Game Glossary

🏁 Amazing Race: Route Card Breakdown

Each leg of the race will include different types of cards, each representing a learning challenge, opportunity, or checkpoint in your Science journey:

🟦 Route Info (What was once the Topic is now called “Scope”)

• Purpose: Introduces the scope and sets the stage.

• Includes:

  • Scope Overview

  • Standard

  • Essential Question

  • SWBAT (Students Will Be Able To…)
    
    
    

🟨 Detour

• • Purpose: Student choice between two tasks.

  • Options:

    • Mini STEAM Challenge

    • Pop Quiz
      
      
      

🟥 Road Block

• • Purpose: One team member completes a task.

  • Activity:

    • Student-led station or solo challenge
      
      
      

🟪 Intersection

• • Purpose: Team collaboration or competition.

  • Options:

    • Work together with another Team

    • Challenge another team in an Escape Room
      
      
      

🟧 Fast Forward

• • Purpose: Earn the opportunity to skip ahead.

  • Reward:

    • Skip a quiz
      
      
      

🟫 Speed Bump

• • Purpose: Slows progress with a quick challenge.

  • Teacher Choice Options:

    • Thinking Map

    • Science Literacy Activity

    • CER (Claim-Evidence-Reasoning)

    • Lab News Review, etc.
      
      
      

🟩 Yield

• • Purpose: Pause to complete a reinforcement task.

  • Requirement:

    • Complete targeted IXL activities with 80% or better
      
      
      

🔄 U-Turn

• • Purpose: Return to a previous challenge for mastery.

  • Activity:

    • Complete a  re-take checklist.

    • Test retake

🔧 Salvage Pass

• • Purpose: Help or gain a head start.

  • Options:

    • Help a struggling team

    • Get a head start on the next Scope
      
      

🎟️ Express Pass

• • Purpose: High achievers skip a challenge.

  • Requirement:

    • Score 95% or higher on prior task

    • Reward: Skip a STEAM or mini challenge
      
      
      

🏁 Pit Stop

• • Purpose: End of the race leg (Scope).

  • Activity:

    • Final Mastery Test on the current Scope

💰 Race Funds (Team Currency System)

At the beginning of each leg of the race, teams will receive a set amount of Race Cash. How they spend (or save) this money can affect their standing in the game!