Assignment: Artificial Selection via Selective Breeding MS-LS4.B-2 Assignment

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4 activities: 4 games

78 min

Activity 1: Instructional Game. Estimated duration: 18 min

Planet Populators Inc.

This is a game about artificial selection, where the player must manage a small breeding farm to populate Mars with funny little aliens. They must fulfill customer requests by breeding creatures correctly to select specific traits!

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Teacher Ratings (4) 3.5 stars.

Student Ratings (345) 3.3 stars.

Activity 2: Instructional Game. Estimated duration: 20 min

Dog Breeding Center

Welcome to the Dog Breeding Center! You are sorely needed in our quest to fulfill our customer's request for dogs with specific traits. Use your extensive knowledge on artificial breeding to breed dogs with the traits that the customer needs. Stay strong because it might take a few generations to achieve the dog you are looking for, but with a little genetic luck you can do it.

Ratings

Teacher Ratings (180) 4.3 stars.

Student Ratings (35434) 3.8 stars.

Activity 3: Instructional Game. Estimated duration: 20 min

Dog Breeding Center

Welcome to the Dog Breeding Center! You are sorely needed in our quest to fulfill our customer's request for dogs with specific traits. Use your extensive knowledge on artificial breeding to breed dogs with the traits that the customer needs. Stay strong because it might take a few generations to achieve the dog you are looking for, but with a little genetic luck you can do it.

Ratings

Teacher Ratings (180) 4.3 stars.

Student Ratings (35434) 3.8 stars.

Activity 4: Instructional Game. Estimated duration: 20 min

Rabcoon Rancher

Take a trip to the ranch where cute little creatures known as Rabcoons (half-rabbit and half-raccoon) are being bred and cared for. Learn all about artificial selection and selective breeding, as well as their processes, advantages, and disadvantages while breeding your own species of furballs.

Ratings

Teacher Ratings (4) 4.5 stars.

Student Ratings (1550) 3.9 stars.