Free Educational Software In English (English) The following learning software programs run in English.

60+ Educational Games And Games Resources
If you are looking for game sites to be used in education, the blog Free Technology For Teachers has a list that is a good place to start. Read more... (11/18/2009)

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)

Alice.org - Learn 3D Object Oriented Programming
Alice.org provides a friendly 3D drag-and-drop interface for learning the basics of object oriented programming. In Alice version 3.0, Java coding will be added in cooperation with Sun Microsystems. Read more... (12/30/2008)

Anki - Free Spaced Repetition Flashcards
Anki is a free spaced repetition flashcard program similar to SuperMemo available for several operating systems: Windows, Mac OS, Edubuntu and Fedora. Read more... (03/30/2009)

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)

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 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)

Babbel.com - Learn French, German, Italian, Spanish or English (ESL)
Babbel.com is a great website and community that lets you learn French, German, Italian, Spanish or English. You can also use the site to find new online friends or language partners that speak the language you want to learn. Read more... (08/21/2008)

babelfish.yahoo.com - Free Online Translations
Yahoo Babelfish is an execellent automatic on-line translation tool. You can translate texts (up to 150 words) or entire web pages. Read more... (10/31/2005)

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)

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)

benfranklin300.org - View A Benjamin Franklin Timeline
The website benfranklin300.org was created to celebrate the 300th-year anniversary of Benjamin Franklin's birth (1706-2006). It includes a great interactive historical timeline where you can learn about the life of Franklin, one of the Founding Fathers. Read more... (05/15/2008)

Best Freeware - The Best Productivity Freeware
Best Freeware is the "sister site" of Eductional Freeware, and lists the very best productivity freeware, such as word processors, spreadsheets and image editing software. Read more... (01/13/2008)

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)

Bluecowgames.com - Free Online And Downloadable Coloring Games
The site Bluecowgames.com offers free, high-quality coloring activites for kids. The activites are available both online and in a downloadable format. You will also find very easy animal jigsaw puzzles and memory matching games. Read more... (05/12/2009)

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)

Brainpop.com - 35 Free Educational Videos For Tweens
Brainpop.com is a subscription-based website, but it does have a collection of 35 free educational cartoon videos as well. Read more... (06/16/2009)

Breathing Earth - Real Time CO2 Emissions Simulation
The Breathing Earth is a Flash visualization of world population growth, births, deaths and carbon emissions. A great starting point for discussions with kids about the climate change. Read more... (10/16/2009)

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)

BusyTownMysteries.com: For the Curious Child
Do you have a child that loves to explore? Are they curious about the world and objects around them? Then this is the website for you. The Canadian animated television series, Busy Town Mysteries, has a very creative and engaging (and free) website for young children, BusyTownMysteries.com. Read more... (01/30/2010)

byki.com - Free Language Flashcards
Do you want to learn basic vocabulary in a new language, for free? On byki.com, you can download a free flashcard program, Byki 4 Express for Windows or Mac, that lets you learn words in multitude of languages. Read more... (03/27/2009)

Calculationnation.nctm.org - Live Online Math Contest
Calculation Nation is a website where kids can challenge other kids around the globe in math game competitions. Calculation Nation is part of the NCTM Illuminations project, and also of Thinkfinity.org. Read more... (08/10/2009)

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 - 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)

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)

Childtopia.com - A Kids Educational Dream
Childtopia.com is a huge collection of beautiful educational games, stories and worksheets. Play concentration games, Sudoku, Domino, musical memory games and much more. Read more... (11/14/2008)

coolmath4kids.com - An Amusement Park Of Math
Coolmath4kids.com is a colorful website that makes learning maths fun for kids. It has a number of online maths lessons, and activites and games that measure your progress. Read more... (10/01/2008)

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)

Crickweb.co.uk - Educational Interactive Games
Crickweb is a British website that hosts 169 interactive educational Flash games in the categories Early Years, Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2 and Promethan Interactive Whiteboard. Read more... (08/06/2009)

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)

Dance Mat Typing - A Cool Free Typing Tutor
In BBC's online typing school Dance Mat Typing, you meet a cartoon goat and other cool, exotic animated animals that help you learn typing. A fun way for kids to learn keyboarding! Read more... (02/02/2009)

Digitaldialects.com - Games For Learning Lots Of Languages
Digital Dialects is a website that features a number of interactive games for learning basic vocabulary and phrases in 55+ different major and minor languages - English, French, German, Russian, Greek, Spanish, Arabic, Hindi and many more. Read more... (12/18/2009)

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

Ecodazoo.com Teaches Kids About Major Environmental Issues
Ecodazoo.com, better known as Eco Zoo, is a wonderful online resource that parents and teachers can use to teach young children about the world's major environmental issues. Read more... (02/11/2010)

e-Learning for Kids Free Typing Tutor
e-Learning for Kids Keyboarding Skills is a free Internet course for children wanting to improve their typing skills. The goal of the program is to earn medals and trophies while participating in the Type-E-Chi Virtual Typing Tournament. Read more... (04/23/2009)

E-learningforkids.org - Education For Children Globally
E-Learning for Kids is a global, nonprofit foundation dedicated to creating fun and free learning games on the Internet for children ages 5 - 12. The site hosts a large number of educational flash games for children on many subjects. Read more... (06/05/2009)

Enchantedlearning.com - Picture Dictionary for Kids
The enchantedlearning.com website offers a huge amount of encyclopaedic information, handouts and printouts for children. Read more... (01/13/2009)

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)

fantasticcontraption.com - Online Physics Puzzle Game
In the fun Flash game Fantastic Contraption, you solve levels by building clever machines using rotating wheels and rods. Read more... (01/16/2009)

flashcardexchange.com - Study Anything
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 14,252,216 flashcards! Read more... (01/11/2006)

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)

Fun4thebrain.com - Math And Reading Games With Rewards
On the free site funforthebrain.com, kids get to solve math problems (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division). If they get the answers right, they will earn rewards such as new clothes for a dress-up-doll or new colors for a coloring page. Read more... (04/06/2009)

Funbrain.com - Math Arcade Game for Kids
At www.funbrain.com there is a fun math game collection, MathArcade. The game collection consists of 25 games, and upon winning one game, you receive a password. The password allows you to return later and resume your game where you left off. Read more... (09/28/2008)

GameClassroom.com: A Compilation of the Best Educational Interactive Games
GameClassroom.com is a website that compiles the best K-6 educational interactive games the web has to offer. GameClassroom.com conveniently embeds the activities directly into their site, categorized by subject, skill, and grade level. Read more... (10/02/2009)

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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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)

Glencoe's Online Keyboarding Tutor
Glencoe's Online Keyboarding tutor by McGraw-Hill is excellent for people of all ages who want to learn how to type. The course is divided into 16 individual typing lessons and are broken down to include home row, space bar, numbers and symbols, caps lock and other punctuation marks. Read more... (05/04/2009)

Goodtyping.com - Free Multilingual Typing Course
On the free site goodtyping.com, you can learn how to type using 27 guided step-by-step lessons. The course is available in several languages, and you can choose between 18 different international keyboard layouts. Read more... (05/12/2009)

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)

Google Sketch Up 6 - 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 - 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)

Handipoints.com: Free chore charts, virtual world, and more!
Can't get your child off Webkinz or Club Penguin to do their chores? Then you should check out Handipoints.com! Handipoints.com is a free website geared toward children ages 4 to 12 that allows parents to create and manage chore charts and reward systems, as well as offering a safe, virtual world for kids to play in. Read more... (02/11/2009)

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)

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)

Immune Attack - Educational 3D Biology Video Game
Immue Attack is a high tech 3D computer game that teaches how the human body and the immune system work. In this game, you program a nanobot to teach all cells in the body how to fight bacterial and viral infections. A great game for high school science students. Read more... (07/17/2009)

Internet4classrooms.com - Lots Of Educational Links
Do you like educational-freeware.com, but you need many more links to educational resources? Try internet4classrooms.com! This site has a huge collection of educational links: free worksheet sites, free software, interactive activities and much more! Read more... (06/01/2009)

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)

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.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)

Kideos.com - Free, Safe Videos For Kids
Kideos.com is a new site similar to Totlol.com, where children can watch fun videos (mostly from Youtube) that have been screened and approved by parents. Read more... (08/05/2009)

Kidsknowit.com - Free Educational Websites, Movies and Music
Kidsknowit.com is the hub of a network of children's educational websites. It has a number of subsites on topics such as astronomy, animals, spelling, math, history and geology. Read more... (09/08/2007)

Learn English Kids - Free English Activities For Children (ESL)
The British Council hosts a great website called LearnEnglish Kids with plenty of stories, songs, games, exercises and other activities for kids learning English as a second language. Read more... (07/02/2009)

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 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)

Literactive.com - Interactive Books, Worksheets, and Activities
Literactive.com is a wonderful literacy resource for children and teachers. The site contains a multitude of interactive story books and materials that can be used at home or in the classroom. Read more... (04/17/2009)

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

Mangahigh.com - Free High-Quality Math Games
Mangahigh.com is a British website that hosts four slick, well-designed and ad-free interactive math games. Learn about fractions, decimals, geometry, shapes, graphs and time tables and more! Read more... (10/08/2009)

MathApprentice.com: Using Math in the Real World
MathApprentice.com allows children in grades 4-6 to explore the connection between various careers and how they relate to the math they are learning today. Read more... (10/02/2009)

MathMovesU.com - An Interactive World of Math Games and Learning
MathMovesU.com is an exciting new interactive world created by Raytheon as part of a new initiative to promote math among middle school students. The online math games are only a part of this program that's wide in scope and includes scholarships, tutoring programs and events. Read more... (02/22/2010)

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)

Mathway.com - Solve Equations Online Step-by-Step
On the website mathway.com, you can enter a maths problem such as 2ln(-x)+7=14 and get a solution, plus an explanation in natural language of how that solution can be reached. Read more... (01/16/2009)

Microsoft Worldwide Telescope - Teach Astronomy
Worldwide Telescope is a free Microsoft application that lets you travel through outer space. You can pan in and zoom in close to moons, planets, solar systems and galaxies. Images are taken from the Hubble Space Telescope and ten earth-bound telescopes. Read more... (09/01/2008)

Mingoville.com - ESL (English As A Second Language) For Kids
In the flamingo city of Mingoville, kids can learn English as a second language for free the fun way in an instant immersion environment. Missions include body parts, numbers and letters, colours, nature and seasons and much more. Read more... (05/06/2009)

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)

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)

My Story Maker - Write Your Own Illustrated Fairy Tales
My Story Maker is a tool that helps kids write their own stories. Add characters and objects to the storyboard, and click them to add actions. A basic story will be automatically written, and the students can then embellish the text with adjectives and other descriptive words. Read more... (06/16/2009)

Nasa.gov - Space Games For Kids
The NASA Kids' Club is a website for kids to learn about space. There are many games graded by level where children can build their own rocket from a blueprint and watch it take off, dance on the moon, play logic or math games, or visit the space image galley. Read more... (07/02/2009)

Neok12.com - Organized Educational Videos
Neok12.com is a website that lists educational videos by subject. All videos can be viewed directly on sites such as Youtube as well, but Neok12 makes it much easier to find them. The videos illustrate a wide array of subjects including math, social studies and science. Read more... (06/02/2009)

NetSmartzKids.org: Interactive Internet Safety Resources for Children and Students
NetSmartz.org is multi-faceted internet safety website from the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children® (NCMEC). NetSmartzKids.org, a section of NetSmartz.org, is designed specifically for kids and includes tons of age-appropriate interactive and printable materials. Read more... (03/03/2009)

nlvm.usu.edu - Online Virtual Manipulatives
On the National Library of Virtual Manipulatives site, you will find a number of online Java math applets that teach numbers and operations, algebra, geometry, measurement, data analysis and probability. Read more... (04/14/2009)

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)

Novelgames.com - Healthy Family-Friendly Flash Games
Novelgames.com has a very nice collection of non-violent online flash games. Here, you can find puzzle games, variations of Sudoku, logic games, typing games and educational games. Read more... (01/30/2009)

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 - 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 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)

PBSKids.org - Play Online Games With Popular TV Characters
One of the most popular activities for toddlers who've been exposed to the Internet at an early age is the collection of PBS Kids online games over at PBSKids.org. There, kids will find games, music and coloring pages centered upon their favorite characters from popular PBS shows. Read more... (11/20/2009)

Phet - Interactive Science Simulations
The website http://phet.colorado.edu hosts a large number of java-based educational simulations teaching chemistry, physics, math, biology and earth science. Read more... (04/06/2009)

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)

Playinghistory.org - History Games, Interactives And Simulations
Playing History is a website that catalogs and rates the best free online history games and simulations. Browse through subjects such as American history, British history, ancient history or World War II. Read more... (10/16/2009)

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)

Primarygames.com - A Fun, Free Place To Learn
Primarygames is an entertating site for teachers, parents, and kids featuring free educational games, coloring pages, virtual worlds, holiday activities, musical postcards and much more. You might find the animated ads a bit irritating, but there is still lots of great content here. Read more... (01/18/2010)

ptable.com - Dynamic Periodic Table Of Elements
On the website ptable.com, you find a feature-rich interactive periodic table of elements created in XHTML. Each element links directly to a Wikpedia page that describes it in detail, including density, melting point, appearance, occurrence and much more. Read more... (05/12/2009)

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)

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)

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)

RoytheZebra.com: Guided Reading and Reading Games
RoytheZebra.com is a literacy website that includes free interactive reading games, stories, and resources to help emerging readers. The fun interactive reading games focus on early literacy concepts such as capital letters, high frequency words, alphabetical order and many more. Read more... (04/21/2009)

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.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)

Scrubclub.org - Learn How To Stop The Swine Flu
Scrubclub.org is a fun, interactive and educational website that uses music, games and quizzes to teach kids how to wash their hands properly. Proper handwashing is the best way to fight harmful germs and bacteria and prevent epidemics such as the swine flu. Read more... (10/09/2009)

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)

SecretBuilders.com: A Safe, Unique Virtual World for Children
SecretBuilders.com is a safe, unique virtual world for children ages 5 to 14 years old that lets children learn through stories and themes, quests, games and activities, videos, writings, and art. Read more... (06/02/2009)

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

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)

Sense-lang.org - 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 Geography Tutor - Learn World Geography
A very nice, and free, geography teaching package. Covers all parts of the world. Includes quizzes and map exercises. Runs in several different languages. Each exercise has a high score list. Read more... (10/31/2006)

sfskids.org - Fun Music Lab For Kids
On the free website sfskids.org, kids can learn about musical notation, tempo, rythm and much more. The can also find out more about instruments of the orchestra: string, woodwinds, brass and percussion. Read more... (04/26/2009)

Shidonni.com Makes Drawings Come to Life!
Shidonni.com is an incredible interactive website for kids aged 4-10 that lets your child create animals, animate them, and so much more! Shidonni.com offers a great free service for children that allows them to express their creativity and imagination both at home and in the classroom. Read more... (03/17/2009)

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)

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)

SproutOnline.com - Exploring PBS Sprout with Your Toddler
SproutOnline.com is a website for preschoolers. It offers games, activities and projects that help young children to learn. Parents like Sprout Online because toddlers can understand how to use the site, and there are lots of activities that parents and young children can do together. Read more... (12/16/2009)

Starfall.com - Online ABC Exercises
Starfall.com is a free on-line service that helps children learn to read. It includes a lot of ABC animations, animated interactive books and other reading exercises. There are also a lot of downloadable materials such as handouts for classroom use. They are also perfect for home schooling. The site is completely ad-free. Read more... (01/01/2010)

StatPlanet - Interactive Data Visualization through Maps and Graphs
Statplanet is a free data visualization tool that lets you discover facts about world development using colored maps and graphs. Read more... (11/03/2008)

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)

Stykz - Free Stick Animation Software
Stick animations are a fun and simple way to create your own stories in pictures. Add people, animals, letters and objects and move and bend them a little in each frame, and with very little effort you have built an entire movie! Read more... (07/02/2009)

Sumdog.com - Free Numeracy Games For Students Aged 9-13
The free games on the new website sumdog.com lets you practice addition, subtraction, times tables and division, as well as more difficult subjects such as sequences and square roots. They can be played against the computer, or against a real online opponent. Read more... (03/11/2010)

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)

Teachertube.com - Educational Videos and Lesson Plans
Teachertube is a video sharing website similar to Youtube, where users can upload educational videos and lesson plans. Read more... (12/15/2008)

Thatquiz.org - Create Online Math Exams And Tests
Thatquiz.org is an online assessment tool useful for teachers and home schoolers. It can be used with any subject, but is especially useful for math practice and testing.Teachers can create individualized tests, or access a public test library. Read more... (08/03/2009)

The Great Plant Escape - Teach Kids Plant Science
The Great Plant Escape is an interactive website that teaches plant science using mystery cases that students must solve. It was created by the University of Illinois Extension for fourth and fifth grade students. Read more... (06/02/2008)

Thecolor.com - Free Online Coloring Sheets
The website Thecolor.com has hundereds of online coloring pages for kids to color. The finished paintings can be printed or emailed a friend, or you can print out the uncolored pages to color by hand. Read more... (01/23/2009)

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 - Learn Multiplication
Chase dangerous monsters, wind your way through dark tunnels - all while you learn your multiplication! Timz Attack is a first person shooter game where you use math to fight your opponents instead of weapons! Read more... (09/14/2009)

Totlol.com - Online Movies For Kids and Toddlers
Kids and toddlers love to watch videos on Youtube, but it is hard for parents to know in advance if the movies they choose are really appropriate for children. This problem is solved by the website Totlol.com. Read more... (03/12/2009)

Toytheater.com - Music, Art, Reading Math and Games for Kids!
Toytheater.com is an interactive website for kids with lots of activites. For example, you will find the Animation Station, where children can draw their own animated drawings, and the Composer, where kids compose and play their own music. Read more... (03/19/2009)

Tutpup.com: Online Spelling and Math Competitions
Tutpup.com is a free educational website that allows kids to play timed math or spelling games against competitors from around the world- in real time! Tutpup.com is geared toward children ages 5 to 14, and it also has great potential for use in the classroom. Read more... (01/24/2009)

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

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. The task is to type them as quick as possible, earning the highest score with the most typed. Read more... (01/12/2006)

Typeracer.com - Online Typing Race
At Typeracer.com, you are matched against random human opponents, and you race to see who is the fastest typist. Typeracers is available both online and as a Facebook application. Read more... (02/02/2009)

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

Typingweb.com - Free Typing Lessons
Typingweb.com is a free online keyboarding tutorial that helps you learn proper typing technique and increase your typing speed. No registration or download is required to use Typingweb. Read more... (06/05/2009)

Watchknow.org - Free Educational Video Wiki
Watchknow.org is a huge, user-edited directory of quality educational videos for kids ages 3-18, categorized by subject and age. Currently, more than 12 000 videos are included. Read more... (12/08/2009)

Wiglingtonandwenks.com - A Wonderful Virtual World for Kids
Wiglington and Wenks is a new virtual world for kids to explore, learn and play, in an online environment reminscent of the popular Club Penguin world. However, what other children's communities lack in variety and features, Wiglington and Wenks offers. In this very cute and magical world, children learn that half the fun of going on an adventure is meeting new people along the way. Read more... (01/31/2010)

Wikipedia.org - The Greatest Free Online Encyclopedia
Wikipedia is an excellent multilingual, online encyclopedia compiled by a distributed network of volunteers from all around the world. Read more... (12/15/2007)

Visiblebody.com - View The Human Body In 3D
On the free Visiblebody.com website, you can examine the human body in detail. Inspect the skeleton, muscles, the heart, the lungs, the skin and much more. Registration is required. Read more... (01/08/2009)

Writing Fun - Use Text Organizers
The website Writing Fun helps students organize their writing using text organizers and a simple word processor. Examples and printables are provided with each organizer. Read more... (11/01/2008)

www.amathsdictionaryforkids.com - A Maths Dictionary for Kids
This colorful online math dictionary for children explains key math terms and concepts in a simple, straightforward manner. Read more... (11/12/2008)

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)

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)

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

www.literacycenter.net - Basic Reading and Counting
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)

www.musictheory.net - 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)

www.sheppardsoftware.com - 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)

www.sheppardsoftware.com - 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)

www.tuxpaint.org - 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)

Zoodles.com: Internet Browser and Virtual Toybox for Kids
Zoodles.com is a simple, safe, and free web browser for young children, created by a team of educational professionals with your child's Internet safety in mind. Kids love the Zoodles browser because it offers them a virtual toybox full of educational, entertaining sites that are age- and interest-specific. Read more... (10/26/2009)

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