Reptile Detectives: A Classroom Reptile Game

How to play

• Put the game on your classroom screen or smartboard, then press Full screen.
• Pick the location you visited and split the class into 2 to 4 teams.
• Teams take turns. Read the clues out loud: a team scores 3 points with one clue, and loses a point for each extra clue or wrong guess.
• After each animal, the team can earn a bonus point by sorting it as a reptile, amphibian or fish.

Curriculum links

• Grade 2: Growth and Changes in Animals
• Grade 4: Habitats and Communities
• Grade 6: Diversity of Living Things

Each round finishes with a fun fact, and the final screen has discussion questions for the class.

Before, during and after

On your field trip, students can play Spot the Reptiles on a phone to find these same animals in the zoo. Back at school, Reptile Detectives is the perfect wrap-up. Plan about 20 to 30 minutes for 10 cases.