Only Freeware is included. The lists will vary over time with programs added and removed [see below]. For commercial products, see company listings provided in the Other Information section or commercial offerings in stores, newspapers and magazines.

This page covers Cross Curricula, Health & Physical Education and Language software.

A Second Page covers Mathematics, Science, Social Sciences and Special Education.

A Third Page covers Teacher Tools, Technology & Design, The Arts and Other Information.

Each of these pages can also be reached using the numbered boxes above.

Software for Other Languages is included on the various Other Language pages. Some specialist software is on Special Education and Technology & Design pages. Software for Tertiary Subjects is included on those pages.

Products are listed under Primary, Secondary or All Levels. Where none have been found or seen to be relevant, no section is included.

When software is removed, it is placed in the Educational Software Archive to allow continued access. It is listed by area and title only.

Cross Curricula

All Levels

• Anki
  ‘Anyone who needs to remember things in their daily life can benefit from Anki. Since it is content-agnostic and supports images, audio, videos and scientific markup [via LaTeX], the possibilities are endless’. Versions for Windows, Mac, Linux and more. Their FAQs will provide answers to any problems you may encounter.
• BrainFlips
  ‘BrainFlips provides the world’s best tools for creating, sharing and studying flashcards ! Make flashcards on any subject and share them with your friends and classmates. BrainFlips flashcards can incorporate text, images, audio and video to learn any subject’.
• Cabra
  ‘Cabra is a Free and open-source flashcard program created for students. It works with any operating system and even flash drives’.
• Flashcard Machine
  ‘A Free service for creating interactive web-based study flashcards that can be shared with others. With over 54.0 million flash cards created to date, Flashcard Machine is your premier online study tool’. You need to register but this is free.
• L.A. Flash Cards
  ‘The system includes a flash card creator which lets you create the cards with text, audio, or images. You can then print them out for the classroom or use the viewer on the computer, allowing you to shuffle, swap and do self or checked testing’.
• OOo4
  A developing project designed to create a version of Open Office for use by 7-12 year olds.
• StudyBlue
  ‘Make online flashcards with photos and audio. Prepare for exams with personalised practice quizzes. Get reminders about when [and what] to study next, and study on your phone with Free mobile apps’.
• Yenka
  ‘Yenka is a new generation of educational modelling tools. Equally at home on whiteboards or when used by individual students, they let you experiment with the topics you’re teaching in a safe, accurate virtual world’.

Early Learning

• GCompris
  ‘GCompris is a high quality educational software suite comprising of numerous activities for children aged 2 to 10. Some of the activities are game orientated, but nonetheless still educational’.
• School A to Z
  ‘Do you struggle to understand your child's homework ? Does your child need to practise their spelling and times tables ? Are you looking for inspiration for projects and assignments ? The School A to Z app is an essential tool for every parent of school-aged children. The School A to Z app is produced by the NSW Department of Education and Communities. ’.
• Key Whack
  ‘KeyWack is a game for people with babies and small children who like to sit at their parent’s computer and bang the keyboard. KeyWack prevents babies from accidentally opening most programs or documents, and makes banging even more fun by drawing shapes and playing random sounds as the keys are whacked’.

Primary & Secondary

• Flashcard Machine
  ‘A free web application that enables users to create interactive web-based study flash cards and share them with others’.
• Fora Reader
  ‘Fora Reader is a desktop reading application with an integrated basic browser dedicated to reading documents in a foreign language. Main features are rapid word translations within the browser and complete dictionary management’.

Secondary

• 3D Topicscape Student Edition
  ‘Free computer software that can help you organize your study and find information later. It is also a flexible way for you to sort out your thoughts and approach on a new project even before you have collected any files or information’.
• Koofers
  Flashcard creation is only one aspect of this site that is really designed for the tertiary level. You can also access a test bank, old exams, study guides and more. US based site.
• Mnemosyne Project
  ‘Resembles a traditional flash-card program to help you memorise question/answer pairs, but with an important twist : it uses a sophisticated algorithm to schedule the best time for a card to come up for review’.

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Health & Physical Education

Primary & Secondary

• Advanced Team Scheduler [Splendid City]
  ‘Free, easy-to-use, full-featured league and tournament sports scheduling software system’. Mac, Windows, Linux.
• Dr. Scenario
  ‘Teaches health to youth through a series of scenarios. The player tries to identify health conditions and juggles treatment costs with efficacy. Explanations are provided in teen-friendly language to promote healthy living’.

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Language

Early Learning

• Learn Letters
  ‘Teaches children to know and make the 26 letters of the alphabet’. Links to Letter Sounds and Letter Sounds 2 - Blends.
• Out and About Sight Words - Level 1
  ‘This fun and Free app will give your child a flying start in literacy by helping them practice their sight words when they are “out and about”. [It] is the first in a series being developed by the Queensland Department of Education and Training’.
• TurboFarm
  ‘Educational flash card game about farm animals’. Adjust the number of clues, one of several languages, more. Positive feedback, statistical information at the end of the session.

Primary

• Junior Spelling Tutor
  Multi-unit program, only the first unit Free. Minimal cost for others. A ‘Talking’ program. Similar programs listed.
• Word Dummy 4.0
  ‘Word Searches game application for teaching children English vocabulary through word building. Has a large database of English words built in to make the word games a challenging experience. Full Audio-Visual and Multimedia features’.

Primary & Secondary

• iEnglishPractice
  ‘This program is divided into six sections : comprehensive practice, vocabulary practice, reading comprehension practice, grammar practice, English conversation and English reading materials for background knowledge. There are thousands of questions in our database’.
• Microsoft Research ESL Assistant
  A ‘service that provides correction suggestions for typical ESL [English as a Second Language] errors. Such errors include, for example, the choice of determiners [the/a] and the choice of prepositions’.
  You need to install Silverlight to use this.
• TheSage’s English Dictionary and Thesaurus
  ‘Professional software package that integrates a complete dictionary and a multifaceted thesaurus of the English language into a single and powerful language reference system’.

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