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Science Critical Thinking Breakout · Grade 7

Rescue Run

A hiker is missing in a Big Bend canyon and a storm is coming. You're on the search-and-rescue command team. Read the drone's motion data, keep the medical cooler cold, and solve all four locks to launch the rescue in time.

0 of 4 locks open
🚁 Mission Brief

Launch the rescue run

Command radios you: “Drone's back with a distance–time graph, the med-cooler is warming in the sun, and we need a route — now.” The clues you need are motion and heat. Open each piece of evidence, decide what it actually proves, and solve all four locks to send the team out safely.

🔍 The Evidence

Tap each piece of evidence to read it. (You can reopen them anytime.)

🔒 The Locks

Solve each lock using only the evidence above.

RESCUE LAUNCHED ✓

The team rolls out!

You read the drone's distance–time graph, told speed from velocity, ruled out a tempting off-topic fact, and named thermal equilibrium so the medicine stays cold. That's the exact reasoning real search-and-rescue crews use under pressure.