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7 activities: 7 games
97 minActivity 1: Instructional Game. Estimated duration: 5 min
Excavate a dig site to uncover ancient fossils and then place them on a timeline using relative dating techniques! Check your answers at the end using radiocarbon dating. Learn about relative dating techniques, the different time periods and the kinds of creatures that evolved during them!
Teacher Ratings (42) 3.4 stars.
Student Ratings (7077) 3.5 stars.
Activity 2: Instructional Game. Estimated duration: 13 min
Watch the Earth move before your very eyes! You will learn about fossil records, geologic events, and dating! You will watch rock layers build and geologic events happen. With the information from the lesson, answer questions about fossils and rock layers. When you find the hidden letters, they will unscramble to a secret word or phrase!
Teacher Ratings (196) 4.3 stars.
Student Ratings (26692) 3.3 stars.
Activity 3: Instructional Game. Estimated duration: 18 min
Finally, the day has arrived for your very first archeological dig! You need to help Ellie find fossils and return them to their proper place in the Geologic Time Scale! You will quickly discover you have a lot to learn as you start your fieldwork. Advance through the training sites to score energy points that you can use to assist you in digging up valuable fossils. Are you ready to dig in?
Teacher Ratings (119) 4.3 stars.
Student Ratings (19310) 3.4 stars.
Activity 4: Instructional Game. Estimated duration: 13 min
You will play a volunteer archaeologist searching for fossils. You will receive tools to help with your task, and read books that teach you about various topics related to fossils. After you learn about fossils, you will venture off to three different mines to find fossils. After you find your collection of fossils, you will put them into geological order. Finally, you are tested on your new knowledge with a series of questions.
Teacher Ratings (50) 3.9 stars.
Student Ratings (8301) 3.5 stars.
Activity 5: Question Game. Estimated duration: 24 min
You will be challenged to test your knowledge of geological time periods and the species that lived in them. You will play a variety of mini-games to unlock different layers of rock strata, where each game discusses a concept of geologic time. The mini-games range from skeleton puzzles, rock strata dating, memory, and placing fossils into their environment.
Teacher Ratings (52) 4.1 stars.
Student Ratings (4277) 3.6 stars.
Activity 6: Instructional Game. Estimated duration: 13 min
You will pilot an alien space craft and launch missiles at rock layers to try and find treasure. Each brick of rock you remove reveals a different period or era. The layers have information about what life appeared and what the era and period are called. If you make your way through enough bricks of rock, you will uncover the ark that was buried 4.6 billion years ago and discover what is inside!
Teacher Ratings (22) 3.9 stars.
Student Ratings (2159) 3.6 stars.
Activity 7: Question Game. Estimated duration: 11 min
You will dig through different layers of earth to find fossils. As you explore each layer, you will learn detailed information about the fossils you are digging for as well as other aspects of geology. You will use a pick and ladder as your tools to help you with your dig. Get your hands dirty in this game.
Teacher Ratings (15) 3.5 stars.
Student Ratings (1245) 3.0 stars.