Viral Vanguard

Viral Vanguard is an activity in JumpStart Adventures 6th Grade: Mission Earthquest.

Description
A.R.T. is killing endangered species with Viro-Bots. The pod has been shrunken to the size of a cell. The user uses the arrow keys to drive the cell pod through the animal while avoiding Viro-Bots. There will be a science question at the top of the screen and the user must select the correct answer to continue traveling through the animal. At the end they move the pod over the Viro-Bots (they make them disappear this time, instead of damaging the pod) and leave the animal. The animal traveled through varies depending on the place in the world the game is played. In India it is a tiger, in Australia it is a wombat, and in California it is a condor.

Digital manual description
ART has infected several endangered species with viro-bots. They have the ability to disable the animals’ natural defenses, rendering them helpless in the wild. The cell pod will enable you to fight the viro-bots inside the animal.

Pod Navigation: Right and left arrow keys move the pod to the right and left. Up and down arrow keys move the pod up or down. Tab key activates a pod gadget.

Curriculum: Science
 * Move the pod directly to the correct answer and touch it with the pod. Press the ENTER key.
 * During the regular part of this activity you have three lives. After three hits from the viro-bots you will lose a pod life.
 * In the arcade artery you must gobble up the blue virus bots. You can do this just by passing over them. If you eat all eight blue viro-bots in the arcade game, you will completely restore your pod.