ARES Major Sections
Primary Education Section
The sections below contain material relevant to students in primary education.
Lewa Conservancy Digital Literacy Content
A series of focused education modules designed to enhance the digital litereacy of primary school students.
- Grade 4: Science & Technology
- Grade 4: English CBC
- Grade 5: Science & Technology
- Grade 5: English CBC
Sugar Education System for Primary School
Sugar is an activity-focused, free/libre open-source software learning platform for children. Collaboration, reflection, and discovery are integrated directly into the user interface. Through Sugar's clarity of design, children and teachers have the opportunity to use computers on their own terms. Students can reshape, reinvent, and reapply both software and content into powerful learning activities. Sugar's focus on sharing, criticism, and exploration is grounded in the culture of free software.
African Storybook Project
The African Storybook Project is an initiative of Saide, a registered Non-Profit Organisation, governed by a Trust and based in Johannesburg, South Africa. African Storybook Project's vision is for all African children to have enough stories in a language familiar to them to practise reading and learn to love reading.
- Beginner
- First Words
- First Sentences
- First Paragraphs
- Advanced
- Longer Paragraphs
- Read Aloud
Global Digital Library
The Global Digital Library (GDL) is being developed to increase the availability of high quality reading resources in languages children and youth speak and understand.
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Mother Goose Videos
This curated selection of articles from Wikipedia can be used offline by school children around the world. It contains a wide selection of articles about all aspects of geography worldwide.
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Ubongo Kids - Fan Favorites
Interactive edu-cartoons that teach math and science through fun animated stories and catchy original songs, launched on TanzaniaTV in January 2014 and produced by Ubongo Media.
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Bino and Fino
Nigerian cartoons - Teaching children around the world about African culture and much more.
Book Dash Books
African storybooks for children, available for anyone to freely print, translate and distribute. BookDash believes that every child should own a hundred books by the age of five..
Educational Games & Tools - Primary School
This is a collection of general tools and games that are applicable to primary school students. Note: it will take 20-30 seconds for the desktop window to open. After that you will have speedy access to all of the applications.
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- Tux Paint - Simple painting tool.
- Tux Typing - Simple typing instruction.
- KTurtle - Easy Learn to Program.
- KTouch - Beginner typing tutor.
- Tux Math - Basic arithmetic game.
- KLettres - Simple reading training.
- Potato Guy - Potato game for kids.
- Blinken - Fun pattern matching game.
- Ri-Li - Fun PacMan like maze game.