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Learning from Environmental Education Games
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Fun, experience and self-learning have been an important part of education and related techniques all throughout. Learning through practical experience and playful activities has appealed to all age groups, especially small children and youngsters.
Hence, when it comes to crucial concepts like environmental training and learning, no other method works better than the play method which actually teaches the concepts of environmental education to the young learners easily and within short span of time.
The Games Spectrum
There are a vast variety of environmental education games available to the cluster of teachers, educators and learners involved in the education in this field. These games use innovative and attractive concepts, based on strong logic but presented in a fun manner in order to convey the required learning to the students.
To begin with, some of the most interesting environmental education games revolve around the learning with regard to animal life and typical species of wildlife. One of such games, known as Cascoly Critters, is quite a unique guessing game which requires the participants to match animals with their living areas, to spot out an odd animal in a particular group or even name the animals based on their pictures.
Other environmental education games such as the SimPark lets small children plan and design a nature park. The kids get to choose the plants and animals to populate the place and are then further required to provide basic amenities for the visitors. The background is punctuated with animal sounds and the plants leaf and flowers begin to blossom as the season changes. Interestingly, other games environmental education games such as 'Adopt a Rainforest Animal (virtual)', which are even available online enable the kids to have animals in forms of animated gifs which can be stored and played on the web pages.
Other programs offer slideshow pictures and games based on various objects in nature such plants, trees, animals and the like. In fact, such is the demand and positive impact of the methods of using environmental education games that there are dedicated industries that concentrate on preparation of such games. Interestingly, such environmental education games also cover the entire gamut of sea life and have scores of games on offer, exclusively based on fish and other aquatic organisms and the basic facts of their lives.
The users wishing to use such environmental education games can actually describe a game format required for the purpose along with other specifications which they might like to see in any of the environmental education games that they might want to use.
Aboriginal Environmental Education Specific links
Aboriginal Environmental Education News
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Battle for the Kimberley - Sydney Morning Herald
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ACFN student melds health and environmental law - Slave River Journal
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Battle for the Kimberley - The Queanbeyan Age
Battle for the Kimberley The Queanbeyan Age Some Aboriginal leaders signed reluctantly, convinced it was their only way to a better life. They were promised benefits worth $1.5 billion over the next 30 years in the form of better housing, education, jobs and health care. |
Grand chief among royal greeters - Daily Miner and News
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