List of Free Open Source Educational Software for Academic use


List of Free Open Source Educational Software for Academic use

For Chemistry

Kalzium
A periodic table of the elements
Kalzium is a program which shows you the Periodic Table of Elements. You can use Kalzium to search for information about the elements or to learn facts about the periodic table.
http://edu.kde.org/kalzium

gchemcalc
GChemCalc is a simple calculator for chemists
http://www.nongnu.org/gchemutils


GChemPaint
GChemPaint is a 2D chemical structures editor
http://www.nongnu.org/gchempaint



gElemental
gElemental is a periodic table viewer that provides detailed information on the chemical elements
http://www.kdau.com/projects/gelemental/


gperiodic 2.0.10
This program shows the periodic table of elements and information about these elements
http://www.frantz.fi/software/gperiodic.php

KAtomic
KAtomic is both fun and educational game built around molecular geometry. It employs simplistic two-dimensional looks at different chemical elements. Elements are disassembled into separate atoms and scattered around the play field. Player is expected to reassemble the molecule, thus completing current level and moving up to the next one


For Languages

Kanagram
Kanagram is a game based on anagrams of words: the puzzle is solved when the letters of the scrambled word are put back in the correct order. There is no limit on either time taken, or the amount of attempts to solve the word. Included with Kanagram are several vocabularies ready to play, with many more available from the Internet.

KHangMan
KHangMan is a game based on the well-known hangman game. It is aimed at children aged six and over. The game has several categories of words to play with and among them: Animals (animals words) and three difficulty categories: Easy, Medium and Hard. A word is picked at random, the letters are hidden, and you must guess the word by trying one letter after another.

KLettres
KLettres is an application specially designed to do help the user to learn alphabet in a new language and then to learn to read simple syllables. The user can be a young child aged from two and a half or an adult that wants to learn the basics of a foreign language.
Seventeen languages are available at the moment: Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Kannada, Low Saxon, Luganda, Romanized Hindi, Spanish, Slovak and Telugu and but only English, French and your language if it is among those are installed by default.

KWordQuiz
KWordQuiz is a tool that gives you a powerful way to master new vocabularies. It may be a language or any other kind of terminology.

Parley
Parley is a vocabulary trainer. It helps you to memorize your vocabulary, for example when you are trying to learn a foreign language. Parley is not limited to language learning but supports a multitude of subjects.

Ktouch
KTouch is a program for learning to touch type. KTouch provides you with text to train on and adjusts to different levels depending on how good you are. It displays which key to press next and the correct finger to use.




For Mathematics


KBruch
KBruch is a small program to practice calculating with fractions. Therefore 4 different exercises are offered.
Fraction Task - in this exercise you have to solve a given fraction task. You have to enter numerator and denominator. This is the main exercise.
Comparison - in this exercise you have to compare the size of 2 given fractions.
Conversion - in this exercise you have to convert a given number into a fraction.
Factorization - in this exercise you have to factorize a given number into its prime factors.
In all different exercises KBruch will generate a task and the user has to solve it. The program checks the input and gives a feedback about it.

KIG
Kig is an application for Interactive Geometry. It's intended to serve two purposes:
Allow students to interactively explore mathematical figures and concepts using the computer.
Serve as a WYSIWYG tool for drawing mathematical figures and including them in other documents.

KPercentage
KPercentage is a small math application that will help pupils to improve their skills in calculating percentages.
There is a special training section for the three basic tasks. Finally the pupil can select a random mode, in which all three tasks are mixed randomly.




For Science

KGeography
KGeography is a geography learning tool for KDE. Right now it has seven usage modes:
Browse the maps clicking in a map division to see its name, capital and flag
tells you a map division name and you have to click on it
tells you a capital and you have to guess the division it belongs to
tells you a division and you have to guess its capital
shows you a map division flag and you have to guess its name
tells you a map division name and you have to guess its flag
shows an empty map and you have to place divisions on it one by one


KStars
KStars is a graphical desktop planetarium for KDE. It depicts an accurate simulation of the night sky, including stars, constellations, star clusters, nebulae, galaxies, all planets, the Sun, the Moon, comets and asteroids. You can see the sky as it appears from any location on Earth, on any date. The user interface is highly intuitive and flexible; the display can be panned and zoomed with the mouse, and you can easily identify objects, and track their motion across the sky. KStars includes many powerful features, yet the interface is clean and simple, and fun to use.


Marble
Marble is a geographical atlas and a virtual desktop globe which lets you quickly explore other places on our home planet. You can use Marble to look up places, to easily create maps, measure distances and to retrieve detail information about locations that you have just heard about in the news or on the Internet. The user interface is clean, simple and easy to use.


Step
Step is an interactive physical simulator. It allows you to explore the physical world through simulations. It works like this: you place some bodies on the scene, add some forces such as gravity or springs, then click Simulate and Step shows you how your scene will evolve according to the laws of physics. You can change every property of the bodies/forces in your experiment (even during simulation) and see how this will change evolution of the experiment. With Step you cannot only learn but feel how physics works!