MS-LS4.C-1
Adaptation Odyssey: The Cell Trail
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Game Info for Teachers
COMBINED RATING
3.6 Stars
TEACHERS (10)
3.5
STUDENTS (1450)
3.7
LENGTH
15 Minutes
GRADES
6
7
8
CAPABILITIES
ES
Spanish Language Support
Text-to-Speech Support
Saves Progress
Description
Help a group of cells find food and adapt to prevail in a hostile environment.
Vocabulary Words
cells
adaptations
offspring
structural adaptations
cilia
locomotion
flagella
mutations
pH
buffer
secrete
mucus
membrane
amino acid
synthesis
behavior adaptations
Instructions
Play through this interactive game to learn about Adaptation. Suitable for Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8.
Main Concepts
Traits that support successful survival and reproduction in the new environment become more common; those that do not become less common. Thus, the distribution of traits in a population changes.
Adaptation by natural selection acting over generations is one important process by which species change over time in response to changes in environmental conditions.
Natural selection leads to the predominance of certain traits in a population, and the suppression of others.
Organisms display behavioral adaptations that help them survive in their environment.
Natural selection can be influenced by genetic mutations that create new traits in a species.
Natural selection can be influenced by a change in abiotic conditions.
Organisms have functional or physiological adaptations that help them survive in their environment.
Organisms have structural adaptations that help them survive in their environment.
High genetic variation improves the chances that a species can survive a change in the environment.
Short- and long-term environmental changes to an ecosystem can affect the populations within the ecosystem.
Natural selection is the theory that traits which increase the likelihood of an organism reproducing will be passed onto offspring while those which hinder reproduction will not.
Natural selection can be influenced by a change in available resources.
Adaptations are the physical structures, internal processes, or behaviors that improve an organism's chances of survival in its environment.
Discussion Questions
Before the Game
What is the basic unit of all living things? What are some things that a cell needs to survive? What is an adaptation?
After the Game
What are two examples of structural adaptations that cells can have? Which adaptations did you choose and how did each of them help the cell survive?
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Game Details
Difficulty
Content Integration
Lexile Level
705
