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Virtual Oil Well part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Games:Examples
This strategy game has players prospect for oil using seismic profiles on limited budgets. -

Earth System Topics: Solid Earth, Human Dimensions:Energy

Wheel of Geology part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Games:Examples
This quiz game is intended to help students review for an upcoming exam. Topics of questions are randomly determined by spinning a wheel. Teams answer questions using electronic CPS handhelds. -

Earth System Topics: Oceans, Hydrology, Geography, Time/Earth History, Solid Earth, Solar System and Astronomy, Biosphere, Human Dimensions, Biosphere:Ecology, Atmosphere, Climate, Surface Processes

GPS Treasure Hunt part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Games:Examples
Students are divided into teams, each of which is given a list of instructions and a GPS unit, and sent to find certain locations. At each stop, they identify a particular building stone or a plant. -

Earth System Topics: Solid Earth, Biosphere

NADS Scum Run part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Games:Examples
This exercise consists of a relay race in which students must identify specimens or answer questions at various stations. -

Earth System Topics: Solid Earth, Biosphere

Planet Oit! part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Games:Examples
This is an online adventure game in which players prospect for minerals on a virtual geologically realistic world. -

Earth System Topics: Solid Earth:Earth Materials:Minerals, Rocks