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Fundamental learning with Sugarizer

The strength of the Sugarizer platform lies in its ability to facilitate the teaching of basic skills in elementary school. Let's find out how.

What are basic skills?

The core skills taught in elementary school vary from country to country, but in general, they cover a number of key areas for the development of basic skills in pupils. Here are just a few of the areas in which Sugarizer can help:

• Reading and writing
• Mathematics
• Science and simulation
• Geography and exploration
• Art education
• Computer science and programming

Reading and writing

Literacy is one of the essential pillars of primary education. Students learn to recognize, read and write letters, words and sentences. They also develop their reading comprehension and learn to express themselves in writing.

Sugarizer offers a number of activities for reading and writing, including :

• Abecedarium : An alphabet activity for learning the alphabet using pictures, sounds and words.
• Speak : A talking head where everything the child writes is spoken aloud by the voice synthesizer.
• Calligra : An activity to help children learn cursive handwriting.
• Falabracman : A simple game to learn words by retrieving the letters in the right order.
• Ebook Reader : An electronic book reader for reading a range of classic literature.
• Story : An activity for telling a story from a set of images.
• Write : A basic word processor with a child-friendly interface.

Mathematics

Basic math is taught, including mathematical operations such as addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, as well as basic concepts such as numbers, fractions, decimals and geometry.

Sugarizer offers a number of activities for mathematics, including:

• Abacus : Explore the representation of numbers using different types of abacus.
• Fraction : A game for learning fractions.
• MindMath : A mental math game similar to Count is Good.
• Reflection : A game for learning horizontal and vertical symmetry.
• Tank Operation : A game to destroy enemy tanks by solving mathematical operations.
• Calculate : A calculator offering the simplest functions, as well as complex functions and curve drawing.

Science and simulation

Students are introduced to fundamental scientific concepts, such as the properties of matter, forces and motion, animals and plants, natural phenomena and more.

Sugarizer offers a number of activities for science and simulation, including:

• Clock Web : A simple activity for learning to tell the time.
• Physics JS : A simulator of the physical world to see how gravity and inertia work.
• Gears : A tool for exploring how gears and chains transmit motion.
• Measure : An activity to learn the physical concepts of sound.
• FoodChain : An activity to learn the names of animals and the concept of the food chain.
• Game of Life : A game to observe and explore cell interactions and their evolution from generation to generation.

Geography and exploration

Students learn the basics of geography, learn about different cultures and explore the sky and solar system.

Sugarizer offers a number of activities for geography and exploration, including:

• Color My World : An activity for exploring the world and its countries.
• Dollar Street : An activity to discover how people live in different countries according to their monthly income.
• Moon : An activity to visualize the phases of the Moon.
• Planets : An activity to explore the planets of the solar system.
• Constellation : A planetarium to see the sky as it is from anywhere on Earth.

Art education

This can include artistic activities such as drawing, painting and music, aimed at developing creativity and self-expression.

Sugarizer offers a number of activities to help students develop their artistic skills, including:

• Grid Paint : A simple drawing activity that lets children draw using a grid of triangles.
• Paint : An activity for creating paintings and drawings.
• Record : A simple tool for capturing photos, videos and/or audio from your machine.
• FotoToon : An activity to create a comic strip from your photos, drawings and images.
• TamTam Micro : An activity for playing instruments, sounds and noises of various kinds.

Computer science and programming

Increasingly, schools are integrating computer science and technology into primary education to familiarize students with programming.

Sugarizer offers a number of activities to help students develop their computing and programming skills, including:

• Scratch : A complete environment for programming interactive stories, games and animations.
• Turtle Blocks JS : A Logo-inspired activity that lets you draw colorful elements and combine them via visual programming elements.
• Jappy : A runtime environment for learning the Python programming language.

Learn more

• A demonstration of each activity is available here.
• You can test Sugarizer online here or download it here.