Creator: Smithsonian Science Education Center | visit site
Grade Range: 6 - 11
Play this game to solve the world’s water crisis through careful management of resources and responses to global events. Before playing, be sure to check out the tutorial to understand the available options. Your mission is to make water available to all regions through a series of decisions based on cost and research. Be sure to check out the text alternative short story to the game sharing a tale of the importance of water within a small community.
In the Classroom
Include this activity with any unit on the environment, water cycles, or weather. Extend this activity further to learn more about water conservation in your community. Ask students to take pictures around the school or at home showing the inefficient use of water. Use PhotoCollage, <a href="/single.cfm?id=18310">reviewed here</a>, and have students create a collage of their images to use as a starting point for research. Ask students to enhance their learning and upload their collage to a blog and write analyzing and sharing ideas for water conversation based on their collage. Use a blog tool such as Edublog, <a href="/single.cfm?id=13449">reviewed here</a>. Use Symbaloo Learning Paths, <a href="/single.cfm?id=17347">reviewed here</a>, to create a learning path for your students for your entire unit. Add videos, quizzes, embed this game and add all the information for students to follow. Symbaloo Learning Paths also includes options for differentiation for different interests or ability levels of your students. Ask older students to modify their learning and create their own Learning Path to demonstrate and share learning throughout the unit.
At Home
Share this game with your student for her to understand the different challenges facing the world and it’s limited water resources. Information in the game also provides a great starting point to use for science projects and research ideas.
Tags
game based learning, DAT device agnostic tool, water, recycling, conservation, weather,
Subjects
Current Events, Earth Science/Geology, Engineering/Technology, Science,