10 educational websites and apps that kids can keep busy
A Life / / January 06, 2021
Self-isolation is not an easy time. Especially if you have children and they believe that you can do the job in five minutes, and then you have to roll them like a horse, paint together or build fortresses from LEGO. There is no time for this even at a distance, and immediately there is a temptation to simply turn on cartoons for the child in the next room and plunge into blissful silence for at least half an hour. For such cases, mWe have collected 10 services that will not only entertain children, but also teach them new things.
Just don't forget to consider the recommendationsMedia and Children Communication Toolkit 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.
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1. IQsha
- Children's age: from 2 to 7 years old.
- Platform: Android, iOS, web.
- Cost: 10 games a day for free, then you need to buy a subscription costing from 2,990 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.
The most convenient way to use the platform is on a computer through a browser. All exercises are sounded, 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 a day are available for free.
Price: Free
Price: Free
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2. Play
- Children's age: from 3 to 11 years old.
- Platform: web.
- Cost: is free.
Not a bad selection of games and exercises for teaching counting and reading, developing logic, memory, thinking. As well as coloring pages, crosswords, puzzles, math puzzle and much more.
The 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.
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3. English course for kids from Puzzle English
- Children's age: from 4 to 11 years old.
- Platform: Android, iOS, web.
- Cost: free until May 1, 2020, then - 1,990 rubles.
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 already go to 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, and basic phrases and grammar 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 Betty's teacher teaches material with the help of songs, poems, stories and pictures, and then do tasks to consolidate knowledge.
Each topic is followed by a repetition and a large test. If the child is not yet attending school, 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.
Price: Free
Price: Free
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4. Fairy tales and educational games for children
- Children's age: from 3 to 8 years old.
- Platform: Android.
- Cost: 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 select 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. From time to time 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.
Price: Free
5. Educational cards for children
- Children's age: up to 5 years.
- Platform: Android, iOS.
- Cost: 500 cards and several games - for free, full version - 299 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 leafs through them and remembers images, names, sounds (for example, musical instruments, voices of animals and birds). Then you can play simple games: assemble a puzzle of four pieces or choose the correct caption for the picture from several options.
Price: Free
Price: Free
6. Astronomy for kids from Star Walk
- Children's age: from 4 years old.
- Platform: Android, iOS.
- Cost: for Android - free (but disabling ads costs 15 rubles), for iOS - 229 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 checked 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.
Price: Free
Price: Free
7. Land of Math: Addition Games
- Age: from 5 years.
- Platform: Android, iOS.
- Cost: addition and subtraction games are free, the rest - 249 rubles.
Need to help the young pirate Ray find gems on the islands, restore order 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 manage 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 changes depending on the age of the player.
Price: Free
Price: Free
8. Spelling: Dictation
- Children's age: from 10 years.
- Platform: Android, iOS.
- Cost: 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.
Price: Free
Price: Free
9. Learning to read, saving animals
- Children's age: from 3 to 7 years old.
- Platform: Android, iOS.
- Cost: is free.
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.
Price: Free
Price: Free
10. StudyGe
- Children's age: from 10 years.
- Platform: Android, iOS.
- Cost: world map - free, additions (subjects of the Russian Federation, US states, provinces of France, and so on) - from 59 to 149 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. You can turn off ads for 149 rubles.
Price: Free
Price: Free
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