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Rocking Hard

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Game Info for Teachers

COMBINED RATING

4.1 Stars

TEACHERS (10)

4.6

STUDENTS (2844)

3.5

LENGTH

25 Minutes

GRADES

CAPABILITIES

Spanish Language Support

Text-to-Speech Support

Saves Progress

Description

Help Marble on his adventure to form a rock band by unearthing the most amazing trapped musicians, all while learning the steps of the rock cycle. This game is filled with mini-games that encourage students to win, allowing them to upgrade Marble's band's prestige and purchase items for his venue, called The Cave. The game features a story mode with a comprehensive lecture and puzzles to help players understand the steps for each rock type in the rock cycle. Your objective is to set free all the trapped musicians and defeat the evil being that holds them captive. Additionally, the game offers a practice mode with numerous mini-activities and games to assess knowledge, enabling players to earn more gold to upgrade their band and buy items for the cave. Discover hidden rocks buried within the game and unlock achievements and prizes.

Vocabulary Words

metamorphic rock

igneous rock

sedimentary rock

magma

molten rock

lava

extrusive igneous rock cycle

intrusive igneous rock cycle

tectonic activity

bury

melting

obsidian

crystallization

limestone

gneiss

basalt

uplift

weathering

sediments

compacted

erosion

water cycle

Instructions

Play through this interactive game to learn about The Rock Cycle. Suitable for Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8.

Main Concepts

Change of state is a physical change that can occur due to geologic processes.

Crystallization of magma is a very slow geologic process.

Folding, faulting, and breaking are geologic processes due to tectonic plate movement that cause physical changes in rocks.

Geologic processes, such as the rock and water cycles, involve the cycling of energy and matter from one form to another.

Igneous rocks form from cooled magma or lava.

Metamorphic rocks form from other rocks that have been changed by heat or pressure.

Mineral crystallization is a geologic process that occurs on a microscopic scale.

Rocks are made of minerals.

Sedimentary rocks form when sediments, such as sand, gravel, clay, or silt, are compressed and cemented together.

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.

Discussion Questions

Before the Game

What are the three main types of rocks? How do each of them form?

After the Game

What are areas of the rock cycle you learned about that you didn't know before? What is crystallization? What type of rock types form near volcanoes? Give three specific kinds of rocks, and what type they are?