Science games by NGSS standard

Pick a performance expectation to see the free science games that practise it.

Grade 1

1-PS4-3 — Some materials let light through, some block part of it, and some block all of it. (3 games)

2-PS1-1 — Materials can be sorted by their properties, like hard, flexible or see-through. (4 games)
2-PS1-4 — Heating or cooling can cause changes — some can be reversed and some cannot. (3 games)
2-LS2-2 — Animals help plants spread pollen and seeds. (3 games)
2-LS4-1 — Different habitats have different kinds of plants and animals living in them. (3 games)
2-ESS2-3 — Water on Earth can be solid or liquid, in oceans, rivers, lakes and ice. (3 games)

3-PS2-1 — Balanced and unbalanced forces change — or don’t change — how an object moves. (4 games)
3-PS2-3 — Magnets can push or pull without touching. (3 games)
3-LS1-1 — Living things have life cycles: birth, growth, reproduction and death. (3 games)
3-LS4-3 — In a given habitat, some living things survive well, some less well, and some not at all. (4 games)
3-ESS2-2 — Different places in the world have different typical weather — their climate. (3 games)
3-ESS3-1 — Designs can reduce the damage from weather hazards like floods and storms. (4 games)

4-PS3-2 — Energy moves from place to place by sound, light, heat and electric currents. (5 games)
4-PS3-4 — Devices change energy from one form to another. (4 games)
4-PS4-1 — Waves have patterns of amplitude and wavelength, and can move objects. (4 games)
4-PS4-2 — We see objects when light reflects off them and enters our eyes. (4 games)
4-LS1-2 — Animals take in information through their senses and respond to it. (3 games)
4-ESS1-1 — Rock layers and fossils show how a landscape changed over time. (4 games)
4-ESS2-1 — Water, ice, wind and plants break down rock and move it — weathering and erosion. (3 games)
4-ESS3-1 — Energy and fuels come from natural resources, some renewable and some not. (5 games)
4-ESS3-2 — Designs can reduce the impact of natural hazards like earthquakes and volcanoes. (4 games)

5-PS1-1 — Matter is made of particles too small to see. (3 games)
5-PS1-4 — Mixing two or more substances can make a new substance. (4 games)
5-PS2-1 — Earth’s gravity pulls objects down toward its center. (4 games)
5-LS1-1 — Plants get the materials they need to grow mainly from air and water. (3 games)
5-LS2-1 — Matter moves among plants, animals, decomposers and the environment. (4 games)
5-ESS1-2 — Shadows, day and night, and the stars we see follow daily and seasonal patterns. (4 games)
5-ESS2-1 — Earth’s land, water, air and living things interact. (4 games)

MS-PS1-1 — Atoms combine into molecules and larger structures. (4 games)
MS-PS1-2 — A chemical reaction is shown by new substances with new properties. (4 games)
MS-PS2-1 — When two objects collide, they push on each other equally and oppositely. (3 games)
MS-PS2-2 — An object’s motion depends on the forces on it and its mass. (3 games)
MS-PS3-1 — Kinetic energy depends on an object’s mass and speed. (3 games)
MS-PS4-1 — A wave’s amplitude is linked to the energy it carries. (3 games)
MS-PS4-2 — Waves are reflected, absorbed or passed through by different materials. (4 games)
MS-LS1-1 — Living things are made of cells — one cell or many. (3 games)
MS-LS1-3 — The body is a system of interacting subsystems made of cells. (3 games)
MS-LS3-1 — Changes (mutations) in genes can change an organism’s traits. (3 games)
MS-LS4-4 — Natural selection: inherited traits that help survival become more common. (3 games)
MS-ESS1-1 — The Earth–sun–moon system explains moon phases, eclipses and seasons. (4 games)
MS-ESS2-3 — Fossils, rocks and the seafloor are evidence that plates move. (4 games)
MS-ESS3-5 — Evidence shows global temperatures rising over the past century, and why. (3 games)

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