Activity 1: Video Game. Estimated duration: 4 min
Adaptation Exploration!
Today, we will explore how different organisms survive in their environments through adaptation.
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Teacher Ratings (5) 4.8 stars.
Student Ratings (8989) 3.4 stars.
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8 activities: 8 games
119 minActivity 1: Video Game. Estimated duration: 4 min
Today, we will explore how different organisms survive in their environments through adaptation.
Teacher Ratings (5) 4.8 stars.
Student Ratings (8989) 3.4 stars.
Activity 2: Instructional Game. Estimated duration: 20 min
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!
Teacher Ratings (6) 3.8 stars.
Student Ratings (2461) 3.5 stars.
Activity 3: Instructional Game. Estimated duration: 16 min
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.
Teacher Ratings (37) 4.4 stars.
Student Ratings (8565) 3.7 stars.
Activity 4: Instructional Game. Estimated duration: 15 min
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!
Teacher Ratings (36) 3.8 stars.
Student Ratings (21115) 4.0 stars.
Activity 5: Instructional Game. Estimated duration: 16 min
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.
Teacher Ratings (37) 4.4 stars.
Student Ratings (8565) 3.7 stars.
Activity 6: Instructional Game. Estimated duration: 15 min
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!
Teacher Ratings (36) 3.8 stars.
Student Ratings (21115) 4.0 stars.
Activity 7: Instructional Game. Estimated duration: 15 min
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!
Teacher Ratings (36) 3.8 stars.
Student Ratings (21115) 4.0 stars.
Activity 8: Instructional Game. Estimated duration: 18 min
Flinging madness! Master environment specific adaptations in this slingshot-filled puzzle game. Traverse diverse biomes whilst experiencing natural selection first hand.
Teacher Ratings (40) 4.6 stars.
Student Ratings (8542) 3.9 stars.