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Below we have listed some free online computer games on climate in education that you might consider using in your classes. Enjoy!
Computer games on climate issues
Part 0
Climate Challenge
"The future is in your hands! You are president of the European Nations and must tackle climate change from 2000-2100. You choose Europe´ s policies and try to persuade competing regional blocks to reduce their carbon emissions". Stay popular enough with the voters to remain in office!
Target group: Secondary. Publisher: BBC.
Aims:
- give an understanding of some of the causes of climate change, particularly those related to carbon dioxide emissions.
- give players an awareness of some of the policy options available to governments.
- give a sense of the challenges facing international climate change negotiators
The Climate Game from COP 15
The Climate Game allows visitors to cop15.dk to experiment with CO2 reductions in an entertaining environment.
Using computer games as a teaching resource
"Computer games constitute a new media genre which entered the consciousness of the children and young adults in our classrooms a long time ago."
Read the article on computer games in education.
Weblog on computer games in schools
On this weblog you can read a few entries on using computer games in schools (some in English / some in Danish).
Bloom
Bloom helps you to tackle climate change and to make smart choices for the carbon conscious:
- Discover what to do about CO2
- Choose actions to suit you
- Do the actions you've chosen.
Target group: Primary, Publisher: BBC. Free browsergame.
Additional:
Click here to visit the Bloom website with background material and tasks (secondary)
Click here to access background material on a weblog (primarily for teachers)
Share your climate thoughts
Share and support climate thoughts with the world on the COP 15 website.
Launchball
Simple games on climate related topics such as heating ice og steam power.
Suggestions for use in education:
- On the interactive whiteboard as an introduction or plenary to practical work
- Together with the classroom activities in the Launchpad educators’ resource or choose from a list of selected levels to support curriculum areas
- Use it in your IT suite, introducing a challenge on the interactive whiteboard then setting the students the task to solve the problems on their computers.
- Pupils can create their own games and send them to each other. Possible eTwinning activity with a partner school.
Target group: 8-14 year old, Publisher: Science Museum London.
Addtional:
Click here to acces the Launchball educators´ guide
Stop Disasters
A disaster simulation game from the UN/ISDR - International Strategy for Disaster Reduction.
The core audience is 9-16 year old children, but anyone can play and enjoy the game, and everyone will learn more about preventing disasters.
Education is key for reducing children’s risks to disasters. Children are one of the most vulnerable groups when disasters occur. If we teach them from the early age about the risks posed by natural hazards, children will have a better chance to save their lives during disasters.
The on-line game aims at teaching children how to build safer villages and cities against disasters. Children will learn playing how the location and the construction materials of houses can make a difference when disasters strike and how early warning systems, evacuation plans and education can save lives.
Children are the future architects, mayors, doctors, and parents of the world of tomorrow, if they know what to do to reduce the impact of disasters, they will create a safer world.
Click here to read more about The UN/ISDR secretariat (opens a new window)
Click here to play the game Stop Disasters (opens a new window)
The Climate Mystery
The Climate Mystery is a unique online learning universe that teachers can use as a framework - or as inspiration - for climate teaching. A full curriculum, based on detailed dialogues with teachers from 15 countries, provides highly relevant climate topics and multiple learning methods. It enables students from 12 to 18 years old to discuss and reflect on the consequences of the world’s climate changes.
Click here to get the Teachers' notes on the Climate Mystery (pdf files in a zipped file)
Each teacher is free to use as few or as many of the 16 climate subjects (the link opens an Adobe pdf file) as he or she wishes.
Target group: Pupils in secondary, Publisher: Congin
Energy Action – Game Zone
Test your skills with free browser games.
- Switch It Off! Switch off the Radios and TVs to gain energy, but avoid the electrovipers!
- Windmill Valley Racer
- Ronaldo vs ElectroViper. Help Ronaldo defeat the evil ElectroVipers who have taken over the light factory, and rescue the low-energy light bulbs!
- BioValley Racer. Collect sunflowers to fuel your biodiesel race car. Win the race and help Ronaldo collect solar panels in his snow mobile
- Puzzles.
Target group: Primary and secondary, Publisher: The European Commission’s Directorate-General for Energy and Transport.
Secondary: Background articles on Carbon and climate change, Sustainable Energy, Saving Energy, Renewable Energy. Links to videoes, statistics og other web sites on climate change.
Primary: Photos, Game Zone (links to more games), Flash Books, Energy Animations. Explore the possibilities for using all the free stuff for communication in with other pupils from partner schools: e-Postcards and Your Story.
Logicity
Logicity is a free browser game that places individuals in a virtual environment and lets them experiment and experience the potential effect that individual actions can have on the planet before it's too late. Users can travel to the future to see the direct results of their actions in real time by quickly fast forwarding to the year 2066.
Target group: Young people under 25, Publisher: Defra - the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Government Department in the UK.
Intrigue 2016
Puzzles and detective style game. Free browser game. “You've just witnessed the murder of world famous climatologist Dr Earnest Merryweather in his laboratory, moments before he was going to reveal his discoveries on solving the worlds climate change problems. You are challenged to take a journey through a series of puzzles to see if you can discover the secrets the Dr Merryweather was about to reveal to the world and to identify the doctors killer … ”
Target group: Secondary, Publisher: BT/London 2012
Click here to read additional introduction to Intrigue 2016.
Go Wild !
Free online browser game where you are the animal. “Climate change is dramatically affecting the natural habitats of creatures throughout the world. Play our board game in seven continents as one of the creatures that lives there to see how climate change is affecting their changing world. As you move around the board you will play mini games, answer questions and learn facts about the environment where your creature lives to discover how climate change is threatening it and what you can do to help.”
Target group: Primary, Publisher: BT/London 2012
Additional:
Click here to read additional introduction the Go Wild!
Click here to access interactive background material for pupils.
Hog and Seek
A free online point and click game where you have to look through different rooms in a house (bathroom, living room, etc.) and find where the “energy hogs” are hiding. For example, drafty old windows will run up your energy bill, so they are energy hogs!
Target Group: Primary, Udgiver: Alliance to Save Energy, US.
Supplerende materiale Gratis download af dokumenter til klimaundervisning.
Click here to find additional online material such as:
- Teacher´s Guide
- Students Guide
- Energy Hog Scavenger Hunt)
- Energy Vampire Hunt
- Flip Off the Hog Light-Switch Plate Cover
- Energy Hog Poster
Globalwarmingkids.net
Globalwarmingkids.net is a portal under the ClimateChangeEducation.org focusing on links to games, websites and other stuff for kids - all about global warming and climate change.
Click here to go to Globalwarmingkids.net (opens a new window)
