10 educational sites and apps that kids can keep busy

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

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These services will not only entertain children, but also teach them new things. Just do not forget to take into account the recommendations of pediatricians:

• It is possible to admit a child to the screen from 15 months.
• From 2 to 5 years old, a child can use the gadget for no more than an hour a day (this includes applications, games, and cartoons) and only accompanied by a parent.
• There are no universal recommendations for children over 5 years old. But doctors advise not to "pay off" the child with a phone or tablet, to make sure that gadgets do not replace other activities and communication. Therefore, it is worth turning off all screens a couple of hours before bedtime and monitoring the quality of the content.

1. IQsha

• Children's age: from 2 to 11 years old.
• Platform: Android, iOS, web.
• Price: 10 games a day for free, then you need to buy a subscription costing from 3,990 rubles (for six months).

There are almost 20,000 games at IQshe for preschoolers and junior schoolchildren. They help the child in a fun way to study the world around him, develop memory, attention and logic, learn to count and write competently, get acquainted with literature, memorize English words. For the completed tasks, the funny little man Aikyusha presents awards.

Screenshot: "IQsha". Memory and attention task for a 5-year-old child

Screenshot: "IQsha". Second Grade Literature Assignment

The most convenient way to use the platform is on a computer, through a browser. All exercises are voiced, so that the child can practice independently. Assignments can be selected by category (logic, reading, math, and so on) or by age. In the parent section, it is possible to collect tasks into blocks to create an individual training session. 10 tasks per day are available for free.

2. We play

• Children's age: from 3 to 11 years old.
• Platform: web.
• Price: is free.

Quite a good selection of games and exercises for teaching counting and reading, the development of logic, memory, thinking. As well as coloring pages, crosswords, rebuses, math puzzles and much more.

Screenshot: "Playing." Math game for younger students

Screenshot: "Playing." Logic and thinking task for toddlers

Tasks are voiced and accompanied by clear, clear pictures. There is one significant disadvantage: exercises can only be selected by category, and not by age. The exception is babies under 5 years old, there is a separate block for them.

3. English course for children from Puzzle English

• Children's age: from 5 to 12 years old.
• Platform: Android, iOS, web.
• Price: 1 990 rubles; there is a free trial.

Puzzle English is a platform for self-study of English. She has a course for children. The creators position it as a program for preparing for school, but children who are already in the second and third grades unsubscribe in the comments. And sometimes even adults.

The course consists of almost a hundred short lessons that teach the alphabet, numbers from 0 to 10, as well as basic phrases and grammatical structures of the English language. The child learns how to introduce himself and get to know another person, how to tell what you love and know how.

Lessons are 10-15 minutes long. First you need to watch videos in which teacher Betty teaches material with the help of songs, poems, stories and pictures, and then do tasks to consolidate knowledge.

Screenshot: English course from Puzzle English. What the lesson looks like

Screenshot: English course from Puzzle English. Fragment of the lesson map

Screenshot: English course from Puzzle English. Example of tasks in the lesson

Each topic is followed by a repetition and a large test. If the child does not go to school yet, it is better to have an adult nearby during the lesson: this will increase the effectiveness of the lessons. But all tasks and questions are voiced and accompanied by pictures, so you can study on your own.

4. Fairy tales and educational games for children

• Children's age: from 3 to 8 years old.
• Platform: Android.
• Price: 2 fairy tales and several games are free, the rest can be bought for 33 rubles. Full access to all games and stories - 1,990 rubles.

This is a collection of interactive fairy tales, now there are 18 of them. The stories are mostly classic: "Teremok", "Little Red Riding Hood", "The Snow Queen" and so on.

Going to the main menu, you can choose a fairy tale, then decide whether the child will read himself or the story will be voiced by the announcers. Next, a picture book will open in front of you, and the story begins. Periodically, the book will come to life, show a small cartoon and ask the child to complete a couple of simple tasks: open the window of the house, fix the curtains.

In addition to fairy tales, the application contains simple games: puzzles, coloring books. If you use the service regularly, you will receive bonus coins, which can then be used to buy new stories.

5. Educational cards for children

• Children's age: up to 5 years.
• Platform: Android.
• Price: 500 cards and several games - for free, full version - 229 rubles.

The app contains 1,500 cards on various topics, such as animals, professions, objects, wonders of the world. Each card has a picture and a signature, which is voiced by the announcer. The child scrolls through them and memorizes images, names, sounds (for example, musical instruments, voices of animals and birds). Then you can play simple games: assemble a puzzle from four fragments or choose the correct caption for the picture from several options.

6. Astronomy for kids from Star Walk

• Children's age: from 4 years old.
• Platform: Android, iOS.
• Price: is free; but disabling ads for Android costs 15 rubles, for iOS - 99 rubles.

The application will help you learn a lot of interesting things about celestial bodies. There is a moving map of the starry sky, an interactive encyclopedia and quizzes based on the material covered. You need to move along the map from one object to another, watch short educational cartoons about planets, constellations and comets, listen to audio recordings, answer simple questions.

We tested the program on a 5-year-old child: he quickly figured it out, watched and listened with great interest, answered most of the quiz questions correctly.

Astronomy for kids from Star Walk? Vito Technology Space Atlas

7. Land of Mathematics: Addition Games

• Age: from 5 years.
• Platform: Android, iOS.
• Price: addition and subtraction games - free; the rest - 339 rubles for Android and 379 rubles for iOS.

You need to help the young pirate Ray find precious stones on the islands, put things in order there and defeat the evil captain Max. This can be done by performing arithmetic tasks for addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and comparison of numbers. All examples are solved for a while: the more you have time to give correct answers, the more points you will get. In between tasks, you can walk around the island, collect coins, open treasure chests. The difficulty of the tasks varies depending on the age of the player.

Land of Math: Addition Games Didactoons

MathLand: Multiplications for Kids Didactoons Games SL

8. Spelling: Dictation

• Children's age: from 10 years.
• Platform: Android, iOS.
• Price: is free.

The app shows a small piece of text with missing letters. The child needs to fill in the blanks, and the service will let you know if he did a good job.

Spelling: Dictation Koliuzhnov Viacheslav

Spelling: Dictation Vyacheslav Kolyuzhnov

9. Learning to read, saving animals

• Children's age: from 3 to 7 years old.
• Platform: Android, iOS.
• Price: 4 levels are free, the rest - 199 rubles.

To save the animals that the Snow Queen froze, you need to learn the letters and syllables (they are voiced), and then make up the names of the animals from them. After the furry prisoners are rescued, the child will have a short quiz.

In the reviews, they write that thanks to the application, children really remember letters and can call them correctly.

Learn to Read, Save the Animals. We learn letters, alphabet. CLEVERBIT

Learn to Read and Learn Letters! Dmitry Skornyakov

10. StudyGe

• Children's age: from 10 years.
• Platform: Android, iOS.
• Price: world map - free, additions (subjects of the Russian Federation, US states, provinces of France, and so on) - from 59 to 1,490 rubles.

With this app, you can start learning geography or fill knowledge gaps. There is a political map of the world, as well as quizzes on the knowledge of countries, cities, capitals and flags. For 179 rubles, you can turn off ads.

StudyGe - Geography of the world, capitals, flags, countries MileoDev

StudyGe － World Geography Lev Mitrofanov