EVO DEVO (playable prototype)
One small change for an embryo, one giant leap for evolution!
Requirements
30-60
2-6
12+
Description
In the game, EVO DEVO, you are competing with your friends to modify ancestral embryos with growth cards in order to create modern animals! Your strategy may be to find the most efficient way to create an animal or it may be to sabotage your friends’ efforts to do the same!
This past year, I had the amazing opportunity to study biology in Australia on a Fulbright Scholarship. As part of the grant, I created a game to explain my field of research – Evolutionary Development, affectionately shortened to “Evo-Devo.”
Evo-Devo is a hot field in biology. Evo-Devo explores how embryonic development facilitates the relationship between genes and evolution, which is the cornerstone of modern biology. The field highlights how small changes in growth during development leads to big evolutionary changes.
EVO DEVO is aligned with current science standards in Australia (ACSSU185) and in the United States (Next Generation Science Standards MS-LS4-3 and HS-LS4-1) that require students to consider different lines of evidence for evolution including embryonic development.
Due to the unique developmental adaptations present in Australia, about half of the animals featured in the game are Australian!
This past year, I had the amazing opportunity to study biology in Australia on a Fulbright Scholarship. As part of the grant, I created a game to explain my field of research – Evolutionary Development, affectionately shortened to “Evo-Devo.”
Evo-Devo is a hot field in biology. Evo-Devo explores how embryonic development facilitates the relationship between genes and evolution, which is the cornerstone of modern biology. The field highlights how small changes in growth during development leads to big evolutionary changes.
EVO DEVO is aligned with current science standards in Australia (ACSSU185) and in the United States (Next Generation Science Standards MS-LS4-3 and HS-LS4-1) that require students to consider different lines of evidence for evolution including embryonic development.
Due to the unique developmental adaptations present in Australia, about half of the animals featured in the game are Australian!
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| Publish Date | September 16, 2015 |
| Edition | First |
| Department | Games |
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Why buy this?
- Learn about the science of evolution as you play!
- Strategic game builds on familiar rules of SPOONS!
- Aligned with science standards in the US and in Australia
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Downloads
STEAM Galaxy Studios
Notes
- This game does not come in a box.
- This game contains laser cut components. Laser cut items will have a slight amount of soot around the edges, which can easily be wiped off; and will have a campfire smell for about a week after you open them.
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