Assignment: Biological Adaptations and Extinction 8.E.6B Assignment

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11 activities: 11 games

162 min

Activity 1: Instructional Game. Estimated duration: 8 min

Blob Tales

You are a new never been seen before species: the blobs. As with every other living creature, your goal is to reproduce and survive. In this game, you must quickly grasp the principles of natural selection and heredity in order to populate the world. Learn how heredity and environment play a role in the survival of the species.

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Teacher Ratings (64) 3.4 stars.

Student Ratings (15823) 3.0 stars.

Activity 2: 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 3: Question Game. Estimated duration: 14 min

Survive the Adventure

Learn about natural selection from dinosaurs! As you help the dinosaur navigate the lab in this game, you will learn about adaptation and see how both structural and behavioral adaptations helped dinosaurs change over time. Answer questions and dodge bullets to reach the lab equipment as you learn about natural selection. A short quiz at the end will help you refresh your memory of the subject.

Ratings

Teacher Ratings (57) 4.3 stars.

Student Ratings (13152) 3.2 stars.

Activity 4: 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 (179) 3.8 stars.

Student Ratings (17736) 3.9 stars.

Activity 5: 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 6: 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 7: 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.

Activity 8: Instructional Game. Estimated duration: 20 min

Adaptation Grove

Join a friendly (and hungry) deer, who is on a mission to repopulate the local plant population. Select different traits in order to overcome predators and environmental conditions and reach the eastern grove. Collect points, and spend them to pick new traits that will survive natural selection and become adaptations!

Ratings

Teacher Ratings (6) 3.8 stars.

Student Ratings (2461) 3.5 stars.

Activity 9: 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 (37) 4.4 stars.

Student Ratings (8565) 3.7 stars.

Activity 10: Question Game. Estimated duration: 15 min

Newton Pool

The game consists of hand-crafted levels where the player controls a white ball. The goal of each level is to get the white ball to the end of the level in as few moves as possible, while racking up points by bumping golden balls into obstacles on the way! The game does not have any instructional math content, it simply has math review questions spread throughout.

Ratings

Teacher Ratings (751) 4.0 stars.

Student Ratings (259650) 4.0 stars.

Activity 11: Question Game. Estimated duration: 20 min

Galaxy Escape

10 Bright Monsters have been captured in space and they need your help to cross the galaxy jumping between platforms, finding them, and releasing them by correctly answering each question. Each monster that you release and unlock will be available to play with in the next level, in the search for the next monster. In your journey, you’ll be able to find power-ups, like ‘Double points’ and ‘Slow down’, which can be activated by finding gems, and their duration can be extended by correctly answering a question. Unlock and release the 10 different monsters and a spaceship along 10 different levels, while you make the most possible points.

Ratings

Teacher Ratings (539) 4.4 stars.

Student Ratings (284833) 3.9 stars.