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12 activities: 12 games
140 minActivity 1: Question Game. Estimated duration: 17 min
You need to get the octopus back in the water by dropping boxes on top of the platform. You'll have to use good aim and strategy to be successful with this task. Along the way, you will also answer multiple-choice questions about ecosystems and populations. Once you successfully complete all six modules, you will win the game!
Teacher Ratings (28) 3.8 stars.
Student Ratings (4438) 3.1 stars.
Activity 2: Question Game. Estimated duration: 13 min
Help your dinosaur friend Eddy explore the forest on an afternoon hike. Collect hearts and coins as you navigate the forest looking for the old tree. Be careful of angry moles, spikes, and holes as you jump and duck through the forest. Answer multiple choice questions on our ecosystems if you are in need of a quick power up. Try hard to get 3 stars!
Teacher Ratings (63) 3.9 stars.
Student Ratings (9211) 3.4 stars.
Activity 3: Question Game. Estimated duration: 14 min
At the start of this game, you will learn about ecosystems. 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.
Teacher Ratings (26) 4.0 stars.
Student Ratings (7097) 3.4 stars.
Activity 4: Question Game. Estimated duration: 10 min
In this game, you are a cat collecting resources like sunlight, water, and food. As you collect items, you will learn about the factors that affect population growth. When you answer questions correctly, you will earn special abilities. Make sure you avoid obstacles like bombs and enemies! Conquer all five levels to win the game.
Teacher Ratings (56) 4.0 stars.
Student Ratings (15451) 3.4 stars.
Activity 5: Question Game. Estimated duration: 10 min
It's time to take a shot at learning about ecosystems! Hit the flying objects that cross your screen. Some of the objects that you hit will provide you with facts. You will see other objects that will give you questions to answer that will boost your score. As the levels advance, the objects will move more quickly! Good luck!
Teacher Ratings (51) 4.2 stars.
Student Ratings (11011) 3.4 stars.
Activity 6: Question Game. Estimated duration: 15 min
You need to solve a puzzle and get a ball from the top of a tower to its base, without the ball falling to either side. To get to the puzzle, you will first learn about the interactions between organisms within an ecosystem. You will learn terms, definitions, and facts about the ecosystem. A short quiz will check your understanding and open the game!
Teacher Ratings (91) 4.2 stars.
Student Ratings (17655) 3.6 stars.
Activity 7: Question Game. Estimated duration: 12 min
In this game, you will try to move your character, Woody, through several exciting levels. Each level is filled with dangers. You'll have to watch out for spikes and avoid the angry knight. As you move through the levels, you will earn points by collecting coins, learning new facts and answering questions about ecosystems and competition. Use your knowledge to save yourself from danger!
Teacher Ratings (75) 4.3 stars.
Student Ratings (26061) 3.7 stars.
Activity 8: Instructional Game. Estimated duration: 14 min
Have you ever wondered how populations of organisms remain in balance? This game will provide you with a virtual simulation for discovering how one population will affect another. You will need to place the organisms strategically and focus on the required resources. This will also teach you about how importance resources are for the organisms that benefit from them. Your goal is to keep all the organisms alive. Good luck!
Teacher Ratings (74) 3.5 stars.
Student Ratings (13063) 3.1 stars.
Activity 9: Instructional Game. Estimated duration: 7 min
In this game, you are tasked with balancing the ecosystem of an aquarium that houses a dolphin and an octopus. You only have to focus on biotic factors in the aquarium, since most of the abiotic factors are taken care of. You will have to balance multiple life forms so you will need to be careful of what you add to the aquarium.
Teacher Ratings (55) 3.6 stars.
Student Ratings (20924) 3.7 stars.
Activity 10: Instructional Game. Estimated duration: 7 min
Wheel of Science! Get ready to learn about competitive, predatory, and mutually beneficial interactions in this fun game show. Choose the correct letters that correspond with the given clue in a similar fashion to popular game shows you may have seen on TV. Use power ups to eliminate a letter or gain an extra life. Make sure to answer correctly so you don't lose your lives!
Teacher Ratings (100) 3.9 stars.
Student Ratings (23260) 2.9 stars.
Activity 11: Instructional Game. Estimated duration: 10 min
You are at the bottom of the food chain. It is survival of the fittest in this game as you hunt for your meals. Watch out for predators! You need to eat enough food to answer questions about interactions in ecosystems. Answer the questions correctly and you start the next level as a larger predator. Keep on answering the questions right to become ruler of the seas.
Teacher Ratings (78) 4.0 stars.
Student Ratings (29615) 4.0 stars.
Activity 12: Instructional Game. Estimated duration: 11 min
Have you ever wanted to go on a safari? In order to keep the animals and plants you see during your safari in harmony, you'll need to maintain a balanced ecosystem. This game will teach you about the complex interactions that plants and animals encounter out on the plains of Africa to keep their ecosystem functioning. You'll learn about how birds help lions and lions help hyenas and more.
Teacher Ratings (86) 4.0 stars.
Student Ratings (26686) 3.3 stars.