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Escape game Darwin

boudjenane sophie

Created on March 28, 2023

Locked in Darwin's house

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Discover darwin

Escape Down house

start

Sophie Boudjenane-2023

All the illustrations picturing Down House are from actual views of Down House

Introduction

"You visited Down House in Kent (UK), home of the famous genealogist, naturalist and biologist Charles Darwin. But you dozzed off in the kitchen. A storm wakes you up, the house is in the dark and entirely locked. You remember discussing security with the guide. He told you the security of the museum was based on the work of Darwin. So going through the rooms of the house and discovering the work of the scientist may help you open the door, collecting items from the rooms you visit (they will then appear in your inventory). Good luck!"

Explore the house-The study is locked, you need to find the key, go upstairs.

Inventory

The bedroom is dark, look for information on Darwin's life, it will lead you to a helpful key.

Fossils he collected were shared with paleontologists and geologists, leading to advances in the understanding of the processes that shape the Earth’s surface. Darwin’s analysis of the plants and animals he gathered led him to question how species form and change over time. This work convinced him of the insight that he is most famous for—natural selection. The theory of natural selection says that individuals of a species are more likely to survive in their environment and pass on their genes to the next generation when they inherit traits from their parents that are best suited for that specific environment. In this way, such traits become more widespread in the species and can lead eventually to the development of a new species. In 1859, Darwin published On the Origin of Species. It was as popular as it was controversial. The book convinced many people that species change over time—a lot of time—suggesting that the planet was much older than what was commonly believed at the time: six thousand years. Charles Darwin died in 1882 at the age of seventy-three.

Charles Darwin was born in 1809 in Shrewsbury, England. His father, a doctor, had high hopes that his son would earn a medical degree at Edinburgh University in Scotland, where he enrolled at the age of sixteen. It turned out that Darwin was more interested in natural history than medicine—it was said that the sight of blood made him sick to his stomach. While he continued his studies in theology at Cambridge, it was his focus on natural history that became his passion. In 1831, Darwin embarked on a voyage aboard a ship of the British Royal Navy, the HMS Beagle, employed as a naturalist. The main purpose of the trip was to survey the coastline of South America and chart its harbors to make better maps of the region. The work that Darwin did was just an added bonus.Darwin spent much of the trip on land collecting samples of plants, animals, rocks, and fossils. He explored regions in Brazil, Argentina, Chile, and remote islands such as the Galápagos. He packed all of his specimens into crates and sent them back to England aboard other vessels. Upon his return to England in 1836, Darwin’s work continued. Studies of his samples and notes from the trip led to groundbreaking scientific discoveries.

Ready? Take the challenge to find the key

01

Darwin was ...

A British naturalist and biologist

An American biologist

A British doctor

02

Darwin travelled from

1836 to 1859 answer

1831 to 1836

1859 to 1892

03

Where did he go?

Australia

South America

Asia

04

His theory is based on the fact that...

Species evolve to adapt to their environment

The environment transform the species

some species are meant to disappear from the start

Well done, you have won a grid to decypher the code that will help you find the key to the study. Place the grid on the text, first square on the"b" of "born". Click on the padlock once you have it.

Charles Darwin was born in 1809 in Shrewsbury, England. His father, a doctor, had high hopes that his son would earn a medical degree at Edinburgh University in Scotland, where he enrolled at the age of sixteen. It turned out that Darwin was more interested in natural history than medicine—it was said that the sight of blood made him sick to his stomach. While he continued his studies in theology at Cambridge, it was his focus on natural history that became his passion. In 1831, Darwin embarked on a voyage aboard a ship of the British Royal Navy, the HMS Beagle, employed as a naturalist. The main purpose of the trip was to survey the coastline of South America and chart its harbors to make better maps of the region. The work that Darwin did was just an added bonus.Darwin spent much of the trip on land collecting samples of plants, animals, rocks, and fossils. He explored regions in Brazil, Argentina, Chile, and remote islands such as the Galápagos. He packed all of his specimens into crates and sent them back to England aboard other vessels. Upon his return to England in 1836, Darwin’s work continued. Studies of his samples and notes from the trip led to groundbreaking scientific discoveries.

The bedroom is dark, look for information on Darwin's life, it will lead you to the study key.
The bedroom is dark, look for information on Darwin's life, it will lead you to the study key.

It's not correct...

Type the code slowly on Darwin's typewriter

It's not correct...

Go through the objects on the bedside table to find a key to open a new room

Darwin's drawing room was the place where the family gathered, find some clues there.

Inventory

vocabulary

Learn 10 definitions& get ready for a class challenge

Look around and gather information about the different theories of evolution that influenced darwin's work. take notes before taking the challenge! Succeed and get a new clue!
second try only

Congratulations

Collect this clue and try something harder

01

In the audio, what words does the narrator use to qualify darwin? Tick them in the order they are said in the audio.

listen to the audio again

Back to the drawing room

cruel

sweet

Kind

Lovely

01

In the audio, what words does the narrator use to qualify darwin?Tick them in the order they are said in the audio.

Back to the drawing room

cruel

sweet

Kind

Lovely

02

what instrument would darwin play to experiment on worms?

Back to the drawing room

The guitar

The piano

The flute

The drums

You found a secret message, add it to the first note you collected.

♬ø

Remember these 3 notes and play them on the piano in the correct order.

01

...Keep playing

02

...One more

03

Try again...

You found a new item for your inventory. Click on it to add it to your inventory.

Continue exploring the house

Inventory

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Darwin's study

vocabulary

Learn 10 more definitions & get ready for a class challenge

This key allows you to enter darwin's study, the room he used as a laboratory. 1.snoop around and gather some new clues. You may have to move things around. 2. Don't forget to take notes. 3. For the challenge, choose your level. don't click before you have taken the notes.

I thinkCase must be that one generation then should be as many living as now. To do this & to have many species in same genus (as is) requires extinction.Thus between A & B immense gap of relation. C & B the finest gradation, B & D rather greater distinction. Thus genera would be formed. — bearing relation

challenge

Check the code

Challenge level 1 (video)

Challenge level 3 (darwin's notebook)

Challenge level 2 (article)

I thinkCase must be that one generation then should be as many living as now. To do this & to have many species in same genus (as is) requires extinction.Thus between A & B immense gap of relation. C & B the finest gradation, B & D rather greater distinction. Thus genera would be formed. — bearing relation

Collaboration required, don't forget to take notes! The three codes are needed!

Your challenge: 1. Take a paper. 2. Answer the questions after reading the article. (Move things to read the article). 3. Write down all the numbers you found in your answers and substract them. Keep only the figure that is not a 1. 4. Now count how many "e" you have in your answers. 5. Add the two numbers, that's your code!
back to the room

1. What happened? ==> The notebook was...... 2. What it contained. ==> Darwin's ... .. .... diagram. 3. When did it disappear? ==> In .... 4. Where was it kept? ==> In Cambridge University ....... 5. How long has it been missing? ==> For .. years. ==> since ....

Join the two other groups with the code

Contains your code!!

Focus on this dark side of the room. Use the magnifying glass to find the different codes, check them and then insert it into the typewriter in the order of the chalenges.

224

write your code

Code

Maybe it was just that old painting on the wall...Must have been your imagination, focus on the corner where Darwin was performing his experiments. gather as much information as you can. You may soon get out of down house, if you collaborate! One team on each computer. Meet at the final step.

Way 1: Get the key Take the video quiz to add something to your inventory

Way 2: Find the code Take the article quiz to to add something to your inventory

Why did darwin wait so long before publishing his theory?

01

Because he wanted to have irrefutable evidence

Because he was travelling abroad all his life

Because he had received threats from the church

Was he aware of the fact that his theory would create a stir in British society?

02

No, he wasn't

Yes, he was

He didn't know and he didn't care

When did he decide to publish his theory?

03

After Lyell had published his geological theory of evolution

After realizing that others, like Wallace shared the same ideas

After Mathus had published his social theory of evolution

What happened when the bookOn the Origin of Species was published?

04

He became a celibrity way beyond the scientific community.

The book was successful only after the death od darwin.

it was a scandal and Darwin had to move to America.

What revolutionary idea did the book generate?

05

That the earth had undergone no major change

That man would extinct soon

that man wasn't created by god

here is a clue to find the key....listen (click on the character's mouth) then click on the red dot. (sound must be on in the bottom right-hand corner)

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Once you find the key, click on it to collect it in the inventory

Inventory

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<nombre>1</nombre> <script></script>

click on the button below to see if you have everything to open the door and leave.

Inventory

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congratulations

You've found all the keys to open the door and collected enough information to validate the door code. You may even have discovered who the ghost is.

Unlock the door

Drag and drop key n°1 to the lock to reveal the entry code, then click on it.

Inventory

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Drag and drop the letters of the code you decyphered earlier to obtain the code

1859

Drag and drop the letters of the code you decyphered earlier to obtain the code

Drag and drop the letters of the code you decyphered earlier to obtain the code

Drag and drop the letters of the code you decyphered earlier to obtain the code

Sure you want to go out?

You will lose all the progress so far...

Back

Exit

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Oh, no. you're wrong, try again...back to previous page

You did it!! Well done!!

After watching the video, answer the following questions. Count the number of True answers you obtain. That's the code you will have to keep and add to the two other codes.

Answer, then apply the following code to your answers. It will decypher the code you need after opening the door with the key. Keep it for later and join group 1. 4-11 6-13 3-12 5-5 6-4 7-8

Join group 1