Science Games

To find SOL practice items from the Virginia Department of Education, please click here.

For practice on all third grade science objectives, please go to SOLPass. The password is "richmond".

Another great website to practice all science objectives in an SOL-type practice assessment can be found here.

3.1
Science Experiment Help 
Measurement Match
Measuring Mass
Characteristics of Materials
Solids and Liquids
Time to Move
Pour to Score
The Ruler Game
Sorting Insects
Sorting Practice ("Grouping Animals" & "Materials 2")
Make Predictions

3.2 Simple Machines:
Simple Machines At Home
Simple Machines Adventure
Compound Machines
Learn About Simple Machines
Spotting Simple and Compound Machines
Simple Machines Quiz
Fling the Teacher

3.3 Describing Objects By Their Physical Properties
StudyJams! States of Matter
Changing State
Solids and Liquids
Characteristics of Materials
States of Matter & Particles
Matter Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?
Matter Review
Matter Jeopardy
Material Mission

3.4 Behavioral and Physical Adaptations
Camouflage Quiz
Animal Adaptations Game
SOL 3.4 Games
Adaptations Who Wants To Be A Millionaire
Interdependence and Adaptations
Adaptations Jeopardy
Adaptations of Desert Plants
StudyJams! Plant Adaptations

3.5 Food Chains
Food Chains Info & Create A Food Chain Web (bottom of page)
Review Quiz
Set Up A Food Chain
Food Chain Who Wants To Be A Millionaire Game
Review Game
SOL 3.4 & 3.5 Review

3.6 Dry Land and Water Environments
Animal to Habitat Matching
Animals in a Habitat
Animals and Habitats
Habitat Adventure
Habitat Jeopardy
Pond Seek and Find

3.7 Soil
Soil Formation
Soil Horizons
What's Your Soil IQ?
Underground Virtual Tour
Dig It!
StudyJams! Soil

3.8 Patterns in Nature
Moon Phases Guessing
StudyJams! A Day on Earth
StudyJams! Seasons
Earth, Sun, and Moon
Earth and Moon Matching
StudyJams! The Moon
StudyJams! The Tides
Life Cycle of Plants
Plant Life Cycle
Butterfly Life Cycle (Part 2)

3.9 The Water Cycle
Thirstin's Water Cycle
Droplet & The Water Cycle
StudyJams! Water Cycle

3.10 Natural Events
Interdependence
Recycle Roundup
Smog City
Severe Storms
Volcanoes
Earthquakes
Weathering and Erosion

3.11 Sources of Energy
Power Play
Saving Energy
Deforestation
Energy Hogs
Renewable Fuels