Assignment: Adaptations

Created by Jade Y on

5 activities: 5 games

75 min

Activity 1: Question Game. Estimated duration: 20 min

Educagent

You are tasked with infiltrating the headquarters of a corrupt corporation. You must make it to the mainframe computer on the top floor to collect evidence for an investigation.

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Teacher Ratings (215) 4.2 stars.

Student Ratings (153010) 3.8 stars.

Activity 2: Question Game. Estimated duration: 6 min

Astro, The Adaptation game

In this game, you will help Astro evolve to a new form by collecting serums of various colors. In order to do this, you will read about five different types of ecosystems and answer questions about adaptations of animals that live in each type of ecosystem. After you earn all five serums, you will select two to help Astro evolve.

Ratings

Teacher Ratings (34) 3.8 stars.

Student Ratings (8074) 3.7 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!

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Teacher Ratings (91) 4.0 stars.

Student Ratings (18016) 3.3 stars.

Activity 4: Question Game. Estimated duration: 15 min

Adapt or Die (Mid)

At the start of this game, you will learn about adaptations. After a series of facts, you will race through a tunnel in a spacecraft. You must soar through barriers and collect coins. If you do not navigate around the barriers, you must answer a question correctly to continue. The start of each level gives you a new piece of information.

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Teacher Ratings (184) 4.3 stars.

Student Ratings (32010) 3.6 stars.

Activity 5: 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.