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At Sugar Labs, we make a collection of tools that learners use to explore, discover, create, and reflect. We are non-profit and led by volunteers. We distribute these tools freely and encourage our users to appropriate them, taking ownership and responsibility for their learning.
This is Sugar
Sugar Neighbourhood. In the Sugar Neighborhood
view, learners see their friends clustered around their current Activities;
from this view they can join each other’s Activities. Sugar collaboration works
"peer to peer," in a classroom or under a tree; Sugar does not require the
Internet.
Sugar Journal. The Sugar Journal records
everything a learner does using Sugar. There is no need to remember
to click a Save Button. The focus is on the activity, not the computer.
The Journal is also a place for reflection, where learners and their
teachers can monitor progress.
Below is a small selection from the hundreds of Activities available in the Sugar Activity Library:
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.
Maze Web
A remake of Maze activity using web technologies.
Turtle Blocks 3D
Turtle Blocks 3D is an extension of Turtle Blocks into three dimensions. Instead of moving a turtle on a plane, the turtle can be moved in a three-dimensional Cartesian space.
Words
A multi-lingual dictionary with speech synthesis.
Ruler
Ruler is a very simple Activity which provides images of a ruler, cm and mm grids, and a cm checker board.
Star Chart
This activity will display a map of the sky showing the position of the visible stars, some of the larger and brighter deep-sky objects (DSOs), the "classical" planets, the sun and the moon.
Recall
The Recall Activity is a series of four memory games, each of increasing difficulty.
Numbers
The second of Peter the Magician's Puzzle Activities. Inspired by the TV game, "Letters and Numbers". Players have to make a target number from 3 single digit numbers using only plus and multiply.There are 10 levels which can be set by the player.
Journal Share
Journal Share
Typing Turtle
Typing Turtle is a multilingual animated touch typing trainer.
Turtle in a Pond
Turtle in a Pond is a strategy game. The goal is to surround the turtle before it runs off the screen.
Measure
Measure is an activity that turns the computer into an oscilloscope. Signals from the microphone (and sensors) can be plotted in time and frequency domains.
Sugar on a Stick – The full Sugar environment – on any computer at any time – from a thumb drive. Learn about how to create a Sugar Stick.
Sugar on a Stick requires a thumb drive with at least 2GB storage and downloading ~650MB. Sugar on a Stick is available for free and does not permanently affect your computer.
GNU/Linux Install – The full Sugar environment – installed on a GNU/Linux computer.
Sugar is available as a desktop environment on GNU/Linux. Up to date packages are available for Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu and many other distros.
Sugar Runs Best on Computers.
Come back to www.sugarlabs.org on a computer to find how to get the full Sugar environment.
Sugarizer (alpha) – A taste of Sugar within your browser.
Sugarizer provides basic Sugar features and some Activities. Sugarizer works in any modern browser, on mobile, tablet or desktop.