Practice: Natural and Artificial Selection Extension Games - Free Games and Simulations - Legends of Learning

Assignment: Natural and Artificial Selection Extension Games

Created by Jackson F on 03/7/2024

7 activities: 7 games

108 min

Activity 1: Instructional Game. Estimated duration: 16 min

Adapt

In this game you will help your population endure the changing environment. Collect points to buy different genes that will change the population as reproduction cycles occur. Be careful and keep track of changes in temperature, food supply, and predators that will affect your population! Watch the timeline on the top to be aware of upcoming events, and keep an eye on the meters on the left for the overall health of your population.

Ratings

Teacher Ratings (36) 4.4 stars.

Student Ratings (8257) 3.7 stars.

Activity 2: Instructional Game. Estimated duration: 12 min

Plant Reproduction Strategies

In this simulation game, you are a scientist discovering different strategies of reproduction and how plants reproduce. As you click on different parts of the flower, you will learn information about how plants reproduce. Drag and drop pictures to describe the process of pollination and then simulate wind and animal dispersion of seeds. Once you complete all of the simulation, you beat the game!

Ratings

Teacher Ratings (255) 4.5 stars.

Student Ratings (35362) 3.7 stars.

Activity 3: Instructional Game. Estimated duration: 16 min

Adapt

In this game you will help your population endure the changing environment. Collect points to buy different genes that will change the population as reproduction cycles occur. Be careful and keep track of changes in temperature, food supply, and predators that will affect your population! Watch the timeline on the top to be aware of upcoming events, and keep an eye on the meters on the left for the overall health of your population.

Ratings

Teacher Ratings (36) 4.4 stars.

Student Ratings (8257) 3.7 stars.

Activity 4: Instructional Game. Estimated duration: 12 min

Plant Reproduction Strategies

In this simulation game, you are a scientist discovering different strategies of reproduction and how plants reproduce. As you click on different parts of the flower, you will learn information about how plants reproduce. Drag and drop pictures to describe the process of pollination and then simulate wind and animal dispersion of seeds. Once you complete all of the simulation, you beat the game!

Ratings

Teacher Ratings (255) 4.5 stars.

Student Ratings (35362) 3.7 stars.

Activity 5: Instructional Game. Estimated duration: 12 min

Plant Reproduction Strategies

In this simulation game, you are a scientist discovering different strategies of reproduction and how plants reproduce. As you click on different parts of the flower, you will learn information about how plants reproduce. Drag and drop pictures to describe the process of pollination and then simulate wind and animal dispersion of seeds. Once you complete all of the simulation, you beat the game!

Ratings

Teacher Ratings (255) 4.5 stars.

Student Ratings (35362) 3.7 stars.

Activity 6: Instructional Game. Estimated duration: 20 min

Dog Breeding Center

Welcome to the Dog Breeding Center! You are sorely needed in our quest to fulfill our customer's request for dogs with specific traits. Use your extensive knowledge on artificial breeding to breed dogs with the traits that the customer needs. Stay strong because it might take a few generations to achieve the dog you are looking for, but with a little genetic luck you can do it.

Ratings

Teacher Ratings (180) 4.3 stars.

Student Ratings (35435) 3.8 stars.

Activity 7: 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 (19) 4.7 stars.

Student Ratings (10252) 3.5 stars.

Description

Pay attention to what makes traits adaptive and non-adaptive, and how that affect the reproductive success of individuals.

Standards

NE Science

Topics

SC.8.10.5.C Adaptation
SC.6.9.3.A Plant and Animal Adaptations Affect on Reproduction
SC.8.9.4.B Artificial Selection via Selective Breeding
SC.8.10.5.D Natural Selection

Vocabulary

Charles Darwin, Theory of Evolution, Of the Origin of Species, natural selection, genes, DNA, mutations; (structural, behavioral, physiological), environmental changes (variables), adaptation, population, predator\/prey, distribution of traits, reproduction cycle, carnivorous, extinct, global warming, herbivorous, habitat, Ice Age, insectivorous, defense mechanism, camouflage, reproduction, ecosystem, sexual reproduction, asexual reproduction, rhizomes, tubers, stolon, sepals, petals, pistil, stigma, anther, pollen, stamen, filament, coevolution, pollination syndromes, Charles Darwin, Theory of Evolution, Of the Origin of Species, natural selection, genes, DNA, mutations; (structural, behavioral, physiological), environmental changes (variables), adaptation, population, predator\/prey, distribution of traits, reproduction cycle, carnivorous, extinct, global warming, herbivorous, habitat, Ice Age, insectivorous, defense mechanism, camouflage, reproduction, ecosystem, sexual reproduction, asexual reproduction, rhizomes, tubers, stolon, sepals, petals, pistil, stigma, anther, pollen, stamen, filament, coevolution, pollination syndromes, reproduction, ecosystem, sexual reproduction, asexual reproduction, rhizomes, tubers, stolon, sepals, petals, pistil, stigma, anther, pollen, stamen, filament, coevolution, pollination syndromes, artificial selection, inbreeding, traits, genetics, trait, adaptation, mutation, limiting factor, environment, genotype, phenotype