Planet Play: Designing a Game for Children to Promote Environmental Awareness
Journal Title: Online Journal of Communication and Media Technologies - Year 2012, Vol 2, Issue 4
Abstract
Due to a progressive deterioration of our planet and its resources, environmental education has become crucial and children should be trained to understand environmental issues at an early age so they can cultivate positive change in the future. Children attending Alberta-based schools are introduced to ecological conservation issues in the fourth grade through an inquiry-based, activelearning curriculum. This study combines research in child development & educational strategies with environmentally related issues into a game that promotes active learning. Data for the study is gathered in a qualitative manner, introducing child participants to existing environmental games and collecting their feedback into graphic organizers. A prototype of an environmental education game that combines various styles of play will then be designed based on the gathered data. The game aims to explore concepts, scenarios, and strategies of environmental preservation, encouraging children to become active participants in preserving the planet and promoting environmentally responsible behavior.
Authors and Affiliations
Maria Goncharova| University of Alberta, Canada
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP9922
- DOI -
- Views 331
- Downloads 21
Anchorperson: An Emerging Phenomenon in the Electronic Media
This research study mainly focuses the imprudent role of the anchorpersons working in different news and current affair channels as an emerging phenomenon in electronic media. The study is designed to investigate the p...
Television Broadcasting and the Democratization Process in Nigeria: The Successful and Unsuccessful Story
This article assesses the performances and challenges of television broadcasting in the democratization process in Nigeria. The historical discourse identifies both successes and challenges of both the military and civ...
User Perceptions of Social Media: A Comparative Study of Perceived Characteristics and User Profiles by Social Media
Despite the proliferation of social media and the widespread adoption of these diverse communication tools, there is a lack of studies that conceptualize the characteristics of social media as perceived by users and co...
Exploring the Impracticability of Press Freedom during a Political Transition
This article examines the conceptual approaches to press freedom and delineates the impracticability of both the Western libertarian and development models in post-communist Eastern Europe and democratic evolving Third...
Representation of Women in Turkish Television’s Primetime News
The live broadcast is the most effective tool of the television news. The privilege of real-time witnessing the event, where it occurred, is enjoyed only by the audience of the television news. However, this privilege...