Traits & Heredity Excavation Adventure Kit
Look for similarities and differences with Kinling. Explore inherited traits, variation and environmental influences through a science adventure followed by a discovery dig.
Kinling is thoughtful, friendly and observant, a guide for asking questions and looking closely at the evidence.
Your adventure
Explore Kinwood Grove.
- START: Family Tree Lodge
- S1: Patchwork Meadow
- S2: Resemblance Brook
- S3: Variation Vista
- S4: Inheritance Orchard
- FINAL: Legacy Root Vault
How the experience unfolds
- Train with available subject resources, then open the free online adventure.
- Place Kinling at START on the map. Follow the online journey through four sub-settings and move your hero as you go.
- Complete FINAL to reveal the Grumbleys’ hidden cache in the story.
- 01 DISCOVER: excavate the six specimens with the included dig stick.
- 02 IDENTIFY: examine the six two-sided specimen and Gemling cards alongside your discoveries.
- 03 COLLECT: open the single Collect blind bag to reveal five mystery Gemlings.
What is included
- 1 guaranteed Kinling 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 Kinling hero plus 5 mystery figures
Free digital access
Choose Traits & Heredity 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 Life 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.