Game System Science

Engage your student in hands-on engineering challenges by building and playing games like shuffleboard, plinko, wobble mazes, and skee-ball. Each game design will emphasize the design, testing, and evaluation aspects of engineering.

With this kit, students will explore force, motion, energy transfer, balance, gravity, angles, and the engineering cycle. This kit blends physics, engineering, and creativity to deepen the understanding your student has of the real-world design process.

This Accelerate-level kit includes over nine hours of guided learning and comes with a full-color Student Workbook and Teacher Guide. Activities focus on game system design and development.

Hands-on activities include:

• Building and playing shuffleboard, Plinko, and a wobble maze
• Design and play Skee-ball

Students will explore questions like:

• How are arcade games designed?
• How can I combine fun and the science of engineering? 
• What are the fundamentals of engineering?

Perfect for grades 3-7, the Game System Science kit is part of the Science Unlocked Accelerate series by Home Science Tools—designed to spark understanding and confidence in STEM.

• 1 Ball, foam
• 1 Ball, golf
• 20 Cardboard Sheet
• 1 Counting Chips, pack
• 1 Cutting Board
• 1 Hot Glue Gun
• 12 Hot Glue Stick
• 1 Marble
• 1 Marker
• 1 Scalpel
• 1 Shuffleboard pucks, set
• 6 Straw
• 1 Tape
• 1 Tape Measure

• NGSS science standards alignment

  • MS-ETS1-1: Define the criteria and constraints of a design problem with sufficient precision to ensure a successful solution, taking into account relevant scientific principles and potential impacts on people and the natural environment that may limit possible solutions. 

  • MS-ETS1-2: Evaluate competing design solutions using a systematic process to determine how well they meet the criteria and constraints of the problem. 

  • MS-ETS1-3: Analyze data from tests to determine similarities and differences among several design solutions to identify the best characteristics of each that can be combined into a new solution to better meet the criteria for success. 

  • MS-ETS1-4: Develop a model to generate data for iterative testing and modification of a proposed object, tool, or process such that an optimal design can be achieved.