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Desert Food Web Game (Class Activity) Grade Level: 9-12 Overview: Students love this game! They can't wait to play it again! All science students at all levels can enjoy this game! Students should be familiar with biological classification before playing. Each student becomes a species in the desert biome. Players compete to seek out food and survive in the extreme Mojave Desert of North America. Subjects:
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Grade Level: 9-12
Overview: Students love this game! They can't wait to play it again! All science students at all levels can enjoy this game! Students should be familiar with biological classification before playing. Each student becomes a species in the arctic biome. Players compete to seek out food and avoid being contaminated with bio-accumulative pollutants. There are special options to enhance the game, such as the oil spill wild-card!
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Grade Level: 9-12
Overview:Students will break into a Television crew, two special interest groups, the senate body and a science team. The two interest groups and the science team will create statements on the perspectives of two differnt bills, one which will protect the Arctic Wildlife Preserve and one which will allow mineral and resouece extraction (to help with an energy crisis). One quarter of the senators will be for protecting the Wildlife Preserve, another quarter will be for extraction in the Preserve and the other half will make decisions on their own based on scientist and interest group presentations. Each senator will prepare a two minute speech on their stance for the bills. Student senators will vote on the bills.
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Arctic Food Web Game
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Arctic Wilderness Preserve Senate Debate
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