Game Based Learning: Gravity and Our Solar System 8.ESS1.2 - Free Educational Games

Activity 1: Question Game. Estimated duration: 13 min

Around and Around

Travel around the solar system in this game. Using gravity to propel you from one planet to another, hop from planet to planet by answering questions about solar system bodies like the sun, moons, and asteroids. However, if you don't judge gravity correctly, you may miss the next planet! Alas, you can answer questions correctly to get back on track.

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Teacher Ratings (127) 3.8 stars.

Student Ratings (26341) 3.7 stars.

Activity 2: Question Game. Estimated duration: 5 min

Solar Nebula

In this game, you begin by using the arrow keys to manipulate a dust cloud in space. You will try to run into smaller masses so that you can gain mass and move through the stages of solar system formation. As mass is gained to complete each stage of formation, you can earn additional points by correctly answering relevant multiple choice questions.

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Teacher Ratings (84) 4.2 stars.

Student Ratings (15092) 4.1 stars.

Activity 3: Instructional Game. Estimated duration: 13 min

Gravity and the Birth of Our Solar System

In this game, you will go on a time travel journey from the formation of our solar system all the way into the distant future up until death of our sun. You will learn how the solar system began to form, how the sun and the planets formed, and how the sun will eventually die. Along the way, you will play mini-games to simulate different stages of the process.

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Teacher Ratings (409) 4.4 stars.

Student Ratings (102137) 4.0 stars.