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This is a sampling of Activities that do not have their own pages in this guide. They, and many more, are available for download as .xo bundles from the Sugar Labs Activities server, also known as aslo. Aslo shows Activities by category, and sorts them by rating, popularity (number of downloads, data, or name.

  • Typing Turtle, a multilingual animated touch typing trainer.
  • Etoys, Media authoring environment with graphical scripting for children of all ages. Aren't we all children?
  • I know America game about American geography. It has 30 country maps of each and 3 general maps.
  • Speak, a talking face for Sugar. Anything you type will be spoken aloud using the speech synthesizer, espeak. You can "speech" chat with other users and ask any question.
  • Physics simulator
  • TamTam Synth Lab for designing digital musical instruments. Music composition and synthesis
  • Spirolaterals by mulawa1

Preview Image of Spirolaterals

   The first of Peter the Magician's Puzzle Activities. Can be regarded as a pre-turtle exploration. A simple pattern has to be created with only 5 numbers. Pattern complexity increases with success. 

Rated 5 out of 5 stars 2 reviews 82 weekly downloads

Download Now Read ETexts by James Simmons Preview Image of Read ETexts

   Read ETexts lets you read all the free e-texts from Project Gutenberg on your XO, or use Text to Speech to have them read to you. The built in offline catalog search lets you browse through and download over 24,000 great titles!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars 3 reviews 41 weekly downloads

Download Now Juani Downloader by Ignacio Rodríguez Preview Image of Juani Downloader

   Juani Downloader,download archives

Rated 5 out of 5 stars 1 review 77 weekly downloads

Download Now Pointillism by AlanJAS, nrp Preview Image of Pointillism

   Creates a pointillist image from the camera captures

Rated 5 out of 5 stars 1 review 90 weekly downloads

Download Now Image Processor by Keshav Sharma, Vaibhav Sharma Preview Image of Image Processor

   Image Processor provides user an option to take photo through webcam or from journal, disks and apply filtering options like inverting an image, making mirror of an image, many other. Also a user can watermark any other image/ text over the image.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars 1 review 72 weekly downloads

Download Now recommended I know America by AlanJAS Preview Image of I know America

   Game about the America geography. It has 30 maps of each coutry and 3 generals.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars 1 review 1,218 weekly downloads

Download Now Browse by Lucian , Sascha Silbe, erikos, manuq Preview Image of Browse

   Browse

Rated 5 out of 5 stars 1 review 215 weekly downloads

Download Now About Me by Daniel Francis Preview Image of About Me

   About Me

Rated 5 out of 5 stars 3 reviews 107 weekly downloads

Download Now GCompris Maze 3D by Activity Team Preview Image of GCompris Maze 3D

   3D Maze

Rated 4 out of 5 stars 1 review 435 weekly downloads

Download Now Boxes by mulawa1 Preview Image of Boxes

   Usually called "Dots & Boxes", this activity revisits the game from our childhood but here the students get to play against me.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars 1 review 27 weekly downloads

Download Now FoodForce2 by Mohit, deepankgupta, grivan Preview Image of FoodForce2

   FoodForce2 has been developed as a complete learning platform which teaches children through games with interactive stories. It helps them collaborate and learn by developing a village.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars 4 reviews 100 weekly downloads

Download Now recommended Typing Turtle by wadeb, Activity Team, erikos Preview Image of Typing Turtle

   Typing Turtle is a multilingual animated touch typing trainer.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars 2 reviews 446 weekly downloads

Download Now Poll by morgs, Activity Team, jasg, Gonzalo Odiard Preview Image of Poll

   Create a poll, collect votes and analyze community opinions

Read ETexts by James Simmons Preview Image of Read ETexts

   Read ETexts lets you read all the free e-texts from Project Gutenberg on your XO, or use Text to Speech to have them read to you. The built in offline catalog search lets you browse through and download over 24,000 great titles!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars 3 reviews 41 weekly downloads

Download Now AguBrowser by aguz Preview Image of AguBrowser

   Navegador, muy rápido, fácil de usar, sencillo, gratis, libre, etc... A pesar de ser un navegador rápido y sencillo no es un programa limitado de funciones.... Espero que les guste!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars 4 reviews 228 weekly downloads

Download Now Idle by ChristoferR Preview Image of Idle

   Idle is a python shell

Rated 5 out of 5 stars 1 review 88 weekly downloads

Download Now Labyrinth by garycmartin, manuq Preview Image of Labyrinth

   Labyrinth is a lightweight mind-mapping activity that supports text, images, and simple drawings.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars 1 review 38 weekly downloads

Download Now OOo4Kids by Bastien, Activity Team Preview Image of OOo4Kids

   Office suite for the 7-12, to create texts, presentations, calcsheets and draws, fully OpenOffice.org and MS Office compatible.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars 1 review 95 weekly downloads

Download Now Escribir Especial by Ceibal Preview Image of Escribir Especial

   La actividad Escribir Especial es un editor de texto con un teclado por pantalla, el cual funciona de dos maneras: seleccionando las teclas con el puntero del ratón (mouse) o mediante un barrido tecla por tecla.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars 1 review 20 weekly downloads

Download Now Image Processor by Keshav Sharma, Vaibhav Sharma Preview Image of Image Processor

   Image Processor provides user an option to take photo through webcam or from journal, disks and apply filtering options like inverting an image, making mirror of an image, many other. Also a user can watermark any other image/ text over the image.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars 1 review 72 weekly downloads

Download Now JAMCalibre by flavio Preview Image of JAMCalibre

   Lector de Libros Electrónicos

Rated 5 out of 5 stars 1 review 48 weekly downloads

Download Now Finance by wadeb, Activity Team Preview Image of Finance

   Finance is a simple financial planning activity. It can be integrated into classroom assignments, or else used to track finances for a school club. It might also be useful for students who wish to help their parents with home finances.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars 1 review 53 weekly downloads

Download Now SimpleGraph by aguz, Gonzalo Odiard, manuq Preview Image of SimpleGraph

   SimpleGraph

Rated 5 out of 5 stars 1 review 40 weekly downloads

Download Now Edit by ntt Preview Image of Edit

   A simple collaborative plain-text editor.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars 2 reviews 8 weekly downloads

Download Now Write by Activity Team, erikos, Gonzalo Odiard Preview Image of Write

   Word processor

Rated 4 out of 5 stars 1 review 33 weekly downloads

Download Now Calendar by yaderv Preview Image of Calendar

   Calendar, tasks list, and tasks reminder. Manage tasks by category and priority.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars 1 review 7 weekly downloads

Download Now XO Help by Bastien, dfarning, Brian Jordan, Gonzalo Odiard Preview Image of XO Help

   Documentation and Help for the XO 

Rated 3 out of 5 stars 2 reviews 51 weekly downloads

Download Now View Slides by James Simmons Preview Image of View Slides

   View Slides allows you to page through a series of sequentially named image files. This can be used for reading scanned in books like picture books, comic books, magazine articles, photos, etc.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars 3 reviews 12 weekly downloads

Download Now Info Slicer by Walter, alsroot Preview Image of Info Slicer

   InfoSlicer is an open source tool to enable teachers to quickly and easily select web-based content to edit, package, and distribute as teaching materials.


I Can Read by Walter Preview Image of I Can Read

   I Can Read is a simple reader: it combines letters, pictures, and sounds. It also has mechanism for recording the student's voice.

IRC by Mel, Fran Preview Image of IRC

   The IRC activity allows you to chat with other Sugar/OLPC users and enthusiasts on the Internet via Internet Relay Chat (IRC).


Browse by Lucian , Sascha Silbe, erikos, manuq Preview Image of Browse

   Browse

Rated 5 out of 5 stars 1 review 215 weekly downloads

Download Now Idle by ChristoferR Preview Image of Idle

   Idle is a python shell

Rated 5 out of 5 stars 1 review 88 weekly downloads

Download Now GoGo by dmoc, callaurrea Preview Image of GoGo

   GoGo-Board interface for creating on-board Logo programs, direct sensor monitoring & motor control, data capture and much more! 

Rated 5 out of 5 stars 1 review 30 weekly downloads

Download Now Juani Downloader by Ignacio Rodríguez Preview Image of Juani Downloader

   Juani Downloader,download archives

Rated 5 out of 5 stars 1 review 77 weekly downloads

Download Now Turtle Confusion by Walter Preview Image of Turtle Confusion

   Turtle Confusion presents 40 shape challenges to the learner that must be completed using basic Logo-blocks. The challenges as based on Barry Newell's 1988 book, Turtle Confusion: Logo Puzzles and Riddles.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars 1 review 88 weekly downloads

Download Now Edit by ntt Preview Image of Edit

   A simple collaborative plain-text editor.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars 2 reviews 8 weekly downloads

Download Now SimCom by mulawa1 Preview Image of SimCom

   SimCom is a Simple Computer that really works. Pupils can see what really goes on behind the scenes in a real computer. The picture shows a program running and printing the prime numbers. 

Rated 4 out of 5 stars 2 reviews 36 weekly downloads

Download Now Sugar Commander by James Simmons Preview Image of Sugar Commander

   Sugar Commander is a utility for working with the Journal. You can easily add files as Journal entries, view and update title, description, and tags for entries and delete entries you no longer need.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars 1 review 41 weekly downloads

Download Now Develop by Jameson Quinn Preview Image of Develop

   Develop

Rated 4 out of 5 stars 2 reviews 11 weekly downloads

Download Now SocialCalcActivity by Manusheel, Vijit Preview Image of SocialCalcActivity

   SocialCalc 

Rated 3 out of 5 stars 1 review 17 weekly downloads

Download Now Dr. Geo by hilaire Preview Image of Dr. Geo

   Dr. Geo is an interactive geometry activity.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars 1 review 75 weekly downloads

Download Now Turtle Art by Walter Preview Image of Turtle Art

   Turtle Art Mini is a simple graphical environment modeled on the Logo programming language. It emphasizes graphical expression by learners new to programming. (Turtle Art offers a small subset of the functionality of Turtle Blocks.)

Rated 3 out of 5 stars 2 reviews 7 weekly downloads

Download Now Wine by cRiSgOd Preview Image of Wine

   Wine is a software emulator.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars 4 reviews 234 weekly downloads

Download Now Log by wadeb, Activity Team, erikos Preview Image of Log

   Log is an activity for inspecting log files. 

Rated 1 out of 5 stars 1 review 37 weekly downloads

Download Now EduKT by ChristoferR Preview Image of EduKT

Not yet rated 19 weekly downloads

Download Now JAMEdit by aguz, Daniel Francis Preview Image of JAMEdit

Not yet rated 17 weekly downloads

Download Now Turtle Machine by mulawa1 Preview Image of Turtle Machine

   Another "pre-turtle" activity. This one I see as following on from "Spirolaterals". Students can specify the number of repeats and the angle. Once a polygon is created, it becomes available for more complex pattern creation.


GeoGebra 4 for Sugar by Activity Team Preview Image of GeoGebra 4 for Sugar

   Dynamic Mathematics for Everyone

Rated 5 out of 5 stars 1 review 199 weekly downloads

Download Now recommended I know America by AlanJAS Preview Image of I know America

   Game about the America geography. It has 30 maps of each coutry and 3 generals.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars 1 review 1,218 weekly downloads

Download Now TetrisMat by fapenia Preview Image of TetrisMat

   Eliminates three cells in this tetris performing simple math operations

Rated 5 out of 5 stars 1 review 106 weekly downloads

Download Now Finance by wadeb, Activity Team Preview Image of Finance

   Finance is a simple financial planning activity. It can be integrated into classroom assignments, or else used to track finances for a school club. It might also be useful for students who wish to help their parents with home finances.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars 1 review 53 weekly downloads

Download Now Tuxmath by Marcos Orfila Preview Image of Tuxmath

   TuxMath is an arcade game that helps people practice their math facts. It was packaged by CeibalJAM! (http://ceibaljam.org).

Rated 4 out of 5 stars 2 reviews 490 weekly downloads

Download Now Rectangles by mulawa1 Preview Image of Rectangles

   The grid is broken up into coloured rectangles but, at the start, only ONE square from each rectangle shows its colour. This square also shows the area (ie the number of squares) of the rectangle. The player must find all the rectangles.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars 2 reviews 11 weekly downloads

Download Now SimCom by mulawa1 Preview Image of SimCom

   SimCom is a Simple Computer that really works. Pupils can see what really goes on behind the scenes in a real computer. The picture shows a program running and printing the prime numbers. 

Rated 4 out of 5 stars 2 reviews 36 weekly downloads

Download Now GCompris Paratrooper by Activity Team Preview Image of GCompris Paratrooper

   Parachutist

Rated 4 out of 5 stars 1 review 16 weekly downloads

Download Now GCompris Redraw Symmetrical by Activity Team Preview Image of GCompris Redraw Symmetrical

   Mirror the given item

Rated 4 out of 5 stars 1 review 7 weekly downloads

Download Now Boxes by mulawa1 Preview Image of Boxes

   Usually called "Dots & Boxes", this activity revisits the game from our childhood but here the students get to play against me.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars 1 review 27 weekly downloads

Download Now Deducto by Walter, Manusheel, Ashita, Satyajeet, Anisha, Assim Preview Image of Deducto

   Deducto is a learning activity aimed towards improving childrens’ skills to deducing logic through pattern recognition. 

Rated 4 out of 5 stars 1 review 8 weekly downloads

Download Now GCompris Memory Minus Tux by Activity Team Preview Image of GCompris Memory Minus Tux

   Subtraction memory game against Tux

Rated 4 out of 5 stars 1 review 5 weekly downloads

Download Now Clock by garycmartin Preview Image of Clock

   Clock is a simple Activity to learn how to read and tell the time.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars 1 review 27 weekly downloads

Download Now Visual Match by Walter Preview Image of Visual Match

   Visual Match is a pattern-matching game. The object of the game is to find sets of three cards where each attribute—color, shape, number of elements, and shading—either match on all three cards or are different on all three cards.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars 1 review 13 weekly downloads

Download Now GCompris Algebra By by Activity Team Preview Image of GCompris Algebra By

   Practice the multiplication operation

Rated 4 out of 5 stars 1 review 73 weekly downloads

Download Now GCompris Money by Activity Team Preview Image of GCompris Money

   Money

Conozco Uruguay by geirea Preview Image of Conozco Uruguay

   Conozco Uruguay is a game for learning Uruguayan geography

Rated 5 out of 5 stars 3 reviews 31 weekly downloads

Download Now recommended I know America by AlanJAS Preview Image of I know America

   Game about the America geography. It has 30 maps of each coutry and 3 generals.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars 1 review 1,218 weekly downloads

Download Now GCompris Geography by Activity Team Preview Image of GCompris Geography

   Locate the countries

Not yet rated 130 weekly downloads

Download Now GCompris Geography Country by Activity Team Preview Image of GCompris Geography Country

   Locate the region

Not yet rated 24 weekly downloads

Download Now Ruler by Walter Preview Image of Ruler

   Ruler is a very simple Activity which provides images of a ruler, cm and mm grids, and a cm checker board.

Not yet rated 28 weekly downloads

Download Now Distance by bemasc Preview Image of Distance

   Distance is an activity that uses sound to measure the distance between two computers. If you have two laptops with speakers and microphones, Distance can turn them into an acoustic tape measure.

Not yet rated 34 weekly downloads

Download Now Geoquiz by Ignacio Rodríguez Preview Image of Geoquiz

   Geoquiz is a geography guessing game. 

Not yet rated 19 weekly downloads

Download Now GeoJAM by flavio Preview Image of GeoJAM

   Sugarización de GMapCatcher

Not yet rated 104 weekly downloads

Download Now Castle by mulawa1 Preview Image of Castle

   A game of discovery and strategy inspired by the Adventure games of the 70s. 

Not yet rated 186 weekly downloads

Download Now Appel Haken by mulawa1 Preview Image of Appel Haken

   You're looking at a map with straight borders. Your task is to colour in the map so that no two bordering countries have the same colour. 

Not yet rated 14 weekly downloads

Download Now Countries by mulawa1 Preview Image of Countries

   Players have to type in a country for each letter of the alphabet. Successes are rewarded with the display of the country's flag. The activity 'knows' the English names of 212 countries.

Jukebox by kushal Preview Image of Jukebox

   Jukebox is the media player to play different kinds of audio and video files.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars 4 reviews 358 weekly downloads

Download Now recommended CeibalRadio by flavio Preview Image of CeibalRadio

   CeibalRadio es un reproductor de audio y radios on-line basado en helix.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars 3 reviews 545 weekly downloads

Download Now Sonata Media Player by cRiSgOd Preview Image of Sonata Media Player

   Sonata Media Player

Rated 2 out of 5 stars 1 review 83 weekly downloads

Download Now FileMix by abhunkin Preview Image of FileMix

   FileMix - Creative Audio File Player/Mixer/Processor Utilities for Children. Options for MIDI controller (preferably) or ASCII keyboard. User soundfiles can be loaded via the Journal (Sugar >= 0.84 only).

Rated 2 out of 5 stars 1 review 24 weekly downloads

Download Now JAMediaVideo by flavio Preview Image of JAMediaVideo

   Reproductor de audio y video. Visor de Imágenes. Cámara Fotográfica. Cámara de Video.

Not yet rated 225 weekly downloads

Download Now ChimePlay by abhunkin Preview Image of ChimePlay

   CHIMEPLAY - Chime and Bell Player Utilities for Children. These are custom versions of SAMPLEPLAY for windchime and bell sets.Two 6-chime sets are included.

Not yet rated 67 weekly downloads

Download Now JAMediaTube by flavio Preview Image of JAMediaTube

   Busca y Descarga Videos desde YouTube

Not yet rated 530 weekly downloads

Download Now Mirage I.V. by ChristoferR Preview Image of Mirage I.V.

Not yet rated 106 weekly downloads

Download Now Radio by Parrot_Geek Preview Image of Radio

   Radio is a web radio / mp3 player.

Not yet rated 183 weekly downloads

Download Now FileMixAuto by abhunkin Preview Image of FileMixAuto

   FileMixAuto - Automated Audio File Looper/Mixer/Processor for Children. (FileMixAuto is a random, preset version of FileMix.) Up to 4 user soundfiles can be loaded via the Journal (Sugar >= 0.84 only).

Not yet rated 16 weekly downloads

Download Now Portfolio by Walter Preview Image of Portfolio

   Portfolio is a simple tool for generating a slide show from Journal entries that have been starred.

Not yet rated 34 weekly downloads

Download Now Screencast by dirakx, cjb Preview Image of Screencast

   Screencast

Not yet rated 13 weekly downloads

Download Now Totem by flavio Preview Image of Totem

   Totem Sugarizado + plugins gstreamer

Not yet rated 193 weekly downloads

Download Now SamplePlay by abhunkin Preview Image of SamplePlay

   SamplePlay - Creative Audio Sample Player Utilities for Children. Options for MIDI controller (preferably) or ASCII keyboard. User samples and background loop can be loaded via the Journal (Sugar >= 0.84 only).

Pukllanapac by Walter Preview Image of Pukllanapac

   Pukllanapac, a sliding puzzle game

Rated 5 out of 5 stars 2 reviews 88 weekly downloads

Download Now Spirolaterals by mulawa1 Preview Image of Spirolaterals

   The first of Peter the Magician's Puzzle Activities. Can be regarded as a pre-turtle exploration. A simple pattern has to be created with only 5 numbers. Pattern complexity increases with success. 

Rated 5 out of 5 stars 2 reviews 82 weekly downloads

Download Now recommended Physics by garycmartin Preview Image of Physics

   Physics

Rated 5 out of 5 stars 6 reviews 494 weekly downloads

Download Now Maze by jminor Preview Image of Maze

   Maze is a multi-player maze game. You can play with one, two or three players on a single machine or even more via Sugar's mesh based collaboration.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars 4 reviews 42 weekly downloads

Download Now PlayGo by Ridderman, aa Preview Image of PlayGo

   PlayGo

Rated 5 out of 5 stars 1 review 42 weekly downloads

Download Now GCompris Photo Hunter by Activity Team Preview Image of GCompris Photo Hunter

   Photo hunter

Rated 5 out of 5 stars 1 review 107 weekly downloads

Download Now Derecho a Transitar by flavio Preview Image of Derecho a Transitar

   Derecho a Transitar

Rated 5 out of 5 stars 1 review 113 weekly downloads

Download Now Mancala by mulawa1 Preview Image of Mancala

   This is one of my favourite games - very simple to play yet it requires lots of careful thought, counting and planning. 

Rated 5 out of 5 stars 1 review 57 weekly downloads

Download Now Implode by Joe Lee, manuq Preview Image of Implode

   Implode is a "falling block" logic game. The object of the game is to remove all the blocks, by removing blocks in groups of three or more.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars 1 review 42 weekly downloads

Download Now TetrisMat by fapenia Preview Image of TetrisMat

   Eliminates three cells in this tetris performing simple math operations

Rated 5 out of 5 stars 1 review 106 weekly downloads

Download Now CucaraSims by flavio Preview Image of CucaraSims

   CucaraSims. Actividad de aula, (lúdico) para aprender sobre los insectos.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars 1 review 68 weekly downloads

Download Now Turtle Confusion by Walter Preview Image of Turtle Confusion

   Turtle Confusion presents 40 shape challenges to the learner that must be completed using basic Logo-blocks. The challenges as based on Barry Newell's 1988 book, Turtle Confusion: Logo Puzzles and Riddles.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars 1 review 88 weekly downloads

Download Now Pointillism by AlanJAS, nrp Preview Image of Pointillism

   Creates a pointillist image from the camera captures

Rated 5 out of 5 stars 1 review 90 weekly downloads

Download Now recommended I know America by AlanJAS Preview Image of I know America

   Game about the America geography. It has 30 maps of each coutry and 3 generals.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars 1 review 1,218 weekly downloads

Download Now GCompris Superbrain by Activity Team Preview Image of GCompris Superbrain

   Super Brain

Rated 4 out of 5 stars 2 reviews 7 weekly downloads

Download Now Rectangles by mulawa1 Preview Image of Rectangles

   The grid is broken up into coloured rectangles but, at the start, only ONE square from each rectangle shows its colour. This square also shows the area (ie the number of squares) of the rectangle. The player must find all the rectangles.

Implode created by Joe Lee, manuq

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42 downloads this week

Rated 5 out of 5 stars 1 review

   Implode is a "falling block" logic game. The object of the game is to remove all the blocks, by removing blocks in groups of three or more.