My second post

My topic is going to be the Greening of America. I reviewed a game relating to this topic at http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/hottopics/climatechange/climate_challenge/ ; the Climate Challenge forces the user, who is acting as the President, to make choices to please the people and provide basic necessities, insure international relations and reduce pollution. I was surprised at some of the poor choices I made. The final news article detailed the choice for the European people and how it influenced the approval rating of their current president, making great feedback. I found this to be an extremely well organized and educational game that will increase civics learning.

The other game I played was at http://www.myslife.org/Global_Climate/en/play/Sims/intervention which was Human Intervention in the Climate Cycle: You drag power plants, cars, and other items in and out of the picture while watching the effects of your actions on the production of CO2, which is evidenced by the increase or decrease in bars of the embedded chart. This is a very educational game especially for the sciences. It will also help with the project, the greening of American, which will be instituted in the classroom at my school. The game was interesting, educational, well planned and worked smoothly. I would recommend this game.


Human Intervention in the Carbon Cycle