by Michael Kasumovic | Jan 29, 2022 | Arludo, How-to, Science at Home
Discord is a free app that allows users to communicate via text, voice or video. Most communication occurs via discussion boards, but direct messaging and real-time video chats are possible through Discord as well. Arludo facilitates a Discord channel which allows...
by Michael Kasumovic | Aug 5, 2021 | Arludo, How-to, Ingenious Program, Teacher Preparation
In this lesson, students will learn how animals communicate, and why animals have the combinations of traits that they do. In this game, students are trying to create peacock spiders with different traits. Individuals have their own spider on the top (seen above) and...
by Michael Kasumovic | May 17, 2021 | Arludo, How-to, Ingenious Program, Teacher Preparation
This lesson is all about sexual selection – how the traits that individuals prefer in mates affects how they evolve. While trying to impress their mate in the game, students will learn how different preferences can shape how organisms evolve over 5 generations....
by Michael Kasumovic | May 11, 2021 | How-to, Ingenious Program, Teacher Preparation
Eat Prey Live is an app allows students to experience evolution first hand. Using the app, students can create a population of dots with different traits that they will hunt. As they squash their dots, some of the dots will survive and reproduce and they will see the...
by Michael Kasumovic | May 3, 2021 | How-to, Ingenious Program, Teacher Preparation
In this game, students are parents that are trying to raise all their offspring. But different hunting locations and the predators withing make finding food difficult. As such, students will have to figure out how to best use the energy that they collected to survive...
by Michael Kasumovic | May 2, 2021 | How-to, Ingenious Program, Teacher Preparation
In this game, students become predators and they are tasked with the goal of surviving as long as they can by eating different bugs. In this way, students learn about how difficult it is for predators to find prey and how prey protect themselves from predators....
