you will find interactive lessons (written in Flash) and free printable worksheets for maths and English. Read more... (02/05/2006)




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