Description: Create an amazing solar system from scratch with Solar System Maker 2026! Start by choosing and naming your star, then design your own planets by customizing their colors, sizes, temperatures, atmospheres, orbital distances, and more. Add moons, spectacular planetary rings, comets, asteroids, nebulae, and even black holes! Watch your creation come alive with animated orbits, or start with a model of our actual solar system. When you're finished, unleash the ultimate Black Hole Finale and watch your entire creation spiral into oblivion—then restore it with a click! Save, print, or download your masterpiece in this interactive astronomy and creativity laboratory.

Description: Blast off on an incredible journey through our solar system! Explore an animated, bird’s-eye view of the planets orbiting the Sun, then switch to Voyager Mode and travel from planet to planet at speeds ranging from a typical spacecraft to an imaginary five times the speed of light! Visit fascinating moons, explore the asteroid and Kuiper belts, and discover dwarf planets such as Pluto. Click on planets to learn about their atmospheres, temperatures, gravity, moons, and incredible features, including Jupiter's Great Red Spot and Saturn's rings. Explore interactive atmospheric pie charts, listen to narration, and test your knowledge with randomized online and printable scavenger hunts and Fact or Fiction challenges. An amazing interactive adventure through our solar system!

Description: Planetary Gravity Lab is an exciting interactive simulation that lets students discover how gravity works on all eight planets! Compare each planet's gravity to Earth's, experiment with dropping objects, see how high you could jump, and calculate how much you would weigh on other worlds. Then, take on the Planetary Basketball Challenge, where students adjust shooting angles and strength to score baskets under different gravitational conditions! Explore hypothetical platforms above the clouds of the outer planets, learn why gravity varies throughout the solar system, and discover the difference between mass and weight. A fun, hands-on way to bring planetary science to life!

Description: Blast off on an interactive journey through the five layers of Earth's atmosphere! Students explore the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, and exosphere while discovering where airplanes fly, meteors burn up, auroras glow, and satellites orbit Earth. Click and move objects to uncover fascinating facts, explore how temperatures change with altitude, and travel from Earth's surface into space! Students can also test their knowledge with a fun drag-and-drop matching game and an interactive, printable multiple-choice scavenger hunt. Perfect for grades 6–8!

Description: You're a fly trapped in a house, and everyone wants you gone! Dodge flyswatters, flying shoes, poisonous bug spray, sticky fly tape, and other hazards through eight increasingly challenging rounds. Collect food for energy, earn superpowers, and escape deadly traps. Survive until nightfall for the ultimate fly revenge—buzzing in a sleeping human's ear!

Description: This fun game allows students to make their own northern light displays by causing the collisions of different elements.

Description: This totally fun simulation allows students to create up to five different habitats with a selection of customizable, cartoonish animals and plants that belong in the habitats. In additions, students can enter the "lost dimension" where they can craft their own animals from the parts of different animals! Classified under: Science game, science games, animal game, animal games, habitat game, habitat games

Description: This wildly fun activity challenges students to spawn powerful tornadoes with their typing skills. The faster a students can type the "tornado-themed" words that appear, the more powerful the tornado becomes. Students have 25 total seconds to type as many words as possible. If students can produce super-massive tornadoes , exceeding 500 mph, their tornadoes can turn into sharknadoes, pignadoes, frognadoes, and other kinds of tornadoes.

Description: This fun science game allows students to make their own dinosaurs online.

Description: This is a "jeopardy" like game on United States Presidents. It's super fun for classrooms, individuals, or small teams, totally customizable. Uncheck "teams take turns" to make it more exciting for kids.

Description: This amazing game helps kids (and adults) learn all about backyard feeder birds (eastern and central United States and Canada) in a fun, game-like format! The game keeps many statistics, checklists, and awards certificate. State-of-the-art graphics and animations add to the fun. You can even save your game! Identify all 48 possible birds to win at eight different feeders. You can read about each bird, watch videos, and even take pictures of the birds that come to your feeders and print them out. CHECK OUT THE INSTRUCTIONAL VIDEO for this activity in the related items section at the bottom of this page. Classified under: Science game, science games, animal game, animal games, bird game, birds games

Description: This incredible game allows students to explore North American birds. There are two modes. Free coloring allows students to choose from any of 27 North American birds such as the Mallard, Canada Goose, Cardinal, Eastern Bluebird, Bald Eagle, Red-headed Woodpecker, and many others , to color online. Pictures can be printed out as well. The challenge mode is requires students to actually know the correct colors of the birds. In each picture, arrows will point to different parts of the bird. Students must select the correct color to fill in for each part. For example, for the Bald Eagle, students would use white to fill in the head and tail, brown to fill in the wings and back, and yellow to fill in the bill. There are three rounds. For each round a student completes, he or she earns a special certificate with all of the birds correctly colored. Individual pictures can be printed as well.

Description: Help the Mr. Nussbaum Space Museum! The solar system exhibit has fallen from the ceiling and the planets and labels are scattered everywhere. Please help reconstruct it!

Description: This is an awesome, simple solar system jigsaw puzzle that students can complete online.

Description: This is an awesome jigsaw puzzle that students can solve or create online.

Description: This is an awesome jigsaw puzzle that students can solve or create online.

Description: Choose whether you want to be Strep Throat or the Influenza Virus. Your job is to infect your host as quickly as possible. Because bacteria and viruses know the anatomy and systems of their hosts very well, you need to demonstrate your knowledge of the human body to succeed in infection.

Description: How well do you know where in the world animals live? Drag and drop the animals to their continents. There are 31 total animals. If you correctly place 28 or more, you can print out a gold medal certificate with one of the animals. There are 31 total certificates you can earn, so play often and trade with your friends to collect them all.

Description: This is an online Dinosaurs word search. Choose with or without a timer.

Description: This is a "jeopardy" like game on dinosaurs. It's super fun for classrooms, individuals, or small teams, totally customizable. Uncheck "teams take turns" to make it more exciting for kids.

Description: In this fun game a spacequake occurs, which shuffles the order of the planets. Students must rearrange the orbiting planets in their correct order from the sun. If students successfully complete the game, they can print out a collectible certificate featuring one of the planets. Students can try to collect all eight planetary certificates (plus Pluto) or can trade with friends.

Description: This game allows students to mix and match the parts of six different insects to create their own superbug. Students can enter text to name their bug and to describe it. It prints out beautiful and works on all devices.

Description: Try to identify all 20 different kinds of insects in the neighborhood with your magic magnifying glass before it gets dark. Print out a certificate showing all of the insects you identified. Flash required

Description: This interactive periodic table has two functions: First, it allows students to scroll over the entire table and click on any element to learn all about it. Second, it includes a game that requires students to identify as many elements based on their abbreviations as possible in two minutes. It allows students to choose their skill level. Classified under: Science game, science games, periodic table game, periodic table games,

Description: Welcome to Animal Idol. In this game, your knowledge of the animal and plant kingdoms will be tested like its never been tested before. Unlike American Idol, you won’t have to sing, but you will have to answer questions about animals, plants, and biomes. Each round has a different theme and the questions are tough. To make it to the next round, simply score five correct answers and score at least 50 percent. For example, if you get five correct, but get eight incorrect, you will be eliminated, but if you get five correct and four incorrect, you will survive. After every round, you’ll endure criticism by the three judges, Randy Jackal, Paula Impala, and Simon Cow. Can you be the next Animal Idol?

Description: This fun game allows students to make their own crazy mammals from parts of ten different ones. Then, they can name it, describe it, and add a habitat and range for their creation.

Description: Design and name your butterflies and release them into the wild? How fast can you catch them? The twisting and turning butterflies are difficult to catch. Loads of fun!

Description: Firefly Nights in a mesmerizing game that requires students to build and identify the flash pattern of their personal fireflies, among an ever-increasing number of flashing fireflies.

Description: Recycle! is an online game that shows students how easy it is to recycle. Students have three minutes to recycle as many items as possible into the plastic, aluminum, and paper containers. See if you can recycle 60 items!

Description: Oh No! The world's greatest skateboarder, Lonnie, had an accident and it's up to you to save him. Put all of his organs and bones back in the correct spots and you'll be a hero and Lonnie will live to skate another day!

Description: This fun (and very simple) game simply requires students to select a color. When the background of the page changes to the selected color, the student clicks "stop." The program times (in milliseconds) how fast students react! Very fun.