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Question Lab

Science questions from each grade's textbook

A Science learning game for primary school, Grade 1 to Grade 6

SubjectScience Grades1 to 6 Levels311 Free in every lesson10–30%

Science questions from each grade's textbook: living things and plants, materials and magnets, light and sound, energy, Earth's layers and our body.

The Android app is on Cafe Bazaar and Myket, Iran's app stores. Anywhere else, play the online version in any browser.

Question Lab is part of the Nikipoo School app, alongside 85 other games. The game is in Persian.

What does it look like?

Screenshot of Question Lab — States of matter
States of matter
Grade 3, level 4
Screenshot of Question Lab — 240 levels
240 levels
Step by step, easy to hard

About the game

Four-choice questions, unhurried and untimed. The child thinks and taps an answer; a wrong choice simply switches off and they try again, and after two mistakes the correct answer glows on its own so the child can see and learn it.

  • A narrator reads every level's instruction aloud (in Persian)
  • Mistakes are never scolded; the child is encouraged to try again
  • After installing, it works offline

Question Lab — an educator's view

Question Lab brings four-choice science questions in step with each grade's textbook lessons: from the needs of living things and seed sprouting in grade 1 and 2, to gravity and fossils in grade 4, photosynthesis and the nervous system in grade 5, and cells, Earth's layers, pressure and buoyancy in grade 6. The game is in no hurry and keeps no time; the child reads the choices, rules some out, and picks with plenty of room to think. "Gentle review" levels between lessons also offer a breather.

Reasoning by elimination

In a four-choice question, the child learns that if they're not sure of the answer, they can first set aside the choices that are clearly wrong. This process of elimination is itself a form of reasoning, and shows them that even partial knowledge can carry them step by step toward the answer.

Equal time to think

Since there's no clock running, a child who thinks more slowly gets the same chance as a quicker one. This setting helps anxious children read the question carefully, think it through, and trust their own choice, instead of guessing in a hurry.

No question left unanswered

A wrong choice simply switches off, leaving room to choose again; after a second mistake, the game itself lights up the correct choice. So the child always moves to the next question already knowing the right answer, not with a vague feeling of failure — and that answer stays with them.

Getting familiar with scientific language

The questions use words like conductor, vertebrate, evaporation, friction and cell in short sentences. Understanding these words in the context of a question helps the language of the science textbook become familiar, and gives the child more confidence using them in class too.

A tip for parentsSwitch roles at the dinner table: have the child ask one of the game's questions with four choices for the rest of the family, then explain why that answer is correct. Coming up with believable wrong choices takes a deeper understanding than just answering.

Grade by grade, what does it teach?

Level titles are listed in the order the child plays them — from easy to hard, following the school textbook.

Grade 154 levels
  1. My senses
  2. Eye, ear, and hand
  3. Senses and plants
  4. Senses and animals
  5. Healthy food
  6. Health and cleanliness
  7. Gentle review: food
  8. A healthy table
  9. Clean hands
  10. Food and cleanliness
  11. Cleanliness and night and day
  12. Living and non-living things
  13. Living things again
  14. Animals
  15. Animal friends
  16. Living things and senses
  17. Animals and sky
  18. Living things and seasons
  19. Living things and plants
  20. Plants
  21. Breather: senses
  22. My little garden
  23. Plants and animals
  24. Earth, our rocky home
  25. Different kinds of rocks
  26. Review: rocks
  27. What do I want to build?
  28. Each tool has a job
  29. Review: tools
  30. Sky and air
  31. Boss: mixed-up lab
  32. Rain and snow
  33. Seasons and clothing
  34. Cold and warm air
  35. Fresh breather: materials
  36. Sky and food
  37. Materials and seasons
  38. Boss: lesson review
  39. Night and day
  40. Boss: hard-working scientist
  41. Sun and lamp
  42. Boss: big challenge
  43. Night, day, and materials
  44. Resting with materials
  45. Materials and objects
  46. What is it made of?
  47. Grade 1 celebration: little scientist
Grade 254 levels
  1. Soil and rock
  2. Garden and earthworm
  3. Soil and body
  4. Water, the source of life
  5. Drop by drop of water
  6. Gentle review: air
  7. Water and air
  8. What do living things need?
  9. Needs again
  10. Needs of living things and animals
  11. Air is everywhere
  12. Wind and kite
  13. Air and seasons
  14. The four seasons of the year
  15. Air and soil
  16. Resting with the seasons
  17. Seasons and materials
  18. What if it runs out…
  19. The balloon car
  20. Review: fuel
  21. Let's build and have fun
  22. My pencil case
  23. Review: crafts
  24. Parts of a plant
  25. Breather: animals
  26. Seed and sprout
  27. The classroom garden
  28. My sprout
  29. Plants and seeds
  30. Seeds and water
  31. The world of animals
  32. Baby animals
  33. Boss: mixed-up lab
  34. Animals and plants
  35. My body
  36. Healthy food
  37. Boss: hard-working scientist
  38. Healthy and lively
  39. A colorful table
  40. Body and food
  41. Food and seasons
  42. Getting ready for the party
  43. Solid and liquid
  44. Review: the party
  45. Boss: lesson review
  46. Properties of materials
  47. Fresh breather: seasons
  48. Soft and hard
  49. Boss: big challenge
  50. From past to future (bread)
  51. From Wheat to Bread
  52. Review: bread
  53. Grade 2 celebration: little scientist
Grade 351 levels
  1. Earth, sun, and moon
  2. Night and day
  3. Body and sky
  4. Sound and vibration
  5. Little instruments
  6. Sound and plants
  7. Sound and animals
  8. Solid, liquid, gas
  9. Melting, ice, and steam
  10. States of matter
  11. Water in three states
  12. States of matter and changes of state
  13. Changes of state and magnets
  14. Fresh breather: the body
  15. States of matter and sky
  16. States of matter and magnets
  17. Resting with the body
  18. Changes of state and light
  19. Light and shadow
  20. Mirror and rainbow
  21. Light and sound
  22. Light and plants
  23. Let's search and build
  24. The balloon mirror
  25. Review: making a mirror
  26. Magnet
  27. Breather: changes of state
  28. Magnet poles
  29. Boss: mixed-up lab
  30. Magnets and light
  31. Magnets and sound
  32. Plants and growth
  33. Plant life
  34. Plants and animals
  35. Boss: big challenge
  36. Vertebrate and invertebrate
  37. Boss: lesson review
  38. Diverse animals
  39. Gentle review: plants
  40. Boss: hard-working scientist
  41. Animals and the body
  42. From past to future
  43. Cellar and ice house
  44. Review: keeping food
  45. Skeleton and muscle
  46. My bones
  47. Grade 3 celebration: little scientist
Grade 444 levels
  1. Less waste
  2. Force and friction
  3. Push it, pull it
  4. Force and gravity
  5. Gravity and weight
  6. Why does it fall?
  7. Gravity and rocks
  8. Measurement
  9. Gentle review: mixtures
  10. Units of measurement
  11. Measurement and respiration
  12. Mixtures and separation
  13. Energy sources
  14. Fresh breather: habitats
  15. Waste less energy
  16. Electric circuit
  17. Conductor and insulator
  18. Bulb and battery
  19. Breather: electrical safety
  20. Electrical safety
  21. Circuits and electrical safety
  22. Electrical safety and force
  23. Resting with energy
  24. Rocks and minerals
  25. Boss: mixed-up lab
  26. Fossils and rocks
  27. Dissolving
  28. Rocks and mixtures
  29. Mixtures and measurement
  30. The respiratory system
  31. Heart and blood circulation
  32. Boss: hard-working scientist
  33. Deep breath
  34. Heartbeat
  35. Respiration and circulation
  36. Boss: lesson review
  37. Animals and habitats
  38. Animal adaptations
  39. Boss: big challenge
  40. The story of paper
  41. Grade 4 celebration: little scientist
Grade 557 levels
  1. Sound
  2. Pitch: high and low
  3. Sound and light
  4. Heat and temperature
  5. Heat transfer
  6. Expansion and contraction
  7. Breather: heat transfer
  8. Conduction, convection, radiation
  9. Heat and heat transfer
  10. Heat transfer and sound
  11. The digestive system
  12. From mouth to intestine
  13. Photosynthesis and digestion
  14. Digestion, nerves, and senses
  15. Physical and chemical change
  16. Fire and rust
  17. Changes in matter and simple machines
  18. Light and lenses
  19. Mirror and prism
  20. Light and plant parts
  21. A page from Earth's history
  22. Footprints and fossils
  23. Review: fossils
  24. Senses and the brain
  25. The nervous system
  26. Nerves, senses, and changes in matter
  27. What's new? (2)
  28. Tongue, nose and skin
  29. Review: taste, smell, touch
  30. Simple machines
  31. Simple machines and Earth
  32. Lever and pulley
  33. Boss: lesson review
  34. A changing Earth
  35. Fresh breather: simple machines
  36. Water and erosion
  37. Boss: big challenge
  38. Plant and eat
  39. Water, soil, air and light
  40. Review: plant growth
  41. Parts of a plant
  42. Boss: mixed-up lab
  43. Flower and root
  44. Gentle review: photosynthesis
  45. Boss: hard-working scientist
  46. Plant parts and photosynthesis
  47. Resting with simple machines
  48. The leaf's factory
  49. Photosynthesis
  50. Grade 5 celebration: little scientist
Grade 651 levels
  1. The solar system
  2. Planets and eclipses
  3. Sky and forest
  4. A journey inside the Earth
  5. Layers of the Earth
  6. Earth's interior and earthquakes
  7. Resting with the sky
  8. Earthquake and volcano
  9. Gentle review: inside the Earth
  10. Ready for an earthquake
  11. Earthquakes and the food chain
  12. Force and motion
  13. Force, motion, and the sky
  14. Electricity and magnetism
  15. Electromagnet
  16. Pressure and buoyancy
  17. Electricity, magnets, and Earth's interior
  18. Let's design and build
  19. My car
  20. Review: car design
  21. Energy and its conversion
  22. The journey of energy
  23. Energy, electricity, and magnets
  24. Cell and microscope
  25. Very small
  26. Cells and microbes
  27. Food chain
  28. Boss: hard-working scientist
  29. Who eats whom?
  30. A forest for everyone
  31. Fresh breather: the sky
  32. Natural resources
  33. Food chain, force, and motion
  34. The world of microbes
  35. Staying healthy
  36. Breather: microbes
  37. Good microbes, bad microbes
  38. Blood and immunity
  39. Boss: mixed-up lab
  40. Microbes and health
  41. Boss: big challenge
  42. Health and energy
  43. Boss: lesson review
  44. From past to future
  45. Grade 6 celebration: little scientist

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