Debian Edu Pre-School packages

Bambam is a simple baby keyboard masher application that locks the keyboard and mouse and instead displays bright colors, pictures, and sounds.

Note: for safety it is recommended to run the game in a dedicated login session, rather than as an application in your regular session, especially when leaving your child unattended with the game. Look for session type BamBam in your display manager login screen.

Blinken is based on an electronic game released in 1978, which challenges players to remember sequences of increasing length. On the face of the device, there are 4 different color buttons, each with its own distinctive sound. These buttons light up randomly, creating the sequence that the player must then recall. If the player is successful in remembering the sequence of lights in the correct order, they advance to the next stage, where an identical sequence with one extra step is presented.

This package is part of the KDE education module.

A package to reorganize menu branches in order to get a structure easy to use for teachers and students.

Gamine is a game designed for 2 years old children who are not able to use a keyboard.

The child uses the mouse to draw coloured dots and lines on the screen.

GCompris is a high quality educational software suite, including a large number of activities for children aged 2 to 10. Some of the activities are game orientated, but nonetheless still educational.

KAnagram is a game where a random word is shown with its letters scrambled. To win, the player must rearrange the letters into the correct order.

This package is part of the KDE education module

KHangMan is the well-known Hangman game, aimed towards children aged 6 and above.

It picks a random word which the player must reveal by guessing if it contains certain letters. As the player guesses letters, the word is gradually revealed, but 10 wrong guesses will end the game.

This package is part of the KDE education module.

KLettres is an aid for learning how to read and pronounce the alphabet of a foreign language.

Seven languages are currently available: Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, Italian and Slovak.

This package is part of the KDE education module.

KTuberling is a drawing toy for small children with several activites.

• Give the potato a funny face, clothes, and other goodies
• Build a small town, complete with school, zoo, and fire department
• Create a fantastic moonscape with spaceships and aliens

KTuberling can speak the name of each the object in several languages, to assist in learning basic vocabulary.

This package is part of the KDE games module.

pySioGame is a set of educational activities and games for children aged between 3 and 10. The activities are grid based and can be played all in a single window. pySioGame includes maths, reading, writing, painting, and memory activities.

Tux Paint is meant to be a simple drawing program for young children. It is not meant as a general-purpose drawing tool. It IS meant to be fun and easy to use. Sound effects and a cartoon character help let the user know what's going on, and keeps them entertained.

Tux Paint is extensible. Brushes and "rubber stamp" shapes can be dropped in and pulled out. For example, a teacher can drop in a collection of animal shapes and ask their students to draw an ecosystem. Each shape can have a sound which is played, and textual facts which are displayed, when the child selects the shape.

There is no direct access to the computer's underlying intricacies. The current image is kept when the program quits, and reappears when it is restarted. Saving images requires no need to create filenames or use the keyboard. Opening an image is done by selecting it from a collection of thumbnails.