If I use the Open option under the Scenario menu to open the zip file, I get a message saying that the archive that was opened does not seem to contain a Greenfoot project. It tells me to try extracting the contents of the zip.
Well - did you try that? :)
Basically you said that it says you have to extract the files from the zip folder, so why don't you do so, instead of telling us that you're supposed to but you didn't do it.