educational
adj.adj. providing useful knowledge or helping you learn something new. You use this to describe books, movies, or experiences that teach you things.
adj. providing or relating to the provision of instruction or information that facilitates learning. Often used to describe the value or purpose of an activity or resource.
The museum trip was very educational for the children.
The documentary provides an educational look at how climate change affects local farming communities.
While primarily intended as entertainment, the historical drama serves an educational purpose by introducing viewers to the complex political landscape of the fourteenth century.
From education + -al.
Typically functions as an attributive adjective before a noun, but can also follow linking verbs like 'be' or 'seem'.
The teacher gave us many educationals.The teacher gave us many educational activities.Educational is an adjective, not a noun; it must modify a noun like 'activities', 'materials', or 'games'.