Anyone Playing March Mammal Madness?

Maybe some of you bio experts here might enjoy this:

Not all mammals but fun class project to think about.

  • First 3 rounds higher seed has home habitat advantage.
  • Last 3 rounds the habitat is random from (Desert, Swamp, Ocean Reef, Eucalypt) forest.
  • All battles take place in March (important as say deer shed their antler/weaponry before this)
  • Can win by TKO or another animal leaving the field of battle.
    A team of experts evaluates the matchup and determines a percentage of what they think will happen. For example, they might estimate. 95% tiger, 5% rabbit. Then they run a random number generator where anything 1-95 the tiger wins and anything 96-100 the rabbit wins.

Website is here:

Educator Portal is here (has ppts, lessons, etc)

I believe they post creative (mock) eyewitness accounts of each battle and stating how it went. I’m curious how the “lion vs mold” description will turn out. There is a Google Sheets document with auto-grading. We can have a friendly contest to see who does the best here if anyone is interested.

Vinnie

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Weirdness . . . . :open_mouth:

Good way for kids to learn. The battle format engages them.

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