Monday, March 4, 2013

The Garbage Game


Overall, I've had a pretty productive day today.  I woke up, ate a good breakfast, and created a garbage plan for New York City that was submitted for approval and pleased many people.  I was able to do this by playing a "serious" type of game called The Garbage Game. While I navigated through this game on three different, I thought of some ways it could be used by students outside of the classroom, perhaps as homework or for practice.  This game asks the player to make a series of decisions regarding what to do with waste found in NYC, with lengthy descriptions of the problems NYC faces daily and yearly regarding the volume of garbage and waste it produces.



This is a great way for students to achieve the objective of defining the following vocabulary words: recycle, reuse, sanitary; as well as identify the processes of waste reduction that can be followed in NYC as well as other places in the United States.  This activity would be extremely beneficial as it teaches academic language through content, in this case Science.  Learning objectives could be assessed by the teacher by asking students to submit a printout of the results of their decision making as a "city commissioner", which could then be assessed in class.  A high reading level would be necessary for students to complete this task on their own outside of the classroom due to the lengthy descriptions of each stage of the game.

1 comment:

  1. This games sounds like a good one for advanced students because of the reading you indicated. It could also be used as a basis for many other related content activities.

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