Assignment: Natural Selection MS-LS4.B-1 Assignment

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7 activities: 7 games

86 min

Activity 1: Simulation Game. Estimated duration: 20 min

Natural Selection - Lab

Explore how organisms with different traits survive various selection agents within the environment. Challenge yourself to determine which mutations are advantageous with various selection pressures, which mutations don't offer any benefit, and how to create a stable population of bunnies.

Ratings

Teacher Ratings (20) 4.7 stars.

Student Ratings (10613) 3.5 stars.

Activity 2: Instructional Game. Estimated duration: 6 min

Learning with Darwin

Charles Darwin will teach you about natural selection. Listen and learn as Darwin narrates his story to you. You will have to remember what Darwin teaches you so that you can apply his theories later in the game. After you complete a quiz, you will have to try keeping a species alive in its environment for 1,000,000 years. Use your knowledge to help your species adapt and survive.

Ratings

Teacher Ratings (123) 3.6 stars.

Student Ratings (34157) 3.8 stars.

Activity 3: Video Game. Estimated duration: 5 min

Natural Selection

This educational video introduces middle schoolers to natural selection, showing how animals adapt to survive in their environments over time.

Ratings

Teacher Ratings (2) 5.0 stars.

Student Ratings (2167) 3.4 stars.

Activity 4: Video Game. Estimated duration: 5 min

Natural Selection

This educational video introduces middle schoolers to natural selection, showing how animals adapt to survive in their environments over time.

Ratings

Teacher Ratings (2) 5.0 stars.

Student Ratings (2167) 3.4 stars.

Activity 5: Simulation Game. Estimated duration: 20 min

Natural Selection - Lab

Explore how organisms with different traits survive various selection agents within the environment. Challenge yourself to determine which mutations are advantageous with various selection pressures, which mutations don't offer any benefit, and how to create a stable population of bunnies.

Ratings

Teacher Ratings (20) 4.7 stars.

Student Ratings (10613) 3.5 stars.

Activity 6: Simulation Game. Estimated duration: 20 min

Natural Selection - Lab

Explore how organisms with different traits survive various selection agents within the environment. Challenge yourself to determine which mutations are advantageous with various selection pressures, which mutations don't offer any benefit, and how to create a stable population of bunnies.

Ratings

Teacher Ratings (20) 4.7 stars.

Student Ratings (10613) 3.5 stars.

Activity 7: Simulation Game. Estimated duration: 10 min

Natural Selection - Intro

Explore how organisms with different traits survive various selection agents within the environment. Challenge yourself to create a population of bunnies that survives with wolves as a selection pressure.

Ratings

Teacher Ratings (5) 3.2 stars.

Student Ratings (6185) 3.3 stars.