Glaciers and Floods

Glaciers and Floods

The purpose of this board game is to educate fifth graders about global warming. On the board various pictures represent good and bad things. For example if you use a paper bag you can ride a glacier to the top and if you ride your bicycle you can go halfway across the board. An example of bad things is using plastic cup causes floods and smoke stacks also cause floods. It is a simple game with basic colors and pictures but it effectively gets kids aware of how they can personally influence the environment.

Objective: reach the top square labeled 100 winner.

First, use a dice to decide who goes first. The highest number rolled gets to go first. You can use any small object to play with on the board.

Game Play:

1.After rolling the dice you will move your small object towards a higher number (Ex. If you are on the 1 square and roll a 5 you will move your small object on the number 6 gym. The amount shown on the dice.

2. two or more small objects can be on same square at any time.

3.Climbing up a Glacier or washed away by a flood.

Glaciers: Any time your small object ends on a picture square at the bottom of a ladder, your small object must climb up to the picture square at the top of the ladder. For example if your small object reaches picture square 28 it will climb to picture square 84.

You climb up when helping out the environment!

Floods:

When your small object ends on a picture square that is the beginning of a flood, your small object must move down the flood to the picture square where it ends. For example if you land on square 49 your small object will be moved to square number 11.

You get washed away by floods when hurting the environment.

Winning the Game

The first player to reach the smiling world marked square 100 wins the game. You can get there two ways:

1.

Land there by exact count. If your spin would move you past square #100, don't move. Try again on your next turn.
2.

Climb there by ending your move on ladder square #80.