What is Edheads?
Edheads is a free on-line childrens educational learning resource which provides free games to support learning in science, maths and logical thinking for kids of all ages.
The games or learning activities provided aim to meet the many national education standards and by working with businesses, Universities and the education services, Edheads, are able to obtain research, development and testing of the activities or resources before you and your child ever use them.
Many, many teachers and school children real enjoy using these free, on line learning resources and Edheads has been awarded pretty much every educational award available in recognition of the extremely creative educational learning content they have produced.
Home learning using free online resources for key subjects such as Maths, Science and other subjects can enhance the learning potential of a child. If these free teaching resources are enjoyable to do and interest the child the retention of that learning is increased.
In 2011 Edheads became a finalist for the INDEX:Design for Life award. The INDEX award is the worlds largest money prize for designs which aim to improve life.
During 2010 Edheads was able to attract well over 12 million teachers, parents and children to attempt technical challenges and problem solving to help them understand some of the more difficult ideas they were being taught in school. It is reported that on average each visitor spent more than 7 minutes on the Edheads site at each visit.
Edheads is continually creating new teaching and learning ideas ready for access on-line and encourages business, universities and corporations to actively support and sponsor these new activites. Some of the sponsors also provide projects for the Edheads experts to jointly create suitable activites.
Edheads creates one off online educational exercises which are created to to make difficult to teach subjects more easily understandable by having the children carry out the exercises on their computer.
Because the exercises or projects are delivered specifically for the all age groups the learning takes place more naturally.
The different projects are fun to do and parents can also take part to help their children to learn.
Some of the activities that are available range from simple machines through medical/surgical procedures to crash scene investigation and cater for grade level from 2-6 up to 10-12+.
The interactive learning takes the form of a series of Operating Theatre type games where a knee replacment or deep brain stimulation can be tried or Technical challenges such as designing a Cell Phone.
The are many providers of teaching materials as a free teaching resource for your childrens home learning and many of these are online.
Any free resource which promotes learning in the technical subject has to be encouraged and supported and because the activites are so interactive with great sound, great animations and really good graphical content it is no surprise the Edheads is proving so popular in schools, homes and online.
Learning from home is a great way to help your child to enhance their education.
Because Edheads is continually looking for new activities it is always looking for new ideas to develop and is always willing to receive those ideas for evaluation but would probably be unable to develop every one into a working activity