Physical Sciences Games
Explore Physical Sciences concepts with our comprehensive science games aligned with NGSS standards. Interactive and printable resources for K-12 learners across all grade levels.
Matter States Word Sort
This interactive word sort focuses on helping students understand the different states of matter through real-world exam...
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Strong Forces
This NGSS-aligned word sort activity for K-3 students focuses on comparing the strength of different magnetic and electr...
Push or Pull Without Touch"
This engaging word sort activity helps K-3 students understand the fundamental concepts of magnetic and electric forces ...
Movement Solutions Word Sort
This word sort activity helps students understand different ways we control movement in our daily lives. Students sort 1...
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Speed Changes Word Sort
This engaging word sort helps young students understand what makes objects move faster or slower. Students classify 12 d...
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Daily Movement Sort
This word sort explores forces through everyday actions. Students classify 12 common activities into push or pull moveme...
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Motion Actions Word Sort
This kindergarten-level word sort helps students understand basic motion concepts through familiar actions. Students sor...
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Temperature Effects Sort
This classification activity helps students understand how temperature affects matter. Students categorize various chang...
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Chemical Changes Word Sort
This classification activity helps students understand different types of changes in matter. Students sort various chang...
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Particle Movement Sort
This classification activity helps students understand particle movement in different materials. Students categorize sub...
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Matter States Word Sort
This classification activity helps students understand how particles are arranged in different states of matter. Student...
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Create Your Own Communication Device
This activity encourages grade 4 students to design and categorize features of a communication device that uses light or...
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Patterns in Communication
This activity helps grade 4 students learn how patterns in light and sound are used for communication. Students match me...
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Light Reflection Pathway
This revised activity for grade 4 students simplifies the exploration of the light reflection pathway that allows object...
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How Do We See Objects?
This activity for grade 4 teaches students how light reflection enables vision. By matching scenarios like 'a glowing ca...
Waves in Action
This engaging activity for grade 4 students demonstrates how waves interact with objects. Students categorize effects li...
Identify the Wave Features
This activity for grade 4 introduces wave features like amplitude and wavelength. Students match examples such as 'tall ...
Build and Test an Energy Converter
Energy Conversion Devices
This engaging activity helps grade 4 students explore energy conversion through real-world devices. Students match devic...
Energy Transfer in Collisions
This grade 4 activity encourages students to ask questions and predict outcomes about energy changes during collisions. ...
Energy in Collisions
This activity for grade 4 students explores energy changes during collisions. Students categorize scenarios like 'bumper...
Energy on the Move
This grade 4 activity focuses on recognizing energy transfer processes. Students categorize examples such as 'thundercla...
How Does Energy Travel?
This interactive activity for grade 4 students explores how energy transfers through sound, light, heat, and electric cu...
Motion and Energy Examples
This activity focuses on the relationship between motion and energy for grade 4 students. By matching terms such as 'rac...
Fast or Slow?
This engaging activity helps grade 4 students relate the speed of an object to its energy. Students categorize objects l...
Magnet Solutions
This engaging word sort activity for Grade 3 students explores how magnets are used to solve problems across different s...
Magnet Problem Solvers
This NGSS-aligned word sort activity helps Grade 3 students understand practical applications of magnets in problem-solv...
Movement Predictability Sort
This word sort activity explores how predictable different types of motion can be. Students categorize 12 moving objects...
Motion Patterns Word Sort
This engaging word sort helps students understand patterns in motion. Students classify 12 different movements based on ...
Observing and Predicting Motion
Observing and Predicting Motion' encourages students to distinguish between predictable and non-predictable motions. By ...
Heating and Cooling Effects
In this 'Heating and Cooling Effects' word sort activity, second-grade students explore how heating and cooling affect d...
Reversible vs. Irreversible Changes
This 'Reversible vs. Irreversible Changes' word sort activity is designed for second-grade students to align with NGSS 2...
Changes in Temperature: What Happens Next?
In 'Changes in Temperature: What Happens Next?,' students explore examples of how heating or cooling materials causes ch...
Hot or Cold: Reversible or Not?
The 'Hot or Cold: Reversible or Not?' activity engages students in sorting changes caused by heating and cooling into re...
Recycling Everyday Objects
The 'Recycling Everyday Objects' activity helps students understand how everyday materials like aluminum cans and fabric...
Building New Shapes from Blocks
In 'Building New Shapes from Blocks,' students observe how objects like blocks and puzzles can be disassembled and reass...
Designing Weatherproof Structures
The 'Designing Weatherproof Structures' activity teaches students to analyze materials such as steel, concrete, and stra...
Materials for Creating Safe Packaging
In the 'Materials for Creating Safe Packaging' activity, students explore the properties of materials like cardboard, bu...
Materials for Water Resistance
The 'Materials for Water Resistance' activity encourages students to sort materials such as plastic, rubber, and sponge ...
Choosing the Best Material for Building
In the 'Choosing the Best Material for Building' activity, students analyze materials like wood, steel, and plastic to d...
Classifying Materials by Touch and Appearance
The 'Classifying Materials by Touch and Appearance' activity engages students in sorting materials like silk, sandpaper,...
Sorting Materials by Properties
In the 'Sorting Materials by Properties' activity, students sort various materials into categories such as 'Hard and Rig...
Properties of Communication Tools
The 'Properties of Communication Tools' word sort activity is crafted for first-grade students to meet NGSS 1-PS4-4 stan...
Communication Components
In this word sort activity, 'Communication Components,' students explore the essential components and materials needed i...
Light and Shadows Word Sort
This word sort activity helps students understand shadow formation through different materials. Students sort 12 objects...
Light Behavior Word Sort
This engaging word sort helps young students understand how light interacts with different materials. Students classify ...
Light-Dependent Visibility
Aligned with NGSS 1-PS4-2, this activity helps students understand how light affects what we see. In 'Light-Dependent Vi...
Visible or Hidden in the Dark
This NGSS-aligned activity helps first graders understand that some objects can only be seen when illuminated. In 'Visib...
Effects of Sound on Materials
This activity aligns with NGSS 1-PS4-1, teaching students about the effect of sound vibrations on materials. In 'Effects...
How Sound Travels
Aligned with NGSS 1-PS4-1, this activity introduces students to how sound travels. In 'How Sound Travels,' children sort...