Catan: Global Warming

This game is an expansion on the popular board game Catan, it adapts the regular Catan game to become a game about sustainability and climate change. It's a neat idea, but teachers must already own the game and know how to play it. This game-based learning would be great for after-school activities, environmental clubs, or a 'free' period in school. The amount of setup needed to get the game going and explain the rules may be too involved for regular classroom use.

The ways in which greenhouse gas concentrations rise or fall are very generalized and cartoonish. However, given that this is a board game and the necessity to work within the original structure of Catan, this seems fine. I do worry a little that the structure of the game promotes the message that climate destruction is an inevitable or that solutions are difficult and counter to development and progress.

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