Grades K–8 · Brain break
Animal Moves
An animal or a clue appears. Students move like its animal group: stomp, flap, swim, creep or hop.
5th Grade Science Games & Labs
19 multiplayer classroom games and 8 virtual labs for 5th grade science. The games play on one shared screen and the labs run on each student's device. No student logins, works offline, and every one has a free demo you can try right now.
Grade 5 · Practice game
Biosphere Base
A single-player science game for 5th grade. Run a science station: conservation of matter, mixtures and new substances, food webs and decomposers, gravity, shadows and star patterns, and Earth's spheres, then finish with a skills report for six 5th grade NGSS standards.
Grades 4–5 · Engineering
Bridge Strength and Engineering Lab
Students fold paper bridges, test spans and frames, map bridge forces and design a bridge on a budget.
Grades 3–12 · Data Analysis
Data Lab
Variables, fair tests, tables, graphs, mean and median, and claims backed by data.
Grades 3–12 · Engineering Design
Design Lab
The engineering design process: criteria and constraints, fair tests, using data to improve designs and trade-offs.
Grades 4–5 · Earth & Space
Earth's Interior and Plate Tectonics Lab
Students drill to Earth's center, watch plate boundaries over time, measure plate speed and fit Pangaea back together.
Grades 4–5 · Earth & Space
Earthquake and Volcano Lab
Students read seismographs, test buildings on a shake table, mix magma to build volcanoes and map the Ring of Fire.
Grades 4–5 · Life Science
Ecosystem and Food Web Lab
Students grow plants, build food chains, change a food web, run predator–prey trials and test decomposers.
Grades 4–5 · Physical Science
Electrical Circuits Lab
Students light a bulb, use a switch, test conductors, compare series and parallel circuits and fix broken circuits.
Grades 3–8 · Ecosystems
Food Web Frenzy
Producers, consumers, decomposers, food webs and adaptations. Claim the ecosystem four in a row.
Grades 3–8 & Physics · Forces, Energy & Physics
Force Field Derby
Forces and motion, Newton’s laws, gravity, energy, momentum and waves on a speedway.
Grades K–8 · Brain break
Force Moves
A force or energy card appears. Students act out push or pull, attract or repel, forms of energy or Newton's laws.
Grades K–8 · Brain break
Habitat Hop
An animal, plant or clue appears. Students hop to the corner of the room for the habitat where it lives.
Grades K–8 · Brain break
Life Cycle Line-Up
A life cycle clue appears. Students strike the pose for that stage of a butterfly, frog, plant or grasshopper.
Grades 2, 5, 6–8 · Matter
Matter Mixers
Properties of matter, physical and chemical changes, particles and conservation of mass.
Grades K–8 · Brain break
Particle Party
Students act out the particles. Huddle and vibrate for a solid, slide and sway for a liquid, spread out and zoom for a gas.
Grades 5 & 6–8 · Earth & Human Activity
Planet Protectors
Natural resources, hazards, human impact and climate. Protect four regions in a row.
Grades K–8 · Brain break
Science Beat the Buzzer
The class shouts the letter of the right answer to build a streak before the buzzer. Every right answer makes the clock a little faster.
Grades K–8 · Brain break
Science Four Corners
A science question appears with four answers, one for each corner of the room. Students walk to the corner they think is right, then the answer lights up.
Grades K–8 · Brain break
Science Simon Says
Simon says buzz like a bee if plants need sunlight to grow! Students do the move only when Simon says it and the science is true.
Grades K–8 · Brain break
Science Stand Up, Sit Down
A science statement appears on the screen. Students stand up if it's true and sit down if it's false, then the answer and the real science pop up.
Grades 4–5 · Earth & Space
Severe Weather and Hurricane Lab
Students build storms, time lightning to find its distance, power up hurricanes and design homes that stay dry.
Grades 4–5 · Earth & Space
Solar System and Planetary Motion Lab
Students tour planets, race orbits, track shadows, drop balls on other worlds and measure star brightness.
Grades 3–8 · Earth & Space
Space & Earth Explorers
Weather and climate, rocks and fossils, erosion, the sun, moon and stars on a trip across the solar system.
Grade 5 · Review game
Turf Takeover: 5th Grade Science Review
A team review game for every NGSS 5th grade science standard. Teams claim tiles on a map by answering questions, and can steal each other's tiles. Play a full review or pick the standards you want. The results show % correct for each standard.
Grades K–8 · Brain break
Weather Warm-Up
A weather card appears. Students act out sunny, rainy, windy or snowy, the water cycle, weather tools or weather fronts.
Grades 4–5 · Earth & Space
Weather and Water Cycle Lab
Students test evaporation and condensation, find four kinds of precipitation and forecast a week of weather.
Skills these games cover
Brain break (10)Earth & Space (6)Data Analysis (1)Earth & Human Activity (1)Ecosystems (1)Engineering (1)Engineering Design (1)Forces, Energy & Physics (1)Life Science (1)Matter (1)Physical Science (1)Practice game (1)Review game (1)
Standards practiced
The 5th Grade Classroom Bundle has 10 games, 3 brain breaks and 2 labs picked for this grade. The Grades 3–5 Classroom Kit has every product for Grades 3–5: 97 games, 20 brain breaks and 31 labs.
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