Thanks to Kenny for highlighting the Stop Disaster game, which allows pupils to experience the issues at stake to limit the impact of natural disasters: earthquakes, wildfire, floods, tsunami, hurricanes.
The game comes out of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction and the United Nations, and encourages kids to think ahead and plan ways in to limit the damage that might be caused. If they get it wrong, they see the consequences. If they put so many defenses in that tourism gets damaged, though, then this will not exactly be a win-win, either. So students are forced to think not in 'ideal world' terms but in quite realistic terms of economic reality versus potential for disaster. Along the way the player wins extra information about how to best prepare, covering many themes that fit into the social subjects and environmental science.
Above all, it's quite good fun and a race against the clock to save the world. All in a day's work for a 21st Century kid!
Blocked by Wensense in East Lothian - "category games" :(
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