Fossil Frontier
Fossil Frontier is a grades 3–6 learning world where students practice fossils, life science, geology, measurement, and informational reading through prehistoric dig missions. It is part of the Allen Girls Adventures curriculum — 77 modules and 385 lessons across math, reading, science, and social studies, aligned to Common Core and state standards.
Prehistoric World / Dinosaurs
Walk with dinosaurs! Volcanoes, fossils, and creatures from millions of years ago.
Academic Adventures
Learn while you play in Fossil Frontier
These learning games belong to this world — real curriculum questions, real points.
Your Next Mission
Read the Dino Field Notes
STEM (40%) — Multiplication & Division
Count fossil layers in the canyon wall using division to date each discovery.
ELA (20%) — Reading Comprehension
Study the dinosaur field journal and identify the main idea of the creature's discovery.
SEL (20%) — Overcoming Challenges
When a T-Rex scare makes you freeze, Natalia cheers: 'Brave isn't fearless — brave is keep going!'
Culture (10%) — Building Community
Discover how people in Fossil Frontier create rules and work together.
Life Skills (10%) — Collaboration
Help the team of Fossil Frontier solve challenges by working as one.
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Learning in Fossil Frontier
Fossil Frontier is the prehistoric world of Allen Girls Adventures, where grades 3–6 students walk beside dinosaurs, hike through steaming volcanoes, and dig real fossils out of layered canyon walls. Every discovery is also a lesson: sisters Natalia, Alana, and Maya read field journals, count rock layers, and solve multiplication puzzles to date the bones they uncover. The prehistoric setting turns paleontology into a hands-on excuse to practice standards-aligned math, reading, and science.
The world is built around a simple idea kids never notice while they are playing: the science does the storytelling. To find out how old a fossil is, you have to count the sediment layers. To open the dig site, you have to read the expedition notes and pull out the main idea. To share the find with the team, you have to explain your reasoning. Fossil Frontier makes those academic moves feel like the tools of a real field scientist.
Parents and teachers see the same adventure through a different lens. Behind the T-Rex tracks and canyon digs sits the Allen Girls Adventures curriculum spine — 77 modules and 385 lessons mapped across grades 3 through 6 — so a dinosaur mission is never just a game. It is grade-level practice with a reason to finish.
Meet the sisters in this world
Natalia (the Mind) reads the field notes and spots patterns in rock layers. Alana (the Voice) asks the hard questions out loud when a dig plan goes sideways. Maya (the Heart) keeps the team moving when a scary fossil find makes everyone freeze. Together with S.P.A.R.K., their bounded robot buddy, the sisters model curiosity, courage, and clear explanations — the same habits a third through sixth grader needs in real science and reading work.
How this world fits the curriculum
Fossil Frontier sits inside the full Allen Girls Adventures grades 3–6 path: 77 standards-aligned modules and 385 guided lessons across math, reading, science, and social studies. Missions in this world lean on multiplication and division fluency, informational-text comprehension, and Earth and life science — skills that also appear on our Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, and Grade 6 curriculum pages. Kids experience a dig site; guardians and teachers can see the standards underneath.
Why this world matters
Elementary science often feels abstract until a child can touch it. Fossil Frontier gives grades 3–6 students a concrete story for fossils, rock layers, and adaptation — then asks them to use math and reading to prove what they found. That combination builds both academic skill and the confidence to explain evidence, which is exactly what state standards ask for at this age.
What your child learns here
STEM — Multiplication, division & data
Students count fossil layers in the canyon wall and use multiplication and division to estimate how many years each layer represents. They compare dig sites, measure specimen lengths, and organize discoveries into simple data tables — the same operations covered in the grades 3–6 math curriculum, reskinned as real paleontology work.
ELA — Reading comprehension
Every dig begins with a dinosaur field journal. Kids read the entry, identify the main idea, and use details from the text to decide where to excavate next. Informational-text skills — main idea, key details, and vocabulary in context — are practiced through authentic-feeling science writing.
Science — Earth science & living systems
Fossil Frontier introduces fossils as evidence of ancient life, rock layers as a record of time, and adaptation as the reason some prehistoric creatures survived. Students connect what they observe in the canyon to how scientists reconstruct extinct ecosystems.
SEL — Courage and perseverance
When a T-Rex encounter makes a young explorer freeze, Natalia reframes it: brave is not fearless — brave is choosing to keep going. Missions model persistence, treating a wrong answer as data rather than failure.
Life skills — Teamwork on the dig
A fossil dig is never a solo job. Students learn to divide tasks, share tools, and combine each sister's strengths to get a fragile specimen out of the ground in one piece.
Skills spotlight
- Multiplication and division fact fluency (Grade 3–4)
- Interpreting data and simple measurement (Grade 3–5)
- Finding the main idea and key details in informational text (Grade 3–6)
- Fossils as evidence of past life and ancient environments (Grade 3–4 science)
- Adaptation, survival, and life cycles (Grade 3–4 science)
Frequently asked questions
- What grades is Fossil Frontier for?
- Fossil Frontier is designed for grades 3–6 (roughly ages 8–12). Missions scale in difficulty, so a third grader and a sixth grader can both explore the same world at the right level within the 77-module, 385-lesson curriculum.
- What subjects does Fossil Frontier teach?
- It blends math (multiplication, division, data), reading comprehension, and Earth and life science, plus social-emotional skills like courage and perseverance — all inside a dinosaur-discovery story.
- Is Fossil Frontier based on real science?
- Yes. The fossil layers, dating by sediment, and evidence-based discovery mirror how real paleontologists work, presented at a grade-3–6 level.
- How does Fossil Frontier connect to the full curriculum?
- It is one of 8 adventure worlds that carry the Allen Girls Adventures spine of 77 modules and 385 lessons. Dig missions practice the same grade-level skills you will see mapped on our Curriculum and Grade 3–6 pages.