Walkthrough

1. Explore the Research Centre

2. Talk to all the NPCs

3. Make sure you have a camera, book, rock collection box, mineral collection box, and any other tools you might want to take with you (eg. compass)

By the end of this part, you should:

• Know the difference between rocks and minerals

• Know where to find information to do a land acknowledgement

• Know how to open the Immersive Reader

• Know how to summon your agent to a red square

• Know how to save your code

• Know how to find the ROM collections database

• Know the names of the three scientists you'll be helping and which type of rock (igneous, sedimentary, metamorphic) they are studying. 

1. Go through the white door and travel to the Volcano Camp.

2. Talk to Sarabeth about the problem with the pathway.

3. Code your agent to go through the lava-flooded path to the GOLD square to activate the emergency cooling system.  

   • (Hint: move your agent back to the red square before you close the world, or the path might be flooded with water next time you go there).

   • Use Sarabeth's hint if you need it.

4. Explore the Geode before you go through the lava path. Be sure to take a rock hammer.

5. Explore the emerald mines before you go through the lava path.

6. Travel through the path to the Volcano Camp.

7. Talk to Katherine.

8. Get a pickaxe.

9. Explore the camp and talk to all the NPCs. 

10. Click on buttons to follow links.

11. Take photos and document in your book and quill when you learn new things from an NPC. 

12. Take photos and document in your book and quill when you find new rock samples. Record clues you find about how they were formed.

13. Collect two samples of each rock and/or mineral and sort them into the correct box.

By the end of this part, you should: 

• Know what an igneous rock is.

• Be able to explain how at least one rock and mineral you find was formed and why it's important.

• Know how different Indigenous Peoples use copper.

• Know why copper is such an important mineral.

• Know how to tell if a rock formed deep inside the Earth or on the surface of the Earth.

• Have 12 new rocks and 5 new minerals in your box.

1. When you have collected all twelve types of rock at the volcano camp, go to Aaron on the lower level.

2. Sort your rock samples into intrusive (cooled slowly inside the Earth) and extrusive (cooled quickly outside the Earth) and place them on the right squares to make a 2 column bar graph.

   • Hint: Look at where you found the samples.

   • Hint: Look at the pictures linked in the buttons under the scientists' speech bubbles and the pictures on the walls.

   • Hint: Look for more than one type of mineral in the rock (intrusive, cooled slowly, had time to separate into different minerals).

3. Take a picture of your bar graph and explain your results in your book and quill.

   • Hint: Be sure to explain why you sorted each rock into the category you did.

4. Return to the Research Centre when you're done at the Volcano Camp

1. Go through the blue door and travel to the Dig Site.

2. Meet Indigenous Scientist Cedar, and learn about what happened to the bridge.

3. Code your agent to repair the bridge.

4. Meet Indigenous Scientist Felix and learn about controlled savannah burns.

5. Talk to ROM Intern Jakub and figure out what's wrong with his code.

6. Fix the code and code your agent to break a tunnel through the tree big enough to get your horse through.

7. Travel down the rest of the path to the Dig Site.

8. Talk to Veronica.

9. Explore the camp and talk to all the NPCs. Click on buttons to follow links.

10. Take photos and document in your book and quill when you find new rock samples. Record clues you find about how they were formed.

11. Take photos of the fossils and document it in your book and quill. How do sedimentary rocks help us learn about the past?

12. Collect two samples of each rock, mineral, and special items.

13. Return to the Research Centre.

By the end of this part, you should: 

• Know why controlled burns are important for a healthy prairie or savannah.

• Know what a sedimentary rock is.

• Be able to explain how at least one rock and mineral you find was formed and why it's important.

• Be able to explain how fossils are formed.

• Know how fossils can tell us about the history of the Earth

• Have 5 new rocks, 2 new minerals, and 2 special items in your box.

1. Go through the red door and travel to the Mountain Camp.

2. Meet Indigenous Scientist Jesse and learn about the invasive berry bushes that are blocking the path.

3. Code your agent to clear the berry bushes from the path. Try to figure out a code that breaks enough bushes at the same time that your agent only has to go over and back twice.

4. Continue down the path.

5. Meet Indigenous Scientist Dio and learn about the challenge getting to the next part of the path.

6. Use everything you've learned so far to figure out a way to connect enough islands to get your horse across to the rest of the path.

   • Hint: Bridges that are 2 blocks wide or more are harder to accidentally fall off with your horse.

   • Hint: Stay inside the buoys.

7. Talk to Kim at the basalt formation.

8. Take the underwater tour.

9. Continue on to the mountain camp.

10. Explore the camp and talk to all the NPCs. Click on buttons to follow links.

11. Take photos and document in your book and quill when you learn new things from an NPC.

12. Take photos and document in your book and quill when you find new rock samples. Record clues you find about how they were formed.

13. Collect two samples of each rock and mineral

14. Return to the Research Centre.

By the end of this part, you should:

• Know what a metamorphic rock is. 

• Understand how sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic rocks are connected as part of a cycle

• Be able to explain how at least one rock and mineral you find was formed and why it's important. 

• Know how stalactites and stalagmites are formed.

• Have 5 new rocks and 1 new mineral in your collection boxes

1. Find Hassan on the upper level of the Research Centre.

2. Using one of each of the 22 rock samples you collected during your visits to the research sites, sort your rocks into igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks.

3. Place the blocks behind the correct sign. You should end up with a 3-column bar graph showing the number of igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks in Rocklandia.

   • Hint: Think about where each block was found, and the clues in the environment around them.

4. Take a picture of your bar graph and explain your results in your book and quill.

   • Hint: Be sure to explain why you sorted each rock into the category you did.

   • Hint: You can use the scaffold to climb up and get a better view.

1. Find Wei on the upper level of the Research Centre.

2. Using the sample's collected in your mineral box, fill in the mineral display gallery.

3. Take a picture of your displays.

4. Explain where you found each mineral and what the clues in the environment tell you about how it was formed.

1. Go through the yellow door and meet Interpretive Planner Courtney.

2. Look at the questions behind Courtney.

3. Change yourself to build mode.

4. Create a plan for your museum. Be sure to include:

   • Which galleries you will create

   • What will be in each gallery

   • What you will put in your display to teach visitors about rocks and minerals

   • How your museum is inclusive, welcoming, and accessible to everyone

5. Build your museum.  Include displays and labels.

6. Use the museum build tips to help you.

7. Use Flip, the camera and book & quill, or both to create a visitor's guide to your museum.

Visitors to your museum should be able to learn about:

• The difference between rocks and minerals.

• The difference between igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks.

• How all these rocks are connected in a cycle.

• Cool details about at least one rock and one mineral.

• What fossils are and how they teach us about the history of the Earth.

• How rocks and minerals are important to various cultures.

• How rocks and minerals are important to daily life.

• How some use and mining of rocks and minerals can affect society and the environment.

• What responsible resource use looks like.