Village: Shelter in the Storm
Volume, Surface Area and Cube Roots Exploration Game
A storm is coming. Students walk a village map, visit building stations, and earn mission badges before it hits.
- Grades
- Grades 7–8
- Math
- Volume, surface area and cube roots
- Format
- Solo, at each student's own pace
- Time
- 40–60 minutes; progress saves
- Runs on
- Any browser — Chromebooks and projectors
How the game plays
- Four stations: prism and cylinder volume, pyramid volume, surface area with nets, and cube roots.
- Students move around the map with the arrow keys and choose their own order.
- Badges and XP mark each station they master.
Skills covered
- Volume of prisms and cylinders
- Volume of pyramids
- Surface area using nets
- Cube roots
Built-in questions follow the NC Standard Course of Study. You can upload your own question banks for any state's standards.
How to run it
Turn it on
In the Teacher Portal, switch the game on for your class and choose the topics or question bank it uses.
Introduce it
Open the slide deck from the game's resource shelf. Five minutes is enough to get students started.
Let students play
Students sign in with their login cards and open it from Games & Quests. Progress, XP and Gold save automatically.
Close the loop
Finish with the exit ticket from the resource shelf, or put a quick check on the Live Board.
Try Village: Shelter in the Storm with your class
Village: Shelter in the Storm is one of 19 games and labs in Numeria. A free trial unlocks all of them, plus the Teacher Portal, login cards, one class leaderboard, and the slides, guides and activities that come with every game.
Up to 6 class periods, 40 students each. Each request is approved by hand, usually within a day.
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