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Students will enjoy playing the game and seeing how their decisions influence gameplay.
Because students can get through a game rather quickly, there are opportunities for students to see how playing the game differently can get them different results or discuss parallels to real life within one class period.
Prerequisites
It may benefit students to understand how extreme weather impacts rivers and the communities that surround them.
Playing one game should take students about ten minutes.
Differentiation & Implementation
Teachers can assign students different characters, ensuring that there is a relatively similar number of students for each character. After playing, teachers can put students in groups where every student has played as a different character. Students can then compare their gameplay experience and determine how different characters determine the experience.
To make connections to climate change, teachers can explain how climate change can impact the severity and frequency of extreme weather events that can cause a river to flood. This video can help explain the connection.
Other connections to climate change include sea level rise due to the thernal expansion of sea water and glaciers melting, and storm surge flooding from more intense or prolonged storms.
Teachers can use this game to make connections to the Sustainable Development Goals, such as SDG 9, Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure.
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