The Rock Cycle Games

6 games

In this series of games, your students will learn to construct an explanation of how to classify rocks by their formation and how rocks change through geologic processes in the rock cycle. The Rock Cycle learning objective — based on NGSS and state standards — delivers improved student engagement and academic performance in your classroom, as demonstrated by research.

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Concepts Covered

Geologic processes, such as the rock and water cycles, involve the cycling of energy and matter from one form to another. Geologic processes can occur on a microscopic to global-level scale. Different geologic processes occur at different rates of time, from the scale of fractions of a second to billions of years. The processes of the rock cycle involve uplift, weathering, erosion, deposition, melting, crystallization, and metamorphism. The rock cycle is dependent upon the flow of energy from Earth’s interior.

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Tourists From Outer Space Estimated Duration: 15 minutes You're the new employee at the alien tourism office. Use the Orbitizer and the Stargazer to simulate Earth's orbit and rotation to find where and when the alien tourists want to visit Earth!

Newton Pool Estimated Duration: 15 minutes The game consists of hand-crafted levels where the player controls a white ball. The goal of each level is to get the white ball to the end of the level in as few moves as possible, while racking up points by bumping golden balls into obstacles on the way! The game does not have any instructional math content, it simply has math review questions spread throughout.

Galaxy Escape Estimated Duration: 20 minutes 10 Bright Monsters have been captured in space and they need your help to cross the galaxy jumping between platforms, finding them, and releasing them by correctly answering each question. Each monster that you release and unlock will be available to play with in the next level, in the search for the next monster. In your journey, you’ll be able to find power-ups, like ‘Double points’ and ‘Slow down’, which can be activated by finding gems, and their duration can be extended by correctly answering a question. Unlock and release the 10 different monsters and a spaceship along 10 different levels, while you make the most possible points.

Camp Star Estimated Duration: 15 minutes Enjoy different mini-games in a space camp while learning about the movement of the celestial bodies in the sky.

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The Sun, Moon & Stars: Patterns of Apparent Motion Estimated Duration: 4 minutes Patterns of the apparent motion of the Sun, the Moon, and stars in the sky can be observed, described, predicted, and explained with models.

The Rock Cycle Games

Concepts Covered

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