ENVIRONMENTAL
GAMES
Why thru games?
• It is lighter approach compared to lecture
• It enlivens the situation
• It serves as icebreaker
• Effective way to establish positive rapport
• Creates opportunities for energetic and
useful interaction
• Encourages audience participation
Objectives of the GAME
– To learn and experience games
which have useful lesson and
application in real situation
– To have opportunities for
happy and useful interaction
with the players of the game
Factors to consider in making the game
1. Why the need to use games instead of other iec strategies
2. Type of audience/target clientele for which the game is
intended to
3. Relate the game to environmental situation
4. Message/lesson of the game should be relevant to the
whole activity conducted
5. In formulating a game one should consider the level of
awareness of the participants about the issues discussed in
the game
6. Create a game mechanics that will amuse or excite the
participants
How to be Effective in Conducting Games
The director or person conducting the game must be:
1. Active, alive
2. Has leadership prowess
3. Knows how to deal with the audience
4. Creative
5. Patient
6. Confident
7. Good Communicator
How to make an
Environmental
Game
•Identify specific
environmental problems
besetting your localities
which badly needs to be
given attention (i.e.waste
mgt. illegal trade of wildlife
species, water pollution etc.)
•Identify the target
clientele to whom the
game is intended to i.e.
students teachers, locals,
farmers, etc.
•Utilized any artistic
methodology (through
poems, song, drawing,
dancing, plain instruction,
etc.) by which the
environmental problem
could be explained
•Device a game out of the
methodology used that will
entails:
- a winner and loser
- env’t. or part of ecosystem as
the subject tackling issues in a
real world.
Pointers in
Conducting
Games
• Be very clear at the outset regarding:
- game situation
- games objective
- roles involved
- procedural rules
• Clarify that game is not the real world
but will help them focus on the issues
that exist in the real environment
• Set aside time at the end to discuss
game results
• Give participants time to think about
the meaning of the results and activities
Thank You.