Create an RPG Playground to Share an Environmental Issue

When it comes to learning about the environment, why not explore it in and old school way!  Forests, castles, and markets are waiting to be discovered as well as mystical and magical characters along the way.

Create an adventure where your character meets people and learns about an environmental issue.  It might be something large like global warming or just something small like littering at your school.

Try to use interesting language and descriptions to bring your characters to life and make your worlds interesting for others to explore.


Learn:
RPG Playground is simple to pick up but there are a few basic things you will need to learn.  It is a good idea to watch the tutorial video below...


Connect:

Reading:
Research your environmental issue carefully, try to find things out from more than 1 place.  You can summarise texts and make connections between texts.  For example, a pair of twins in your game may discuss two separate websites that talked about the same information- as the hero you can talk about the similarities and differences.

Statistics:
If you are collecting actual data, make sure you explain the data clearly in your game.  You can link this to percentages, fractions and decimals as well as showing that you know how to conduct a fair test.

Social Studies:
There are often many points of view around certain issues so you may wish to use multiple characters to share different perspectives.  You can explore the impact that this issue has on different groups of people; for example a company may employ 1000 people to build a dam but may the flood may displace 50 people - so should it be created?

Writing
The conversations your characters have should be rich and realistic.  They should use interesting vocabulary that suits them, for example a child would talk differently from an adult.  People also talk differently depending on who they are talking to and what is happening.  For example, would you talk the same way to a king on his throne as you would to your best friend on a swing?


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