Matter Excavation Adventure Kit

Investigate matter with Matterling. Explore solids, liquids, gases and changes of state, using clues about particles to make choices throughout the online adventure.

Matterling is logical, curious and versatile, a guide for asking questions and looking closely at the evidence.

Your adventure

Explore Matterport Depot.

1. START: Cargo Checkpoint
2. S1: Solid Stack Yard
3. S2: Liquid Channel Locks
4. S3: Gas Balloon Loft
5. S4: Density Drop Chamber
6. FINAL: State Change Vault

How the experience unfolds

1. Train with available subject resources, then open the free online adventure.
2. Place Matterling at START on the map. Follow the online journey through four sub-settings and move your hero as you go.
3. Complete FINAL to reveal the Grumbleys’ hidden cache in the story.
4. 01 DISCOVER: excavate the six specimens with the included dig stick.
5. 02 IDENTIFY: examine the six two-sided specimen and Gemling cards alongside your discoveries.
6. 03 COLLECT: open the single Collect blind bag to reveal five mystery Gemlings.

What is included

• 1 guaranteed Matterling hero figure, your guide and map piece
• 1 adventure map with six spots: START, four sub-settings and FINAL
• 1 dig containing 6 specimens
• 1 dig stick
• 1 card pack containing 6 two-sided cards, with specimen identification on one face and an associated Gemling on the reverse
• 1 Collect blind bag containing 5 mystery Gemling figures
• 6 Gemling figures total: 1 Matterling hero plus 5 mystery figures

Free digital access

Choose Matter Excavation Adventure from Free Adventures. Follow the on-screen directions and select the digital-only or kit instructions for your experience. The online adventure is free to complete without buying a kit, entering an email address or using a printed map. Kit owners add the physical dig after FINAL.

Part of our Physical Science collection, this kit pairs subject learning with a discovery dig. The dig’s specimen assortment is separate from the adventure subject and Gemling story.