Educational Games in Ubuntu

[buknoii]

hi guys! i would just like to ask if you know any educational games that we could install on the pc's that were donating?

anyways I love ubuntu so much that we bought old computers (P4 1.6 something) and installed ubuntu on it, so that kids on who don't have access on a computer can atleast have a taste on the power of computer...

[jonobr]

Hello


Surprised there were no responses to this, given your donating them,

Anyway, I had a quick search in synaptic for educational games and found the following with explanations. Recommend you spend a while trying them yourself to make sure they hit age bracket of the required audience

Childsplay
Childsplay is written in Python and uses the SDL-libraries to make it more
games-like than, for instance, gcompris.
The aim is to be educational and at the same time be fun to play.

xball

A simple educational game that simulates bouncing balls in a window. Gravity,
elasticity, and ability to collide can all be adjusted.


pysycache

A collection of activities based on simple objects, photographies,
numbers and letters with their sounds in different languages.
The activities make children practice on clicking, double-clicking, drag and
drop, moving and identify the mouse buttons.

tipptrainer
This touch typing trainer is intended to teach children how to type
computer keyboards. It was developed to spread Linux in schools by
providing useful educational applications. The user interface as
well as lession data are available in German and English.

hangman

Used to play this myself.....Good for spelling I suppose:-)

[cmay]

tuxtype and tuxmath.

tuxmath is a math training penguin game.

tuxtype is very funny and aimed at learning to spell and type on the keyboard. i think it looks hilarius when the penguin runs to eat fish so i play it sometime. just do not tell anyone.
i am way too old to be playing tuxtype:)

[jonobr]

just do not tell anyone.
i am way too old to be playing tuxtype

Time to power up synaptic and give it a whirl.

As for being old. As a great man once said.,
Your only as old as the woman you feel:-)