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Experience Awakening - Our open-world educational game

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Game Info for Teachers

COMBINED RATING

4.0 Stars

TEACHERS (106)

3.7

STUDENTS (33134)

4.3

LENGTH

17 Minutes

GRADES

CAPABILITIES

Spanish Language Support

Text-to-Speech Support

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Description

Explore a space station, solve puzzles, view models and embark on a great adventure while discovering amazing facts about the sun and the stars. You may even be called to deliver a pizza to another space station!

Vocabulary Words

solar system

galaxy

universe

space

star

red giant star

supergiant

supernova

blue hypergiant

orange giant

Sun

Earth

moon

planet

light-year

light-speed

telescope

hydrogen

gas

sphere

Instructions

Play through this interactive game to learn about The Universe and Its Stars. Suitable for Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5.

Main Concepts

The closer a star is to Earth, the brighter and larger it will appear.

Stars are very hot glowing spheres of gas.

Stars range greatly in their size and distance from Earth.

The sun and other stars are natural bodies in the sky that give off their own light.

The farther away a star is from Earth, the dimmer it will appear.

The sun is many times larger than Earth but it appears small because it is very far away.

Even though the sun is very far from Earth, it is much closer than other stars.

The sun is a star that appears larger and brighter than other stars because it is much closer to Earth.(ES)

The sun is one of billions of stars in our own galaxy.

The sun is a medium-sized star at the center of our solar system.

Stars burn hydrogen in their core while planets do not.

The distance light travels in one year is called a light year.

Light from distant stars can take a very long time to travel to Earth.

Although stars in the sky may appear flat, they are actually three-dimensional spheres.

We can observe distant stars using tools such as telescopes.

Advances in technology have changed the amount of type of information that scientists can gather from distant objects in the sky.

Discussion Questions

Before the Game

In this game, you will learn a lot about stars. What do you already know about stars?

What is our closest star?

What are stars made of?

Why is the sun important for Earth?

What does temperature measure?

In this game you will learn about our universe. Name some things that are in our universe.

After the Game

The fastest thing in the universe is light speed. How many times would you need to run around the earth in one-light second?

What did you learn gives a star its color? List the different colors.

How large is our sun compared to other stars?

Why does it appear to be so big compared to other stars when we observe it from Earth?

What did you learn is the difference between our universe and the galaxy?

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Game Details

Difficulty

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Lexile Level

705

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