Activity 1: Assessment. Estimated duration: 10 min
Assessment with 10 questions from Biological Adaptations and Extinction.
10 questions assessment
Activity 2: Question Game. Estimated duration: 18 min
Defender: Natural Selection
This game will teach you about forms of adaptation and the role they play in natural selection. You will have to defend your territory by placing animals with different adaptations on your land. Your knowledge about adaptations will help you earn extra points! When you place the right animals to defend your territory, you will win the game.
Ratings
Teacher Ratings (180) 3.8 stars.
Student Ratings (17736) 3.9 stars.
Activity 3: Question Game. Estimated duration: 18 min
SUPER Guppy Adaptation Game (Mid)
Take on the role of a guppy in an exciting game of adaptation and natural selection. You have thirty seconds to eat enough shrimp to stay alive and find a mate. Once successful you enter the next generation where you face new challenges. Eat or be eaten and use all your skills to survive so that you can achieve super guppy status!
Ratings
Teacher Ratings (91) 4.0 stars.
Student Ratings (18019) 3.3 stars.
Activity 4: Instructional Game. Estimated duration: 9 min
Walter's Travels - Natural Selection (Mid)
Walter the explorer is on a journey to learn about Natural Selection. Follow Walter in the first round to match bird beaks and feet with the proper species. When you finish the first round, you will meet Walter's chameleon friend and try to identify camouflaged animals. You will enjoy these and other mini-games with Walter. You will finalize the journey with Walter in arcade mode.
Ratings
Teacher Ratings (113) 4.1 stars.
Student Ratings (28666) 3.4 stars.
Activity 5: Instructional Game. Estimated duration: 15 min
Adapt-O-Tron
A.L.O, a friendly robot from the future has come back in time in need of your help! The animals of the future are not adapting and becoming extinct! Can you use A.L.O's Adapt-O-Tron to adapt the animals correctly, making them perfectly suited to their environments? Or will you end up with a wolf with a beak or a mouse with hooves!
Ratings
Teacher Ratings (36) 3.8 stars.
Student Ratings (21115) 4.0 stars.