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Climate Change Impacts Games

Sinking Island

Sinking Island

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Resilience Strategies
Climate Change Impacts
Climate Change Causes
Game Duration
Number of Players
Facilitation Difficulty
Space Size

5-15 mins.

6+ players

Large Space

2

  • Learn about possible climate impacts

  • Bonding among participants & energizing activity

Ort Report

Ort Report

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Mitigation Strategies
Climate Change Impacts
Game Duration
Number of Players
Facilitation Difficulty
Space Size

10 mins.

2+ players

Small Space with Tables

1

  • Learn about the relationship between food waste and climate change

  • Observe how much food waste is produced by their classmates on a daily basis

  • Learn how their actions (reducing their personal food waste) can mitigate the issue

  • Have fun with classmates → friendly competition  Increase enthusiasm about limiting food waste

Before the Storm

Before the Storm

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Resilience Strategies
Climate Change Impacts
Game Duration
Number of Players
Facilitation Difficulty
Space Size

10+ mins.

4+ players

Small Space with Tables

3

  • Discussion-based activity Learn about extreme weather events

  • Practice making decisions to prepare for disasters Friendly competition

Answer with your Feet

Answer with your Feet

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Resilience Strategies
Mitigation Strategies
Climate Change Impacts
Climate Change Causes
Game Duration
Number of Players
Facilitation Difficulty
Space Size

5+ mins.

6+ players

Medium Space

2

  • Energizer / introductory exercise

  • Opinion-based learning

Connecting Dots - Option1

Connecting Dots - Option1

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Climate Change Impacts
Climate Change Causes
Game Duration
Number of Players
Facilitation Difficulty
Space Size

10-15 mins.

4+ players

Small Space

4

  • Learn about the indirect effects of a climate change phenomenon on aspects of a city or specified location (e.g. Thessaloniki)

  • Incentivize reflection from students, stimulating teamwork and collaboration

Connecting Dots - Option2

Connecting Dots - Option2

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Resilience Strategies
Climate Change Impacts
Climate Change Causes
Game Duration
Number of Players
Facilitation Difficulty
Space Size

10-15 mins.

4+ players

Small Space

4

Learn about the effects of climate change in people’s everyday lives

Incentivize reflection from students, stimulating teamwork and collaboration

Extreme Weather Tag

Extreme Weather Tag

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Climate Change Impacts
Game Duration
Number of Players
Facilitation Difficulty
Space Size

5-10 mins.

10+ players

Large Space

2

  • Learn about how extreme weather events can affect people

  • Be active and energetic

  • Demonstrate the domino effect of climate change topics (extreme weather events in this case)

  • Learn about how when a plan is not in place (not resilient) prior to an extreme weather event, everything becomes chaotic and more people will be negatively impacted

Survivor

Survivor

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Resilience Strategies
Climate Change Impacts
Game Duration
Number of Players
Facilitation Difficulty
Space Size

10-20 mins.

10+ players

Medium Space

4

  • Survive extreme weather events Climate change resilience

  • Teamwork

Hop 'til you Drop

Hop 'til you Drop

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Resilience Strategies
Mitigation Strategies
Climate Change Impacts
Climate Change Causes
Game Duration
Number of Players
Facilitation Difficulty
Space Size

5-10 mins.

4+ players

Large Space

5

  • Learn about urban resilience plans and which are most effective

Cause and Effect

Cause and Effect

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Resilience Strategies
Mitigation Strategies
Climate Change Impacts
Climate Change Causes
Game Duration
Number of Players
Facilitation Difficulty
Space Size

10 mins.

2-6 players

Small Space with Tables

3

  • Help students rationalize causes and consequences of climate change and brainstorm solutions by stimulating critical thinking

  • Practice thinking and decision making

Race for Resilience

Race for Resilience

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Resilience Strategies
Mitigation Strategies
Climate Change Impacts
Climate Change Causes
Game Duration
Number of Players
Facilitation Difficulty
Space Size

10+ mins.

4+ players

Large Space

5

  • Discussion based activity 

  • Learn about climate change causes, mitigation strategies and resilience plans

  • Practice thinking and decision making under pressure 

  • Incentivize reflection from students, stimulate teamwork and collaboration

Survival of the M&M's

Survival of the M&M's

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Resilience Strategies
Mitigation Strategies
Climate Change Impacts
Game Duration
Number of Players
Facilitation Difficulty
Space Size

10+ mins.

2+ players

Small Space with Tables

4

  • Learn how to use resources in an efficient way Practice thinking and decision making under pressure 

  • Learn how to plan and prepare for expected climate change events

Greenhouse Effect

Greenhouse Effect

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Climate Change Impacts
Climate Change Causes
Game Duration
Number of Players
Facilitation Difficulty
Space Size

20+ mins.

16-25 players

Large Open Space

4

  • To understand how the greenhouse effect works, what human activities affect it, and how it affects the increase in Earth’s temperature

  • Learn about how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, avoid greenhouse gases and mitigate climate change

  • Critical thinking and combine information to find solutions

Find Someone Who

Find Someone Who

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Mitigation Strategies
Climate Change Impacts
Game Duration
Number of Players
Facilitation Difficulty
Space Size

10+ mins.

10+ players

Small Open Area

2

  • Introductory exercise

  • Opinion-based learning

  • Understand what people currently do in relation to climate change and why/how they should make changes

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