Rafting Adventures

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There is a short machinima about Rafting Adventures on YouTube.

To view it, follow this link: Rafting Adventures

Rafting adventures is an exciting game for middle school students where they get to ride a raft down a hillside while learning about agents of erosion and deposition. In this game the students will stop at seven checkpoints on their way down the mountain to watch animations of erosion and deposition taking place. Just as the Interactive Science Lab does this game uses a HUD in order to control the flow of the game.

Upon starting the game students must obtain a HUD from the sign beside the mountain and attach it to start pretest questions. Once they are finished with the questions they must click a button on the HUD in order to teleport to the mountain. Once on the mountain a button on the HUD allows them to create a raft to ride. Then they must move forward to hit the first checkpoint which automatically changes their camera view to the first animation. After reading the information about what they are going to see they must press continue on the HUD in order to start the animation and then another texture with information appears after the animation is finished. This is true for all seven of the checkpoints as the students navigate their way down the mountain.

The first stop down the mountain shows a large glacier coming down the top of the mountain and melting away while it is eroding the jolting rocks that are below it. Next the students see another glacier and how they can turn a U-shaped valley into a V-shaped valley. Then the students start going down the hillside of the mountain stopping next at a stream which is eroding the rocks on the stream bed. The next stop is at the bottom of the mountain and here is where the students see how an oxbow lake is formed. Now since the students are on flatter land they are showed a floodplain. Then at the sixth checkpoint the students watch how a cutbank and pointbar are made. Finally they arrive to the ocean and they are shown how a seacave is formed. After all of the checkpoints are visited the students will take a posttest on what they just learned and after they finish this they are free to ride around their raft around the rest of the island.