Natural Selection
Recall and connect the key ideas that explain how traits arise, spread through populations, and can be influenced by humans.
92 activities
Recall and connect the key ideas that explain how traits arise, spread through populations, and can be influenced by humans.
Game DesignerBuild and test a game showing how food helps animals grow, heal, and get energy
Mad Scientist ChallengeExplain how food helps a young elk grow and heal after fixing the machine
Game DesignerBuild a game showing how cells get what they need and explain one rule
OtherTell the rock story by ordering layers and explaining how erosion reveals them
Game DesignerBuild and test a game that shows rock layers forming and erosion wearing them away
Curious EmmaExplain how atoms change connections to make new molecules in a chemical reaction
Simulation ExplorationShow how atoms regroup in two reactions and explain what stays the same and changes
OtherCompare two organisms and use trial numbers to explain one similarity and one difference
Simulation ExplorationTest two materials, compare their properties, and sort them with evidence.
Game DesignerDesign a tiny game that shows how rock pieces change a landscape.
Simulation ExplorationUse rain and wind to see how a hillside changes over time.
Game DesignerBuild a tiny sorting game that uses evidence about one material property.
Science Team InvestigationLead the science team to decide if a moving marsh sample is living or just sediment.
Science Team InvestigationLead the science team as they decide what changed when a bath bomb met water.
Mad Scientist ChallengeHelp Doctor Spark test a strange moving sample and fix a scanner that makes a mixed-up life call.
Simulation ExplorationUse evidence from three tests to decide if a bath bomb in water had a chemical reaction.
Mad Scientist ChallengeExplain how to fix the Plant Builder so it grows a healthy plant
OtherTest two plant trials and explain how water and carbon dioxide help plants grow
Use the membrane exploration and animation evidence to explain how different materials cross or are blocked by the cell membrane.
Mad Scientist ChallengeRepair Doctor Spark’s hologram machine by using a heating record to uncover its one backward particle-motion rule.