Free Educational Games: Natural Selection - Adapt Games - Free Games and Assessments

Activity 1: 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 (17705) 3.9 stars.

Activity 2: Assessment. Estimated duration: 6 min

Assessment with 6 questions from Natural Selection.

6 questions assessment

Activity 3: Assessment. Estimated duration: 5 min

Assessment with 5 questions from Natural Selection.

5 questions assessment

Activity 4: 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 (35) 3.8 stars.

Student Ratings (21104) 4.0 stars.

Activity 5: Assessment. Estimated duration: 5 min

Assessment with 5 questions from Natural Selection.

5 questions assessment

Activity 6: 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 (143) 4.1 stars.

Student Ratings (29452) 3.7 stars.