Science That Makes Students Investigate, Explain, and Decide.
UGEDU Science & STEM resources help students investigate phenomena, analyze evidence, solve problems, and explain their thinking through inquiry, strategy, and meaningful scientific challenges.
From first-week science routines and NGSS task cards to chemistry, ecosystems, conservation, and strategy games, these resources are designed to make science active, rigorous, and memorable.
Start Strong. Then Go Deeper.
Begin the year by establishing strong science routines, then extend those habits into sustained NGSS reasoning, evidence analysis, and scientific problem solving.
START STRONG
Science Start-Strong
First 5 Days • Routines • Inquiry • CER
A ready-to-use five-day launch sequence that helps middle school students establish the routines they will use all year—from safe participation and careful observation to graphing, evidence-based writing, and engineering design.
GRADES 6-8
Mission: Science
204 NGSS Task Cards • Evidence • Reasoning • Application
A complete Grades 6–8 task-card system that challenges students to analyze scientific information, apply NGSS concepts, use evidence, and explain their reasoning across increasingly rigorous science missions.
Choose Your Grade-Level Mission
Each Mission: Science grade-level collection includes 68 NGSS-aligned task cards organized into five integrated sets, giving teachers a flexible way to build scientific reasoning, evidence analysis, and application across the school year.
GRADE 6
Mission: Science Grade 6
68 NGSS Task Cards • Evidence • Systems Thinking
Students investigate life science, Earth systems, energy, climate, and interconnected scientific phenomena through five integrated sets that emphasize evidence, explanation, and problem solving.
GRADE 7
Mission: Science Grade 7
68 NGSS Task Cards • Matter • Ecosystems • Earth Change
Students explore matter and energy, chemical reactions, ecosystem interactions, Earth processes, human impacts, and scientific solutions through increasingly complex evidence-based missions.
GRADE 8
Mission: Science Grade 8
68 NGSS Task Cards • Analysis • Modeling • Engineering
Students tackle increasingly rigorous middle school science challenges involving physical, life, Earth, and environmental science while analyzing evidence, building explanations, and applying engineering thinking.
Science Through Strategy and Systems
UGEDU science games and simulations place students inside scientific problems where content knowledge affects what they decide, test, build, or protect. Students use science as a tool for reasoning—not simply as information to recall.
CHEMISTRY
Chem-Maker
Periodic Table • Elements • Compounds • Strategy
Students use patterns in the periodic table, element properties, and chemical relationships as they collect elements, build compounds, and make strategic choices.
EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS
Planet Balance
Sustainability • Systems Thinking • Resource Decisions
Students examine interconnected environmental systems and make decisions about resources, sustainability, and competing needs while considering how one change can affect the whole system.
ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES
DryTown
Drought • Resources • Human Impact • Decision-Making
Students confront a community drought and use scientific evidence, resource constraints, and environmental reasoning to make decisions about survival, conservation, and long-term sustainability.
Ecosystems & Wildlife
NATURA: Africa Wildlife Challenge
Ecosystems • Biodiversity • Conservation
Students explore relationships within African ecosystems while considering biodiversity, habitat, species interactions, and the consequences of environmental decisions.
Crisis Simulation
CHOKEPOINT
Systems • Evidence • Strategic Decision-Making
Students work through a developing crisis where scientific and systems-based information must be interpreted, weighed, and used to make consequential decisions under changing conditions.
Ecosystem Survival
The Quest of the Honey Badger
Adaptation • Food Webs • Survival • Systems Thinking
Students navigate an African savanna survival challenge where adaptations, food webs, predators, environmental hazards, and resource decisions shape their path toward safety.
Why UGEDU Science Is Different
UGEDU science resources are designed around a simple idea: students understand science more deeply when they have to use it. They investigate, interpret evidence, explain patterns, solve problems, and make decisions in situations where the science matters.
INVESTIGATE • ANALYZE • EXPLAIN • DECIDE
Flexible Classroom Use
Use UGEDU Science & STEM resources for whole-class instruction, small groups, stations, intervention, enrichment, review, formative assessment, collaborative problem solving, and science strategy experiences.
Explore Science & STEM Resources
Find science resources for inquiry, NGSS reasoning, chemistry, ecosystems, environmental science, strategy, and classroom problem solving.