ES-LS1.B-1

Bloom Haven

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Game Info for Teachers

COMBINED RATING

4.3 Stars

TEACHERS (6)

4.2

STUDENTS (4295)

4.4

LENGTH

17 Minutes

GRADES

CAPABILITIES

Spanish Language Support

Text-to-Speech Support

Saves Progress

Description

Manage your farm by buying many different plants and animals, completing quests to progress while you learn about their growth and development.

Vocabulary Words

life cycle

reproduction

fertilization

offspring

eggs

hermaphrodite

pollination

sprout

sapling

larva

juvenile

ecosystems

breeds

complete metamorphosis

incomplete metamorphosis

larva

pupa

nymph

pregnant

mammals

Instructions

Play through this interactive game to learn about Growth and Development of Organisms. Suitable for Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5.

Main Concepts

When organisms develop, they change over time.

In a flowering plant’s life cycle, it will sprout from a seed, grow and develop into an adult, and produce seeds that can be dispersed to produce new plants.

When an insect undergoes incomplete metamorphosis, its life cycle includes egg, nymph, and adult.(ES)

Reproduction occurs when an organism produces another organism.

Pollination is necessary in order for a plant to reproduce.

An organism is a living thing.

A life cycle is the series of orderly stages of an organism’s life, from birth to death.(ES)

When organisms grow, they become larger over time.

All organisms share similar life cycle patterns such as birth, growth, development into adults, reproduction, and death.(ES)

Most animals grow from eggs.

Different plants and animals have unique and diverse life cycles.(ES)

Reproduction is essential to the continued existence of every kind of organism.

When an insect undergoes complete metamorphosis, its life cycle includes egg, larva, pupa, and adult.(ES)

The stages of a human life cycle include birth, infancy, childhood, adolescence, and adulthood.

Some plants grow from seeds.

Discussion Questions

Before the Game

What are the basic parts of the lives of all organisms? What are three basic needs of all living things?

After the Game

What is the advantage of plants having both male and female reproductive parts? What were some similarities and differences in the life cycles of the animals in the game? What are the stages in the life cycle of an insect? What are the stages in the life cycle of a plant?