http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/games/kids_learning/ Mac OS X downloads provided by Apple. en-us Copyright 2008, Apple Inc. downloads@apple.com Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:42:50 PST Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:42:50 PST Mac OS X - Kids & Learning In house http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss/ http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/games/kids_learning/ponyworlddeluxe.html A light life-simulation game in the World of Ponies. About Pony World Deluxe
Ever play The Sims and think, “yeah, this is fun, but instead of people, I wish it was ponies!”? If so, Pony World is going to make all your dreams come true!

Dive into Pony World! A world filled with the fun, adventures and ponies you create and control yourself. Decide whether your pony leads a peaceful life with family or devotes to working, farming or having fun. Play minigames and win trophies in the beauty contest, races or memory games. Earn money to extend and decorate your farm. Plant trees, flowers and bushes or build fountains, umbrellas and much more! Develop your farm for profitable agriculture. Go to the disco or theater, launch fireworks or play hopscotch. The sheer variety of Pony World will keep you entertained for countless hours!]]> Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:00:00 PST http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/games/kids_learning/bobthebuildercandozoo.html A mix of education and fun that allows kids to be creative and get more familiar with the computer. About Bob the Builder: Can-Do Zoo
Animals are on the loose! The delivery train has come to town, dropping off all of the animals for the Bobland Bay Zoo. Unfortunately, there is no Bobland Bay Zoo! Monkeys have moved into the school playground, alligators are in the swimming pool, and the lion has taken over the Mayor’s office! Work doubletime with Bob and his Can-Do Crew to get the zoo built and make homes for all the animals.

Bob the Builder: Can-Do Zoo is a mix of education and fun that allows kids to be creative and get more familiar with the computer. With a focus on critical thinking and problem solving, kids can complete fun and educational activities to build the animal habitats for the new Bobland Bay Zoo – with the help of Bob and the Can-Do Crew, of course. They’ll earn stickers for building achievements and use them to create their own scenes in the bonus sticker book mode, which we added to encourage kids to play again and again.]]> Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 PST http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/games/kids_learning/kidzui.html Let your kids surf over 800,000 kid-friendly websites, games, and videos. About KidZui
Expand your kids online experience with KidZui, the Internet for Kids. KidZui is a FREE graphical web browser designed just for kids with access to over 800,000 kid-friendly websites, pictures, and videos. Real parents and teachers review content for KidZui so your kids can surf independently. Kids build avatars to express themselves online. They earn points for exploration and discovery. They can tag content and share it with parent-approved friends.

Parents receive weekly emails and online reports to keep them in touch with their kids’ online activities. Running KidZui in protected mode blocks access to all other applications and content on a computer to anyone who doesn’t have the parent password. Once a computer is secured, it will automatically re-launch back into protected mode even if it is restarted or the power is cycled. This is a great way to let your kids independently explore on KidZui without worrying about them using the adult Internet, or accidentally deleting important files.]]> Mon, 20 Oct 2008 00:00:00 PST http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/games/kids_learning/ladybugs.html Challenging yet extremely fun activities to stimulate your child’s thinking and color recognition skills. About Ladybugs
Bugs have never been so cute and cuddly…and colorful! This game for small children will keep your little ones racing against other ladybugs, wandering around garden mazes and helping ladybugs find their homes. These are challenging yet extremely fun activities to stimulate your child’s thinking and color recognition skills, and at the same time, kids will simply having a good time.]]> Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:00:00 PST http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/games/kids_learning/alphababy.html Display shapes, letters, and images in a safe, full screen enviornment for babies and toddlers. About AlphaBaby
My kids love to play with the computer. Unfortunately, they also have the habit of renaming my hard drive to “axlfkaj.” So I wrote AlphaBaby so they could safely use the Mac without inflicting too much damage! AlphaBaby lets even infants and toddlers have fun playing with the computer. Every time a key is pressed or the mouse is clicked, a letter or shape is drawn. Sounds can be played every time something is drawn. Your own sounds and pictures can also be used. AlphaBaby helps kids to learn letters, plus provides a safe environment for kids to have fun “typing” on the keyboard!]]> Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:00 PST http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/games/kids_learning/bullfrog.html How many bugs can you eat? About Bullfrog
Bugs have invaded your home. Buzzing, flapping, and biting; bugs now plague every corner of your world and irritate you at every turn. It’s a good thing you’re a bullfrog; a very hungry bullfrog. Eat all those pesky bugs to return peace and quiet to your lovely home. But, you must eat all those bugs before time runs out or your home will be forever theirs.

Game Play Features:
- Classic arcade style game play
- Eat six unique bugs
- Play unlimited rounds
- Race against the clock
- Track high scores with global rankings
- Family and child safe gaming
- Easy to learn, notebook friendly controls]]> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:00:00 PST http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/games/kids_learning/tuxpaint.html A free drawing program designed for young children (kids ages three and up). About Tux Paint
A free drawing program designed for young children (kids ages three and up). It has a simple, easy-to-use interface, fun sound effects, and an encouraging cartoon mascot who helps guide children as they use the program. It provides a blank canvas and a variety of drawing tools to help your child be creative.

Draw lines, shapes or freehand using a variety of brushes and colors. Cartoon and photographic “stamps,” each with their own educational description and sound effect, can be pasted into a picture. Special effects like rainbow, sparkles and blur can be applied to parts of the drawing. Type text into a picture with various fonts and styles.

Storing and retrieving images is simplified using one-click save and a thumbnail browser. Saved images can be viewed as a slideshow at various playback speeds. Multiple levels of undo and progressive saving allow children to try out ideas without ruining their masterpiece.

Parental options allow Tux Paint to run with the Print and/or Quit options disabled, in fullscreen mode, with sound disabled, and in a variety of languages (over 80 supported). ]]> Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 PST http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/games/kids_learning/littlehopperssightwordsgame.html Early reading development. About Little Hoppers Sight Words Game
Beginning readers will have fun practicing identifying 100 easy to learn sight words in a wild west themed environment while playing Little Hopper’s Sight Words Game. Learning these 100 common sight words will put your student on the fast track in learning to read. Program includes two skill levels, fun colorful graphics, digital speech, and lively background music.]]> Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PST http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/games/kids_learning/etchasketch.html The world’s favorite drawing toy. About Etch A Sketch
Grizelda the witch has shaken things up inside the Etch A Sketch, and Knobby must restore “draw and order” to his world. Help Knobby save his kidnapped friend and stop Grizelda’s evil plan to turn everything in the Land of Aha! to Dullsville! Full of creative art tools, four unique game modes, tons of unlockable hidden items and a cast of hilarious characters, Etch A Sketch is innovative fun for the whole family! Check out this digital upgrade to the World’s Favorite Toy today!

Genre: Kids & Learning ]]> Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PST http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/games/kids_learning/gigglescomputerfuntimeforbabynurseryrhymes.html It’s time to share the wonderful tales you loved when you were little – in a whole new way. About Giggles Computer Funtime For Baby: Nursery Rhymes
It’s time to share the wonderful tales you loved when you were little – in a whole new way. Babies love touching the computer keyboard — Now You Can Let Them! Each curious key press entertains your baby with delightful animated characters in classic Nursery Rhymes. There are 14 adorable key tapping activities, each representing a different Nursery Rhyme, for you and baby to explore.

Genre: Kids & Learning ]]> Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:00:00 PST http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/games/kids_learning/thetuttlesmadcapmisadventures.html An arcade adventure game about a thoroughly modern family trying to bond on a road trip to see the Alamo. About The Tuttles Madcap Misadventures
An arcade adventure game about a thoroughly modern family trying to bond on a road trip to see the Alamo. In addition to 40 engaging levels of side-scrolling action, players are treated to animated, comic book style cut scenes brought to life by the fantastic voice-over talents of some of Hollywood’s biggest names: Bob Saget (Barry Tuttle), Jamie Lee Curtis (BarbaraTuttle), Ashley Tisdale (Jess Tuttle), Dominic Scott Kay (Zach Tuttle), Dave Thomas (The Australian), Dave Coulier (The Native and several other characters), and William Shatner. A first-of-its-kind fundraising initiative, benefiting the Starlight Starbright Children’s Foundation. ]]> Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:00:00 PST http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/games/kids_learning/gigglescomputerfuntimeforbabyabcs123s.html Building blocks, cuckoo clocks, and race cars… Letters and numbers have never had so much fun. About Giggles Computer Funtime For Baby: ABCs & 123s
Building blocks, cuckoo clocks, and race cars… Letters and numbers have never had so much fun. Babies love touching the computer keyboard — now you can let them! Each curious key press entertains your baby with delightful animated letters and numbers and cute, loveable animal characters. There are 14 adorable key tapping activities for you and baby to explore!

Genre: Kids & Learning ]]> Thu, 29 May 2008 00:00:00 PST http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/games/kids_learning/frsmoneymath.html Kids learn to work with coins. About FRS Money Math
A fun and easy to use tool to aide students in learning to identify, total, add, and subtract money. FRS Money Math features eleven specific drills. Note: This program focuses only on US currency.]]> Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:00:00 PST http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/games/kids_learning/multiflyer.html Save the solar system from gravitational anomalies (and learn some multiplication too.) About Multiflyer
An award winning computer game built to help anyone trying to learn or brush up on their multiplication skills. Work your way through the solar system, saving outposts on planets and space stations from gravitational anomalies. The game includes:

- 11 levels
- Real information about the Moon, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto
- 3 space stations
- Cool spaceship and space station graphics and sound effects
- A multiplication grid for help in earlier levels
- Correct answer feedback when a problem is answered incorrectly
- A practice mode where you can choose your multiples (1-12)
- A points system that rewards for good memorization of facts
- A comprehensive printable report outlining how the user did on their multiplication problems]]> Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:00:00 PST http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/games/kids_learning/nekotyper.html Improve your typing by racing cats against each other. About Neko Type-R
Run, kitty, run! *insert furious typing motions here* Neko Type-R is a small game I whipped up in 21 days for “Accelerated”, a racing themed contest that the fine folks over at iDevGames.com ran in January 2005. You must use your elite typing skills to race your cats to the finish line before the computer’s team does the same. Anyway, this game has been sitting on my hard drive for a while now and I’ve always wanted to go back and do more with it. However, I didn’t want to waste my time working on something that no one wasn’t going to enjoy. So I’m going to officially throw this release out into the public (after applying some updates to it so that it runs properly under 10.4) and see what kind of response I get. If you like this game and want me to work on it more, please e-mail me and let me know. ]]> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:00:00 PST http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/games/kids_learning/questionable.html Lets you run quiz show using your own questions. About Questionable
Lets you create your own questions and categories to run your own quiz show! Use USB mice, gamepads, joysticks or keyboards as buzzers for as many players as you like. Display the game board full screen on a second display for the game players while the host sees all the questions and answers!

Great for classrooms and parties.]]> Mon, 03 Mar 2008 00:00:00 PST http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/games/kids_learning/mathteroidmultiplication.html Refresh your multiplication facts while saving the space station from incoming danger. About Math-teroid: Multiplication
For a quick, fun way to reinforce your multiplication facts, you can’t beat Math-teroid. Gravitational anomalies have caused asteroids to be attracted to the space station. It’s your responsibility to keep the station safe as long as possible. Click on an asteroid to get it’s incoming coordinates. Solve for the coordinates using multiplication of division to destroy the asteroid.

Includes control over what numbers you practice, 4 different power-up asteroids, increasing difficulty as play progresses, and a printable report at the end of the game.

Genre: Kids & Learning]]> Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:00:00 PST http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/games/kids_learning/nessygamesplayer.html Great games program to help children to develop spelling and reading skill, and to support schoolwork at home. About Nessy GamesPlayer
Journey to the distant mountains of Ness, hatch the mystery egg and grow your own pet monster. As Nessy grows you are led through a series of motivating computer games that follow a structured reading and spelling programme devised by specialist teachers. Nessy GamesPlayer uses game-based learning with graphics and games that meet the high demands of today’s children.

The range of difficulty options makes GamesPlayer suitable for both gifted children and those who need additional support.

Homework Mode includes a recording facility that allows children to record their own words to play with the computer games or you can access 1200 pre-recorded words plus many graded sentences, including key words from the National Literacy Strategy. GamesPlayer guides your child without supervision; just leave them to it and see the benefits in confidence and ability. It helps children to improve their spelling, extend their vocabulary and increase their reading speed. As a final reward, secret words will unlock a ‘pet’ Nessy that children can keep as their very own on their computer desktop!

Genre: Kids & Learning]]> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 00:00:00 PST http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/games/kids_learning/littlehoppersmathtactoe.html Math practice; tic tac toe style. About Little Hoppers Math Tac Toe
Helps students practice their addition, subtraction, and multiplication skills in a fun and friendly environment. Play against the computer or play head to head with a friend, parent, or tutor. Three math modes and two skill levels means that students can find a game that fits their skill level whether they are in kindergarten, eighth grade, or anywhere in-between. ]]> Mon, 17 Dec 2007 00:00:00 PST http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/games/kids_learning/learntodrawwithmrshoogestraat.html Enjoy creativity and learning about art. About Learn to Draw with Mrs. Hoogestraat
Enjoy creativity and learning about art with Learn to Draw with Mrs. Hoogestraat. The 50 basic drawing lessons teach skills and concepts like perspective, rendering, and more. Learn to Draw with Mrs. Hoogestraat provides students with the essential building blocks that young artists need. Easy-to-learn tips, tricks, and techniques are included to make the learning process both fun and challenging. ]]> Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:00:00 PST