Survival Adventures
Here we’ll explore Earth’s biomes, compare the animals of different continents, and figure out why their fauna differs so much. We’ll also learn how to read and navigate maps confidently. By the end, the most diligent students may be able to find their way around with their eyes closed. Almost.
Platform: Windows PCs & Chromebooks (Optimized for mouse or trackpad; Chrome or Firefox recommended)
Сurriculum
1. Maps, Species Ranges & Biomes
Why do animals live where they do, and what can a map really tell us about their distribution? Learn the basics of zoogeography, get comfortable with continents and major islands, explore species ranges, and discover why every map simplifies reality.
Why do animals live where they do, and what can a map really tell us about their distribution? Learn the basics of zoogeography, get comfortable with continents and major islands, explore species ranges, and discover why every map simplifies reality.
2. How to Survive on a Desert Island
After a shipwreck, you find yourself stranded on a deserted island. Explore your surroundings, prioritize your actions, find water and food, build shelter, make fire, and figure out how to signal for rescue.
3. Forest Survival Game
Lost in a temperate forest? Finding your way home takes more than following a trail! In this interactive forest survival game, practice orienteering and weather prediction by reading cloud patterns, navigating using constellations and natural landmarks, and identifying useful plants. Tackle outdoor survival challenges involving first aid, finding food, water purification, and fire-starting. Test your science knowledge and problem-solving skills as you find your way back to civilization, all without leaving home.
4. Equator Survival Quest
What would it take to survive in the world's tropical rainforests? Travel through the Amazon Rainforest, the Congo, and Indonesia on this interactive virtual field trip. Discover tropical wildlife, explore rainforest biomes, and tackle survival challenges as you navigate unfamiliar environments, unpredictable weather, and limited resources. Every decision counts!
5. Polar Regions Expedition
Travel to Earth’s coldest regions on a polar expedition to the Arctic and Antarctic. Meet Arctic and Antarctic animals, discover their adaptations to extreme climates, and compare the geography, ice, wildlife, and survival challenges at opposite ends of the planet.
What would it take to survive in the world's tropical rainforests? Travel through the Amazon Rainforest, the Congo, and Indonesia on this interactive virtual field trip. Discover tropical wildlife, explore rainforest biomes, and tackle survival challenges as you navigate unfamiliar environments, unpredictable weather, and limited resources. Every decision counts!
5. Polar Regions Expedition
Travel to Earth’s coldest regions on a polar expedition to the Arctic and Antarctic. Meet Arctic and Antarctic animals, discover their adaptations to extreme climates, and compare the geography, ice, wildlife, and survival challenges at opposite ends of the planet.
Imagine spending your summer somewhere the ground never fully thaws. Sounds miserable? Not to the plants and animals that call the tundra home! See how Arctic wildlife adapts to extreme conditions, why permafrost makes life so unusual, and what surprises this seemingly empty landscape holds. Then imagine you're stranded here. What would you wear? Where would you find food and shelter? This interactive tundra biome survival game puts your decisions to the test, with some unexpected lessons about animal adaptations and life in extreme climates.
7. Taiga
The taiga stretches across enormous parts of the Northern Hemisphere, covered mainly by coniferous forest. Explore its climate, landscapes, plants, animals, and the secrets hidden among all those trees.
The taiga stretches across enormous parts of the Northern Hemisphere, covered mainly by coniferous forest. Explore its climate, landscapes, plants, animals, and the secrets hidden among all those trees.
A journey across the grasslands sounds simple enough. No mountains to climb, no dense forests to get lost in. But what happens when the wind picks up, a wildfire sweeps across the steppe, or your drinking water runs low? In this interactive grasslands survival game, you'll navigate by natural clues, make decisions about food and water, and learn how people survive in this challenging biome. And keep an eye on the landscape: what looks like an ordinary hill might hide a 2,000-year-old Scythian burial mound.
9. Subtropical Forest
Mild winters, warm summers, and plenty of food and water make subtropical forests look almost suspiciously comfortable. Explore who lives there and what makes these forests such favorable places for life.
Mild winters, warm summers, and plenty of food and water make subtropical forests look almost suspiciously comfortable. Explore who lives there and what makes these forests such favorable places for life.
10. Tropical Forest
Travel through tropical rainforests in Brazil, the Congo, and Indonesia. Compare their landscapes and wildlife, then face the heat, rain, dense vegetation, and other problems that make surviving there considerably less relaxing than it looks.
11. Savanna
Savannas lie somewhere between forests and grasslands, shaped by heat, seasonal drought, fire, and grazing animals. Explore how climate creates this ecosystem and meet the organisms that have learned to thrive there.
Deserts are not always endless seas of sand. Explore hot, cold, rocky, clay, and salt deserts, investigate their biodiversity, and make decisions about water, clothing, food, travel, weather, and dangerous organisms.
13. Mountain Biomes
Want to visit the tropics, taiga, tundra, and permanent snow without traveling around the world? Climb a mountain. Explore altitudinal zonation and see how climate and living communities change as elevation increases.
14. Oceans
The ocean covers most of our planet, yet much of it remains poorly explored. Travel through major marine zones and discover how depth, light, temperature, pressure, and distance from shore shape life in the sea.
15. Littoral zone
The littoral is a strange place between land and water, flooded at one moment and exposed at another. Explore the organisms that thrive in this constantly changing environment and the challenges they face every day.
The littoral is a strange place between land and water, flooded at one moment and exposed at another. Explore the organisms that thrive in this constantly changing environment and the challenges they face every day.
16. Wetlands
Bogs, marshes, and swamps can look solid until the ground moves under your feet. Explore these waterlogged ecosystems, meet the organisms that live there, and learn why wetlands are both difficult to cross and extraordinarily important.