Survival Games: An Fun, Adaptations-Based Challenge for the Evolution Unit
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Description
Explore the theory of evolution with your students as they create a creature that can survive a changing environment!
Students will select from thirty two different adaptations, all with different survival perks, in order to design an organism that can (hopefully) survive drastic environment changes. In a Dungeons-and-Dragons-esque style, each adaptation provides points in certain categories of survival.
My students become quickly enthralled with the challenge of picking just the right combination. There is a lot of strategy that can be implemented to maximize point values. However, as some learn the hard way, sometimes the best plans fail due to chance.
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Included in this download:
- Survival Games Student Document: Which has thorough directions for students and a full page table of the possible adaptations.
- Survival Games Teacher Instructions: Clearly written directions will walk you through how to host the game.
- Survival Games Event Cards: These cards provide the environmental challenges that the students will have to survive in each round of the game.
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What to expect?
This game takes between thirty to forty minutes to play, depending on how long you give your students to create their creatures. As students create their creatures, they will realize many things, such how different adaptations provide advantages and how some adaptations go well together.
Leads to excellent discussions!
After you finish the game, there are several excellent discussion points that can be had! This game shows students, first hand, that there isn't necessarily a "best" set of adaptations for surviving a changing environment. One excellent topic to bring up is that of dinosaurs; you can discuss with students whether the extinction of the dinosaurs is evidence that they were "subpar" creatures, or rather victims of an unpredictable world? My students are always enthralled by this particular discussion.
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