Assignment: Fossils 3.1.3.C3 Assignment

Created by Laura O on

5 activities: 5 games

60 min

Activity 1: Instructional Game. Estimated duration: 16 min

Mine Tales

Follow a spaceship pilot and her cute AI companion in their Earth adventures: dig your way through the layers of sediment to find ore, gems, fossils and ancient relics. Show your mining prowess and obtain the most valuable treasure of them all - knowledge!

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Teacher Ratings (87) 4.0 stars.

Student Ratings (28441) 4.2 stars.

Activity 2: Instructional Game. Estimated duration: 11 min

Fossil Record Breakers (Elem)

In this game, you will learn about rocks, organisms, and fossils. With the help of Nessie, B. Foot, and Yeti, you will answer all of Charlie Darwin's questions correctly. They are a great and hilarious panel who want to help you learn! If you get the question right the first time, you will earn more points. Try to get the high score and you will win a prize!

Ratings

Teacher Ratings (13) 3.8 stars.

Student Ratings (3751) 3.5 stars.

Activity 3: Instructional Game. Estimated duration: 9 min

Walter's Travels - Evolution & Fossils (Elem)

Meet Walter, a smart, talking dog who is going to show you around the interesting world of evolution. Walter will be your guide and give you information on the subject! You will use your knowledge and play mini-games to help Walter investigate match limb bones to correct animals, dig for fossils, compare embryos. You'll get to practice your memory, make identifications, and even race a car.

Ratings

Teacher Ratings (92) 4.3 stars.

Student Ratings (23606) 3.9 stars.

Activity 4: Instructional Game. Estimated duration: 17 min

Dig Adventure - Reconstructing Evolution (Elem)

In this game, you are a paleontologist digging for ancient fossils. Dig through the Earth to find all ten missing fossils to try to reconstruct the ancient skeletons. While you dig, spiders will attack from above, and if you dig too much, your character get too tired to keep going. Once you've gathered all the fossils, you will get to assemble the skeleton you've discovered!

Ratings

Teacher Ratings (53) 4.2 stars.

Student Ratings (21667) 3.9 stars.

Activity 5: Instructional Game. Estimated duration: 7 min

Jett Swizzle's: Poof!

Did you know that the T. Rex has a living descendent today that looks nothing like it? In fact, many of the animals that you see have incredible ancestors that once roamed the earth. Jett Swizzle’s: Poof! will teach you about extinct species, which living ones they relate to, and give you some fun facts to tell your friends about!

Ratings

Teacher Ratings (14) 3.7 stars.

Student Ratings (9016) 4.1 stars.