Digital Science Games & Worksheets

25+ curriculum-aligned games, each paired with a data analysis worksheet. Students play, generate real data, and think like scientists โ€” in under 10 minutes.

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From Gameplay to Scientific Thinking

1

Students Play

Each game is designed as a real scientific experiment. Students make decisions and respond to scenarios โ€” generating their own dataset as they play, on any device.

2

Data Is Collected

The game records students' choices and outcomes as real experimental data. No surveys, no manual entry โ€” it happens automatically.

3

Worksheets Guide the Analysis

Curriculum-aligned worksheets walk students through graphing, interpreting, and discussing their own data โ€” developing real scientific inquiry skills.

Games for Primary School

Each game teaches a specific science concept through play. Click through to access the game and its paired worksheet.

Inglorious Baskers

Years 3โ€“6

Battle rival lizards for food and basking spots while avoiding predators. Teaches behavioural adaptations and life-history trade-offs through competition and survival.

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Xenon Crowe

Years 3โ€“6

Survive on planet Xenon by hunting bugs as a predator. Explores structural adaptations, foraging theory, and how physical features help animals find food.

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Friction Forces

New

Years 3โ€“6

Learn about how friction works by controlling friction! Students will need to stop a. puck on a target by painting surfaces with different values of friction

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Hungry Birds

Years 3โ€“6

Race to feed your hungry nestlings before a rival does. Explores feeding strategies, life-history decisions, and how animals balance risk and reward.

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Quokkapocalypse

Years 3โ€“6

Become a conservation biologist managing quokka populations on Rottnest Island. Teaches food webs, ecosystem balance, and real conservation biology.

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Spinder

Years 3โ€“6

Swipe through a spider dating app to breed the ultimate peacock spider. Explores natural selection, trait inheritance, and how selection shapes populations.

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Ormnyr

Years 3โ€“6

Raise dragons by mastering genetics to defeat monsters. Teaches dominant and recessive alleles, co-dominance, and Punnett square logic through interactive gameplay.

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Bards & Bandits

Years 3โ€“6

A multiplayer strategy game built around trust and the prisoner's dilemma. Teaches social decision-making, cooperation, and how trust shapes group outcomes.

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Rat Zone

Years 3โ€“6

Train your own augmented reality rat to learn about Pavlovian and instrumental conditioning โ€” the science of how animals (and humans) learn.

Play & download worksheet

Built for the Australian Classroom

30+

Games & worksheets

Covering biology, ecology, genetics, and social science

10 min

Average play time

Long enough to generate real data, short enough to fit any lesson

Years 3โ€“6

Primary curriculum aligned

ACARA Science Inquiry Skills and NSW Science & Technology Syllabus

Ready to turn gameplay into science inquiry?

Access all games and worksheets free through the Arludo platform. No installation โ€” students play in any browser on any device.

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