Caught in the Crumbling Badlands: Weathering, Erosion, and Soil Adventure Kit

🏜️ Caught in the Crumbling Badlands

Mudlings • Weathering, Erosion, and Soil Adventure Kit
(Badlands National Park, South Dakota)

🚨 ADVENTURER DISPATCH

The ground is giving way.

Inside a rapidly changing landscape of crumbling cliffs, shifting sediment, and exposed soil layers, erosion is accelerating. Pathways are collapsing. Landforms are changing faster than expected. Critical terrain data is being lost.

Standard survey teams cannot keep up.

You have been selected.

You are one of the only explorers trained to understand how land breaks down, moves, and rebuilds itself over time. Every grain matters. Every layer tells a story of what came before.

There is no stable ground.
There is no fixed route.

To escape the badlands, you must understand how Earth reshapes itself.

Your mission begins now.

🌍 A REAL PLACE SHAPED BY EROSION

This adventure is inspired by Badlands National Park in South Dakota, a landscape carved by wind, water, ice, and time. Layered rock, exposed soil, and dramatic erosion reveal how weathering and deposition continually transform Earth’s surface. The location is real. The changes are constant. The science is real.

🔍 REAL MYSTERY DIG

✔ Real Mystery Dig
Each adventure pack includes a hands on excavation dig. Adventurers carefully excavate the dig to uncover a real specimen hidden inside. Once discovered, the specimen is identified, examined, and logged as part of the global mission to discover, identify, and collect every missing dig.

Every dig is different.
Collect them all.

📦 WHAT’S INSIDE THE ADVENTURE PACK

✔ 9 Mudlings Adventure Cards
Nine unstable zones where weathering, erosion, and soil processes shape every challenge.

✔ 9 Mudlings Characters
Mudlings are soil keepers, erosion trackers, and landform protectors. Each one represents a core weathering, erosion, or soil concept.

✔ Real Mystery Dig Excavation
A physical dig used during the adventure to uncover and examine a real specimen.

✔ Escape Style Terrain Gameplay
Track erosion, follow sediment movement, solve challenges, and navigate unstable ground.

✔ Built for Home or Classroom
Perfect for at home adventurers, STEM enrichment, homeschool science, and classroom exploration.

🧠 SCIENCE TOPICS COVERED

This adventure delivers a complete Weathering, Erosion, and Soil learning experience:

• Weathering and erosion
• Coastal erosion
• Soil formation
• Biological weathering
• Frost weathering
• Sand and sediment
• Runoff and deposition
• Soil conservation
• Rivers and deltas

🎯 WHY THIS ADVENTURE HITS

Kids feel grounded.
Learning feels dynamic.
Change drives discovery.
Collection fuels mastery.

Read the layers.
Log the dig.
Survive the shift.