Assignment: Parents and Offspring Similarities and Differences 5.L.3.1 Assignment

Created by Candace S on

4 activities: 4 games

62 min

Activity 1: Instructional Game. Estimated duration: 12 min

Live Long and Prosper

A game to identify characteristics for a species that will help them survive in an environment and adapt. If a student chooses the wrong characteristic, they will die. If they choose the right one, they will flourish and prosper!

Ratings

Teacher Ratings (140) 4.1 stars.

Student Ratings (44087) 4.2 stars.

Activity 2: Instructional Game. Estimated duration: 15 min

Dilly and the Lizards

Igno Ramus sets off not-so-natural selection, putting species at risk. Naturally, with the help of students' natural selection knowledge, Dilly Jenton saves the species. That's what superheroes do, after all.

Ratings

Teacher Ratings (12) 3.9 stars.

Student Ratings (5183) 3.5 stars.

Activity 3: Instructional Game. Estimated duration: 20 min

The Incredible Life Machine

Learn how organisms are affected over time by different environmental factors! The Incredible Life Machine is a simulator on how organism's traits change over time. It also has a reproduction module to learn how these traits are passed from parents to its offspring.

Ratings

Teacher Ratings (50) 3.4 stars.

Student Ratings (10608) 3.9 stars.

Activity 4: Instructional Game. Estimated duration: 15 min

Happu

An interactive game for learning heredity via dogs inheriting characteristics from their parents. In this game, you have to tend to all needs of your dog in order raise them heathfully, so you'll even pick up some tips on how to raise a dog in real life!

Ratings

Teacher Ratings (26) 3.0 stars.

Student Ratings (5289) 3.9 stars.