The students' ideas about the plate tectonics and dinosaur capture quests show their cultural models about the world: people can achieve things by working with others, tools, and environment. It shows that each of them could be stronger and achieve things that are beyond their capabilities because of the people they collaborate, tools that enable them, and the environmental limitations and/or possibilities.

For the ideas about plate tectonics quest, all the groups directly related them to the volcanic eruptions. The variations were in the role of volcanic eruptions: as player’s means of destroying something improper, as something that should not happen (a bad guy trying to make it erupt to kill dinosaurs), or as a context that provides a further challenge to another quest. For the ideas about dinosaur capture quest, all the groups included some sort of dinosaur luring methods in order to use their special tools and skills. Similar to the tectonic plates quest, students suggested that players would have to dependent on the various tools (e.g., robot, rocks, cage, and a weapon), other luring methods (prey and mating sound), and each other as avatars with different capabilities in order to achieve their quest. They need to decide what to use and how to work together.