Student Lesson: Classification of Organisms - Free Educational Games - Legends of Learning

Assignment: Classification of Organisms

Created by Megan T on 01/4/2022

9 activities: 9 games

111 min

Activity 1: Question Game. Estimated duration: 18 min

Defender: Natural Selection

This game will teach you about forms of adaptation and the role they play in natural selection. You will have to defend your territory by placing animals with different adaptations on your land. Your knowledge about adaptations will help you earn extra points! When you place the right animals to defend your territory, you will win the game.

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Teacher Ratings (179) 3.8 stars.

Student Ratings (17736) 3.9 stars.

Activity 2: Instructional Game. Estimated duration: 5 min

Dog Breeder

You are a dog breeder who must use selective breeding techniques to create a desired dog type. Many breeders use selective breeding to breed puppies who can perform specific tasks. You'll need to breed different types of dogs to reach the goal. The challenge occurs when choosing a mate for your dog; choose wisely so that you breed the dog you need!

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Teacher Ratings (194) 4.1 stars.

Student Ratings (64716) 4.1 stars.

Activity 3: Question Game. Estimated duration: 18 min

SUPER Guppy Adaptation Game (Mid)

Take on the role of a guppy in an exciting game of adaptation and natural selection. You have thirty seconds to eat enough shrimp to stay alive and find a mate. Once successful you enter the next generation where you face new challenges. Eat or be eaten and use all your skills to survive so that you can achieve super guppy status!

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Teacher Ratings (91) 4.0 stars.

Student Ratings (18019) 3.3 stars.

Activity 4: Question Game. Estimated duration: 15 min

Adapt or Die (Mid)

At the start of this game, you will learn about adaptations. After a series of facts, you will race through a tunnel in a spacecraft. You must soar through barriers and collect coins. If you do not navigate around the barriers, you must answer a question correctly to continue. The start of each level gives you a new piece of information.

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Teacher Ratings (184) 4.3 stars.

Student Ratings (32016) 3.6 stars.

Activity 5: Question Game. Estimated duration: 16 min

Monkeying Around with Cells

This game begins with a short introduction about single and multi-celled organisms. You need to shoot bubbles and match the colors so that you can knock the bubbles free. You will need to make it to the layer of coins at the top to pass the level. When you answer questions correctly, you will earn special tools that will help!

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Teacher Ratings (435) 4.0 stars.

Student Ratings (48761) 3.9 stars.

Activity 6: Instructional Game. Estimated duration: 9 min

Cell Attack

Bombs away! Attack incoming bombs with your rockets in this missile command like game. To defend the planet, you need to identify the proper function of organelles, and you need to identify those organelles in a cell. In Cell Attack, you will save the day based on your ability to identify cell structures. Good luck!

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Teacher Ratings (189) 4.0 stars.

Student Ratings (46014) 3.4 stars.

Activity 7: Instructional Game. Estimated duration: 5 min

Multicellular Organisms with Samuel

You'll be learning about multicellular organisms with the help of Samuel, your guide. In this game, you will find plants and animals that are hidden in a forest. When you find them, you'll learn about multicellular organisms and cell parts. Get ready to test your knowledge by answering questions along the way. You'll find that many organisms have a lot in common!

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Teacher Ratings (62) 3.6 stars.

Student Ratings (32340) 3.3 stars.

Activity 8: Question Game. Estimated duration: 10 min

Knowledge Club Challenge

A knowledge challenge! There's 20 questions to put you to the test and see who in class knows this topic best!

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Teacher Ratings (8) 4.5 stars.

Student Ratings (17882) 2.8 stars.

Activity 9: Instructional Game. Estimated duration: 15 min

Adapt-O-Tron

A.L.O, a friendly robot from the future has come back in time in need of your help! The animals of the future are not adapting and becoming extinct! Can you use A.L.O's Adapt-O-Tron to adapt the animals correctly, making them perfectly suited to their environments? Or will you end up with a wolf with a beak or a mouse with hooves!

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Teacher Ratings (36) 3.8 stars.

Student Ratings (21115) 4.0 stars.

Description

Standards

TEKS

Topics

7.11C Natural Selection and Selective Breeding
7.11B Variation of Traits and Survival
6.12D Characteristics and Kingdoms of Organisms
6.12C Domains of Organisms

Vocabulary

natural selection, trait, adaptation, species, genetic variation, abiotic, genetic mutation, sexual selection, habitat, breed, dexterity, clone, artificial selection, natural selection, selective breeding, adaptation, biological evolution, species, fossil record, natural selection, extinction, morphological adaptations, physiological adaptation, behavioral adaptation, populations, adapt, pollution, genetic mutation, environment, organisms, resource, natural selection, inherit, trait, competition, evolve, mimic, camouflage, evade, extinction, ancestral, vestigial, cells, multicellular, prokaryote, eukaryote, homeostasis, stimuli, respiration, digestion, excretion, chromosome, nucleolus, cell, prokaryote, chromatin, cell wall, cytoplasm, nucleus, ribosomes, plant cell, animal cell, vacuole, lysosome, golgi apparatus/body, rough ER, smooth ER, centrosome, cytoskeleton, secretory vesicle, mitochondria, peroxisome, chloroplast, autotrophic, heterotrophic, gametes, membrane, mitochondria, nucleus, endoplasmic reticulum, ribosomes, RNA, Golgi apparatus, organelle, lysosome, enzyme, centrosome, microtubule, molecules, vesicles, proteins, nucleolus, amino acid, cell wall, chloroplasts, chlorophyll, vacuole, protist , These question games do not have any instructional material, so any vocabulary words relevant to this topic at large will work!, adaptation, natural selection, extinction, habitats, predator, prey, hibernation, behavioral adaptation, structural adaptation, ecosystem, food chain, migration, traits