Showing 1–50 of 109 titles
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4-H at Home
4-H at Home is a free website full of fun and educational activities kids and teens can try at home. Organized by grade range and topic, projects explore the hands-on nature-based STEM learning for which the organization and its cooperative extension programs are known. Available in English.
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ABC Kids-Tracing and Phonics
A phonics and alphabet teaching app that features a series of tracing games to help kids recognize letter shapes, associate them with phonic sounds, and put their alphabet knowledge to use.
- Notable Children's Digital Media 2018
- Younger
- ISBN: 999944
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Animal Antics (for Families)
Animal Antics is a free app designed to give children and their caregivers the opportunity to create a story together. Each participant chooses a character and records their voice. Prompts are given along the way to model conversation between child and caregiver, and to encourage joint media engagement while building early literacy skills. Available in English.
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Apart of Me
A small but open-world role-playing game (RPG), in which players connect with real stories of love and loss while working through their own grief. Includes journaling and real-life "assignments," mindfulness exercises, and resources for further support. Available in English.
- Notable Children's Digital Media 2020
- Middle, Older
- ISBN: 999901
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Aquation: The Freshwater Access Game
Produced by the Smithsonian, this simulation game educates children on water equity and challenges players to distribute resources and humanitarian aid around the globe. Available in English.
- Notable Children's Digital Media 2020
- Middle, Older
- ISBN: 999902
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Arithmagic - Math Wizard Game
Use addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and other math skills to help a wizard cast math spells to defeat enemies. Available in English.
- Notable Children's Digital Media 2020
- Middle
- ISBN: 999903
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Art Adventure
Art Adventure is an app designed to encourage children and their caregivers to be creative with various shapes, colors, and texts as they design their own masterpiece. The collage art style differentiates this app from many of the other coloring and drawing apps for children. Available in English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish.
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Artie's Magic Pencil
Children join Artie on an interactive and creative drawing adventure as they learn how shapes can combine in a variety of ways to form objects. Downloadable worksheets for continued learning off-screen are also included.
- Notable Children's Digital Media 2019
- Younger
- ISBN: 999928
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Audio Adventure
Audio Adventure is an app that allows children to create their own radio dramas, using their own sound creations and a selection of various sound effects and background music. Controls are intuitive and easy to use, making this a fun, creative storytelling experience. Available in English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish.
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Bandimal
This open-ended music composition app lets kids create drum loops, compose melodies, and add effects onto songs. Compositions can be saved to the collection. Available in English.
- Notable Children's Digital Media 2020
- Younger
- ISBN: 999904
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Be Internet Awesome
Explore the Interland, featuring four challenging games that teach kids the fundamentals of digital safety and citizenship: Be Internet Smart, Be Internet Alert, Be Internet Strong, Be Internet Kind, and Be Internet Brave. Also features educational resources for both educators and parents regarding digital safety and citizenship for kids.
- Notable Children's Digital Media 2019
- Middle, Older
- ISBN: 999929
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Breathe, Think and Do with Sesame
Emphasizing meditation, this bilingual app teaches emotional control. Despite some navigational issues, the app features useful resources for parents on handling everyday issues, from learning patience to managing sibling rivalry.
- Notable Children's Digital Media 2018
- Younger
- ISBN: 999945
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Career Girls
A diverse array of women professionals from around the world share their experiences for girls to explore careers. Content includes quizzes, extension activities, and resources for parents and teachers. Available in multiple languages.
- Notable Children's Digital Media 2020
- Middle, Older
- ISBN: 999905
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The Cat in the Hat Builds That
This companion to the PBS KIDS series The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot about That explores a variety of engaging STEM mini-games and activities. Includes supplemental materials and suggestions for caregiver/child interaction. Available in English and Spanish.
- Notable Children's Digital Media 2020
- Younger
- ISBN: 999924
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Civics! An American Musical
Civics! A Hollywood Musical is a game created by Fablevision, an educational website aimed at classrooms to teach research methods. Civics! allows an educator to select one of four American history topics, then students learn how to conduct research by assisting various theater employees in selecting correct primary sources, studying each resource carefully, then offering observations and reflections. The result: a musical, complete with a song, costumes, and reviews. Available in English.
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Coral Reef
Part of Tinybop's Explorer's Library series, Coral Reef encourages children (4-8) to learn about marine life and explore the reef ecosystem. With impressive sound effects and crisp, clean graphics, children have ample opportunities to explore the gritty, gross, gorgeous and wondrous aspects of the reef ecosystem. The app offers vocabulary in 20+ languages and includes a handbook for caregivers to use as they support children’s discovery of ocean life.
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The Creature Garden
Imagine and create real or original fantastic animals by hatching eggs, adding animal qualities, and testing their skills. Children can name their animal creations, feed and groom them, and have their different creations race each other. Available in English.
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Daniel Tiger for Parents
2018: Songs and videos from the popular children's show guide parents to help their children develop social and emotional skills.
2023: Daniel Tiger for Parents is a free app library of songs and videos from the PBS KIDS series Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood. The content is simple, educational, and entertaining and includes songs on social-emotional topics and skills such as feelings, self-control and responsibility. Also included are video clips, conversation starters, and tips for parents that model and help with how to use these songs with their children in everyday life. Available in English and Spanish.
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Dr. Panda Train
A semi-guided simulation game in which players move a train from stop to stop, dropping off and picking up animal passengers along the way.
- Notable Children's Digital Media 2018
- Younger
- ISBN: 999947
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Droplets - Drops for Kids
As a language learning app created specifically for families, parents can make Kid Profiles for multiple children of varying skill levels. Users can choose from over 30 languages to learn vocabulary, spelling, and word recognition. Available in multiple languages.
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Drops
Using simple navigation rather than relying on native language, this app and website teaches over 30 languages through audio/visual cues and mini-games. Available in multiple languages.
- Notable Children's Digital Media 2020
- Middle, Older
- ISBN: 999906
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Duolingo ABC: Learn to Read
Duolingo ABC: Learn to Read is a free app designed to help beginning readers explore the alphabet and build early literacy skills. The app’s games focus on letter recognition, writing skills, and comprehension skills. High-quality graphics and user-friendly gameplay make this app a fun and engaging way to learn the alphabet. Available in English
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Ed and the Curious Crew at The Royal Children's Hospital
Designed by the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne, Australia, this app uses videos and games to give kids a behind-the-scenes "tour" of the hospital and lets kids explore the hospital's different departments and careers.
- Notable Children's Digital Media 2019
- Middle, Older
- ISBN: 999931
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Funexpected Math
This app leads kids through a beautifully animated world using a wide variety of mathematical games and activities. Challenges increase noticeably in difficulty, and replay value is moderately high as users continue to build skills. Available in English.
- Notable Children's Digital Media 2020
- Middle, Younger
- ISBN: 999907
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GoNoodle - Kids Videos
This app and website is full of short videos that provide music, movement, dance, stretching, yoga and mindfulness. A simple way to get kids moving in a safe and fun environment. Available in English.
- Notable Children's Digital Media 2020
- Middle, Younger
- ISBN: 999908
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Google Arts and Culture
Google Arts & Culture is a comprehensive high-quality resource of primary source materials for families, students and teachers. The website, and it's companion app, allow for the exploration of a wide range of content from over 2,000 museums and archives across 80 countries. Music, art and culture from around the world is accessible through interactive exhibits, tours, and games. Enjoy a wide range of activities in 3D, augmented and virtual reality. Available in English.
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Grasshopper: Learn to Code for Free
Grasshopper is a free coding app for beginners developed by a team of passionate coders from Google. Using your smartphone, learn JavaScript coding fundamentals like functions, variables, ‘if’ statements, operators, and more in progressively challenging levels. With a few taps get started programming with these fun, quick games. Available in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
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Hopscotch
Hopscotch is a visual coding language that allows kids to create their own games and apps via drag and drop. Video tutorials and lesson plans for educators are also available.
- Notable Children's Digital Media 2019
- Middle, Older
- ISBN: 999932
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Hopster Coding Safari
This drag-and-drop coding logic game teaches basic computational thinking. The controls are easy to use and the puzzles increase in difficulty to build skills. Available in English.
- Notable Children's Digital Media 2020
- Middle, Younger
- ISBN: 999909
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How Do Animals Work?
Interactively explore the biology of seven animals from the Amazon Rainforest and learn what makes each animal unique, from the pink river dolphin’s use of echolocation to the extraordinary night vision of the jaguar. Available in seventeen languages.
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How It Works?
Interactive animations and texts read aloud teach kids how natural phenomena work. Kids learn about energy, the water cycle, the parts of a plant, the Earth, earthquakes, and volcanos. Each lesson includes experiment and demonstration ideas for hands-on learning, as well as puzzles, sorting games, and drawing activities. Available in multiple languages.
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Inventioneers
Explore physics concepts in a fun, game-based environment. Complete levels to earn additional objects to use in building your own invention.
- Notable Children's Digital Media 2019
- Middle, Older
- ISBN: 999933
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Jet's Bot Builder
Children build and personalize their own robot as they travel through outer space with Jet and his friends in this adaptive STEM app from PBS KIDS. Closed captions available. Available in English.
- Notable Children's Digital Media 2020
- Middle, Younger
- ISBN: 999910
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JigSpace
Curious seekers of all ages can explore dozens of interactive 3D educational presentations, or "Jigs". This simple and easy-to-use app uses augmented reality (AR) to bring hands-on learning through step-by-step instructions on a variety of topics and concepts. Available in English.
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Khan Academy Kids
Whimsical characters guide early learners through a multitude of interactive songs, videos, and activities in the areas of literacy, language, math, and logic. Caregivers can also track their child's progress through a report card feature.
- Notable Children's Digital Media 2019
- Younger
- ISBN: 999934
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Knowin - Learn Coding
Children will learn basic coding knowledge at their own pace with this app that has the user tapping their answers instead of typing. Easy to navigate and no prior knowledge of coding required. Available in English.
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Krystopia: A Puzzle Journey
In this science fiction puzzle game, help Nova Dune explore and learn about a civilization on the planet Krystopia where all the people have vanished. Available in multiple languages.
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Labo Doodle
Labo Doodle is a step-by-step drawing education app for children where they can create their own characters and learn how to draw them. In addition to learning how to draw, they can use their imaginations and free-draw on the drawing board. Available in English, Arabic, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese.
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Learn Chess with Dr. Wolf
Learn to play chess with Dr. Wolf, the coach who teaches, points out strategic ideas, and helps with mistakes. Players who subscribe to paid coaching receive some additional individualized coaching (acknowledgment of application of skills) and receive unlimited access to twenty five lessons. Best for beginners and intermediate players. Available in English.
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Lego Duplo World
Based on the popular real world Duplo Legos, young children are invited to explore, discover, pretend, and create. Multi-touch functionality allows parent and child to engage together in side-by-side play. Children from all backgrounds will see themselves represented in this open-ended, play-based game. Free, but with paid add-ons. Available in multiple languages.
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Lexi's World
Explore Lexi’s World, an enchanting app that provides a gentle introduction to letters, words, animals, and actions. The playful landscape allows young children and caregivers ample opportunities for rich interaction with each other. Surprises abound as children bring words to life and reveal discoveries about cause and effect.
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Light and Color by Tinybop
Light and Color, a paid app by Tinybop, teaches about color and light by allowing children to explore these topics in a variety of ways. Children can mix colors, hunt for colors in their world, line up blocks in order of shades, tints and gradients, and play with color and light. Use the “Understand” section to see the world through a dog’s eye view, or “Connect” to think about how colors and emotions interact. Interactive labels can toggle on and off. Available in 50+ different languages.
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Little Chickies / Los Pollitos
Listen to the traditional Spanish lullaby accompanied by cute animated chicks from the Canticos board book. Other interactive activities include chick-related art projects that can be saved in a digital scrapbook. Available in multiple languages.
- Notable Children's Digital Media 2020
- Younger
- ISBN: 999911
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Little Mouse's Encyclopedia
Explore beautifully illustrated European habitats while learning details about various animal and plant species. Detailed biomes include forest, underground, and underwater. Available in multiple languages.
- Notable Children's Digital Media 2020
- Middle
- ISBN: 999912
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Living Paintings: Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum
Learn about the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum's most famous works of art through interactive games. Young artists can also upload or create their own masterpieces in the art studio, using 20 different colors and four artistic mediums.
- Notable Children's Digital Media 2019
- Middle
- ISBN: 999936
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Martha Speaks Word Spinner
An interactive game for up to 6 players, based on the Martha Speaks books. Players choose a dog as their game piece, spin a wheel, and complete the task (most involve sorting activities) in order to move along the board.
- Notable Children's Digital Media 2018
- Middle, Younger
- ISBN: 999948
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Math Land
Kids and adults can practice math, everything from simple addition and subtraction equations to more complex equations, with the use of different strategies in a pirate game setting. Available in multiple languages.
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Math Tango: Grades K-5 Learning
Earn monster badges, complete missions, build unique worlds and practice valuable math skills! Tango Math allows students (Grades K-5) to practice and build their addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division skills through engaging puzzles and activities. Available in English.
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Mathigon
This free app for mathematics makes learning fun. Available in English only, the interactive platform offers a captivating narrative along with animation and colorful illustrations. From multiplication flashcards, fractals, to prime and Fibonacci numbers, this "Textbook of the Future” allows students to explore math in a new and exciting way. Best used as supplemental learning.
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Me: A Kid's Diary
This digital journal app provides a guided introduction to multimedia storytelling and encourages self-expression. Users of different ages can create pages about themselves with prompts for silly drawings, self-portraits, gifs, photos, and sound recordings. Available in multiple languages.
- Notable Children's Digital Media 2020
- Middle, Older
- ISBN: 999913