Student Lesson: The Rock Cycle 5.8c - Free Educational Games

Assignment: The Rock Cycle 5.8c Assignment

Created by Joshua G on 05/18/2023

2 activities: 2 games

31 min

Activity 1: Instructional Game. Estimated duration: 11 min

Plate Tectonics Adventure - Super Study Buddies

Help geologists fight off the Pesky Prospector and his rampaging Bad Bots from taking their research! Learn about Plate Tectonics, boil the Earth's core, collect puzzle pieces to complete your world map, and learn about unique landforms. You can even make your own earthquakes in this epic adventure!

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Activity 2: Instructional Game. Estimated duration: 20 min

GeoMine

This game will be a two-dimensional mining game, featuring economy, gear progression and exercises to research new rocks and minerals.

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Teacher Ratings (7) 4.0 stars.

Student Ratings (6715) 3.7 stars.

Description

Standards

SOL Science 2018

Topics

5.8a Earth's Internal Energy
5.8c The Rock Cycle

Vocabulary

plate tectonics, tectonic plates, faults, core, inner core, outer core, mantle, crust, lithosphere, geosphere, landform, delta, ocean basin, mountain, mountain range, plateau, volcano, earthquake, lava, trench, sediment, soil, rock, Ring of Fire, continent, Pangaea, continental plate, oceanic plate, diverge, converge, transform, rock cycle, crust, mantle, core, sedimentary rock, minerals, tectonic plates, states of matter, physical change, solid, liquid, gas, igneous, sedimentary, metamorphic, conglomerate